What’s the size of your stress compartment?
We all have them.
A place where we store stress.
For now.
It’s a physical place in our bodies like a drawer in our dresser.
It has space for only so many folded shirts, or kon mari stacked
underwear.
Its cubic measurements are individual.
But still limited.
The space is not elastic.
It can only hold so much.
You know what happens when your sock drawer overflows.
It spills into another drawer, or worse, it spills into the back area
where the overflowing socks clog up the back of your dresser.
You can’t figure out why the shirt drawer beneath will not shut all the way.
You get frustrated, and try to slam the drawers shut,
until you realize that you must take out two or three drawers that are in question.
Re-organize, re-fold, re-prioritize.
They will not all fit.
There is only space for so many shirts, pants, socks, whatever.
Our bodies are like this.
We can only shove a certain amount of stress into our stress compartments,
until they overflow into other areas of our life.
How do we know when these compartments are close to being full?
What is the body’s way of signalling “that’s it!” ?
No more space for stress,
until you let some of it out.
Until you re-organize.
Re-prioritize.
Our bodies can be more elusive and clever than our dressers.
Our minds can convince us one more day.
One more time.
One more thing.
But the compartment will overflow if not tended.
Consequences will vary.
Paybacks will fluctuate.
Hopefully you will listen.
Pay attention.
Maintain a positive overflow response system.
We need you.
Please don’t over-fill.
Ducit Amore 