Anxiety & Mood | Burn out | Stress

7 steps – What To Do During the Worry-Hour To Handle Stress, Anxiety & Rumination

Here continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from more serious stress and exhaustion symptoms. As mentioned earlier, in my daily work with people who have sought help for stress and exhaustion problems, I have been able to distinguish 3 building blocks of stress management: 1. Adjust your…

Burn out | Feelings | Self image | Stress

Are Exhausted People In Reality Happy, Curious And Easily Excited?

Today’s post is about the driving forces behind these emotions and how they can contribute to stress and exhaustion.   There are many factors that make exhausted persons easily become too active when they are trying to heal their stress injuries. This can delay the healing process and prolong the suffering.   In earlier posts…

Burn out | Healthy Routines | Relationships | Stress

Stress management: 2d building block part 2 – minimize stress sources

There are 3 important building blocks of stress management: 1) regulate you stress level, se techniques in earlier post 2) handle stress sources and 3) use stress management habits. The second building block, handle your stress sources, is about 2 main components: 1) secure sufficient recovery 2) minimize stress sources or their intensity as well…

Burn out | Feelings | Healthy Routines | Stress

Feelings – Anger

Unheard emotions can lead to both physical and psychological symptoms. There are several emotions that we who work with psychological treatment often encounter problems with. One of the most prominent is anger. Maybe this partly depends on cultural norms and thoughts of proper adult behaviour, that anger is only for children until old enough to…

Anxiety & Mood | Burn out | Healthy Routines | Stress

Stress – The 2d building block: Part 1 – Handle your stress sources

There are 3 important building blocks of stress management: 1) regulate you stress level, se techniques in earlier post 2) handle stress sources and 3) use stress management habits. The second building block, handle your stress sources, is about 2 main components: 1) secure sufficient recovery and 2) minimize stress sources or their intensity as…

Anxiety & Mood | Burn out | Healthy Routines | Mindfulness | Stress

Mindfulness: The Body Scan Exercise Part 3 of 4

Here comes the 3d of 4 parts of the body scan exercise, in total 10 minutes long. This is the essence/instructional parts of one version of the 3 major meditations within mindfulness but it usually lasts over 45 minutes with long parts of silence: … Now pay attention to the pressure from the floor or…

Burn out | Healthy Routines | Mindfulness | Stress

Stress: The Two Stress Scales

There are actually two stress levels that are important to keep track of: 1. One is the stress-scale that I explained in last week’s session, i.e. how the level of stress generally fluctuates in the human body during the day depending on activity level and intensity. 2. The other is your general baseline stress-level over…

Burn out | Healthy Routines | Stress

Performance, Stress and Exhaustion: The Purpose and Nature of Stress

To be able to assist with stress management, we first need a common basis of understanding. The body needs stress to function, to perform but also for survival. The system in the body that is the most responsible for speeding up the system is the sympathetic nerve system, one of the two parts of the…