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Pressure Doesn't Have to Turn into Stress
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 situation. Ask yourself, “What action is required here?"
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How we react to stress
Stress is largely caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them.
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.
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 you aren't really paying attention to them.
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.
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 a new angle: “What’s an opportunity in this situation?”)
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 situation. Ask yourself, “What action is required here?"
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“I think money is great. But physical and mental energy is the greatest riches of human life.”
Jerry Seinfeld
Personal Energy
Energy is everything. It goes beyond status, power, and money. Personal Energy is difficult to measure, as our energy levels vary.
There are 3 types of energy:
- Mental Energy: It is your ability to concentrate, pay attention and focus.
- Physical Energy: Ability to perform physical tasks
- Emotional Energy: Ability to feel compassion.
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- Mindfulness meditation is an excellent tool to improve our focus and awareness. We can enhance our mental energy by integrating our mind through meditation, instead of getting lost in scattered thoughts.
- Physical energy can be enhanced with regular exercise, no matter what kind.
- Emotional energy is intensified by human interaction. Meeting new people and spending time with people with no particular agenda is a great way to stay positive and improve your energy levels.