What is stress resistance?
Stress resistance is understood as the ability of the human body to adapt to stress, to endure it without negative consequences for health, and then to recover quickly. Stress for the body can be not only a negative event - the loss of a loved one, a break in a relationship, but also a positive one, in general, any event that causes a surge of emotions and throws you off balance, resulting in a temporary or persistent deterioration in the quality of life. Moreover, with instability in stress, a person develops avoidance behavior. At the unconscious level, avoidance of new opportunities and changes is reinforced. I mean ... "trampling" in one place, strict control over maintaining a constant comfort zone, just not to experience stress and the exclusively negative experiences associated with it.
Good endurance – an emotionally balanced and stable state, the ability to “keep yourself in hand” are useful in any situation. Stress-resistant employees move up the career ladder faster, build the necessary communications and professional relationships more effectively, without this internal quality in our unstable and constantly changing time it is generally impossible to do. In everyday life, calm and balanced people are usually more promising for others, precisely because of the ability to withstand and overcome difficult situations that arise at work or in personal life, without succumbing to the destructive impact of stress factors that arise in our lives every day. What will help you develop stress resistance? Let's look at this process step by step:
1. Monitor the quality and duration of your sleep. This is the most important aspect of our mental health. Shallow, inadequate, short or fitful sleep exhausts the nervous system. Many people sleep 4-5 hours a day, trying to save a couple of hours. This slowly but surely undermines the nervous system and mental health in general. Therefore, the first thing that is important to do to increase stress resistance is to monitor the quality of your sleep and sleep continuously for at least 7 hours a day.
2. Make a plan for your rest . We regularly make plans for our professional activity, so it is equally important to plan your rest during the week, and to plan a full vacation much in advance. If you work remotely, it is advisable to switch yourself and organize various types of activity related to physical movement, sports or walks, get out of the house, ideally, at least a couple of times a year go away far away to switch from thoughts about work and concentrate on yourself, on making new plans, setting further professional and life goals. Strategic planning is possible only in a resource, in a rested person.
3. Your hobby. A favorite activity distracts from anxious thoughts and puts the nervous system in order. Develops creativity and unconventional thinking. Allows you to understand your true desires and look honestly into the eyes of your capabilities, gives strength to move forward to achieve your unique goals, to manifest yourself as a unique person, and your talents in this world.
4. Understand the reasons for your anxious and worrying thoughts. Endlessly “running in circles” of automatic thoughts and getting stuck in negativity about yourself and others, in your own worries about the future that has not yet arrived, does not help solve problems in any way, on the contrary, it only intensifies this tense state. It is much more effective and useful to talk to a psychologist or coach about them, as well as develop a new skill of scrolling through positive scenarios for the development of events. Negative emotions are three times more poisonous if you accumulate them over a long period of time. Leave all the negativity in the past, regularly working on traumatic situations with your psychologist.
5. Study your strengths and weaknesses. This will allow you to better understand how to increase stress resistance and in what direction you should work on yourself to increase your self-esteem. Strengths will give you internal support in difficult situations in life, increase confidence and self-esteem, and give you the opportunity to move towards achieving your goals.
6. Keep a diary of your thoughts and internal states. Write down your thoughts and feelings about the events that have happened, observe their consequences, the results that have caused you strong positive or negative experiences. Over time, you will understand what brings you the most stress and will also be able to discuss this with a coach or a psychologist.
7. Whose opinion is important – someone else’s or your own? Many of our fears and worries are connected with what others will think of us. It is impossible to please everyone, so it is important to stop suffering from your own tormenting thoughts that others may condemn your actions or expressions of yourself. The main thing is that it corresponds to your own idea of internal values. Moreover, protect yourself from negativity. Refuse to criticize others, minimize communication with people who are “toxic” to you.
8. Develop yourself, constantly improving your skills and your professional qualifications. Having become a professional in your field of activity, you can be absolutely sure that you will cope with the task set before you and will always find the best place for work or for self-realization in business. This will allow you to feel and express yourself confidently, calmly in stressful situations.
9. Add more positive emotions to your life: read educational books, watch good films. Communicate with interesting people, with whom you are filled with positivity, faith in yourself and your strengths, and also open up new opportunities.
