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Feel better by finding more meaning in your life (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Sat, 16 May 2020 09:47:27 +0000

Feel better by finding more meaning in your life (1 minute read)

This post continues with how you can manage tough life situations like this crisis by changing your attitude. You can do this by developing your sense of coherence and its dimensions:

Understandable

Manageable

Meaningful

Working on increasing the experienced meaningfulness in your own life has according to research the most important positive effects on health. If you do not believe that there is any reason to continue and face challenges, if what is happening has no meaning, you will have low motivation to reshape and manage events.

To think about:

If it is difficult to see any meaning with a destructive virus, you can instead think about:

– How can I make sense of this crisis even if I do not want it to be this way?

– What is meaningful to me and in my life now when life looks the way it does? What makes me happy? What gives me energy?

– What drags me down that I can change or influence?

– What have I learned during this period that I might not otherwise have learned?

– Are there any positive effects that the crisis has had on my life?

More information

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Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

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Feel better by getting more involved (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:40:48 +0000

Feel better by getting more involved (1 minute read)

Here continues the post on how you can handle tough life situations like this crisis by changing your attitude. You can do this by developing your sense of coherence and its dimensions:

Understandable

Manageable

Meaningful

Meaningful includes a belief that:

– Things in life are interesting, satisfying and valuable, which makes you motivated to be active.

– There are good reasons or purposes to be involved in life and care about what happens.

Reason and purpose can be created by getting involved and trying to understand the situation. This is how new opportunities often arise. For example, you can get inspiration and ideas that open new doors and create opportunities to help others and yourself. By helping, meaning is created and sometimes also the feeling that we belong together, which creates meaning in itself.

To consider during this crisis

How can you keep up with what is happening in this crisis at a reasonable level? How can you be more active? Who can you help? Who is allowed to help you? In which other ways can you get involved? More about this in next post.

More information

If you have any questions you would like answered, you can write them in the comments field or email me at jennyrapp@jennyrapp.com

Find more free inspiration on how to calm acute stress and anxiety, and be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

Feel better by creating more meaning (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Wed, 13 May 2020 04:56:26 +0000

Feel better by creating more meaning (1 minute read)

Here continues the post on how you can handle tough life situations like this crisis by changing your attitude. You can do this by developing your sense of coherence and its dimensions:

Understandable

Manageable

Meaningful

Meaningful includes a belief that:

– Things in life are interesting, satisfying and valuable, which makes you motivated to be active.

– There are good reasons or purposes to be involved in life and care about what happens.

Feel better by making your life more manageable (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:48:04 +0000

Feel better by making your life more manageable (1 minute read)

Here continues the post on how you can handle tough life situations like this crisis by changing your attitude.

You can do this by developing your sense of coherence and its dimensions:

Understandable

Manageable

Meaningful

Manageable means a belief that:

– We have the skills, abilities, support, help or resources needed to handle the situation.

– Things are manageable and within our control.

To think about:

What is manageable?

What is difficult to handle?

Who can you talk to about this?

Who can you ask for advice and inspiration?

What can you do to make the situation more manageable?

More about this in the next post.

If you have any questions you would like answered, you can write them in the comments field or email me at jennyrapp@jennyrapp.com.

Find more free inspiration on how to calm acute stress and anxiety, and be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

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Feel better by understanding our human reactions (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Thu, 07 May 2020 04:56:52 +0000

Previous posts have dealt with how you can handle tough life situations like this by changing your attitude, more specifically, your sense of coherence and its dimensions: Understandable, manageable and meaningful.

Understandable means having a belief that:

– Things happen in an orderly and predictable way.

– We can understand events in our lives and reasonably predict what will happen in the future.

For these crises, these two beliefs can be difficult to agree with. Last post was about how the origins of the crisis can be viewed as understandable.

