Stress Affirmations

I allow job stress to roll right off my back

I allow job stress to roll right off my back.

I love my job. Even when there are challenges, I still enjoy my work. Job stress may affect others, but I am free from such stress and its negative effects. I make it a point to keep job stress from affecting my life.

Every time there is a challenge at work, I meet it with peace and acceptance. I take a deep breath and allow relaxation to grow within me. I am grateful to have employment and I know that I can overcome any difficulty at work with my positive attitude.

Each day brings a new possibility for challenge and change. This is a good thing. With change, I can grow. I enjoy growing, learning, and developing. Meeting challenges at work without stress makes me even more resilient and I enjoy being strong.

When others see that I am unstressed, they feel more relaxed too. My joy and peace help my coworkers lower their stress levels. This is a blessing to both others and myself. Allowing job stress to roll off of me makes my work environment better.

This intentional relaxation makes my home life better as well, because I am happy when I come home from work. I can leave work at work and focus on my family at home.

Today, I banish job stress and feel relaxed.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. How can I lower tension related to my job?
2. What can I do to keep from getting stressed out by things I cannot change?
3. How can I experience more joy while I’m at work?

I wholly accept stress in my life

I wholly accept stress in my life. My body is learning to use stress as a motivator.

I accept that stress in an inevitable part of my life and I let go of the idea that I can fight against it and make it disappear. Instead, I recognize it as a valuable asset in my life, one that my body is learning to use as a motivational tool.

I appreciate the way that stress makes me get up off my seat and take action. Stress alerts me when something needs to be addressed so I can stay on top of situations that I might otherwise be tempted to ignore or forget.

In healthy doses, stress sharpens my focus so I can concentrate and be more productive on the task at hand. It makes me more acutely aware of what is going on around me and equips me to absorb information and make good use of it.

I treat stress as an ally and work with it, rather than against it. However, I resist the impulse to ignore my stress until it has grown to the point that it has lost its beneficial nature and has begun to take a toll on my health and well-being.

By paying attention to my body’s signals, I can tell that stress is no longer being productive and that it has gone beyond the stage where it is encouraging me. When this happens, I view it as a sign to step back, relax, and regroup. Then, when I have done so, I can carry on, with stress in its rightful place as a healthy partner in my life.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1.Do I view stress as an enemy or an ally?
2.Do I pay attention and respond when stress signals that something is wrong?
3.Do I allow myself to regroup when stress ceases to work in my favor?

I am able to minimize my stress

Because I am organized, I am able to minimize my daily stress.

I take the necessary time to be organized because I know that doing so minimizes my daily stress. While it is sometimes tempting to rush into a work week or a project, I recognize that my time is like money; I have to spend some to gain some.

I organize my time to facilitate my goals by pruning off activities that drain me of my time and energy. I recognize that, like everyone else, my time is not limitless. I choose to set aside specific times for those activities that are important to me and I let the rest go.

I set aside time at the beginning of each project to make sure I have a clear picture of where I am going and that I have the resources I need to get there. This way I don’t end up whittling it away on pointless and avoidable activities.

For example, I see no point in wasting time hunting for my keys each morning, so I set a basket by the door to drop them in each night.

Supplies are stocked and organized by my desk to prevent wasted time and distraction when I am in the middle of my work.

A weekly menu eliminates waste when I shop and minimizes my time in the kitchen.
I take a few minutes to do each of these things on a periodic basis so I can have more time to focus on what is truly important in my life.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1.What excuses do I give myself for not being organized?
2.What frequent time wasters can be minimized or eliminated?
3.What can I do, today, to begin the process of getting organized?