We are wired to make decisions every day. Some decisions are small and don’t make a difference in anyone’s life but our own. Other decisions are for business or our jobs, effect many people and come with a lot of stress.
One assignment I like to recommend to my clients, is to take a day a month when you give away the “keys.” Allow other people in your life to make the decisions for that day. Everything is out of your responsibility, not only out of your responsibility, it is forbidden to you for this one day. When we realize that we don’t have to be in charge, and that the sun will keep shining without us, the birds will keep chirping, and everything goes-on without us.
This is a great exercise that forces us to relax, worry less, reduce stress and go-with-the-flow. When things come up throughout the day, notice your instinctual reaction to try to take over or make a decision, and resist that urge. Just by doing this once a month on a day where you don’t have to worry about work, running errands, providing for other people, you will increase your quality of life.
Our mind is a decision making machine. We are constantly being introduced with options, stimulation and dilemmas to our nervous system (our mind is the collective knowledge that our nervous system holds) and as those being presented, the respond in the tissue is contraction (tension in the body).
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