Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 22:35:54 GMT -5
Benjamina was approximately 10 years old when she died, in Atapuerca (Burgos), 530,000 years ago. She had craniosynostosis, a rare disease that affects fewer than six people per 200,000 in today's population. And today we know that to survive she had to be cared for, and also have special care: human beings have been taking care of each other for 530,000 years. Caring for people is nourished by that altruistic and generous part that human beings display in the relationships we have; especially in the closest ones. In fact, these relationships at a professional level play a fundamental role in promoting mental health at work. CTA Post Mental health care at work In the business world, we often live very far from generosity, from an appreciative look towards others and towards ourselves. We have a very active threat system, which does not direct our actions towards our own and common care. Our threat system is not activated only when there is a real threat (for example, when someone is fired from the company), but it is activated by the thought that something like this could happen. Neuroscience tells us that 70 % of the time the mind is wandering involuntarily , that is, we do not have control of our thoughts , and these can put us in loops, which push us to increase stress levels and worsen our health.
Mental at work. And since we have an attentional preference bias towards the negative, which is activated by survival mechanisms without us realizing it, these uncontrolled thoughts also tend to tend towards the negative. We have another emotional regulation system, that of achievement, with which we focus on Europe Mobile Number List achieving goals . In the achievement system we generate dopamine (pleasure neurotransmitter) which is addictive; That's why we want more and more, we get hooked on getting it, on getting a "like," on the sensation it produces in our body. The trap occurs when achieving becomes an obsession; then we stop secreting dopamine, because it becomes a threat, and cortisol (stress hormone) comes into play in our body. The levers of well-being The calm system, which is what produces oxytocin , helps us regulate ourselves, have a feeling of satisfaction, think with perspective, and activate self-care. When we increase the calm system in our body, the threat system decreases ; Both cannot occur at the same time.
Therefore, we activate the possibility of taking care of ourselves and others . Every time we find ourselves facing a conflict that affects our mental health at work or on a personal level, or a thought loop that we cannot get out of, we can activate the calm system . We achieve this, among other mechanisms, if: We stopped. We stop the bias of our thinking and change the focus of our attention. The daily dynamics in Western society make us go on autopilot, that we do things out of habit... If we stay thinking, hooked on thoughts, for example, thinking about all the tasks that remain to be done, we do not live in the present moment, Perhaps we do not sleep well and we can enter rumination loops, thinking about the same thing, which causes us to have a feeling of dissatisfaction, anxiety and even loss of meaning. Give ourselves permission to stop, breathe consciously and feel and design what direction I want to take in the day and with what meaning. Direct our thoughts towards issues that strengthen us and do us good. We breathe three times deeply , changing body posture. We observe how we feel , what is happening in the body. We accept that we feel how we feel and we "breathe" it.