The Rise of Self Awareness To Break the Cycle of Stress #stressrelief

5 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker reflects on a growing collective self‑awareness regarding how people, across generations, often suppress overwhelm and burnout by pushing through stress. He notes that while feeling stressed is normal, many resort to unhealthy coping mechanisms. He observes that older generations are especially prone to these patterns because they were never taught skillful ways to manage stress and complex emotions. The speaker expresses compassion for them, emphasizing that the lack of coping tools is a generational issue rather than personal failure, and suggests that increased self‑awareness is the first step toward breaking this cycle.

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I think we're becoming more self-aware. Ah! I think we're seeing the negative result of just pushing down all that overwhelm and that burnout and just going, I gotta keep going. And it's normal to feel stressed and it's normal to maybe cope in ways that are not that great for us with all that stress, right? Finding those kind of negative coping mechanisms. I think that is very common amongst all generations. But Actually, in my personal experience, a lot more with some older generations. And I have compassion for them too because they weren't given these tools. They weren't taught how to in a skillful way cope with stress and emotions that are sometimes kind of tricky to handle. So, I think it's just a growing self-awareness.