Jaime Nubiola ( www.almudi.org )
Among the burden and Stress: The current times are for many a time of oppression. Not only oppress those who hold senior positions in the destination country or in the complex management of large corporate mergers, but it overwhelms the corner grocer, the bus driver or mother who accompanies her children to school.
Students are overwhelmed by the work to be submitted, but also by the accumulation of festivals, mobile messages or missed calls. Retirees
In fact, the "I'm overwhelmed" or "I'm overwhelmed" is one of the most recurrent phrase in ordinary conversation as a record easier to avoid their responsibilities. And it happens frequently to remind someone what their duties or obligations as a resource receives a exculpatory "Please do not overwhelm me" .
a few weeks ago I attended a conference in a beautiful Andalusian city. The bus, which was to pick us up en el hotel para llevarnos por la mañana a la sede del congreso, llegó con media hora de retraso. Era un día lluvioso y con abundante tráfico y en una maniobra poco feliz el enorme espejo retrovisor del exterior del autocar golpeó con un poste y se rompió.
Hubo que parar para arreglar el desaguisado, mientras el conductor con fuerte voz y un marcado acento andaluz atribuía la causa de su impericia al “ mardito eztré” al que —según él— la empresa le sometía. El estrés es el nuevo nombre del agobio.
Mientras "overwhelmed" appears to have originated in the "gibbus" Latin hump, which suggests that the stricken person is the person charged back with the "stress" Anglo rather reference is made to stress or pressure that a certain situation arises.
Call it "stress" or "overwhelmed" , it is an easily identifiable phenomenon and almost always can be remedied applying a little intelligence. Sufferers believe that their cause is in excess of activities they have, but, usually, the problems of oppression are actually born of the lack of attention.
The "stressed" , as the driver of my bus-are in that state of agitation call "stress" for not paying enough attention to the task at hand. Moreover, if you look closely you can easily discover that those who complain of being overwhelmed they are, usually, because have your attention scattered in several simultaneous activities, rather than concentrating on one thing.
As if the only thing notable is an anthropological error not to realize that if our attention is dispersed in various tasks, even if they are pleasant or attractive, the results are much poorer than if we look at an activity after another trying to get in each full attention.
Human beings are not machines multitasking, but we reach our full when we look at one person or one activity that occupies our whole horizon of life at that particular time.
For example, those who dedicate our work to meet people, sometimes one after another and with limited time available, we have to treat each one as if it were the only day without distracting our imagination with the person to be received later, or with the activity in which to finish the interview we will have to pay attention.
This requires discipline of the imagination. More generally, we can see that many people work thinking about the holidays and on vacation thinking about work, always have the imagination in a different order and the work place where you really are and that makes living with the daily reality in disappointment at hand at all times.
A classic flamenco group called "Children of the burden" and reflects well the name is characteristic of our modern lifestyle. Many of our fellow citizens live overwhelmed-and we repeat it constantly, and often do not know why. Believe it is the excess of obligations or traffic jams, but really the cause of your stress is not is on the outside, but inside: they are overwhelmed because they lack time to live inside this so you can enjoy it, doing one thing after another, in peace and with a smile.
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