Stress resistance is understood as the ability of the human body to adapt to stress, to endure it without negative consequences for health, and then to recover quickly. Stress for the body can be not only a negative event - the loss of a loved one, a break in a relationship, but also a positive one, in general, any event that causes a surge of emotions and throws you off balance, resulting in a temporary or persistent deterioration in the quality of life. Moreover, with instability in stress, a person develops avoidance behavior. At the unconscious level, avoidance of new opportunities and changes is reinforced. I mean ... "trampling" in one place, strict control over maintaining a constant comfort zone, just not to experience stress and the exclusively negative experiences associated with it.
Good endurance – an emotionally balanced and stable state, the ability to “keep yourself in hand” are useful in any situation. Stress-resistant employees move up the career ladder faster, build the necessary communications and professional relationships more effectively, without this internal quality in our unstable and constantly changing time it is generally impossible to do. In everyday life, calm and balanced people are usually more promising for others, precisely because of the ability to withstand and overcome difficult situations that arise at work or in personal life, without succumbing to the destructive impact of stress factors that arise in our lives every day. What will help you develop stress resistance? Let's look at this process step by step:
1. Monitor the quality and duration of your sleep. This is the most important aspect of our mental health. Shallow, inadequate, short or fitful sleep exhausts the nervous system. Many people sleep 4-5 hours a day, trying to save a couple of hours. This slowly but surely undermines the nervous system and mental health in general. Therefore, the first thing that is important to do to increase stress resistance is to monitor the quality of your sleep and sleep continuously for at least 7 hours a day.
2. Make a plan for your rest . We regularly make plans for our professional activity, so it is equally important to plan your rest during the week, and to plan a full vacation much in advance. If you work remotely, it is advisable to switch yourself and organize various types of activity related to physical movement, sports or walks, get out of the house, ideally, at least a couple of times a year go away far away to switch from thoughts about work and concentrate on yourself, on making new plans, setting further professional and life goals. Strategic planning is possible only in a resource, in a rested person.
3. Your hobby. A favorite activity distracts from anxious thoughts and puts the nervous system in order. Develops creativity and unconventional thinking. Allows you to understand your true desires and look honestly into the eyes of your capabilities, gives strength to move forward to achieve your unique goals, to manifest yourself as a unique person, and your talents in this world.
4. Understand the reasons for your anxious and worrying thoughts. Endlessly “running in circles” of automatic thoughts and getting stuck in negativity about yourself and others, in your own worries about the future that has not yet arrived, does not help solve problems in any way, on the contrary, it only intensifies this tense state. It is much more effective and useful to talk to a psychologist or coach about them, as well as develop a new skill of scrolling through positive scenarios for the development of events. Negative emotions are three times more poisonous if you accumulate them over a long period of time. Leave all the negativity in the past, regularly working on traumatic situations with your psychologist.
5. Study your strengths and weaknesses. This will allow you to better understand how to increase stress resistance and in what direction you should work on yourself to increase your self-esteem. Strengths will give you internal support in difficult situations in life, increase confidence and self-esteem, and give you the opportunity to move towards achieving your goals.
6. Keep a diary of your thoughts and internal states. Write down your thoughts and feelings about the events that have happened, observe their consequences, the results that have caused you strong positive or negative experiences. Over time, you will understand what brings you the most stress and will also be able to discuss this with a coach or a psychologist.
7. Whose opinion is important – someone else’s or your own? Many of our fears and worries are connected with what others will think of us. It is impossible to please everyone, so it is important to stop suffering from your own tormenting thoughts that others may condemn your actions or expressions of yourself. The main thing is that it corresponds to your own idea of internal values. Moreover, protect yourself from negativity. Refuse to criticize others, minimize communication with people who are “toxic” to you.
8. Develop yourself, constantly improving your skills and your professional qualifications. Having become a professional in your field of activity, you can be absolutely sure that you will cope with the task set before you and will always find the best place for work or for self-realization in business. This will allow you to feel and express yourself confidently, calmly in stressful situations.
9. Add more positive emotions to your life: read educational books, watch good films. Communicate with interesting people, with whom you are filled with positivity, faith in yourself and your strengths, and also open up new opportunities.
