What happens to us when we get stressed at work?

RAMÓN PÉREZ DE VILLAAMIL, Consultant and expert in the Wellness industry.

Stress is tension, tension is contraction and contraction leads to stiffness. With tension we are contracting from the outside in, from the conscious musculature to the tissues surrounding our internal organs, all of which leads to an enormous energy consumption and the consequent chronic fatigue.

Contraction also leads to all kinds of physical and mental disorders. With tension our intellectual and emotional capacities diminish and disorders such as depression or anxiety easily appear. In the last year, about 35 million packs of anxiolytics have been sold in Spain.

Popularly it is believed that the solution lies in not getting nervous, but this is not the point. It is true that we can have a personality that gets more or less upset about things, but if one has an active personal and professional life, it is inevitable to have moments of stress and tension. If not, we will live a life without challenges and without challenges.

It is inevitable to suffer the nervous load caused by moments of stress, but we can learn to moderate it and above all to get rid of it once the cause of the stress has disappeared. Depending on the intensity of the moments of stress, the nervous charge will have more or less power and we can use one or other exercises to eliminate it, but it is essential that we regularly practice relaxation or unloading exercises to prevent it from accumulating inside us and reaching levels increasingly outside our consciousness.

The American biologist Bruce Lipton argues that the unconscious stress (that accumulated by past events) is the cause of 95% of physical and psychological disorders;The release of this unconscious stress is the most important field to increase human health.

When the nervous charge coming from that stress has settled in us it is necessary to resort to different types of therapies to help us try to eliminate it, but if we catch it in time and fight it daily we can eliminate it much more easily. Based on this, it can be said that not devoting time to exercises that combat the effects of stress is not due to a problem of time, but to a problem of priorities that should be reviewed.

 

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