Managing Psycho-Emotional Stress

April 16, 2021
Emmanuel F. Silan, PhD, RPsy
Stressors are part of our life and it's up to us how to manage them well!

We are all experiencing different kinds of stress in our daily lives but we have the capability to work on them ourselves. Here are some steps we can do:

1.) MANAGE YOUR EXPECTATION. That alone will reduce a lot of stresses in your life.

2.) EMBRACE YOUR PAIN AND YOUR FEARS, make them your friend. "Nasty" friends are needed from time to time as much as we need good friends who stand with us. This is a critical part of your Adversity Quotient.

3.) DO WHAT SCARES YOU, that is your area of greatest growth.

4.) Spend 20% of your time preparing for things that can go wrong, and the rest of the 80% IN PLANNING AND EXECUTING YOUR PLANS for your positively stated desired outcomes – both short term and long term goals!

5.) And be ready to BE AT PEACE WITH OUR MAKER, even as we ask each other to rage against the dying of the light.

This will make us appreciative everyday that we are still alive in this wonderful, crazy, scary, amazing world!

#NationalStressAwarenessDay

About the author

Emmanuel F. Silan, PhD, RPsy

Noel is a registered Psychologist and has taken his Master’s in Counseling Psychology at Ateneo de Manila. He is an NLP and Coaching Master Trainer certified by International Association of NLP Institutes (IN) and International Association of Coaching Institutes (ICI). He is an NLP-CBT Coach-Counselor, Transformative Psychotherapist, and a Hypnotherapist. He is currently taking a PhD in Psychology at Ateneo de Manila University with special interest on “Leadership Archetypes and the Filipino Unconscious” and on “Imprints of Pagkabalisa (Emotional Distress) on the Filipino Psyche: The Unconscious Map of Mental Suffering of Filipinos.”