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It may seem like an old story, but we lived instressful times even before a viral pandemic swept across the planet. According to the 2019 vintage of the year "Stress in America"Survey supervised by theAmerican Association of PsychologySome of the largest stressors in the country at the time included rising health costs, mass shootings, discrimination, climate change, immigration and upcoming presidential elections. On the personal forehead, some 60% of all adults have stated to feel stressed about work and even more on money. Just say 2020did not improve things.

According to a new report inThe Washington PostThe stress affects many of us so deeply and deeply that we are not able to simply focus and complete the basic functions of our jobs and lives. "I have people who come to me for the first time, thinking that they may have ADHD," Roseann Capanna-Hodge, ED.D., LPC, a clinical psychologist based in Connecticut, explained. "The compound stressors really took a toll on a nation that was already at a height of all times with stress."

If you feel acute stress or one of the side effects associated with stress, which, which,According to the Mayo Clinic, include headaches, agitation, angry explosions, social withdrawal, muscular tension, sadness and depression, poor sleep and a lack of motivation or concentration - you may be interested in the conclusions of A new study published in the journalEmotion, which offers at least one practical mental tactic that you can try at home (or anywhere else, elsewhere) that can help you better navigate your emotions. (More on this below.)

According to the authors of the study, the Department of Psychology and the University Hospital of Psychiatry at the University of Zurich, people react to stress differently, and all are largely resilient to varying degrees of resilience.

"Although a large segment of the population is resilient in times of stress and potentially traumatic events, others are less robust and develop stress-related diseases," they write. "Events that some people suffer from drainage seem to be a source of motivation and creativity for others."

In other words, scientists say that those who believe in stressful situationsbetter are equipped with greater "self-efficacy" -or the belief that "we have the ability to influence things to at least a small degree".

"Self-effective people have stronger problem solving capabilities and higher levels of persistence," they explain. "They also show cerebral activation changes in regions related to emotional regulations".

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All ask the question: Are there things that the rest of us can do to inject us a little more self-efficacy when we feel stressed, and as if life is too difficult to manage? The answer is yes, and it's simply simply:You should take the time to breathe, then remember a very specific moment of your life when you felt "particularly effective self-efficient". The examples include moments when you may have had a successful conversation, spent a really hard test or review, or the time you nailed the presentation. "In many cases," the authors note ", do this exercise just once already enough to reach a positive effect."

What is important is that you choose a moment in which you have displayed all the characteristics of the efficiencyyou well performed and usedyour power of influence.You increased occasionally - and has succeeded. "Our study shows that recalling self-efficient autobiographical events can be used as a tool in both everyday life and clinical contexts to strengthen personal resilience," conclude authors.

What is interesting is that the reflection of a moment of self-efficacy was much more useful for study participants to reduce stress and forget traumatic experiences that simply imagine a positive event, such as A beautiful day or be with people you love. "People who have actively recalled their own self-effective behavior have facilitated the revaluation of the revaluation of a negative situation and consider it as a different light", notes the authors. "They perceived the negative experience as painful as the topics that were responsible for thinking about a positive memory not connected to self-efficacy."

After all, at stress times, it's important to remind you that "you can go through that"-that it may be. And for more reasons, you should master your stress, make sure you are aware ofWhat is stressed every day made to your body.