Dealing with stress in the workplace
Stressors bind attention and like to let the focus wander. This costs mental capacity and leads to mental and physical exhaustion. Through relaxation processes that focus attention , both regenerative and resilience-promoting processes can be initiated that conserve mental capacities and thus have a positive effect on mental and physical health and also increase individual performance , which in turn meets the needs of the employee and the employer .
Relationship between performance and activation
A medium level of arousal results in optimal performance after the function. However, if the excitation is too high or too low, blocking or inhibiting processes arise that reduce the performance potential. One could conclude from this that a moderately dosed stressor promotes performance . The question now, however, is whether optimal activation can be described as stress. In addition, stress is a largely external cause for activation processes that are felt internally. The filter of one's own perception plays an individually significant role. Stressor X does not trigger the same reaction in person A as it does in person B. Such attribution patterns can be successively changed through certain relaxation processes and meditation techniques . In high-performance sport, athletes use mental training to bring themselves to an optimal level of arousal shortly before a competition. They achieve this by visualizing movement sequences and mental projection of sport-specific muscle groups. Scientific studies have shown that the mere conception of cardiovascular and central nervous processes also sets in motion in the periphery .