NLP AND STRESS
🖊Batoul Khalifeh
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🕓10 minutes
We can battle and argue indefinitely without a reasonable conclusion or outcome if we don’t learn how to start seeing other people’s perspectives.
Whenever we are strongly arguing and disagreeing with others, our body feels threatened. In the simplest sense, we feel stress when the body meets a potential danger for which it responds by either freezing, fighting, or fleeing.
Stress is naturally characterized by a racing heart, increased breathing rate, and heightened senses. All of these changes would be very important to an individual getting ready to face uncertain events. That’s why too much stress can tax the body, resulting eventually in a compromised immune system and other issues.
Feeling sick, stuck, overwhelmed, depressed, anxious, or panicked are all emotions we naturally feel as a consequence of stress. These are all very helpful and protective emotions when it comes to a real danger someone might be facing.
Yet if those occur in times when the mind actually requires a wide ability to think clearly and rationally, the body will struggle with unpleasant emotions, keeping it from quickly solving the simple challenge it’s facing.
Many people spend much more time feeling worried, guilty, or ashamed of not doing things that they feel they ought to do or should do. However, feeling guilty or worried will not really help in solving the real problem, as The energy used to feed these negative emotions would be better spent by focusing on completing your goals.
Developing the tools and skills that can unite your brain and your body, is something that Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, is very good at.
It is obvious that stress can be caused by many things: pressures and challenges at work, difficult relationships, life transitions, world events, diseases, and political situations .. . Sometimes, we might even feel stressed out without knowing why. Tension may accumulate from lots of little things, even if there isn’t a major problem.
Besides being unpleasant, stress is associated with many health problems, which definitely makes it extremely important to deal with it and overcome stress.
How to overcome Stress with NLP?
The good news: NLP can easily help you manage your stress. The primary goal of Neuro Linguistics is to assist you to reprogram your mindset and improve all aspects of your life. The techniques established during the Neuro Linguistic Programming course help you to zoom in on any particular area you wish to improve or a problem you need to resolve to move forward.
You may have noticed that two people can be in the same difficult situation, yet react differently. One person may experience emotional tension, while for the other it may be “water off a duck’s back.” NLP helps us in understanding the inner structure of our minds that causes these differences in our reactions.
In addition to understanding how our minds work, NLP also offers various methodologies for changing how we think, feel, and behave.
NLP can be highly effective because it deals with the underlying structure that’s causing the stress response. As NLP studies the behavior of people who are excellent in dealing with a certain situation, NLP practitioners aim to emulate and model these examples of excellence so that others can be taught how to act the same way.
Think of NLP as the operating system or software that controls your life, while your physical body is the computer. And as you do, start Understanding that you have the ability to alter and change your operating system to produce different results in your life.
As humans, we’re controlled by our experiences and our emotions. And like it or not, Bad things are going to happen to all of us in life. But these things will either make you bitter or make you better — the choice is yours! There are many situations and experiences that we just can’t control. But what we can control is the meaning that we assign to those experiences.
NLP is a “simple” yet powerful approach that anyone can learn and implement into their life. Learning to control your thoughts and understanding how your mind operates is crucial to building a growth mindset and controlling your emotional states, your actions, and the outcome of your life.
Mastering this early on would have saved me years of self-sabotage, negative self-talk, and negative thought patterns that ultimately affected my physical and mental health. Learn from other people’s mistakes and wait no more to start making your life better!
Until next time, continue to learn, grow, and evolve 😉
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