Lectures are not heard, concerts are not interesting, workouts are not working. And in general: brain does not work, there are few forces, there are no ideas, the initial fuse has completely dried up.
So, this is normal for the circumstances. This is stress. This is high cortisol. This is a protective mode of the psyche. That is how it should be!
We are now in deprivation and unpredictability. Too much novelty, too little specificity.
Usual connections have fallen off, the rolled routes have disappeared, plans for life, for a year, for a month have been reset. By inertia, we grabbed “useful links” for ourselves and imagined how we would now work in peace and quiet. But no.
On high cortisol, you can take your grandmother out of a burning house, on high cortisol, you can complete the project in three days, but it is completely impossible to build long-term plans and dream. No wonderful future can be imagined, because the planning horizon is less than a week, and no one can really predict what will happen next Monday.
Yes, we - a simple person, and an official, and a leader - carry out some actions and build some kind of concept. You need to understand that these are rather magical rituals in order to reduce anxiety and not go crazy right now. And yes, actions and plans are very necessary in order to structure consciousness.
But! One big "BUT!". You do not need to eat yourself because you can’t cope with something there. Everyone does not cope, we just have slightly different nervous systems and slightly different behavioural patterns, we do not cope differently. We are adults, we, in addition to a positive experience, have our own history of failures and horror, and all this escalates during times of stress.
Neuroscientists and all ethologists there say that when we cannot beat or run, we must, relatively speaking, "bite the wand." To do something is not very difficult, which brings reassurance. And no, this is not a course on 18th-century architecture or development of a new business concept. This series, pies and care for those closest to you. Everyone is alive, no one goes out of the window - already good.
Imagine that you have a recipe with Chinese hieroglyphs, and you need to carefully rewrite them. At the same time, you are beaten on the back with a bamboo stick. Will you do well? Not. And in general, the main task of survival now is not in hieroglyphs, but in stopping you from beating with a stick.
Conclusion: most of us are now in a vulnerable position and are very worried about it. Most of us cannot influence not only the fate of the world but even the future of our family. So now it’s better to do something simple and reduce anxiety. Drive evil people out of tape and life. With the good ones - unite via skype and other services.
Plan today, not the next ten years. To cook. Wash your hair. Cry when crying. Laugh when it's funny.
Just live! 😊