Maybe we can understand what is happening on a more human level – how our reactions are understandable:

We can try to understand each other’s different reaction patterns and strategies for dealing with what is happening.
We can focus on being understandable and spreading calm.
Also, we can also help each other prepare for the future so that it becomes more predictable.
We experience different levels of fear, frustration, acceptance and calm at different times, not the least based on how people around us are affected and how we assess the risk of being affected.
We can help, plan and share the hope that we will get back the main dimensions of our old lives.

More about this in the next post.

If you have any questions you would like answered, you can write them in the comments field or email me at jennyrapp@jennyrapp.com if you want to be anonymous.

Find more free inspiration on how to calm acute stress and anxiety, and be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

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Feel better by understanding possible causes behind the crisis (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Wed, 06 May 2020 04:58:38 +0000

Here continues my answer to the question: What can you do when you are forced to stay at home for a longer time period during these times?

Understandable means having a belief that:

Things happen in an orderly and predictable way.

We can understand events in our lives and reasonably predict what will happen in the future.

For these crises, these two beliefs can be difficult to agree with.

Origin of the crisis as understandable:

But we can see crises as a sign that we have fallen out of pace with nature and its cycles.

Crises spread in a partially organized and predictable way after systems have been disrupted.
Maybe we live too close and too vulnerable?

Maybe we should see the crisis as something to learn from – that nature shows how we need to change our way of life and live more in harmony with nature.
Treat animals much better.

More mindful living, more space and room for each other, for animals and closer to pure nature.
We can impact this by making better choices already today.

More about this in the next post.
If you have any questions you would like answered, you can write them in the comments field or email me at jennyrapp@jennyrapp.com if you want to be anonymous.

Find more free inspiration on how to calm acute stress and anxiety, and be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

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#forgiveness #fear #anxiety #wwwjennyrappcom #jennyrappbefreecom
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#selfworth #love #life #happy #motivation #healthy #inspiration
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Feel better by developing your vulnerable spots (1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Sun, 03 May 2020 12:09:28 +0000

Feel better by developing your vulnerable spots

This post is about how to feel better by developing your vulnerable spots This is another way to tackle the question:

What can you do when you are forced to stay at home for a longer time period during these times?

Previous posts have dealt with how you can handle tough life situations like this by changing your attitude, more specifically, your sense of coherence.

Antonovsky’s research indicates that it is our resources that enable us to understand and handle challenges. With the successful use of our resources, over time we can also develop an attitude that is a resource in itself. This resource is useful when we have to deal with stressful situations. In addition, this resource strengthens our self-confidence and therefore also our self-esteem.

Questions to feel better by developing your vulnerable spots:

The previous post was about identifying which 3 vulnerable areas you have where you think you would feel better if you strengthened them. Now consider each of these 3 areas:

What makes you vulnerable – list the 2-3 most contributing causes?
How can you strengthen yourself in each of these causes in this area?
What are others doing with the same vulnerability to deal with this crisis?
What would you suggest that someone else did that has the same vulnerability?

More about this in the next post.

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Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

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Feel better by developing 3 resources ( 1 minute read)

Jenny Rapp — Sat, 02 May 2020 10:14:12 +0000

Feel better by developing 3 resources

Here continues my answer to the question:

What can you do when you are forced to stay at home for a longer time period during these times?

Earlier posts have been about how to deal with negative and worrying thoughts by changing your attitude, more specifically, your sense of coherence and how you can try to find new contexts.

All humans face challenges. Now, we all have to use our resources to cope with this crisis, such as money, self-sufficiency and social support. Antonovsky’s research indicates that it is our resources that enable us to understand and manage events. With the successful use of our different resources, over time we can develop an attitude that is a resource in itself.

This resource is our belief in our ability to deal with stressful situations which also develops our self-esteem.

Key resources

The last post was about identifying the resources and vulnerable areas you have to deal with this crisis:
1 Physical health
2 Mental health
3 Supportive relationships
4 Social activities
5 Hobbies
6 Necessary support: healthcare, etc.
7 Money / finances
8 Work / study
9 Sources of information
10 Personal development & contributions to society / non-profit organizations.

