Getting out of survival mode

Ensure that your challenges are achievable with the resources you have. Make sure your support team is available.
Try to assess the situation by recognising what you can do and what you can't, then directing your efforts there.
When you want to take on something, ask if this is really your responsibility
Be the person you want others to see. Rather than focusing on losing weight, decide instead to simply be a person who exercises daily and eats a diet lower in carbs.
Cherish the positive influences around you - good friends, supportive colleagues, opportunities.

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Staying Calm During an Emergency Can Save Lives

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Before we discuss what you can do to stay calm and focused in an emergency, let me tell you why it's important to stay calm and focused. When the body is under stress, it moves into survival mode, better known as the fight-or-flight syndrome.

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Reason for staying calm

When faced with an emergency, you are biologically created to be reactive and to behave in an emotional manner rather than a thoughtful manner.

It is important to have a plan to keep you calm...

Technique #1

To reduce stress in the body and immediately relax:

Squeeze and release all the muscles in the body isometrically and simultaneously, three times.

Technique #2

Breathe in to the count of three
Hold to the count of three
Breathe out to the count of three

Repeat three times while telling yourself to relax.

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A Surprisingly Simple Way To Get In Front Of Stress Before It Happens - Thrive Global

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Whether we like it or not, most of us would agree that some stress every day is just par for the course. Or is it? We've all got work stress, of course. For many of us, some of that work stress spills over into our home lives causing additional stress there (beyond the stress that we experience in our lives with our families and friends).

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Stress as a personal choice

Getting psychologically and visibly stressed out could be "manufactured stress". It is a way of showing that what we are doing is important.
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Survival Lessons from World War Z | The Art of Manliness

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Before was ever a Brad Pitt flick, it was a bestselling book. It tells the story of the zombie apocalypse as a series of interviews conducted by our journalist narrator. These interviews are taking place years after the zombie war has ended, which makes it a unique telling of the popular genre.

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Lack of practical skills

Our modern job descriptions largely rely on our minds rather than our physical skills in order to get work done.
Having some basic practical skills to complement your “soft” skills will certainly come in handy in survival scenarios, particularly when it comes to rebuilding from catastrophe. And you can develop them by simply trying things out.

Practice self-reliance in advance

Not only will having DIY skills help you rebuild your community, they also greatly increase your self-reliance.
This means being able to take care of yourself and survive with little and work with what you have. But don't wait until you need to be self-reliant to cultivate these skills.

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