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How to set boundaries to protect your energy
How to cultivate positive energy
Why rest and recovery are important
How we react to stress
Stress is largely caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them.
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Pressure is not stress
But pressure could be converted into stress, when rumination appears: the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts.
Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being.
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Let go
Try these techniques:
- Acceptance: Acknowledge that whether you like the situation or not, it is the way it is.
- Learn the lesson: Your brain will review events until it feels you’ve gained something from them.
- Action: Do something about your situatio...
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Put things in perspective
Try these techniques:
- Contrasting (comparing past stress to the current one, i.e., a major illness versus a missed sale)
- Questioning (asking yourself “How much will this matter in three years’ time?”)
- Reframing (looking at your challenge from...
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Control your attention
When you ruminate, your attention gets caught in an unproductive loop.
So step up and redirect your attention to areas in which you can take useful action.
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Wake up
Stand or sit up, clap your hands, and move your body. Connect with your senses by noticing what you can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel. The idea is to reconnect with the world.
Most of the rumination happens when you are in a state called “waking sleep": when you are doing things, but yo...
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Don't take failure personally
Remember that the inevitable setbacks that you face are temporary, specific, and external.
View the negative situation as a single event that is not connected to other potential events and that is caused largely by external factors over which you can have little control.
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Stress defined
Stress is a state of mental tension or emotional strain due to adverse or demanding circumstances, events, and situations.
Stress is hard to measure and someone may be suffering from it while showing no external signs.
4. Detachment from External Events
• Individuals should cultivate a sense of detachment from external events and focus instead on their own inner state on oachieve a greater sense of peace and equanimity.
• Our emotions and reactions should not be dictated by external events but rather by our own rational judgments.
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