Stress Mitigation Task Force

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SoulWeaver

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Since a lot is stressful nowadays I'd like this thread to be focused on everything calming, we will post Bible verses, calming videos and music to play in the background, whatever strategy and resource you find super comforting or helpful for you please post it... people struggling with anxiety are especially invited to join the thread. "Seek peace, and pursue it".

 

Roughsoul1991

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This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days....

....our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in and parts of the United States — a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor — the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others — the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

Action in this image and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the assurance of a rounded and permanent national life.

In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.
 

SoulWeaver

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Word of comfort for those worrying that they might lose their loved ones in this crisis...

Even before all this started, I've actually had anxiety, almost obsession that something might happen to my husband. Before him, I was like this about my grandma, I died in myself so many times and it went on for decades, until she died, because I feared she would die. I don't have a relationship with my mother and she was like mother to me. If she would not immediately respond to phone call or a knock on the door, I'd be dying inside in cold sweat and fear, what if something happened. I was devastated when she died, but also had some relief, because there was nothing to fear any more. I did not have to keep dying a thousand times.

I'm also like this with my husband. We had a long distance relationship for a number of years before we got married, it wasn't easy to be trapped on different continents when you already suffer from anxiety, and the fears that some accident might happen to him stayed to this day. Recently he told me he witnessed a terrible car crash on his way to work. Since then I stress even more if he's late from work, then call him to check if he's okay, and stress worse while calling, because he's likely driving and I'm distracting him.

Jesus finally said something last night.
"God, I am afraid of losing my loved ones!"
"Through My Spirit, the whole world became your loved ones."
If I love everyone equally like God does, how can I run out of people to love?
Still sitting on this insight... fear is not completely gone, but it strengthened my spirit...
 

CharliRenee

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#10
Since a lot is stressful nowadays I'd like this thread to be focused on everything calming, we will post Bible verses, calming videos and music to play in the background, whatever strategy and resource you find super comforting or helpful for you please post it... people struggling with anxiety are especially invited to join the thread. "Seek peace, and pursue it".

Oh thank you soooo much!!!! I needed this today. I have allowed my mind to be super busy, bouncing around all over the place. Deep breath. Thanks for pointing to the inner sanctuary with Him. God Bless!!!
 

CharliRenee

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Spirit lead, yes!!! Take me deeper....Thank you, even more thank You Lord, keeping us calm amongst the waves.

I confess that I have not listened to this in its entirety but like artsie said, I am thankful for this place.
 

SoulWeaver

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Pilgrimage: 9 Songs of Ecstasy :)
Wow, this is pretty good.
This is a lot like medieval electro that I used to listen to a lot, except it's more jazzy and chillout. I like it a lot.
 

CharliRenee

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Word of comfort for those worrying that they might lose their loved ones in this crisis...

Even before all this started, I've actually had anxiety, almost obsession that something might happen to my husband. Before him, I was like this about my grandma, I died in myself so many times and it went on for decades, until she died, because I feared she would die. I don't have a relationship with my mother and she was like mother to me. If she would not immediately respond to phone call or a knock on the door, I'd be dying inside in cold sweat and fear, what if something happened. I was devastated when she died, but also had some relief, because there was nothing to fear any more. I did not have to keep dying a thousand times.

I'm also like this with my husband. We had a long distance relationship for a number of years before we got married, it wasn't easy to be trapped on different continents when you already suffer from anxiety, and the fears that some accident might happen to him stayed to this day. Recently he told me he witnessed a terrible car crash on his way to work. Since then I stress even more if he's late from work, then call him to check if he's okay, and stress worse while calling, because he's likely driving and I'm distracting him.

Jesus finally said something last night.
"God, I am afraid of losing my loved ones!"
"Through My Spirit, the whole world became your loved ones."
If I love everyone equally like God does, how can I run out of people to love?
Still sitting on this insight... fear is not completely gone, but it strengthened my spirit...
I understand as i fret over losing my Mama, for years. I get it. I have sometimes pulled away from loves, knowing with this gift comes unbearable pain.

So this brings forth a new way to stirring of thoughts.

"Through My Spirit, the whole world became your loved ones."
If I love everyone equally like God does, how can I run out of people to love?

A part of me thinks, no way that I could or would want to love another like my beloved and ornery Mama, ouch so much pain in losing others!!! But in reality, we are all called to love like this so deeply and sincerely, invested in the way our greatest Love, loves us. Deeply without reluctant participation, cherishing the gift of Love He has paid dearly to bring, may we all continue to pay Him and His love forward, well as best as we are able.

Anyhooooo, I get it and I pray He has brought you great peace concerning the fretting about your hubby and all your loves.
 

Magenta

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Moodswings from their Mood Food recording - Hairy Piano, performed by Liz Church :)
 

Magenta

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Wow, this is pretty good.
This is a lot like medieval electro that I used to listen to a lot, except it's more jazzy and chillout. I like it a lot.
I am glad you like it :) I have a fair bit of music like that...

This is a fave of mine, from Paul Schwartz with Lisbeth Scott on vocals:

 

SoulWeaver

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I understand as i fret over losing my Mama, for years. I get it. I have sometimes pulled away from loves, knowing with this gift comes unbearable pain.

So this brings forth a new way to stirring of thoughts.

"Through My Spirit, the whole world became your loved ones."
If I love everyone equally like God does, how can I run out of people to love?

A part of me thinks, no way that I could or would want to love another like my beloved and ornery Mama, ouch so much pain in losing others!!! But in reality, we are all called to love like this so deeply and sincerely, invested in the way our greatest Love, loves us. Deeply without reluctant participation, cherishing the gift of Love He has paid dearly to bring, may we all continue to pay Him and His love forward, well as best as we are able.

Anyhooooo, I get it and I pray He has brought you great peace concerning the fretting about your hubby and all your loves.
Yes I felt a lot better since. It boosted my faith and sense of His presence in the world. Praying that you will receive peace and comfort about this. You, no we may also pray that her days are prolonged. We have a given lot but according to the Bible days can be shortened by violence or prolonged...
My fears started when my grandpa died. He died pretty abruptly. Heart attack, and he was gone in half an hour. That got into my mind "I can lose people out of nowhere". But from what I've seen on my grandma, who is a believer, she died when it was her time to go. She was holding on mainly for me, after she saw me married her health started deteriorating massively and it would have been a great suffering for her to continue in that health condition. I saw her in a dream while she was still alive, she was standing in a garden and watching, as if she was guarding. And I could tell she was very tired from standing and craved rest, and sun was setting, but she was still watching and guarding. So then I knew, that she was holding onto life still for me, to see me married and that my life was okay. And God allowed her to see it and then after some time she departed. My point being, God is graceful and believers may petition God with such things, and I pray that God will allow your mama to stay here for as many days as possible into ripe old age. Amen, please, lord Jesus.