{"id":30006,"date":"2019-08-25T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/blog-o-pledoarie-pro-stres\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T07:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T07:41:26","slug":"blog-a-plea-for-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/blog-a-plea-for-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"A plea for stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or how bau-bau can be a friend.<\/p>\n<p>It it said about stress that it iss the number 1 killer of our time. The World Health Organization has declared stress \u201chealth epidemic of the 21st century.\u201d Of course, when we read this, we have a different mood than when we ourselves live these statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about my close relationship with stress and why I liked it. First of all, some spoilers: I like to be busy, I live happier when I have a lot of work to do, and some of my self-esteem comes to me from my professional achievements. In theory, I like stress. Not only in theory, you will immediately see it in practice. A bit of context (you can jump if you don\u2019t care). Obviously, I had a busier time. That means many days of work, including weekends, including nights. Many projects, most of them brand new.<\/p>\n<p><b>What I liked:<\/b> the challenge. To see if I can do it. To see how I get it done in some situations. It\u2019s my only source of adrenaline, I don\u2019t ride a motorcycle, I don\u2019t jump with a parachute or anything alike. I liked that I was more attentive to my body and my needs. This is how I discovered what kind of food makes me better, what kind of activity calms me, what kind of thoughts I get back to when I can\u2019t sleep. And one more thing: Paradoxically, stress forced me to be more solution-oriented and more positive in thinking. If I stayed too long in my thoughts, I couldn\u2019t actually do the job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I didn&#8217;t like<\/strong>. During this intense period for me, I breathed very superficially. In fact, less and less every day. Don\u2019t ask me how it is possible, that\u2019s what happened. The effect was that after almost 2 months, I was on the verge of a panic attack, which is quite unpleasant. It can help us to think about what our Achilles&#8217; heel is and treat it accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>What <strong>didn&#8217;t<\/strong> help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to think many steps ahead &#8211; it brought me more anxiety<\/li>\n<li>to breathe superficially \u2013 I have already told you what happened in my case<\/li>\n<li>to compensate for the lack of sleep with chocolate or junk food \u2013 although I wanted to, I didn\u2019t feel better after any of them. Maybe a little after the chocolate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What did help: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>any form of movement I managed to do. It was like a restful sleep in a 50&#8242; pill.<\/li>\n<li>planning my steps and then actually work<\/li>\n<li>planning a vacation, no matter how small<\/li>\n<li>having a moment of pure relaxation \u2013 a conversation with a friend, a coffee, a moment of silence in nature, a few pages read<\/li>\n<li>thinking about the benefits of the situation, what it brings me<\/li>\n<li>receiving support with open arms in any form (parents who help with the child, colleagues who help with the administration, husband who helps with encouragement)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And writing these lines. Somehow it helps me to put this experience outside of myself and to look at it as a curiosity or learning experience. An experience where stress has been my teacher and occasionally my friend.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do with your friend, stress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or how bau-bau can be a friend. It it said about stress that it iss the number 1 killer of our time. The World Health Organization has declared stress \u201chealth epidemic of the 21st century.\u201d Of course, when we read this, we have a different mood than when we ourselves live these statistics. Let<a href=\"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/blog-a-plea-for-stress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A plea for stress<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noutati-en","category-articole-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30008,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions\/30008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpdi.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}