As indicated Your doctorwith the intention of helping people to handle the stress During adverse situations, WHO has publishedDoing What Matters in Times of Stress“ (“Doing what matters in times of stress“), an illustrated guide showing strategies and steps we can take to help us manage stress and not let it consume us.
It is important to say that these steps must practice constantly in order to dominate them and fully benefit from them.
Step 1. Feel the present and put your feet on the ground
many times the stress originates feelings Y thoughts (which can be regards, blame, self judgments, concerns regarding the future or other people) that leave us hooked. Being like this, we distance ourselves from the people we love, from our goals, from what we want to achieve and who we want to be (our values), and we end up not enjoy the moment we are in.
The WHO recommends that forunhook”, it is necessary to put attention Y focus on the presentbecause in this way it will be much easier to learn to manage stressbut we can also have better relationships with our environment, and in case we have to perform some task, we will do it much better.
Step 2. Detach from the hook
When the negative thoughts and feelings They come to trap us, many times they separate us from our reality and make us walk away what we are and what we want.
The WHO says that in order to let go and escape from that hook, it is necessary to identify what we feel and give it a nameyou have to realize the feelings or thoughtssince this way it will be much simpler and more efficient work them for them to leave us.
Step 3. Remember the values
According to the World Health Organization, values would be the things we want to reach be like people in a sense of behaviors and attitudes, not in the academic, labor or economic sense. Values are what we are like people.
It is important to define what, What Y who we want to bein order to make a plan that allows us to guide our actions and contribute to regulate our behavioras well as to guide us to remember the way, even when the stress It comes to us and tries to dominate us.
Step 4. Kindness
No matter how difficult a situation may seem, count on someone always lighten the situation and lighten (even a little) the loads that we can feel through the aidthe amiability and the sweetie.
For this reason, it is necessary that we learn to be kind to other people, because even a small act of kindness could help change things or, at least, contribute to making them look different.
Step 5. You have to be like the sky
One way to unhook thoughts and feelingsis by doing something called “clear some space for”.
Many times we can’t get rid of completely of the feelings not welcome, other times we may not have enough energy for it. But not for that all is lost.
The WHO recommends that we can identify with the sky and think that our emotions and thoughts they are like clouds or weather changes, that although at some point they are there, sooner or later they will go. It is necessary to accept them and know how to continue with them until they pass, without channeling all our attention on them.
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