Every human being deserves happiness or positive state of mind. Chartered Accountants are not the exceptions.
But
Our positivity is hacked by lot of work pressure, which is due to nature of our work. Every time we have to make the ends meet.
Client’s money, our reputation and our mental health is always at stake. The pressure of meeting the due dates every time seems to be a factory of generating stress in our life. This stress must be taken in consideration as 85% of illness in the world is due to stress.
It is a big challenge for us to keep our mental health on track, so that we are able to enjoy the life as well.
We cannot remove work pressure. It will be there. However some persons are able to deal with it easily and some has to work for it. In any case it has to be dealt.
What can be done with the work pressure?
We can choose to take action, not the betterment of any others, but for betterment of our own mental health.
Here we are not talking about our professional competency. Every one of us is quite capable.
Here we are talking about the actions to maintain our peace of mind in addition to, while doing our professional work.
Lot of negative emotions are shown up when it feels like it is difficult to meet our ends in constraint of resources like time, human powers, internet, portals, support from clients and Government. Generally the emotions shown up are anger, worry, fear, frustration or regret etc. Non handling of these negative emotions cause stress.
To handle these emotions, 1st thing we have to do is recognize it’s presence.
For dealing with anything we have to confirm its presence.
The next thing is to find its location. As to beat the enemy we must know its location. It will be surprise for many of us to know that emotions lie itself in our body. For that observe your body. You will feel the emotion anywhere in the body. Every emotion is felt somewhere in the body.
For eg. We feel bubbling in the stomach when going for exams, heart raises on roller coaster, face or fist gets tight when we get anger.
Whatever emotion is coming up like anger, worry, pressure etc, feel it in your body. Observe it and give attention to it, the emotion will start getting intensified. continue it for a minute or two and that emotion will get settled. Only caution is to not get indulge into new stories while experiencing the emotions. Otherwise it can trap you furthermore.
Then observe for another emotion and do the same.
Repeat the exercise for all other emotions too until you feel relax.
Once we get relax, ENJOY.
This settling of emotions or relaxation will provide the fresh insights, to deal with the situation better and along with the peace of mind too. Just like settled water allows us to see through it.
We live our life in emotions like happy, sad, positive or negative.
Just remember to get towards positive by
Recognizing mental state
Locating emotions
Observing to feel and intensify
Resulting PEACE OF MIND.
My mantra is to feel the emotions to heal the emotions.
