Contents:
- Medical Video: Anxiety : How to Sleep With Severe Anxiety
- Failing to plan important things when you're stressed, what's the reason?
- What is the trigger?
- Don't let stress hit, deal with it this way
- 1. Write down the difficulties that are being faced and find a solution
- 2. Accept things that are beyond your ability
- 3. Story to the closest person
- 4. Rest your body and mind
Medical Video: Anxiety : How to Sleep With Severe Anxiety
It cannot be denied, the effects of stress can easily seep into the body and brain to disrupt your mind. Do not believe? Try to remember again, how many plans have been abandoned because you were under heavy stress approached problems that came repeatedly, both trivial and even severe.
Yes, stress does have consequences in the form of heavy pressure on your body and mind. Until finally it ends in the difficulty of thinking clearly and planning various important things later on. How could that be?
Failing to plan important things when you're stressed, what's the reason?
Before doing anything important, you will certainly make careful planning first, right? In fact, the planning process involves not only future thinking, but also your current thoughts and decisions. The goal is of course to be able to overcome all obstacles that are present while receiving the appropriate results, even better than expectations.
However, sometimes it feels hard asking forgiveness for you to plan something optimally when the mind is filled with other things. Whether it's because of pressure at work, relationships with partners are not harmonious, or financial conditions are getting worse. As a result, your brain may prefer to think of problems that exist today rather than your plans going forward.
In other words, the stress you face today disrupts your self-control, making it difficult for you to think clearly and do planning. Starting from this, the researchers were interested in finding out the relationship between one's self-control and their ability to plan something, reported on the Psychology Today page.
The study involving 200 participants proved that those who were able to control themselves well were in fact better able to plan positive things despite being under heavy stress. Conversely, participants who are too focused on their own negative thoughts due to stress will continue to feel trapped and have difficulty getting out of the problem so they are reluctant to think of important plans in the future.
What is the trigger?
Actually, all the decisions you make involve the brain's cognitive functions. That is why the planning process, the ability to control oneself, to the ability to manage the mind while under stress, are carried out simultaneously by the brain.
So, when the brain has been stretched great to solve the problem that you are facing right now, after a long time the concentration of the brain will gradually run out. You also become lazy to have to think harder in order to plan other things, knowing that this thought process will take a lot of time and energy.
In short, you will think "Just one problem is not finished, why should you think of something else that is uncertain?". This might be the reason why you often miss making fun plans on weekends, after being bombarded with insistent tasks from your boss in the office.
Don't let stress hit, deal with it this way
Basically it's fine if you want to override something and overtake something else. With a note, as long as it doesn't confuse your mind because of stress. Unfortunately, most people cannot afford to plan things because they are indeed troubled by a problem that never ends.
So, do not waste time to immediately correct yourself and your mind in the following ways:
1. Write down the difficulties that are being faced and find a solution
The problem you are experiencing will not be finished if you just keep thinking all day long. Try to write down any difficulties that interfere with your concentration, then look for solutions one by one. It would be better if you start to improve from the smallest thing first, so you will not feel too burdened by the current conditions.
2. Accept things that are beyond your ability
Stress generally departs from the inability of oneself to do something. Indeed, many think that it doesn't hurt to try new challenges. However, do not over-force yourself if it is not possible.
Because some things are out of control, and you must learn to accept them. The key, keep calm and accept your own abilities.
3. Story to the closest person
Stories to the closest trusted person can be the right choice to pour out your heart when you're stressed. Even though sometimes they are not able to give appropriate advice, but at least there is a little less burden because they succeed in sharing it with others.
4. Rest your body and mind
Avoid too your body and mind to work hard all the time. There is nothing wrong, how come, occasionally pamper yourself by taking the time to do simple activities that can make your body and mind much more relaxed. Starting from warm baths, writing daily stories, to meditation in the open.
Or if you want a real break, you can spend enough time to go to bed early at night to replace your fatigue after a day of activities. Actually, whatever activities you do, try as much as possible to rest your body and mind completely, until you feel you have been excited to face tomorrow.
