How Easily Do You Adapt to Changing Conditions?
And if you have trouble doing so, are you able to figure out why and solve the difficulty?
What about realizing that something you wanted to do isn't going to be possible? It would be normal to feel some initial dismay, but the best response would be to accept that reality and decide on an alternative. Perhaps you want to spend Thanksgiving with relatives and friends who aren't able to travel to your location, or you to theirs. You could connect by phone or Zoom but it wouldn't be the same as actually being together. Does this situation leave you frustrated, angry, or depressed?
What if you are determined to get something done by a certain date, only to find that unexpected setbacks delay its completion? Do you ever lose perspective and initially experience it as catastrophic? How long does it take you to accept the delay and to make the necessary adjustments?
Nurses and teachers are two groups that have been inundated with difficult changes in recent times. Nurses have been doing their best to cope with the new requirements, dangers, and losses that they are experiencing. Teachers also have to cope with new dangers and losses, in addition to the challenges of hybrid teaching.
Your Own Traits Can Contribute to the Problem
Sometimes, difficulty adapting to changing conditions is heightened by problems specific to your individual development. If you are easily made anxious, quick to become irritated, or readily respond to losses or setbacks with depression, these emotional traits will interfere with your response. So, too, if you have developed character traits such as rigidity, compulsivity or avoidance.
As Can Past Traumas
Reactions to past traumas may be reactivated if they are associatively related to a current problem. The memory of a traumatic loss or a frightening event in childhood may be triggered by a current problem and exacerbate your emotional response to it.
There is a Way to Help Yourself Cope Better with Change
My complimentary Tool can help. If you are already using it, you know how it can provide periods of calm and peacefulness. And perhaps you have used Step 3 to deal with certain specific problems. Here is another opportunity. In Step 3, wish for a new mental pathway that will be dedicated to helping you cope with a specific change that you are having trouble adapting to. And whenever you use the Tool, all the previous mental pathways that you have created will be continuing to do their work, as well.
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