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The three great values you need to live with the pandemic
Psychology
The psychologist and neuroscience doctor Ana Asensio reveals the keys to managing emotions in a context of anxiety and uncertainty
PM2:45We are all living moments of uncertainty and we all seem to be traveling in the same boat but what can we do to help each other? As proposed by the psychologist and doctor in neuroscience, Ana Asensio, perhaps this is one of the best moments to connect with the Trust patience and the esperanza; the three values that, as he explains, will help us to live with the changes that the pandemic has brought us and that, if you work on them, they will be able to accompany you for the rest of your life.
“There are times when you need to be guided, accompany you and help you through the bad drink”, clarifies Ana Asensio. Therefore, to manage the emotions that we are experiencing these days, the expert proposes to connect with these three values, trust, patience and hope through three simple but effective techniques.
Trust that “everything happens”
Get settled in the thought that “everything passes.” Just as good times pass, or the seasons of the year, or vacations or a pregnancy, what we are experiencing will also pass. «If there is something permanent in our lives, it is change. And this, even if you don’t believe it now, will also change ”, he explains.
Breathe and be patient
Project 24-hour plans. Imagine what you would like to do but don’t worry about it. «Breathe daily and be grateful for each day that passes. Cross off each day that passes from the calendar to meet someone you are looking forward to seeing, “he proposes.
Project positive
Think of the world that we will find ourselves after the pandemic, fictionalizing it with the intention of generating positive feelings. You can fiction in two ways, for worse or for better. You choose. The expert recommends choosing that moment in which you feel that everything has passed and that you have emerged strengthened from this crisis.
About the author... Ana Asensio, creator of the “Positive Lives” project and the “People who add” movement, contributes in her latest book “Positive Lives” the keys to understanding the emotional, psychological and behavioral aspects in a context as complicated as the that we live in today.
Combining the scientific aspect of psychology with the techniques of “mindfulness”, the expert invites us to bet on “life intelligence” as an attitude to face difficult moments such as returning to work, a new confinement or uncertainty about the future.