Do we live stressed without knowing it?

We are not usually aware of the pressure we live under until our body says enough.

And how do you say it?

We live on autopilot and integrating demands, we may lose our hair, get eczema, herpes, acne breakouts, intestinal problems…

We treat the symptom and not the problem.

And if we do not address this stress, serious symptoms appear: anxiety attacks, heart attack, stroke, not being able to think, inability to drive or even move a muscle, extremes to which many people go.

Are we like the frog in a bain-marie?

Yes, we get used to harmful things, eating unhealthy and in a hurry, being sedentary, working long hours; and as is usual, it seems normal to us, but this hidden stress leads us to suffer from sysifemia, productivity dysmorphia, burn-out, anxiety, work depression, sadness and even stress laxing.

¿Sisifemia?

It is the fatigue of the tireless. There are professions with a lot of competitiveness and self-demand, such as doctors, lawyers and journalists, who give their all every day until there comes a time when they become exhausted and get sick.

Does it come from Sisyphus, stone up, stone down, and start again?

Yes, and stresslaxing is the inability to relax. I want to sleep and I can’t, I want to disconnect and I get even more nervous. Five out of ten people cannot disconnect from work on the weekend. The first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing before going to bed is our cell phone.

Few will deny it.

We want to achieve everything, and that leads us to productivity dysmorphia, the feeling that your day hasn’t worked out, something frustrating.

Where does it all begin?

Thought leads us to emotion, emotion to action and action to result. Information is given to us by emotions, if I am not comfortable I must stop and pay attention to what I am thinking. We have around 60,000 thoughts a day, how many are we aware of?

We are creatures of habit.

Yes, and we repeat many of the habits that lead us to stress unconsciously. When it becomes conscious it becomes a choice.

Does stress lower productivity?

Continued stress lowers productivity by 60%, increases irritability and sadness, reduces concentration and causes the brain’s synapses to be interrupted.

“I’m exhausted” is a recurring phrase.

If everyone did things at their own pace, productivity would increase, energy would accompany us all day and we would sleep well because the body knows how to regulate itself. We believe that stress is caused by circumstances.

And it is not like that?

10% is the circumstances and 90% is what we think about those circumstances. You have to take responsibility for the fact that you are the one causing your stress or well-being.

Is stress contagious?

Yes, up to 40 percent; and the greater the emotional connection, the more contagious it is, unless you have a good emotional balance.

How to control continued stress?

Many phrases that we say to ourselves daily lead us to stress: “I’m doing poorly”, “I won’t make it”… Being aware of them is the starting point. Stop to think: “What am I thinking about myself?”

Maybe those phrases we tell ourselves are true.

Okay, but they are causing us stress, let’s turn it around and use phrases that give us peace of mind. If we are immersed in stress, the way to stop that wheel is: stop and think about what you are thinking.

Does “run, hurry up” allow us to?

At first it’s not easy, but when you’ve been asking yourself for a week “I don’t feel well, what am I thinking?”, it’s easy. And use your breath.

As?

We usually breathe with the upper part of the lungs, which is the part connected to the sympathetic system, which activates us. And we must breathe with the diaphragm, with the lower part of the lungs, which is connected to the parasympathetic system, that of calm.

GOOD.

Inhaling for five seconds and exhaling for five seconds leads to cardiac coherence. If we do it five minutes a day we will create the habit and when we are stressed, it will emerge almost instantly.

Any other antidote?

Enjoyment naturally stimulates neurochemical processes in our body that release the so-called happiness hormones. Laughing and smiling, a good conversation, walking, dancing, strolling… Enjoyment makes us vibrate at a very high frequency in which we feel life as a gift and a delight.