Congratulate yourself on completing this task and how quickly you have improved your stress levels. Note your new number on the scale from the first point.Open your eyes and stretch your arms up over the top of your head while saying Yes. After you’ve spent a couple of minutes imagining this, imagine the same colour as before flowing in through your head, down your body and out into the earth through your feet as before.Visualise and feel yourself knocking items off your to-do list. Take another deep breath and imagine being productive.Repeat the following, either in your mind or out loud, 10 times: I am safe.Still with your eyes closed, count down from 10 to 1, saying ‘ deeper and deeper’ after each number.Direct all of your focus to the palms of your hands and breathe for a few moments.Imagine your favourite colour entering into the top of your head and moving all the way down through your body and flowing out of the bottom of your feet and through those roots into the earth.Imagine roots growing gently down from the bottom of your feet into the ground. Inhale through your nose for a count of 4 and exhale through your nose for a count of 8. Sit up straight but remaining comfortable, take four slow deep breaths.Sit in a comfortable chair, feet flat on the ground and rest your hands in your lap.Start by making a note of your initial stress level with 10 being a ‘full-blown panic attack’ and 0 being not stressed at all.We have written a de-stressing script for you to try at home: Self-hypnosis can be done by yourself to give you the impetus to make the initial efforts of completing tasks right away less daunting and more rewarding. It works by relaxing the mind and implanting positive suggestion into the subconscious. Hypnotherapy can also be an effective method in helping you overcome procrastination. Where possible, do exercise daily, eat healthily and maintain a level balance between work and play. To help combat procrastination, we need to increase serotonin levels. Causes can either be when the brain cell production of serotonin lacks receptor sites or when there is a shortage of Trypton then chemical serotonin is made from. Many researchers believe an imbalance in serotonin levels may influence mood levels to such an extent it can lead to depression. These include brain cells relating to mood, sleep, appetite, memory, learning, temperature regulation, sexual function and some social behaviours. We have approximately 40 million brain cells that are influenced directly or indirectly by serotonin. By giving yourself a little reward for a job well done, you have accomplished the goal and raised your serotonin levels. To change this around, reward yourself with that screen after doing the hoovering. What you are reading or watching is giving you a good feeling. For example, you need to hoover the floor, but instead, you pick up your phone. Reestablish what makes you feel good instead of allowing the putting off of a task to create this. Overcoming such hurdles requires retraining of the subconscious. The safety net of the zone can very quickly become a habit, especially in testing times. Our subconscious mind’s goal is to keep us in a safe place, and the possibility of failure can be cause enough for it to warrant us to remain within our comfort zone thus not making any attempt at all. This fear often drives our lack of effort.
Procrastination, rather than a sign of laziness, can often be a fear of failure.
Why rush through them all when we might be inside for a while yet?
Why wouldn’t it? There is time to delay ‘those’ tasks, especially the ones we don’t particularly enjoy.
Now, however, is when procrastination really starts to creep in. Some of us working from home, others are busying themselves being creative, and some have even been spring cleaning. Over the weeks we have been busy organising, planning and trying new things. We are now used to and perhaps a little fed up of staying at home.
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