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Avoid Progression and Experience Progression with Stress Management
In this podcast episode, I discuss how one can avoid regression and experience progression by utilizing this approach of stress management. This information applies to anyone.  Learn more by listening to this podcast.
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Two things happen when you effectively manage stress in your life.

You avoid regression and you experience progression.

You might be asking what do I mean by this?

I’ll tell you, but first I suggest you burn this phrase into your brain

This phrase can become a good reminder when you are going about your daily life. Say this to yourself when you are stressed.

Avoid regression and experience progression by effectively managing stress in your life.

So: What does this mean?

You become more productive and efficient with your time and effort on your goals and certainly feel a lot better in general.

One of the big tricks here is to recall this phrase every time you have a thought that’s negative or a worry that comes into your mind when you’re engaged in a task.

When you’re doing something and a negative thought enters, you have to realize the typical pattern is that this negative thought is going to stop you from moving forward (progressing).

However, the real downside it that not only do you stop moving forward, you go backwards (in other words, you regress). You go backwards because you feel drained and worse after ruminating about something.

Then you are less motivated to get things done.

We all have goals in life, not just mental health goals.

I am not necessarily talking about goals in a sense such as huge entrepreneurial goals, though they may be.  For some of you this could be learning and developing new habits that make you less anxious.

For others, it might be completing items on a to-do-list.

The point is that your execution and progress in your goals is affected in the same way. That is, they are negatively affected. However this does not have to be the case.

Your to-do-lists and goals should be guided by you / your inner passions, rather than rumination and worry.

You can obtain a tonne of strategies from this podcast series about what to do in order to stave off your anxiety, worry and ruminations. In fact, not long ago I produced a video about rumination. You can obtain this by visiting our YouTube Channel or website “Panic Attack Recovery” – by the way you can easily find us by doing an internet search of Panic Attack Recovery or a search on Youtube or iTunes, etc.

However the overall strategy most required to manage your stress and avoid regression and experience progression is to become more mindful of when stressful thoughts begin to impede your progress on your goals.

As you train yourself to become more aware of the distractions that enter your mind you learn to take back control and block further disruption of your work. This will then in turn mean that you are more likely to experience growth and creativity and enter that flow state that Psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi(me high chick zent me high) discusses. For many years, he has discussed and popularized the term “flow.”

He describes flow as “A state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

If you therefore think about a state of flow, this is not a time for regression but in fact a time when one can be incredibly productive, whatever that experience means to them.

It is important to realize that one person’s productivity can be very different from someone else’s.

So the answer really is applying mindfulness to our daily activities so that we don’t become distracted, and when we do, because we will, we return our attention to the task at hand. Sounds simple enough.
But is not. Ask yourself: How do you become more mindful in my everyday tasks?

In closing, as I said, you have plenty of micro strategies from previous podcast episodes and you know where you can obtain even more from us at “Panic Attack Recovery”

Again the emphasis here is not so much the micro strategies at this time but the consistent broader theme of behaviour you exhibit for recovery. This behaviour takes the form of staying on track with your
goals in life by managing stressful distractions, which for many is in the form of ruminations and distractions, which results in anxiety and worry that interferes with your daily tasks.

You can be amazed at how helpful this can be not only with the tasks at hand. But like many improvements in one domain yield benefits in other areas of your life.

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