We all dread it, but in our modern everyday lives we can hardly avoid it: Stress.
Basically, a stress reaction is nothing negative. It occurs when we classify a situation as unpleasant or threatening. Stress revs up our body and enables us to act quickly in a threatening situation to ensure our survival, and sometimes it spurs us on to peak performance in a positive sense. Short-term stress, followed by relaxation, is therefore no problem at all for our body. There is only a state of tension followed by relaxation.
However, our stress system (flight/fight mode) is designed for situations in which we can quickly cope with the acute danger by flight or attack. It is not designed for a sustained state. Meanwhile, however, we predominantly experience situations that cannot be resolved by flight or attack, e.g.
- overtime at work
- constant accessibility
- the constant flood of information
- excessive demands at school/work
- relationship problems
- psychological pressure
- pressure of expectations
- bullying
Once we trigger our stress response, it continues until exhaustion sets in. That's why prolonged negative stress is so damaging - and becomes a health risk that can have all kinds of consequences for our body and mental health.
Stress is nothing but a feeling of being unsafe. Depending on how often that feeling has been triggered in the past our stress resilience varies. Feeling are responses to thoughts and that is great news because they can be changed. Repeated habits of thought become part of our belief system. With RTT we can install a new perspective and develop phenomenal coping skills into your subconscious mind.
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