2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The other day I was invited to the local television as an expert on a story about stress. The request was something like, “Can you tell me how to deal with stress at work? Well, what can you do while sitting in the office to get rid of stress? " And I thought …
There are so many articles with recipes for stress: squeezing an anti-stress ball, drinking herbal teas, listening to relaxation music, meditating, blowing bubbles, looking at the bridge of the interlocutor's nose, breathing deeply, breathing often, breathing for three, breathing up, breathing down, not breathe … And how can you choose from so many "magic wands" and "pills" …?)
I'll try to figure it out.
Before we talk about how to overcome stress, it is important to understand that stress - this is a normal human reaction, to the various requirements of the environment, which manifests itself in the general mobilization of the body to solve a difficult situation and it would be very difficult for us to live without it. Agree, rarely who complains about increased concentration, high speed of their own reactions, quick wits, etc.
As it happens in the wild - a hare saw a predator - mobilized and gave a fight or a lion smelled prey - mobilized and caught a doe. It is difficult to catch a fallow deer while walking imposingly on the savannah. Everyone understands this. In fact, in stress, a person is at the peak of his effectiveness.
Problems arise in the following - such mobilization requires a large expenditure of energy, and any organism needs rest after stress. Our society is so imbued with the idea of "higher, faster, stronger" that often this high point of efficiency is perceived as the norm. Not a single hare and not a single lion runs 8 hours a day, five days a week!
Therefore, the most important, and I would say the only, effective method of overcoming stress is a clear understanding and respect for the boundaries of your capabilities: how much you can work in a stressful mode and how much and how you need to rest afterwards.
How often do most people who complain of stress allow themselves to rest? Not often enough. It is especially difficult to allow yourself to have a good rest when you consider fatigue as laziness and weakness, and running is the only possibility of existence. It's hard. Sad.
If stress is constant, exhaustion is inevitable., and with it a flurry of not the most pleasant emotions - irritation, anger, resentment, fear of not coping … These feelings play a very useful role - they persistently signal to a person that something urgently needs to be changed! You can try to ignore these emotions, but usually the price of such ignoring is too high - our forces are not infinite, whether we like it or not, and if we continue to "run" the body begins to react - with various diseases from the most harmless to very serious. If you do not lie down to rest voluntarily, the body “lies down” forcibly. Such a price.
But if, nevertheless, a person, realizing and accepting the degree of his depletion, the amount of remaining resources and the cost of such actions, chooses to move on at the same pace, you never know what situations happen, you can safely recommend him: take care of your health (proper nutrition, good clear regime, moderate physical activity, yoga, swimming, dancing, etc.), do not forget about the "other side" of life - family, friends, hobbies, etc. That is, as carefully as possible to spend your strength and pump resources, clearly realizing that this pace is not the norm, but a reaction to an extreme situation.
This is all I said in the plot. Guess what they left behind?
;-)
The part where it says that stress is the norm and recommendations for pumping resources.
Higher, faster, stronger, comrades!))
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