Now select the 3 areas where you think you are the most vulnerable and where you think you would feel better if you strengthened your resources.
More about this in the next post.

If you have any questions you would like answered, you can write them in the comments field or email me at jennyrapp@jennyrapp.com if you want to be anonymous.

Find more free inspiration on how to calm acute stress and anxiety, and be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

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Rate your personal resources

Rate your current level on the 10 dimensions

Decide on key 2-3 focus areas of these 10 to develop your resources

Feel better by building your resources (1 minute-read)

Jenny Rapp — Fri, 01 May 2020 09:52:20 +0000

Here continues my answer to the question: What can you do when you are forced to stay at home for a longer time period during these times?

Previous posts have been about how to deal with negative and worrying thoughts by changing your attitude, more specifically, your sense of coherence and how you can try to find new contexts.

All humans face challenges. Now, we all have to use our resources to cope with a crisis like this, such as money, self-sufficiency and social support. There is a risk that our coping mechanisms will fail if the sense of coherence is not robust with regard to the current situation. This can in turn lead to stress and illness. If the sense of coherence is high, the stress source such as Corona will not necessarily be harmful. Therefore, according to Antonovsky’s research, a balance is needed between what is stressful and what resources one has, as this will determine whether a stressful situation becomes harmful, neutral or contributes to our health.

To think about:

Identify which resources and vulnerable areas you have to deal with this crisis by evaluating how you are doing in the following areas. Use the scale: 1 = very bad, 2 = pretty bad, 3 = moderate, 4 = pretty good, 5 = very good:
1 Physical health
2 Mental health
3 Supportive relationships
4 Social activities
5 Hobbies
6 Necessary support: healthcare, etc.
7 Money / economy
8 Work / study
9 Sources of information
10 Personal development & contributions to society / non-profit organizations.

More about this in the next post.

If you have any questions you would like answered, you can write them in the comments field or email me at jennyrapp@jennyrapp.com if you want to be anonymous.

Find more free inspiration on how to calm acute stress and anxiety, and be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

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#forgiveness #fear #anxiety #wwwjennyrappcom #jennyrappbefreecom
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#selfworth #love #life #happy #motivation #healthy #inspiration
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Anxiety, stress, acceptance & hope: Feel better by visiting your oasis as soon as you can (1-minute-read)

Jenny Rapp — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:41:26 +0000

Anxiety, stress acceptance & hope: Feel better by visiting your oasis (1-minute-read)

Here continues my answer to the question:

What can you do when you are forced to stay at home for a longer time period during these times?

Earlier posts have been about how to deal with negative and worrying thoughts by changing your attitude, more specifically, your sense of coherence and how you can try to find new contexts. For the upcoming weekend, I suggest you visit your special place – your oasis – as soon as possible to develop your sense of coherence.

What do you want to bring?

What do you want to do there?

Consider taking a picture of the place and perhaps bring a symbol such as a nice stone home, so that you can have your new context visible in your daily life.

Courses in personal development at https://www.jennyrappbefree.com/:

Self-esteem: How to develop self-esteem and boost your confidence

Relationships & inner strength: How to create a balanced life & reach your potential

Personal development: Be free with powerful insights from psychology

HSP: How to manage feelings, thoughts & needs

Stress management: Be free from stress

Exhaustion: Be free from exhaustion & regain your strength

Find more free inspiration on how to be free with psychology at https://www.jennyrapp.com/

#calm #worry #comfort #emotions #secure
#forgiveness #fear #anxiety #wwwjennyrappcom #jennyrappbefreecom
#change #feelings #selfhelp #wellbeing #faith #trust
#selfworth #love #life #happy #motivation #healthy #inspiration
#befree #selfesteem #psychology #flow #selflove #proud