Are we living under stress 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 automatic pilot and integrate demands, our hair may fall out, we get eczema, herpes, acne breakouts, intestinal problems…
We treat the symptom and not the problem.
And if we ignore this stress, serious symptoms appear: anxiety crisis, heart attack, stroke, not being able to think, inability to drive and even move a muscle, extremes that many people reach.
Are we like the frog in the water bath?
Yes, we get used to harmful things, to eating unhealthy and in a hurry, to being sedentary, to working long hours; and since it is common it seems normal to us, but this hidden stress makes us suffer from sissyphemia, productivity dysmorphia, burn-out, anxiety, work depression, sadness and even stress laxing.
Sisyphemia?
It is the fatigue of the tireless. There are professions with a lot of competitiveness and self-demanding, such as doctors, lawyers and journalists, who give their all every day until a moment comes when they burn out and get sick.
It comes from Sisyphus, stone up, stone down, and holy shall we return?
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 their work at the weekend. The first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing before we go to bed is the mobile phone.
Few will deny it.
We want to get to everything, and this leads us to productivity dysmorphia, the feeling that the day hasn’t taken off, something frustrating.
Where does it all begin?
Thought leads us to emotion, emotion to action and action to result. Emotions give us information, if I’m not at ease I have to stop and pay attention to what I’m thinking. We have around 60,000 thoughts a day, how many are we aware of?
We are creatures of habit.
Yes, and many of the habits that lead to stress are repeated unconsciously. When it becomes conscious it becomes a choice, you control it.
Does stress lower productivity?
Continued stress lowers productivity by 60%, increases irritability and sadness, reduces concentration and causes synapses in the brain to break down.
“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 self-regulate. We believe that stress is caused by circumstances.
And isn’t that so?
10 percent are the circumstances and 90 percent what we think about those circumstances. We need to take responsibility for the fact that you are the one who causes your stress or well-being.
Is stress contagious?
Yes, even by 40 percent; and the more emotional connection the more it is entrusted, unless you have a good emotional balance.
How can we control ongoing stress?
Many phrases we say to ourselves daily lead to stress: “I’m doing badly”, “I won’t make it”… Being aware of them is the starting point. Stop to think: “What am I thinking about myself?”.
It may be that these sentences we say to each other are true.
OK, but they are causing us stress. We will turn it around and say phrases that give us peace of mind. If we are immersed in stress, the way to stop this wheel is: stop to think what you are thinking.
Does “run, hurry” allow us to?
It’s not easy at first, but when you’ve been asking yourself for a week “I don’t feel well, what am I thinking?” it’s simple And use the breath.
With?
We usually breathe with the upper part of the lungs, which is the one connected to the sympathetic system, the one that activates us. And we have to breathe with the diaphragm, with the lower part of the lungs, which is connected to the parasympathetic system, that of calmness.
Little.
Inhaling for a count of five seconds and exhaling for a count of five more 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, endorphins, serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin. 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.
