5 Ways to De-Stress - Part 2 | Joyce Meyer | Enjoying Everyday Life

today i am excited to share the word of god with you so let's get started [Music] five ways to de-stress [Music] learn to practice shrug therapy we're all going to learn today how to do shrug therapy my son bought me a new coffee pot and it pretty much does everything for you except put the pot under where the coffee's coming out it doesn't do that and it doesn't put the filter now there's a filter that you can just leave in there all the time but i don't like that one so if you're going to use paper filters you got to put it in but i mean it grinds the coffee it just it does everything so i recently made a pot of coffee but somehow another i didn't get the pot all the way under and i left the room and went somewhere else and it's a big pot so needless to say when i came back i had this and no i didn't have time that morning to mess with it i looked at it i can honestly tell you that i did not feel one thing i just went that is shrug therapy amen now i cleaned it up i didn't like it but i've wasted enough of my life getting in a full-on fit does anybody know what a full-on female fit is all right i mean getting in a full-on fit over something that i couldn't do anything about don't try to control things that are out of your control my daughter says a lot it is what it is and usually when she says it she'll go like this hey this is going to help you come on let's practice you guys look cute [Applause] oh well dave does it a different way he says i'm not impressed he always says if you're not impressed you can't get oppressed but see even when he says that there's a body language i'm not impressed it's shrug therapy it's like not taking that on now that doesn't mean that you don't care but what it means is that you're casting your care and guess what god cannot and will not take care of us until we cast our care cast all of your care all of your concerns upon me once and for all for i care about you the second thing that you can practice is staying in your comfort zone five ways to de-stress practice shrug therapy number two stay in your comfort zone now that doesn't mean that we never do anything difficult but it does mean that we recognize our limits and we respect them in other words stop trying to do stuff that you're lousy at [Laughter] amen you just don't know what a mess we would have if i went home and tried to make a piece of clothes or or bake some real fancy dessert you know i got this itch on me a couple of years ago and i thought okay i'm gonna i'm gonna do some regular stuff i get like that sometimes if i've just like done too many meetings or something in a row you know it's like and see even that it's like it's not even good for me to just be in a spiritual zone all the time i need to be in a normal zone too and uh so when i get like that if i get really tired and i just overdosed on spirituality then sometimes i want to get domestic which is a joke because i'm not like that's just like not kind of like my thing and uh so i i got cookbooks and i went out and i bought you don't even want to know how much money i spent on spices [Applause] i mean i got every kind of spice that you could possibly imagine and my daughter's like what are you going to do with that i'm going to start cooking it'll be good for me to cook i'm going to enjoy this it'll be good so i decided i was going to make dave and i a tuna casserole because we used to really like tuna casserole and that's pretty easy you know like noodles soup tuna cheese it's not hard to make and somehow another thing turned out like glue i mean it was bad well you know what the spices are all still in the rack and i've returned to my comfort zone and my strength because i can do this i mean i need a break from it but this is where i'm comfortable i'm not uncomfortable up here you guys don't make me nervous i mean this is fine for me but i would be stressed out if i was having a bake of cake and make dave a pair of shorts or something that would just be [Applause] nightmare but stay in your comfort zone and don't think you have to compare yourself with somebody else my gosh that creates so much stress when we think we have to do what everybody else is doing and let me tell you something no matter what somebody else is doing if they like it they're going to think the whole world should do it and if you don't stand up for yourself you're going to spend your life doing a bunch of stuff that you hate and despise and then feel bad because you're not good at it when it's not even what you're supposed to be doing [Applause] amen number three eliminate everything from your schedule is not bearing good fruit that'll take another half an hour of time for you to spend with yourself eliminate everything from your schedule that's not bearing good fruit are you sitting on a committee that does nothing but argue and never makes a decision lord have mercy i remember a church committee i was on one time and they would argue and discuss what color to repaint the front door boring how much time do you spend gossiping or listening to gossip how much time do you spend listening to other people complain about their problems that they have no intention of doing anything about they don't want they don't want your help they don't want an answer if you gave them an answer they still wouldn't do it how much time do you spend watching really stupid stuff on tv i may be just flipping through the channels for two hours never watching anything now you know i know some of you probably really like reality tv but i don't like it i have enough of reality thank you when i watch television i want some fantasy give me a fairy tale i want something like that is not connected to the earth i don't want to sit and watch another family fight and almost kill each other it took me 40 years to come out of that why do i want to do that number four i'm just turn the person next to you and tell them you're not gonna like number four [Applause] i'm just letting you know ahead of time you're not going to like this because the number four thing that you can do to relieve stress is to exercise [Applause] exercise is one of the best stress relievers in the whole world now listen we have these little things called endorphins in our body and they're the feel-good hormones and they are increased when we exercise endorphins make us feel happy and we worry less exercise improves your sleep and that counteracts stress if you exercise hard enough to sweat it removes toxic poisons from your system it can lower blood pressure your resting heart rate and cholesterol and it improves your mood i started working out at the gym almost 10 years ago now i work out at home we've got a trainer five of us work out at home two of our kids dave me one of my daughter-in-laws and and uh but i recently in the spring added walking and so i now walk four miles every day in addition to the working out now listen my cholesterol is the lowest that it's been in probably 15 years and i i'm just telling you the truth and i'm not trying to push off on you what i do but well yeah i am so i just i mean truthfully i am you know but honestly i'm just going to tell you just look at me and i'm going to tell you something i cannot believe the energy that i have gotten from walking i mean it just shocks me the amount of energy that i have gotten from walking and it's not easy i'm doing hills and it's not easy to do but i love it and i'm just telling you do what you want to with it i'm your teacher so i'm going to tell you what i believe is going to help you and there is a lot of stress in the world today and we've got more coming at us than any other time in history just all the little devices that we have to carry around with us you know we don't even want to go to the toilet without our phone come on if any of you went back and got your phone taken to the toilet with you in case you missed a call well i have to so and the world is not going to change it's just ramping up for more and more and more and one of the ways that you can really help yourself is regular exercise so do what you want to with it there it is and number five take time to relax and do things that you enjoy take time to do things you enjoy take little mini vacations even if it's a 10 minute vacation take a little vacation if you enjoy a cup of coffee in the afternoon then take time to sit down get away from everything go somewhere where it's quiet [Applause] have a cup of coffee if you enjoy getting a pedicure then schedule where you can get one once a month just get away from everybody and go get one come on you're worth 30 bucks or 35 or whatever it is to do that [Applause] look at things that are beautiful get out in nature and take the time to look at something pretty breathe and actually relax on purpose want to hear more from joyce on this topic we've got you covered visit us in the joyce meyer app or at joycemeyer.org today [Music]

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Length: 13min 28sec (808 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 14 2022