Decisions….Decisions.
Will they be the Death of You?
For
a large number of people, making a decision is a major cause for stress,
and when indecisiveness is prolonged over a period of time, it can also
become a major health issue.
Commenting on the recent BBC news item – 'Snap Decisions Sometimes
the Best', Janice Moore, Director of Communications for Kingston based
Relaxation Training specialists The 4th R, said that we’re producing
a nation of people who will have a tough time in life because of their
diabolical decision making skills. She added:
'There isn’t enough in the school curriculum to encourage children
to utilise their inbuilt, involuntary sub conscious processes. The result
of this is that people end up having a tough time making decisions, as
seen by the number of clients that come to us with symptoms of lethargy,
apathy, ambivalence, inertia and chronic procrastination. So many people
either simply can’t reach any decision, and remain in limbo because
of it, or they decide, but instead of committing and taking action, they
keep thinking about it until analysis paralysis kicks in'
It’s hard to imagine how relaxation training can help people for
whom an inability to decide has become a major cause of stress and anxiety,
but The 4th R teach a system called Functional Relaxation, which is teaching
people how to make relaxed their day-to-day way of being, and it includes
a very specific kind of decision making training.
Janice explained: 'The key to successful decision making is two-fold.
The result of a decision should enable the person to remain at their best,
and it should also move them toward the life they want to be living. Ultimately,
the decision must be a match for who it is they are becoming, not who
they believed themselves to be yesterday, or who they believe themselves
to be today, and certainly not what they think they should be doing. This
approach to decision making requires a radical shift in most people’s
thinking – from doing, to a way of being that is future oriented.
If a person learnt how they are when they are at their best, and if they
were helped to discover what it is they really want in life, they could
use these internal co-ordinates as a 'Northern Star' to guide them in
their decision making. This is an aspect of the decision making training
that we provide within the Functional Relaxation programme'
A top tip that Janice offers anyone with a decision to make is to ask
the question 'Will doing 'X' enable me to remain at my best and keep me
on track toward the life I want to be having?'
Tel: 020-8974-8974
Web: http://www.the4thr.co.uk