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A short introduction, in the form of points, as a summary:
- Our body responds differently to stress. Controlling or knowing that physiological response, that response of our body, will help maintain our health.
- When this way of responding to stress occurs from time to time, for short periods of time, returning to the initial situation, there is no problem. It will be important when it is repeated frequently or maintained for a long time.
- On the other hand, stress promotes unhealthy lifestyles, such as tobacco and alcohol consumption, while making it difficult to abandon them.
- Stress sustained for long periods of time is also associated with unhealthy lifestyles such as a sedentary lifestyle or poor diet.
If we manage to develop our strengths, increase positive affect and have greater personal growth, we will learn to control stress and therefore improve our health and well-being.
There are many self-help books that can be very useful for us to begin to consider small tasks that will take us and achieve our goals. On this website you can also find information that will help you obtain these fines.
Below we propose a program with various modules in which you will find readings and exercises that can be worked on little by little. The easiest way to get started is to follow these small guidelines, calmly, without rushing:
- First select the modules that you want to incorporate into your work plan and carry out the tasks little by little.
- Read what you have selected and, through the links that we indicate, fill out the questionnaires to evaluate your starting situation, the positive aspects of your life, etc. You will also find very useful links with videos, summary presentations, self-help guides and others. resources.
- Review those passages or texts that are most related to your situation, your interests or your goals. Try to summarize them by underlining them to keep the essentials. It is also very useful if you discuss it with people around you or do any type of activity that helps you incorporate the concepts you have been learning into your daily life.
- Two months after beginning the tasks you set out to do, fill out the same questionnaire you completed at the beginning again.
Decide the modules you want to work on. If you find it difficult to decide on one in particular, you can start by doing a self-evaluation exercise by reviewing the positive aspects of your life. Start by evaluating your positive emotions
and check, following the guidelines that we indicate, if you reach a good level of POSITIVE AFFECT and a low level of NEGATIVE AFFECT.
If so, congratulations, but if not, you just have to analyze the weak points and then decide which modules of the program can help you improve your profile.
Also, as a start, you can evaluate your current emotional state, if you are sad, angry, if you have tension or fatigue…Keep in mind that although the analysis of your emotional state can help you select a module to start with, they are states that are not usually maintained over time and only refer to to the present moment. The self-assessment of psychological well-being includes cognitive elements (interpretations, cognitive evaluations, reflections, positive or negative thoughts), as well as the subjective experience of reactions and emotional states that we feel in our daily lives related to the balance of our existence referring to a recent period. . (positive affect or negative affect).
If in this recent period we feel a high level of positive affect it would mean that we have been experiencing a certain degree of enthusiasm, energy, alertness, interest and joy for our projects and their realization; while low positive affect would rather indicate tiredness, lethargy and fatigue (a very different balance).
If our self-assessment indicates a high negative affect, the feelings (the result of repeated emotional experiences) of fear, nervousness, anger, guilt would predominate; While low negative affect would mean a state of low activation, calm and serenity. Anxiety is associated with a state of high negative affect (fear), with hardly any relationship with positive affect, although there may be one on occasion (alertness, interest).
Quality of life refers to the personal and social well-being that the individual enjoys in his or her daily life, although it is understood as a broader concept than the standard of living (that is, the simple fact of possessing sufficient material goods, enjoyment of services or elements of wealth), as it also includes functional aspects of the physical or environmental environment, physical and mental health, as well as the level of education, enjoyment of leisure or belonging to groups.
The self-assessment of quality of life includes the assessment that each person has of their own life, their capacity, their ability to function in the environment (according to their physical environment, their economic level, their physical and psychological health or their relationships). . social), their aspirations, their achievements, etc.
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