Relationships can serve as one of the strongest motivations and one of the strongest factors behind a person’s well-being. Meeting them or talking to them is something we look up to after a long day at work. We all have this one person who can just make all our worries go away, somebody who can solace us when we feel overwhelmed. Ultimately, when you’re at your best emotionally, like when you feel joyful or grateful it’s likely that you’ll have a productive day. After a soulful conversation with a friend on the phone, it’s easier to get back to work and be motivated. When you come out of the yoga studio after an intense workout session, you feel fresh, you’re less stressed and there’s release of feel-good hormones like serotonin and dopamine in your body. It teaches us to break through the natural human tendency to operate from either pure reason or pure emotion.Īccording to Greg Anderson, “Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind and spirit.” The realisation that everything we do, think, feel and believe has an effect on our wellbeing” Not only well-being is important, but all sorts of wellbeing are linked to each other. It is the optimal mode of behaving and thinking that is flexible and adaptive. Wellbeing promotes the use of the wise mind that sits in the middle of two polar opposites, the emotional side and the rational side. That in turn, helps us make more rational choices and helps us deal with those situations, rather than go into an intuitive survival mode. When we’re being present and aware of our thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them, we can deal with unpleasant emotions and feelings that arise as a consequence of a challenging situation. We learn what events need our stressful reaction and which ones are merely minor inconveniences. Wellbeing is a key concept in positive psychology that helps us identify and differentiate real threats from the ones that aren’t as life threatening. The fearful thought inside your mind causes actual changes inside your body. When we feel like we’re constantly under threat because of the chronic stressors we face every single day, our nervous system acts automatically and instinctively, without conscious awareness. It means our behaviour is majorly controlled by our reptilian brain, one that is solely focused on primitive drives of survival. These situations might be causing great inconvenience or problems, but they are not life threatening.īeing triggered by fear not only shuts down your higher order thinking, but it negatively affects your long term memory. All the energy in your body, including your cognition and problem solving capabilities are focused on escaping this one particular problem. So the times when you’re tapping your feet impatiently in your car staring at the red signal light because you’re late for work, or rushing to the shop that’s going to shut down at 7 pm because of the lockdown, you’re activating the same areas of the brain that are activated when your life is at stake. It helped our ancestors escape life threatening situations, but nowadays we’re almost never eaten by a grizzly bear in our day to day lives.
This Flight, Flight or Freeze mode would save you when you’re chased by a grizzly bear in the forests of Southeast Alaska. There is a physiological reaction in your body in reaction to any perceived stress that is largely the same no matter what the threat is. Caring for ourselves mentally and physically needs to become a part of our daily routine rather than a special privilege. We must take time for genuine introspection to "uproot the roots of burnout". Bubble baths or face sheet masks are superficial fixes that do little to address the deeper issues and to fully overcome burnout we have to get to the roots of why we "burned out" in the first place. And you cannot self-care your way out of burnout. Our virtual and industrious lives can often get us stuck in a mental rut with feelings of hopelessness. Stress can manifest itself as physiological symptoms like emotional exhaustion. Ever had mornings when getting out of bed felt almost an impossible task to do? A job or task you’ve easily done day after day, but now you can hardly start it? Whether you’re struggling to meet deadlines at the office or suffering a creative block as an artist, burnout is something all of us go through at some point. “You, Yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - The Buddha.
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