Every day we face stress as researchers, develop projects, find funds, write articles, develop thesis projects, it is very hard not to get stressed. I particularly paint with watercolor to de-stress, I spend free time writing novels and all this helps me to fight stress and what do you do?
Nice question Catia. I personally think that you are very productive. My way of dealing with stress is doing yoga and meditation but also reading poems of Rumi (Soefism). I am combining being an entrepreneur with writing books and articles. The combination is stressful. I however need to write articles and books since science is for me the resource of new products and services. Hope that you are making nice paintings Catia and writing nice novels. All the best, Carl
Dear Dr Carl H.D. Steinmetz many thanks for yours words and comment, i share with you one picture of my paintings,thanks
Nice question. Your positive approach to deal with any problems. Regular practice of yoga, meditations, walking, spending time to observe nature, particulary sun rise and sun set will definetly helps to deal with stress. Approach of doing work with joyful, sharing of feelings with nearby persons, listening music, any thing you feel make you happy (give time for that). Give more time for yourself, think on your emotions, appreciate your feelings. Your paintings are nice. All the best.
Dear Dr Catia, you are truly a good painter and researcher. You must be a happy person. Your paintings are looking like modern art. Why by the way did you pose this question about stress? I am now reading a book of Arun Gandhi, the grandson of the famous Mahatma Gandhi. He lived some time with his grandfather (Bapuji) in a Ashram. This books learns me how to cope with emotions like anger and other emotions. All the best, Carl
Dear Carl H.D. Steinmetz , I proposed this question because I have seen many researchers close to me very stressed, and I wanted to receive ideas to be able to share them with my colleagues
A solution dear Dr Catia might be opening at your and other universities rooms and time slots to practice Yoga and Meditation. In my working building there are companies doing that. Their workers are relaxed and happy persons. I can observe that in the business restaurant in the building where my office is. All the best Carl
The medical sector is, paradoxically, a professional field, where a huge amount of stressors come together in one work day or shift, and it seems to be very difficult to re-develop the resistance energies. Healthy health care and healing health care is defintely a future investment program; I am working on that. Personally, I can only recover by staying in nature and by contacts with like minded people. In addition, bathing with mineral salts (plus herbs) , high quality wines (foods) and harmonic music (cantorial arts) do always help to recharge the chrono-biological batteries.
Stress is a part of life and it often works as stimulant for me. I manage and reduce my stress by reading and writing articles for periodicals.
Life is about finding a suitable balance. Make sure you have time for family, friends and hobbies to enjoy. Too much focus on research isn‘t healthy.
There are never enough hours in the day. Balance of the priorities in life (whatever those may be for YOU) and realizing that you can never accomplish everything in a day is critical. One of my favorite features of digital calendars is the ability to drag a task from today to tomorrow. :-)
Talking, about these stressors, with my family and/ freinds, and having enough time listening to music or reading.
Spending quality time with family, interacting with friends and traveling to new locations helps in reducing stress level and make one feel relaxed and in better frame of mind.
Thanks to all the researchers for their opinions, it is very important to know how to manage the stress because it can do us a lot of physical and mental damage
I feel the best way to balance everything is to set up priorities and make daily schedules.
The daily schedules must have separate slots for family time, hobbies, exercise and relaxing along with the work tasks of the day.
Also, a free weekend, travel trip, a picnic etc can relief all stress of previous days.
Taking stress positively is the key.
An exchange of opinions very important and interesting, many of your recommendations are very interesting against stress, personally exercise and listen to music relax me a lot
STRESS is an unbalanced Schedule of our working, living & even eating styles also, we don't have a little time for sharing a cup of Tea with friends, colleagues & family members. Each and every time planning and planning, doing work and work. My respected all, please keep few times for sharing SWEET & Sour memories with our closed friends, family members, & well wishers.
indeed, we suffer to keep productive in work and life, the stress come from everywhere, i like traverlling to renew my power and release stress
A very nice discussion!
For me, the challenge is to keep yourself motivated to go further in your research work particularly we know that the more you achieve, the more time and effort you need for your next step!.
I do agree that the key to avoid stress is to make sure you spare ENOUGH time for yourself, family and friends.
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