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25 September, 2023

How to Support the Nervous System: A Recovery System, Not One Trick

Dmytro Telushko

Dmytro Telushko is a psychologist and author of MriyaRun. He writes about emotions, boundaries, relationships, self-esteem, life scripts, and creates practical self-therapeutic tools for gentle self-exploration.

What reduces repeated nervous-system overload: sleep, stress-response completion, boundaries, predictability, support, and changing conditions.

This material is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical, psychological, or psychotherapeutic advice. If you are experiencing an acute psychological condition or need professional support, please contact a doctor, psychologist, psychotherapist, or crisis service.

Nervousness is a feeling of discomfort that we all feel on the eve of important and responsible events, during psychological stress and stress, in problematic life situations. How to calmly survive stress?

Psychological causes of increased nervousness can be: personal anxiety, overestimation of the significance of certain events, a sense of self-doubt, shyness, and other personality qualities.

Our palms begin to sweat, we may experience tremors, increased heart rate, increased pressure, confusion in our thoughts, it is difficult to gather, concentrate, it is difficult to sit still, we want to occupy our hands with something, smoke. However, the tendency to be nervous and worried is not a natural reaction of the body to a stressful situation or an ingrained feature of your personality.

Nervousness is a psychological defense mechanism that is activated when we are threatened with danger, failure or failure. Nervousness does not bring any benefit, it only hinders.

When we are nervous, mental abilities decrease and it becomes more difficult to concentrate, which can aggravate the situation, which requires the maximum tension of mental resources. You have worse control over your intonation, facial expressions, and gestures, which can have a bad effect on the result.

Nervousness contributes to a faster accumulation of fatigue and tension, which has a bad effect on your health and well-being. After all, if you are often nervous, it can lead to various diseases. You can get rid of nervousness with the help of internal work on yourself.

A normal psychological mood will help to calm down quickly and will definitely have a positive effect.

Згадайте будь-яку недавню неприємну розмову, яка вивів вас із себе. А тепер постарайтеся оцінити рівень важливості цієї розмови для вас, але не відокремлено, а всередині контексту вашого життя, ваших глобальних планів і перспектив.

What is the importance of fighting on public transport in the scale of your life? To stop getting nervous about little things and save your nerves, focus on your life goals, think about the future, turn away. Such a psychological setting helps a lot to stop being nervous about any occasion. Live "here and now"

How to calm down and stop being nervous before a responsible event?

First of all, try to realize that even the worst outcome of this event will not mean the end of your whole life for you, there is no need to dramatize and overestimate everything. It is necessary to realize that the importance of this event presupposes your composure and calmness, otherwise there is no way.

What to do if everything is annoying?

Now you need to calm down. First, immediately throw all thoughts of failure out of your head. In general, try to calm down the hustle and bustle and think about nothing. Relax, exhale deeply, and inhale.

This should be done because the doctor says: breathe - don't breathe. 4 seconds of inhalation - 2 seconds of delay - 4 seconds of exhalation - 2 seconds of delay. Try to breathe more deeply and with the entire diaphragm.

When we are stressed, our chest breathes faster, while diaphragmatic breathing calms our heart rate, suppressing the physiological signs of nervousness, calming us down.

If neither emotional mood nor breathing exercises helped you to calm down, then at least try your best to demonstrate external calmness and calmness.

An outward image of calm and confidence appears to help achieve inner peace. It works on the principle of feedback, how your mood determines your facial expressions, and facial expressions determine how you feel.

How to learn to keep calm?

Eliminate all your bright signs of nervousness that betray you in front of those around you. What do you usually do when you're nervous to calm down? Sorting through a ballpoint pen in your hands? Are you biting a pencil? Now forget about it, try to take care of yourself.

Take your time: hurry, bustle always sets a special nervous tone. So take your time even if you are late. Since any rush very quickly upsets composure and calm mood.

How to stop being nervous and become calm? Give yourself an honest answer to the following question: when you know everything, are confident in yourself, why should you worry about the result?

The nervous system is not a battery being used up. It evaluates signals, mobilizes the body, and supports recovery. Repeated activation becomes costly when sleep, completion, and changes in overload conditions are missing.

The nervous system listening for possible danger

Sleep, food, movement, medical care, and predictable pauses matter; so do support, realistic workload, availability boundaries, and clear roles.

Breathing, grounding, or walking may help in a moment but do not fix violence, unsafe work, chronic sleep loss, or medical illness. Match the response to the cause.