How do we prevent stress from spiraling down into crises?
We need to understand the neuroscience and psychology of flawed thinking and negative feelings.
One major flaw about humans is that we often forget about our great strengths while remaining blind to opportunities.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
When the Frontal Lobe of our great brain considers weaknesses and threats, it often triggers anxiety and demoralization in our brain’s emotional centers.
The emotional centers often inhibit memory and thinking so that we won’t recall our strengths, can’t see opportunities, and don’t develop effective solutions & success.
Thus, we tend to see only failure, bad options, and despair.
Yet we can find relief by changing our mindset and behavior along these three stances:
Improve to Solve
Be Resourceful
Get/Accept Help
To help us with our thoughts and emotions, we may need help from the following types of professionals:
Counselor
Psychotherapist
Life Coach