When life is just too busy and stressful it is easy to feel overwhelmed and put too much of ourselves into our work. We then feel bitter or overly disappointed when things don’t go as expected. It’s then that we need a way to get back to our core self and transcend the seeming drudgery.
Use the following NLP exercise to begin to free yourself of limiting beliefs about yourself. Doing the exercise over and over will give you new perspectives and you will see and experience the affect in many different ways.

When we are stressed it’s often easy to over-identify with facets of our lives that are circumstantial or with our situation. We then become our roles, our masks, our emotions. And, this, in turn, tends to make us static and crystallised . . . prisoners.

You may want to read the text a few times to get familiar with it

To begin:
Get relaxed, begin with your breathing, then check your body to ensure you become totally relaxed. Notice where you might be feeling tension, then take a deep breath in and exhaling slowly let that tension go. Then carry on relaxing and breathing easily and rhythmically.
Then affirm out loud:

I have a body but I am not my body. My body may find itself in different conditions of health or sickness; it may be rested or tired, but that has nothing to do with my self, my real ?I?. My body is my precious instrument of experience and of action in the outer world, but it is only an instrument. I treat it well? I seek to keep it in good health, but it is not myself, I have a body, but I am not my body.

I have emotions, but I am not my emotions. These emotions are countless, contradictory, changing, and yet I know that I always remain, I, my-self, in time of hope or of despair, in joy or in pain, in a state of irritation or of calm. Since I can observe, understand and judge my emotions, and then increasingly dominate, direct and utilise them, it is evidence that they are not myself. I have emotions, but I am not my emotions.

I have desires, but I am not my desires, aroused by drives, physical and emotional, and by outer influences. Desires too are changeable and contradictory, with alternations of attraction and repulsion. I have desires, but they are not myself.

I have an intellect, but I am not my intellect. It is more or less developed and active; it is undisciplined but teachable; it is an organ of knowledge in regard to the outer world as well as the inner; but it is not myself, I have an intellect, but I am not my intellect?

After this dis-identification of the ‘I’ from its contents of conscious (sensations, emotions, desires, and thoughts,) I recognise and affirm that I am a Centre of pure self-consciousness. I am a Centre of Will, capable of mastering, directing and using all my psychological processes and my physical body.

What am I then? What remains after discarding from my self-identity the physical, emotional and mental contents of my personality, of my ego? It is the essence of myself a centre of pure self-consciousness and self-realisation. It is the permanent factor in the ever varying flow of my personal life. It is that which gives me the sense of being, of permanence , of inner security. I recognise and I affirm myself as a centre of pure self-consciousness. I realise that this centre not only has a static self-awareness but also a dynamic power; it is capable of observing, mastering, directing and using all the psychological process and the physical body. I am a centre of awareness and of power.
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