On Friday, November 26, 2021, the Ukrainian Association of Furniture Manufacturers together with ASPRING and the Institute of Biodynamic Health held a presentation of the program to overcome the state of emotional burnout ASPRING.

Two representatives from UAFM’s member Desire room company Serhiy Polishchuk and Tetyana Medvedeva personally felt the effectiveness of one of the elements of therapy with the help of Maxim Usoltsev, head and therapist of the Institute of Biodynamic Health. 

The therapy process took place live on the UAFM YouTube channel.

We are sincerely grateful to Victoria Nosenko, author of the ASPRING program, and Maxim Usoltsev, head and therapist at the Institute of Biodynamic Health, for hosting the webinar. We thank the participants Serhiy Polishchuk and Tetyana Medvedeva and all the participants of the webinar who watched the process. We hope that this webinar will help you stay motivated to work and stay in the resource.

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In addition, we want to provide expert information on the algorithms of occurrence and development of burnout. As well as practical advice on returning to the resource state. We hope that this information will be useful and timely and that you can use it to help yourself or your loved ones or colleagues.

Emotional burnout syndrome develops in stages. According to the concept of Matthias Burish, we can identify six main phases and their characteristic symptoms:

1. Warning:

a) excessive participation:

• excessive activity, a sense of irreplaceability;
• rejection of non-work needs, displacement of failures and disappointments;
• restriction of social contacts;

b) depletion:

• feelings of fatigue, insomnia, the threat of accidents.

2. Decrease in the level of own participation.

a) in relation to employees, patients, etc .:

• loss of positive perception of colleagues;
• the transition from assistance to supervision and control;
• attributing blame for one’s own failures to others;
• the dominance of stereotypes in behaviour towards employees, patients – a manifestation of inhumane treatment of people;

b) in relation to others:

• lack of empathy, indifference, cynical assessments;

c) in relation to professional activities:

• unwillingness to perform their duties;
• artificial extension of work breaks, delays, early dismissal;
• emphasis on the material aspect with simultaneous dissatisfaction with work;

d) increasing requirements:

• loss of the ideal of life, concentration on needs;
• feeling that other people are using you; envy.

3. Emotional reactions.

a) depression:

• constant guilt, low self-esteem;
• unfounded fears, mood lability, apathy.

b) aggression:

• defensive attitudes, blaming others, ignoring their role in common failures;
• lack of tolerance and ability to compromise;
• suspicion conflicts with others.

4. The phase of destructive behaviour.

a) the sphere of intelligence:

• decreased concentration, lack of ability to perform complex tasks;
• the rigidity of thinking, lack of imagination and creative decisions;

b) motivational sphere:

• lack of own initiative, reduced efficiency, the performance of tasks according to the instructions (“Italian strike”);

c) emotional and social sphere:

• indifference, avoidance of informal contacts;
• lack of participation in the lives of others or excessive attachment to a particular person;
• avoidance of work-related topics;
• self-sufficiency, loneliness, abandonment of hobbies, boredom.

5. Psychosomatic reactions.

• decreased immunity;
• inability to relax in free time;
• insomnia, sexual disorders;
• high blood pressure, tachycardia, headache;
• back pain, indigestion;
• dependence on nicotine, caffeine, alcohol.

6. Despair.

• negative life attitude;
• feelings of helplessness and meaninglessness of life;
• existential despair.

It is important to understand that this condition is easier to prevent than to overcome. The first important step will be to understand the problem. The second is the formation of the experience of self-care through regular practices.

At the same time, when we have already reached the state of burnout, there are two important points. Be sure to add simple practices to your daily life. They will help to survive simply and not to break firewood. This is an ambulance in difficult moments. 

And the easiest way is to start working with the body. Every minute, every minute our cells are renewed, the body rebuilds itself anew. We live in a newly created universe. Every day we produce about 150 million new cells. Cells in the digestive tract live an average of about three months, muscle cells – 14 months. Stomach cells are likely to change twice by the time you finish reading this article. Bone cells regenerate for 6 years. In 7 years you will have a new body! It is necessary to understand that the human body is capable of self-healing only if appropriate conditions are created for it: “The human body is a divine pharmacy. In it, you can find everything you need for happiness and health.

First aid for the body – simple practices and solutions that can be resorted to every day.

Practice 1.

Take a few deep breaths, you can with the sound, relax. In a sitting position, we mentally go through the attention (if we feel the need, we help with the palms) of the body part according to the following algorithm:

Let’s start with the feet. We pay attention to the feet, feel all the toes, you can move, make a few heel strikes, determine the boundaries of the feet, feel them. Next, we go higher, and by the same technique we move on a calf, further, we rise on knees, hips, then – we concentrate attention on a pelvic area, we rise to a stomach, a breast, clavicles. After that, we rise to shoulders and we walk on all lengths of hands, we stop special attention on palms. Then climb to the neck, then stop at the junction of the neck and skull, climb higher to the eyebrow area and finish the way with the upper point of the head.

Paying attention to the whole body, we mentally ask ourselves in which areas I am very good. We are looking for these places. It can be a nose, a finger, an elbow. Anything. And after such an area is found, we shift the focus of attention to this part and dive there, feeling the warmth and light that spreads throughout the body.

Practice 2.

When it is difficult, negative thoughts are overcome, there is no strength and everything is bad, as a simple grounding technique works as “aspirin”. It is necessary to sit down, with a flat back, close your eyes and mentally imagine that from the very centre of the earth comes a large warm stream of energy, it is softly white. It rises higher and higher, touching your feet. Then it enters your body through your feet and slowly rises to your heart, filling it with warmth and light. Next, imagine how from above, the second pillar of light descends from space to you and carefully enters your body through your head, descending to your heart, and connects with the flow of light from the centre of the earth in your heart.

Feel your whole body filled with light, warmth, and every cell vibrates.

This simple technique helps to quickly restore psycho-emotional and physical strength.

Practice 3.

At the moment when you are on the verge, the technique of gratitude works very well. Close your eyes, sit with your back straight, and imagine anyone sitting in front of you whom you would like to thank. Or the one from whom you really need gratitude and support. Next, mentally imagine that in the area of ​​your heart first formed a small, and then increases and increases, a warm golden ball, from which the rays go in all directions. And watch as the rays from this sphere go to the image of the person opposite. Mentally tell him words of gratitude, in a free form, or, if you want, apologize.

Maybe at this point, you will want to cry, then do not stop yourself, and let the tears go. See how a strong stream of love and warmth goes from your heart to your heart. Stay in this state for 2-3 minutes, take a deep breath and open your eyes.

These simple techniques you can do every day during the working day, to quickly return to balance.

As for a full recovery, when the point of no return has come, it is necessary to approach systematically. Therefore, we invite you to comprehensive programs to overcome stress and burnout ASPRING, which will begin in early 2022.

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