What is stress and what can we do about it?

adminNews, news

Dealing with stress - the 5 panaceas according to Dr. Erik Scherder 

Stress is inevitable in most jobs. Those who want to be successful are obliged to give the best of themselves.

What is stress and what can we do about it? Dr Erik Scherder explains what we can do. To break the circle of stress, there are 2 links you can unleash: your Hippocampus and your Frontal Lob. These two parts of the brain react very well to certain activities, says Scherder. And those are not activities such as 'going on holiday', 'doing nothing' or 'hanging out at the bank'. Stress is inevitable in most office jobs - and going on holiday or doing nothing is just a temporary solution.

The non-stop 'dealing with stress' remedies that you can apply every day and that will help you regenerate your brain from that mental fatigue are next:

  1. Listen to music
    Dr. Erik Scherder swears. He is even unleashing a complete music revolution, by pleading for more music in education, at work, in hospitals and care centres. It relaxes, it inspires, it regenerates.
  2. Move
    The opposite of doing nothing. "Moving" is a miracle cure for your brain, according to Dr. Scherder.
  3. Learn
    Learning and processing new skills has a de-stressing effect on the Hippocampus and Frontal Lob in your brain.
  4. Sleep
    Sleep, sleep, sleep. Do it enough, do it on time, do it right.
  5. Stop multitasking
    In your planning, therefore, try to pick up as many tasks as possible one by one, so that you can keep your head happy. Or at least fit enough to be able to do all that work at all.

Here, listen to Dr. Scherder