Here we are still in times of uncertainty, worrying about our health and our future. How are you dealing with all the unanswered questions and your daily needs and limitations?
I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy.
We have been through some trying times lately, something that no one expected ever to experience. However, we have to get through this, and there are ways how to make this experience a better one.
I have recorded my reflection on the first month during the stay-at-home order and added a few helpful tips for all of you. I hope you will enjoy watching it.
One of the reasons I have made this video was the realization that there is some new emerging information about COVID 19 and how it affects people.
As more pressure and new guidance creep up into our lives, people experience more stress and fear than ever. Media keep pouring out information on how our lives are at risk. This type of news is on all the time, with details of every death that occurred around the world. I don’t know about you, but we have never had such reporting at any time of modern history. People dying is an unfortunate part of our life. However, if we wanted to be fair and to pay tribute to every life lost, we would have to receive death news every couple of seconds. That is how often a person dies on this planet.
But when we succumb to such reporting practices, we will get overwhelmed by this global tragedy of people continually dying. Before this pandemic started, this was the usual way of life, and we didn’t feel that something terrible is happening, because nobody made it a constant focus of the news.
Why is this so frightening?
Because chronic stress and feeling of lost hope and uncertainty have an enormous impact on our mental and physical health, most people may not realize how their worries increase their levels of adrenalin and cortisol. Those stress hormones then cause the whole variety of reactions in our body, setting us up for lowering the immune system’s response to anxiety and an increase in other symptoms, such as inflammation.
Don’t let that happen to you. There are ways on how to take care of your mental and physical health. Self-care is becoming even more critical, especially when you are already living with chronic health conditions.
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Take Care and Stay Healthy