We are living in times never seen in history. Everyone is experiencing the effects of a virus that has taken over our world. We have all been impacted differently. There are people who have lost family members and their jobs. There are single people feeling overwhelming loneliness. There are married people experiencing extreme conflict and stress. There are children missing their schools, friends, and some of them their dreams of graduation and their high school proms. The world as a whole is experiencing loss. When we experience loss it's normal to experience feelings of grief including anger, frustration, depression, and anxiety.
I want to give you two tools to help you during this time.
First - It's important for our feelings to be validated by us. Pushing your feelings aside will result in a buildup of them. Acceptance of your feelings will decrease the emotions you're experiencing.
Second - You can use the skill Radical acceptance. To practice radical acceptance you choose not to focus on how you would like things to be different and instead recognize and accept the problem as it is. Accepting the problem does not mean you like it. It just simply means you recognize the problem is outside of our control.
My personal example of using radical acceptance.
Typical thinking I hate that I have to stay at home and this virus has taking over my social life. I feel so alone.
Radical acceptance I'm frustrated I can't see my friends and I am alone but I accept I can't do anything about about it. I will focus on what I can do during this time.
When you practice these two skills you cause the emotional part of your brain to take a back seat and the logical part of your brain to get into the driver's seat. When the logical part of your brain is in the driver's seat you will experience increased peace in your circumstances.
Take care all!
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