Of all the ills that face us, stress is the killer.

Everyone (including me) complains about it.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors worried about large animals attacking their families and the human brain was built for that kind of distress.

In the digital age, not so much.

Here are the components that relieve stress and promote happiness:

• Let go of everything, but your dreams.  Trying to maintain control kills quality of life.

• Switch the focus from you to all of you

• Bullies are everywhere.  They are really weak people who make us feel bad about ourselves.  Stand up and push back.

• Compassion is the way to release animosity that brings us down.

• Don’t be a hater – and this is a warning, almost everyone thinks they are not a hater.  Be sure.

• Suffering is transformational – adversity introduces a person to him or herself and to those around them.

• Reduce fear and worry by remembering that only 1% of what we fear ever comes true and even then it is not the way that made us so anxious.

• Living in the present can only happen when we are also channeling ways to be grateful. 

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