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How to Deal With Stressful Situations

How to deal with stressful situations, or just plain how to deal with stress is all about learning how and when to take control. It's important to remember that you control how stress affects you. You can take charge of the stress or let stress rule over you.

Evaluate yourself from a "much larger picture" or point of view when contemplating how to deal with stressful situations.

The ego-that fearful and doubting aspect in us all, is trying to teach us how to gain the whole world and lose our own soul in the process. That thought truly keeps me aligned to where answers arrive when I ask within myself how to deal with stress.

During the 1970s as a young man I was with the U.S. Air Force, and there was a conflict going on in the world involving the country of Angola. At that time I was stationed at an Air Force base in Texas, going through a survival training program and how to deal with stress.

Basically, survival training is intense training to cope with the extreme, toughest of conditions imaginable, how to deal with stressful situations, and to make life-sustaining decisions when you are for the most part alone and facing tremendous turmoil.

The squadron commander called us all together into a training classroom to inform our squadron that we were being airlifted out that night to Angola, as ordered by President Ford. We were ordered not to make phone calls home or write letters for obvious security reasons.

Needless to say, we were all stunned and up against how to deal with stressful situations. We had not even finished our training program.
At that point in our training we were learning about enemy tactics of propaganda, designed to promote in our minds perceptions of false and negative situations, causing an airman to make rash decisions while hung up in how to deal with stressful situations.

That evening, we got our full travel gear in check.

We gathered at the designated meeting place, where Major Remming, our squadron commander, announced to us that we had been fooled.

Although Angola was very much a conflict situation, the deployment orders were fake. They had fooled us in order that we might learn how our individual minds might react.

Earlier that day, before we realized the orders were phony and did actually believe we were going to a hostile area, Captain Jenkins, the psychologist who was our chaplain, gave us a talk about how to deal with stressful situations and making split-second decisions. He urged us to carry along a message in our hearts.

Then he described to us a dream he once had.

"In this dream I was walking along the beach with my Lord," he told us. "Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. Each scene showed a time when I was not able to make decisions and was terribly confused. As I watched, I saw two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and one to my Lord.

"When the last scene of my life shot before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand, and only one set of footprints remained. I realized that this was the lowest and toughest time of my life. This bothered me, and I questioned my Lord about my dilemma.

"'Lord, you told me when I decided to follow you that you would walk with me and talk with me, and help me along the way.

But I see that during my hardest test, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why, when I needed you the most, you would leave me.'

"The Lord whispered to me: 'My child, I love you and will never leave you, for we are together. Where you saw only one set of footprints it was because I was carrying you.'"

It's strange how now, so many years later, I am often reminded of this story.

Miracles in our lives reveal, Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart. For the separation is only in your mind.

To you when faced with how to deal with stress

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