Many of us stress over the situations we are dealing with. We relive the emotions only to rekindle the stress instead of releasing and repairing our feelings.
Assessing your stressful situation: How has this situation affected you? Can you disregard it, you may say to yourself “oh well, that is life” and walk away with only a slight feeling of stress. Or do you feel extremely unsettled and emotional? In times when you can not let things go, a bit of self talk is the answer. You are not crazy for doing this, this is quite normal. Talking out loud helps greatly because you hear your thoughts and feel the emotions that need to be vented. This is personal time that you need to nurture yourself with. This type of debriefing is immediate, when you want to clear things right away.
The more intense stressful situations need more debriefing time. Your methods of debriefing, the type and duration of your self talk sessions, or the venting to a friend may take a course of several days to resolve the stresses you have built up. You have noticed I have not suggested a debriefing with a group of people, this therapy like sessions usually increase the stress levels of all involved and solutions are suggested quickly. You must prepare yourself to receive suggestions and that sometimes takes a while.
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