The good stress of learning to walk 
Maybe you’ve heard about “good stress” and how without a certain amount of stress we don’t perform at our highest potential. We aren’t going to get into that kind of good stress right now, but we’d like for you to consider another kind of “good stress”. This is a part of stress that we don’t really see many people talking about. The “good stress” we’d like to talk about is the kind of stress that makes you consider making some changes in your life. The great thing, the wonderful (if difficult) thing, about stress is that it has a lot of good information for you about your life and the direction it’s going.
One of the most positive aspects of stress are the inner messages that our bodies try (again and again and again!) to make clear to us through all that tension and anxiety. Sometimes the message might simply be, “Slow Down!” Stress sometimes literally forces us to slow down by making us sick or making us unable to go along at our usual, frenzied pace. It’s when we’ve slowed down a little bit that we start to hear these inner messages.
Sometimes the message might be about how much more fulfilled you might be if you explored some other kind of work, an old hobby or a new passion. Sometimes they might be about how you could be treating your loved ones better. Sometimes the messages go even deeper. Whatever the message is, rest assured it will keep on coming through, one way or another. Rather than teaching our students how to just get rid of their stress, we also encourage them to consider other parts of their lives that may also want to transform. Without some kind of personal transformation, you may find that your stress and anxiety is like that arcade game of whack-a-mole. Smack it down in one place, and it pops right back up in another!
Is your stress like the gopher in whack-a-mole?
In the Harmonic Relaxation program, we encourage our students to go on a journey of personal transformation. It’s through this kind of transformation that you can really learn how to listen to the messages your body and your spirit are constantly trying to send you. The irony of stress is that it can get in the way of you hearing these messages, but if you learn how to relax a little bit and start to tune into yourself, you can begin to hear these messages from the deepest parts of yourself, the messages that stress has been trying to bring to your attention all along.