by Annika Sorensen | | Health Promotion, Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Do you sometimes have an odd feeling about a person in your social circle and you can’t really put your finger on what it is? They are not a line with you, and in a way you sense them as toxic. They are somehow stealing your energy and they don’t give you anything back they just steal from you.
You know what, you are probably right. Because this can be very stressful and it’s very common, and most people have these kind of people somewhere in their relationships.
They are toxic and you know what, maybe someone will think the same about you and you don’t know it. But the point I’m trying to make is that we are all different personalities you know, and that’s just the way it is.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Have you made New Year’s resolutions and already quit them?
Well welcome to normality, because 95% of everyone who made New Year’s resolutions have quit by January 15. So you’re just normal!
So why is it like this? Well, because people don’t make resolutions from the heart they just say the words that they think they should say, and then the resolution will be enough to make them change.
But that’s not how biology works. You know you need progress to be happy and you have to find things that make you progress, and then you will make changes that will last.
“A resolution is a new solution and that’s what you want.”
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by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Sleep, Stress, Your Health
Do you find yourself forgetting things every now and then saying to yourself “I can’t remember, I don’t know where I put it. I just don’t remember.”
Well, forgetting things every now and then is normal because there is such an inflow of information and some of the stuff doesn’t really get into your brain properly. And there is such an overflow of it and if we don’t internalize it, it’s not there, but that is very normal. I’m sure you’ve been in that situation tons of times because most people have.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Are you getting stressed out and not realizing that is what´s happening?
Seeing signs that you don’t realize is your stress?
It creeps up on you, slow and nasty before it then hits you when it is too late.
Stress is not all the things on your to-do list. Stress is the reaction in your body and mind when your perceived demands from the outside is contrasting with what your inner power can handle.
This shows in many different signs and symptoms that we often have a hard time to understand. And all this is spiced with feelings that are even harder to control.
Here are the 5 biggest signs to look out for that are telling you, you’re stressed out:
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by Annika Sorensen | | Health Promotion, Leadership & Corporate, Sleep, Stress, Your Health
Today I want to talk about sleep.
You know life on earth is adapted to the rotation of our planet, and we have known for many years that we, as humans, have clocks that work with this regular cycle of the the planet turning around itself. So we have these body clocks but how does it work? That’s not something that we’ve really known. I’m from Sweden and in Sweden we have the Nobel Prize, I’m not sure you know about it but here it’s a big thing and I usually hear about it every year and there are all these prizes for scientists who’ve done things that most of us don’t understand.
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by Annika Sorensen | | Health Promotion, Leadership & Corporate, Stress, Your Health
Some of my clients are not sure they have the right job, they don’t feel the right connection to it and that can be very stressful. Have you ever felt like that? A disconnect?
Or maybe you are like the ones that tell me that they are perfect for the job and they really don’t know why that is either, they haven’t got the key of “What is it that makes me perfect?” or “What is it making me not like my job?”
The other day I was reminded of a guy whose name is Antonovski. He is a professor in medical sociology and he has created a term called Salutogenesis; it’s a hard word which means to look at what keeps us healthy instead of looking the other way around, the way that health care usually does where they usually are looking at what makes us ill.
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