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1. Establish good sleep habits. Sleep is how the body recovers from stress. 2. Exercise daily. Movement is how the body puts the stress hormones to work. 3. Eat well. The gut-brain connection drives how we feel as we digest.
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This is close, but misses a major issue: self honesty in one's self conversation. Address that, and the majority of one's stress and anxiety evaporate. The majority of one's stress and anxiety is in the form of negative forecasting unknown future events - essentially fantasizing failure. Address that, and a personal revolution takes place, with the simple but not easy task of self honesty.
To successfully do all the recommended steps and have them be fulfilling and not just another task, you need to be honest with yourself.
The fact that this is an unpopular option may be why so many people are stuck in their anxiety loops.
1. Establish good sleep habits. Sleep is how the body recovers from stress. 2. Exercise daily. Movement is how the body puts the stress hormones to work. 3. Eat well. The gut-brain connection drives how we feel as we digest.
It's difficult to trust a source that fights fire with fire. If stress and anxiety is handled by beating it, where does the entropy leave the system?
1. Establish good sleep habits. Sleep is how the body recovers from stress. 2. Exercise daily. Movement is how the body puts the stress hormones to work. 3. Eat well. The gut-brain connection drives how we feel as we digest.
> Action mode focuses on surviving a danger right now. This is the fight or flight mechanism that our brain when it is in an adverse situation. The response is driven by the sympathetic nervous system. It drives up your heart rate, raises blood pressure, dilates your pupil among other things. It also affects the way we think, and make decisions. When we are in "action mode," our thinking becomes fairly "binary," and…
> It also focuses on short-term results, and is biased towards assured results, as opposed to "possible" ones.
What's interesting to me is that this type of thinking also overlaps with, or is found in, a variety of circumstances/ways of being, like:
- Unskilled (despite experience level)
- Beginner
- Under-trained
- Unsupported or under-supported role or assignment
- Self-centered (egoic-hero model)
- Little-picture Thinker
- Fearful attitude
... It's helpful to be able to refer to these other lenses in turn, as a way of finding helpful solutions.
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To point 1, this almost feels like catch-22. While sleep may be a way to recover from stress, stress is probably the single thing that impacts my sleep the most (aside from alcohol consumption, which is much easier to control). Does anyone have any help or tips here?
Exercise and make it easy to do. I got a peloton bike and just made it a habit in the morning. I then eased into yoga at night. When Covid hit, 4 kids home/remote job/divorce all hit at once. I have to do something hard enough that my brain can shut off worrying about the thing. Lizard brain has to be active enough to think threat is gone and shut off. The hardest days for me are intentional rest days/weeks where I h…
I just wanted to say kudos for finding healthy outlets to manage.
Breathing is key. It's one of the easiest ways to facing your current situation and also distracting yourself every moment or so while you breathe. Exhaling along with mental visualization of purging the mind has the effect of releasing stress. Ofcourse, this needs practice, but that's not too hard with the amount of stressful situations we face everyday.
> Exhaling along with mental visualization of purging the mind This one amazes me; taking deep breaths to calm myself just makes me feel weird and sometimes even more anxious, but taking deep breaths and imagining releasing a cloud of (deep purple) smoke on the exhale noticeably relaxes me. I wonder if it's the imagination component that makes it better, i.e. giving the mind something to focus on? Or maybe the timing…
The other is getting rid of stress when you already have it.
Personally, I find that leaning into the "fight or flight" response by going for a run or a workout as soon as possible and as intensely as possible works almost every time.