How to Be Cool As a Cucumber and King of All Your Survey with
Mind Mapping
The most common syndrome affecting each one of us is stress. The
fast pace of life has brought in its wake, a great deal of
stress. The incredible range of automation and convenient
commodities and products, far from relieving us from the
mundane, has only added to more problems and stress. We seem to
be under constant pressure on all fronts that stress has become
an inevitable process.
To fight the stress, you need to analyze the causes of your
short-term and long-term stress in your life. This will give you
a clear insight into how you react to stress, and help you to
identify the areas and levels of stress. One effective means is
to maintain Stress Log on a regular basis to record information
about the stresses you are experiencing so you can analyze and
help manage them effectively. This is of great significance, as
we tend to forget how we reacted to a particular situation over
time, and thus such stress situations fail to get the attention
they deserve. Stress Logs will indicate the causes of stress in
detail, the levels of stress at which you are at your efficient
best, how you react to them and whether your reactions are
appropriate to the situations. Mind Maps can best serve the
cause of such Stress Diaries.
You can maintain a daily log of your stress routine and those
that occur occasionally. Using Mind Maps you can divide your
different areas of stress, and log in your stress situation
under each of them. Your reactions will form another core
detail, and a separate link to causes will reveal the subjective
element that is playing within for triggering such stress
responses. If it is not possible to note them by the hour, you
can, at the end of the day, note all these aspects in your Mind
Map Stress Book.
Also, you can use a subjective assessment on a scale of ten to
record the happiest and unhappiest moments of the day. You can
again rate your work efficiency and inefficiency levels for
different activities. You can then identify those situations
that caused you maximum stress and those in which you were most
relaxed, using the rating scale. You can, in addition, note the
kind of reactions you experienced, such as anger, headache,
shooting back pain, raised pulse rate, sweaty palms, flushed
face, etc. The way you handled stress solutions either by
solving or inflaming them more will also help in assessing your
stress reactions.
Unlike the conventional method of orderly listing of facts on a
sheet, using Mind Map Stress Logs or Diaries will provide a
broad canvass for noting the different areas and aspects of
stress that you experienced. At a single glance, you can gain
the full picture of your stress and know your stress patterns.
Since the whole aspects of your stress life is captured in a
single Mind Map, you will find it easy to identify your stress
routine, plug those stress areas, learn the causative factors
and generally reveal ways to tackle and manage your stress
levels.
The frequency of your stress syndrome and how well you handled
various stress situations are other indicators for throwing
light on your stress profile. Based on your analysis you can
then work out appropriate responses and solutions. By going
beyond the mere obvious and surface, and digging deep into your
inner pattern of attitude and emotional response, Mind Maps
reveal your inner stress self. For any solution, you need to
have a clear picture of the causes and effect of stresses,
before working out answers for mitigating them. The judicious
use and application of your Mind Map Stress Logs can indeed
prove to be your most efficient stress busters.