How to Keep Stress Under Control: Schedule Your Worries
If you feel like you can't cope with a busy schedule or stressful job, try not to worry about every problem, but set aside half an hour for it and include it in your work schedule.
This technique is known as stimulus control. Researchers have been studying it for 30 years, and here are their findings.
Worrying while working does not help solve the problem, but only makes it worse.
Professor Tom Borkovec of Pennsylvania State University believes that asking people to put their worries on hold can help manage them.
This requires 4 steps.
1. Become aware of your feelings and understand when exactly you start to worry.
2. Set aside time when you can think about these issues. In addition to time, you also need to take care of a suitable place for this.
3. If you find yourself worrying before the agreed time, try to put off negative thoughts until the appointed hour. Instead, do your best to focus on the task at hand.
4. Use "worry time" to focus on the problems at hand and how to solve them.
As a result, once you learn to keep your emotions under control and put off negative thoughts for later, you will be able to work more effectively, and your body will not be susceptible to the physical consequences of stress.
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