Overwhelmed
Feeling overwhelmed? This week for the first time in a very long while I experienced feelings of being overwhelmed. I felt inundated by the sheer volume of tasks, chores, duties, and responsibilities that were spilling off my enormously full plate.
…to feel completely overcome in mind and or emotion, to feel forcefully overpowered; to have our emotions affected in a very potent way; this is the essence of overwhelm.
“If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.” ~Emma Stone
Caroline Kennedy said, “When you’re going through something whether it’s a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like ‘Oh my God, I’m so overwhelmed: I’m dealing with this huge thing on my own.’ In fact, poetry’s a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.”
To allow a state of being overwhelmed to continue and grow out of all reasonable proportion, is to collapse under the weight, and become unable to move through the process.
Acknowledging being overwhelmed allows for clarity. Clarity then gives the ability to prioritize. Prioritization leads to focus. No longer looking at the enormity of the tasks at hand, we then can take one moment, one step, one hour, one day at a time; moving from overwhelm to empowerment, execution and completion, with a minimal amount of angst and stress. The most expeditious way of moving out of feeling overwhelmed.
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” ~Timber Hawkeye
As Caroline Kennedy pointed out, we all go through these periods, it is a universal truth. Fully engaging our spiritual, emotional and physical support, guides us through our darkest moments as well as our blindingly brilliant moments; the peaks and the chasms that are part of life’s experience.
“Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.” ~Zig Ziglar
Blessings!
