He stress It is a physical and emotional reaction that we all experience when faced with any change that has occurred in our lives. These reactions can have both positive and negative effects. Stress, therefore, is the automatic and natural response of our body to situations that, in principle, seem anxious, threatening, challenging or that we interpret and perceive as if they were. Both our life and our environment, in constant change, require continuous adaptations from us; Therefore, a certain amount of stress (arousal) is not only good but also completely necessary.
In this PsychologyOnline article, we are going to show some techniques that we can do on a psychological level to overcome stress and anxiety.
This procedure can vary from writing in a journal without a fixed limit, to the timely and systematic recording or classification of specific thoughts, feelings, physical manifestations and behaviors. With this technique we will learn to detect, evaluate, discriminate, evaluate, anticipate and modify both our responses and our objectives, progress… It will also allow us learn to observe ourselves and objectively record to, from there, introduce the necessary modifications and gradually modify negative thoughts and distorted by healthier ones as well as the concomitant emotions and behaviors.
They are filled out in daily life situations, that is, at the same moment in which the events occur or later afterwards. Some of the aspects that you may want to record in a self-record are emotional states (content of feelings and intensity), positive or negative thoughts, physiological responses to certain events, behaviors carried out and strategies carried out to solve a problem, among many others. things.
The self-registrations Not only do they allow problems to be evaluated before and during the psychotherapeutic intervention, but they also facilitate the effects of therapeutic techniques used because they allow us to become aware not only of the problems but also of the resources and skills that are acquired as well as the strategies carried out to face, face and solve a problem in any situation that requires it.
Example of self-registration for stress and anxiety
An example of aspects that we can record I would be:
In what situation or moment do you start to think, feel bad or act inappropriately?
How much does it affect you?
How long does it last?
What do you do or try to do to manage the anxious situation?
Which of the following techniques do you use to resolve the situation?
How have you changed?
What have you improved?
This article is merely informative, at PsychologyFor we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
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