Monitoring My Extreme Fatigue Thoughts
Monitoring and looking closely at my thoughts made be aware how my thoughts were prior to becoming diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms. I was a camp counsellor and I felt a huge responsibility for the kids I looked after, just not in day time, but at night, I was feeling the need for a break, I was tired and overwhelmed, it was a huge amount of stress on my part. One night a child fell off the top bunk, she wasn’t hurt, but since that night I would lye awake listening for noises in the night. All I wanted to do was rest, but I had the responsibility of looking after the kids, so it wasn’t possible, but that is what I thought about, and soon after one morning I had a hard time getting my head off the pillow.
Effects Of Stress
The effects of stress played a big part in the loss of energy I felt. I came to understand more when I watched a program talking about the stress hormone cortisol that helps to increase the blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and heightens the awareness during the fight and flight response, but what caught my attention was that it also suppresses the immune and inflammatory response in the body. The thought suddenly came to me, if stress was long and drawn out, then prolonged amounts of cortisol would be released into the blood stream and my immune system would then be shut down for an extended period of time, and this meant to me that I would be more susceptible to catch a cold or any other viruses. After hearing this I monitored my body and I noticed that I did experience an increase of colds soon after what I perceived to be a stressful ordeal to me. It was clear then that if I was going to remain healthy then relieve stress was needed.
There are two ways that will help you to keep your attention in the present moment because there is no stress when you live in that moment.
- Focused in a specific activity: thoughts will want to pull you away, realize that it’s normal, you just need to come back to what you’re focused on. What helped me is to pause, connect to my breath if I was feeling overwhelmed with negative and unproductive thoughts, which helped me to regain a focus on the activity that I was working on. Bring you more into the present of your activity.
- Attention is wide out: Focus your attention onto your surroundings. When I feel the effects of stress, thinking old tired thoughts that hadn’t given up yet or worries about the future, I will advert my attention if possible by taking the two children out to the park because this is a place that I need to keep my focused present on both my children and their activity. Other thing I’ve down is to go for a walk and see the beauty within the world I’m seeing.
By focusing on a sensation of a sound or breath or placing attention wide out onto your surroundings, it reminds us to come back to the present moment, which helps me to cope better with the present situation without stress, or loss of energy, which creates the need for naps during the day.
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