Did you know that what you think about stress determines the effect it has on your body? In this podcast, Enric Corbera raises awareness of unity as a tool to deal with stress.
Among the environmental factors that affect our health, in addition to taking into account aspects such as physical activity, pollution or diet, it is essential to consider the emotional factor, related to how we perceive the world and what our attitude towards difficulties is. In this video by David Corbera, discover how to transform your stress from Bioneuroemotion.
1. Respect our animal side.
Any responds to the environment to adapt to it. For example, the gazelle that is eating with other gazelles in the middle of the savannah responds to the stress of detecting an approaching lion. As they flee, their heart rate increases, their respiratory capacity increases, their pupils dilate, the number of lymphocytes (defense cells) increases, etc. Y when he has misled the lion, he recovers his body’s normal values.
On many occasions, human beings after a stressful experience, we are left thinking, “it almost reached me”; or we continue running “just in case”, or any other option that continues to connect us with what we have experienced. By maintaining thought about the experience, our body continues to give a physiological response as if we were still in the stress situation.. the origin of our response is the first step for our body to regain balance. Letting go of what stress demanded of us is as important as not recreating said future situation is just as important. Stress only has biological utility from one place, the now.
2. Observe us.
To respect the first point we must understand that for the unconscious the real and symbolic are the same. People can give a physiological stress response just by imagining a situation. For example, if our adolescent son has gone out at night and has said that he would arrive at 2 in the morning and it is 4 o’clock and he does not arrive, he does not answer his cell phone and his last connection was more than three hours ago, we begin to have the Same response as the gazelle to the lion.
Observe, that is, Our interpretation of what happens is essential to understand that we are participants in our anxiety.. By believing that our catastrophes are true, our body activates to save us. That is why when we have anxiety, the first thing we can do is observe what we are saying to ourselves and explore whether what we say to ourselves has already been said to us before. Observe the communication loop without participating in it, like someone observing a conversation between two strangers. Listen to them without believing their content, observe what we can identify about ourselves in that discourse.
3. Raise awareness.
In the reality we live in, the information we carry within us is constantly manifested.. If it causes us stress or anxiety, it is because they have already experienced situations for which their body needed that state of emergency to adapt. However, we experience the same reaction without being in a survival situation. Our response corresponds to the same emotion that they experienced, even though the scenario is completely different. It is not an inadequate answer, it is a decontextualized answer. We can observe this especially in those situations where we stress in an apparently disproportionate way.
For example: Our daughter is on a trip alone and we cannot help but think that our relationship is in danger, we need her to come back, we think that something could happen to her or that she is leaving with another person. In this case it would be interesting to observe the relationships of our ancestors, what happened symbolically related to this situation. It could be that the grandfather went to war and did not return, that he went with his lover and left the grandmother alone with her children, etc…
The stress you feel At what point in your family’s history could it have been useful? After becoming aware ask yourself, Is it useful to you today? Use the advantages that it brings you and with love the rest. Our internal dialogue is in tune with our state of health. What we constantly tell ourselves has to do with our beliefs and our values, which are the same as those of our family. Bioneuroemotion is a method for the development of . Knowing the information that conditions our lives and that unites us with the people around us and with our ancestors gives us peace. And that peace is the starting point for a better management of anxiety and stress.
“The intensity of the anguish is proportional to the meaning that the situation has for the affected person; Although she is essentially ignorant of the reasons for her anxiety.”
Karen Horny.
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