▲ | adiabatichottub 2 days ago | |
To add to OP: It helps to pay attention to physical symptoms of stress as well. If you find yourself constantly tensing your jaw or your shoulders, take a moment to focus on relaxing your muscles and breathing. Overcoming negative automatic responses just takes consistent practice. To further add: being able to acknowledge an emotional response to a situation and then divert to objective thinking is a superpower. Sustained anger, sadness, or fear will quickly drain your energy and leave you unable to act with intent. | ||
▲ | oriel 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
To add to this further, I've had great success following The Body Keeps Score; seeing it as a repository of past stress and trauma. As part of this, I've been able to locate and work through stress and trauma activations in my body, where normally they'd cluster around my head and never actually get resolved. Every time I go to work out, I pay attention to what areas of my body arent responding, are activating oddly; and I'll work to strengthen the foot-to-neck paths. It started with a back injury and has resulted in me finding I needed wide foot shoes and changing my entire stance, posture, complex movements, etc. Some times I find it odd that I don't have that daemon running around yelling, because hes now activated in my body, and all I have to do is stretch. |