Stress plays havoc on your naturally occurring hormones, including your testosterone and leptin.
Your mass-building efforts, along with any money you spend on supplementation, go down the drain without steps to manage your stress level.
Distractions, the confusion that follows, and the anxiety that comes with it lowers your ability to plan, execute your plans, and enjoy the rewards.
This is true in every aspect of your life, including your mass-building efforts.
Here are a few steps to get you started.
Empowering Limitations
One person cannot be all things to all people. Without self-care, caring for others is a short-term illusion. Once you acknowledge these limitations, you can tap into the incredible power within you to prioritize, focus, and accomplish miraculous things one project at a time, one step at a time.
Calming Ways
Prayer and meditation – Often, stress is related to fear and attachment. Reaching for something beyond yourself or deeper within yourself through prayer or mediation releases trust and confidence.
Let Go of the Ego
Ego is what separates us from others. Stress many times flows from self-interest. Volunteering allows us to connect to others and focus on not-me. It could bring balance and calm, especially when you see how others are different from you, and many of them are in much more challenging positions in life.
Exercise with the correct intensity
At a certain level of intensity and duration, your brain and your body secret calming hormones. These hormones do not release at a lower intensity or have inadequate duration. Just be careful not to injure your body in search of calming the mind.
Train your mind
Your mind could be trained like a horse looking to return to the comfort of its stable for food and rest. The stable is what you train it to be. Repetitive actions, however destructive they may be, could be within the comfort zone of the horse of mind. Practice keeping your mind on what strengthens you helps you and brings your joy. Through repetition, you train your mind to go to these activities.
Open yourself to love
Pets are a source of love. Spending time with them could bring you love, joy, and calm.