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Lorna Milton: 15/03/2010

15/03/2010

BBC Three Counties Radio - Lorna Milton, 15/03/2010

Expert advice about Sunday Night Syndrome, entertainment and the best music.

SUNDAY NIGHT SYNDROME FACTS

Sunday Night Syndrome is a name given to a common set of feelings normally associated with the onset of stress or worry before returning to work on a Monday morning.

It can be very debilitating in that your thoughts about Monday morning and feelings associated with that can affect your whole weekend when you should relaxing, having fun and time out from your job. 

What are the symptoms?

Predominantly Sunday Night Syndrome is brought about by stress. Stress produces feelings agitation, Insomnia, Anxiety, and a feeling of unexplained nervousness or worry.

There are three levels of stress:
Level 1: Panic attacks
Level 2: Survival
Level 3: Breakdown

Some people can begin to feel low, and can lack motivation and energy on a Sunday, with thoughts constantly focused on work, or work related worries and problems.

If someone is unhappy in their job. They need to find the cause and then develop a strategy to ultimately take back control!

NLP helps us understand ourselves how we perceive the world (reality) and how we process information. If you always do what youâve always done, youâll always get what youâve always got.

NLP is the practice of understanding and acknowledging how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do.

You can carry on living the as the same person forever and achieving the same results. Equally with the same hang ups and issues.

You can open it up: 

Look at things differently
Look at people from another angle
Change your mind map- your perception of the world
Change your view of things

We all have our own unique mental map of the world. This has happened through our experiences, what we have learned along the way and how we have perceived the world as we have grown up from childhood.  Everybodyâs mental map of the world is unique. No two are the same. 

Our unique mental maps of the world are a product of the way we filter and perceive information absorbed through our five senses. 

NEURO â Your own unique mental filtering system of information
Example: Your perception of your job as it stands at the moment = stressful

LINGUISTIC â Assign personal meaning to that selected information.

PROGRAMMING â Understanding is followed by an action. The behavioural response
Example: Understand your perception is triggering how you feel

You can change these filters by using different NLP strategies
Visual
Kinesthetic
Auditory

Instead of thinking its Sunday night Iâm going to have a terrible day tomorrow. You start by changing that thought process and say today is a new day Iâm going to look at this differently.

So what are the techniques of NLP to use for Sunday Night Syndrome?

â¢Sunday Night Syndrome is simply a slow build up of stress and worry, where you can become almost obsessed with work and problems seem to escalate the more attention and thought you give them.

â¢Cognitive Thinking â we are what we think so refocus your thinking and focus on the important things you enjoy about your job, and not the negative. Never forget you applied for the job in the first place so relive the emotions you had and what you liked about the company when you first joined. You can always leave. Donât forget that.

â¢It is common to believe the job has changed when in fact the people directly around you such as your boss or a member of staff are the ones that may have changed. Once you realise this the problem immediately appears to reduce in size, as a relationship is far easier to put right than the whole company.

â¢Measure your success by what you learn at work rather than what you achieve. Unconsciously this puts you as the benefactor of being at work rather than the company.

â¢Mentally start your weekends early. Diarise Thursday night as the beginning of the weekend and ensure you go out or do something different. 

â¢Donât lose sight of the fact that Sunday Night Syndrome is simply a slow build up of stress, so ensure you implement a stress program with regular exercise and a balanced diet.

â¢Stress is a feeling of being out of control or overwhelmed. Once you have a strategy to overcome your feelings of stress you are halfway there. Having a strategy and plan gives you back control, and puts you in charge. 

â¢A great strategy is simply called The Red Book Plan. As part of your strategy write down what your ideas are and who you need to contact and what you need to do to bring your ideas alive. Make progress entries everyday. Record conversations and plans.

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