How I Learned to Stay Calm Through Life’s Biggest Moments

Last week I got married.

These weeks have been wonderful, culminating with one of the best days I could have imagined.

At the same time, supposedly, such a period brings stress too. Things to plan, people to move, organisations to handle, money to spend.

Surprisingly, I never felt stressed.

I say ‘surprisingly’ because until a few years ago, I have constantly been victim of my own pressure: never good in dealing with stress.

Something in the last two/three years has changed. I don’t consider myself a stressed person anymore, and as consequence I handled my wedding gracefully and happily.

I have been trying to understand what I changed in the last years that improved so much my stress tolerance:

Much more discipline in my sport activity, focusing both on strength and cardio, improving so much in both directions.
A lot of mental exercise, such as praying, meditation, reading, time spent without external inputs. Here I still have a lot of work to do, but the results are already evident.
Since six months, I have been doing sauna twice a week, 15 minutes per session. This is one of the main activity able to decrease the level of cortisol in human body, and I can confirm this is true.
Managing two businesses, being constantly out from my comfort zone, has increased my stress tolerance by a huge margin. Now I am able to endure much more stress, so that a wedding is a kind of easy task.
I slowed down my rhythms, taking more care of myself, being less in a rush.

I wanted to write this short essay to clarify to myself the reasons behind this pleasant discovery, such as being able to handle gracefully period of stress.

With this said, the only way to prove that I got better in handling stress, is to wait for the next one.

Keep you posted.