avatarVikash Jangra

Summary

The article discusses personal strategies for overcoming stress, including meditation, self-questioning, and increasing social interactions.

Abstract

The author shares a personal journey of dealing with stress following a series of adverse life events such as job loss, a breakup, and betrayal. The article emphasizes the limited effectiveness of unsolicited advice and the importance of finding personal coping mechanisms. Meditation is highlighted as a powerful tool for mental reset and releasing negative energy. The author also suggests asking oneself critical questions to understand and tackle stressful situations. Additionally, the article advocates for increased social engagement as a means to gain new perspectives and ideas, ultimately serving as a "stressbuster." The author acknowledges stress as a significant issue that can affect both mental and physical health, recommending professional help from a psychiatrist if necessary.

Opinions

  • Unsolicited advice from others during tough times can be unhelpful and overwhelming.
  • Meditation is preferable to motivational content or advice for achieving mental clarity and emotional stability.
  • Self-reflection through asking oneself tough questions is a valuable method for finding solutions to stressful situations.
  • Engaging with friends and family can provide new insights and help alleviate stress.
  • Stress is recognized as a serious mental health issue that can have physical manifestations, and there is no shame in seeking professional psychiatric help.

Things Help me to Overcome ‘Stress’

Lost my job, break up after a long one year in a relationship, got cheated by my girlfriend, what else worst happened to anyone.

When you are in trouble, you get much more attention from peoples. While you are expecting help from those peoples, you got only suggestions and advice without asking for it. In your dark or black days, you need someone on your side to hold you tight and say, everything gets to be good soon.

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Online articles or motivational videos just help to change your thoughts for a while but soon, reality hits you. and you are back in the same situation. A smile on my face but things were going into my mind. I was so much depressed that I don’t even know what I had at dinner yesterday? I am losing myself day over day. I saw no hope in the near future. And break up make all things worst. Yet, it was a selfish decision. I guess, she did the right thing that time, she thinks need to do.

I locked up in my own mind. It's not working. All negative energy was around me. I am not even feeling well and not even properly sick. All-day thoughts ran in my mind about the future, about my girlfriend who already left me in hard times, about myself, about my failure. Everything was like a song on repeat in mind. There is no solution that came in mind, just trouble.

People came to meet me with their suggestions and advice. Even those people who don’t even know what work I was doing before all this? Isn’t it ridiculous to suggest someone things that they already knew? Like, don’t lose hope. God may think better for you. blah! blah!

Meditation-Nothing better than this

When you are in trouble and you don’t see any way to get out from a hard situation, Meditation works. It helps you kind of reset your mind and release all negative energy. If you feel unhappy or going through a breakup, meditation is best before you consult with any counselor or psychiatrist.

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Sometimes you attach in relationships so much that you don’t believe when it gets down. This could be a breakpoint of someone’s life. A regular meditation of around 1–2 hours helps me to get over from these things. A Strom of the thoughts was stopped on the second day of meditation, I was feeling better. Within a week, my real smile was back on the face.

For meditation, you can watch videos and sync with any audible. There are many mentors that lead you to meditate. All you need to focus and concentrate whatever they said. You will feel the energy in yourself. It's all about practice. The more you practice, the more you will become stable.

Ask Yourself — Question yourself about the situation

The answer is always hidden in the question itself. Every possible question you have in your mind, ask yourself and think about the possible ways to get over from it. The more questions you have, the more possibilities to get answers quickly. These questions could be like, what brings you into this situation? How can I tackle this situation? This thing is a little bit tricky. But if you master it, you maybe never fall into such kind of situation again.

Asking yourself will make you more thing about the problem and think about all possible ways to get out of that. This thing is a little tricky because some peoples don’t get this and get into deep thoughts and resultant, no solutions but more pressure on the mind. Also, the situation will become tougher if it does not imply correctly. So, the questions should be relevant which leads to getting answers not to create a situation tougher.

Increase your social gathering-Stressbuster

This is surefire to counter the stress. By increasing the social gathering, you will able to get out of the thoughts always runs into your mind. You get a new view to see things. Among all this, you might get new ideas while discussing things with your friends and family. This is truly a stressbuster.

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When you met to new peoples, you interact with their thoughts and their perspective to see things from their view. This is the best thing to do. Even, the idea of Facebook popped up in the mind of Mark Zuckerberg when he met with peoples who actually have an idea about this. So, this is how it can help you to release your negativity and bring you to more ideas.

Stress is actually a feeling of emotional or physical reaction. It could be positive or negative both. In positive, you got a tough deadline while in a negative way, it is vast. Taking too much also affects your body and health as well. If needed, get to a psychiatrist. Mental health is a real problem and no shame to consult with any psychiatrist about this.

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