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…
Remember from the last posts, mindfulness is the ability to be fully present in the current moment and activity, being aware of where we are and what we are doing, but not overly responsive or overwhelmed by what is going on around us. This post continues about being mindful with regard to thoughts, which…
Here comes the last of five parts of the breathing anchor, a seated exercise using the breath as an anchoring point of in total 5-10 minutes depending on pauses/pacing: …Notice when your mind has wandered. Observing the types of thoughts that distract you is an important part of the learning. Try to notice the content…
If stress is not dealt with, one can end up with more severe stress damages, even repairable brain damages, that can eventually lead to exhaustion disorder, or more popularly called burnout, which is a a prolonged response to chronic stressors often related to work. There is so far no agreed international diagnosis among other thing…
Here comes the fourth of five parts of the breathing anchor, an exercise using the breath as an anchoring point since our breath is always with us and hence can be used to anchor us in the present moment. This is a seated exercise of in total 5-10 minutes depending on pauses/pacing: …You may also…
This post is continuing about the third of the 3 important building blocks of stress management: Use stress management habits. 3) Burn/reduce stress that has built up in your body and build your long term stress endurance/resistance: – Take daily 30 minutes walks in daylight, before noon if possible. In addition to lifting your general…
Here comes the third part of the breathing anchor, an exercise using the breath as an anchoring point since our breath is always with us and hence can be used to anchor us in the present moment. This is a seated exercise of in total 5-10 minutes depending on pauses/pace: … Breathe in and breathe…
This post is about the third of the 3 important building blocks of stress management: 1) regulate you stress level 2) handle stress sources and 3) use stress management habits. Stress Management Habits: 1) Stress-proof your daily life 1 Use the stress-scale, see separate post under stress on www.jennyrapp.com 2 Identify early warning signs such…
As mentioned in the last post, fear is a powerful, primitive and lifesaving emotion. Fear makes us aware of danger and entails important learning mechanisms. We avoid things we fear based on what we have been through and experienced. Phobias entails having an avoidant behaviour toward specific situations and items. Usually phobias are developed towards…
This post continues on what to do during the worry hour, more specifically what to do with unproductive themes/topics, see earlier posts. You can choose among several strategies: 1. If stressed, calm yourself by pointing out that the thoughts are likely consequences of stress and hence see the worry-theme as a mainly stress symptoms and…