Stress: Emotional Ways We Can Overcome It!

Psychologists remind us of the tenderness with which mothers know how to smooth their children's foreheads, banishing all fears and anxieties nestled in their souls - love being the most direct way to alleviate anxiety, a path whose active principle is unfortunately lost by many of us. once they reach maturity.

People have always had the intuition that anxiety (anxiety), exhausting work hours, insecurity of a threatening future, misunderstandings with loved ones can trigger somatic and mental illness.

We constantly feel the burden of pressures, external constraints, we feel frustrations and emotional tensions that do nothing but disturb us, even destroying the mental and biological balance.

Every day we meet people who try to resist the attacks, to reconcile their desires in the equation of social efficiency, with a huge consumption, not always justified, being drawn into the trap of misidentifying the real stressors, both external and internal; for example, the tensions in the professional space, which do not find a way to manifest in the same area, are expressed, sometimes in abusive, aggressive forms, towards people considered close, who can understand and soothe us: life partner, children, friends.

Psychologists have drawn the profile of the person dominated by stress, drawing attention to the risk factor posed by a life lived under the sign of a continuous tension: apathy/agitation; excessive sleep/insomnia; irritability, aggression, appetite for conflict/passivity, indifference; decreased ability to concentrate, retain information, personal efficiency; physiological disorders (which are not signs of certain diseases, chronic or not): palpitations, shortness of breath, feeling of suffocation, weight loss or overeating, etc .; diving into an imaginary world, to evade reality, which has become impossible to control; denial of responsibilities, which seem too much and too suffocating.

Such a person, dominated by stress, is the perfect candidate for: the impossibility of establishing friendships, partnerships, etc .; perpetuation of family conflict situations; professional failure; consumption and addiction to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gambling, etc.

Psychologists remind us of the tenderness with which mothers know how to smooth their children's foreheads, banishing all fears and anxieties nestled in their souls - love being the most direct way to alleviate anxiety, a path whose active principle is unfortunately lost by many of us. once they reach maturity.

Laughter, crying, verbal aggression are other ways to release tension, the effect being to restore mental balance.

Emotional withdrawal in excessive sleep seems to be a path taken by some people to cope with difficulties, these people finding resting the doors to reality.

Discuss the dominant emotional state or pray. Here are two proven recipes for relieving the tension created by family or professional conflicts. This verbalization leads to the formulation of new points of view or even to the disappearance of minor tensions.

Trying to find strictly logical explanations for the problems that plague us is a frequently used mechanism that can bring some satisfaction, due to the courage to have debated them.

In this case, at least two potential dangers must be avoided: either to analyze and reanalyze your situation, waiting for solutions, drawing the ground of obsessive thinking, or to give an explanation that seems satisfactory at the moment, freeing yourself from guilt, responsibility. , in the end not satisfying the factual reality.

Others of us try to get rid of stress through active behavior: play, physical work, sports, these being mechanisms for discharging excess energy.

The guarantee of the success of these mechanisms is a relative matter, the feeling of discomfort, the effort of intellectual concentration and personal control, going so far as to isolate the individual, disrupting interpersonal relationships are just some indications of the inability to fight and emerge victorious from stress.

Nowadays it is important to be aware of what problems we have and how many of them are due to stress.

Enemy recognized or not, he can be defeated by resorting to an effective way that comes in the service of contemporary man: psychotherapy - the science of the soul, able to discover in people springs and mechanisms to emerge victorious from any struggle.

Nothing can replace the physical and mental balance that creates the state of well-being and happiness that all people want.