Sustainable concept against crises

To always be a few steps behind in life, rushing and restless, without feeling like you are really making progress. Feeling overwhelmed and driven, experiencing discomfort about the next day, the future; flinching when the phone rings. "Who wants something from me again?" Having an increasing feeling of being pressured: by the flood of emails, the demands of superiors, the concerns of colleagues. Waking up in a cold sweat at night with panic in your head: "How is all of this going to work out?" Symptoms of stress, overwhelm, and fear of life. The bad news: The control over your life is slipping away from you. If you do not act quickly to counteract, you run the risk of being pulled into a whirlpool of overwhelm – with potentially dramatic consequences for your career and personal life, up to burnout and suicidal thoughts. Effectively counteracting The good news: You have the chance to turn things around and effectively counteract. What has long been common practice in top-level sports is also making its way into the private and professional spheres: People who want to proactively shape their lives and have specific goals in mind regularly seek support from trained experts. Their task is to prepare their clients for personal and professional crises, to provide them with strategies and new ways to deal with challenges, and to navigate dangerous psychological cliffs. The concept of "resilience" has proven to be particularly efficient and sustainable. As Andreas Herz explains, "It combines the various psychological, nutritional, and sports science tools of life and social counseling into a sustainable overall concept for health, performance, success, and joy of life. Resilience means resilience. Psychologists and experts train resilience in individual and group counseling sessions. More and more people are taking advantage of this resilience offer, and companies are making it a pillar of 'Workplace Health Promotion'."

No fear of change

"Life is change." - "The only constant in life is change." These are well-known words that are often spoken as if to ward off a threat. Yes, change means challenge, triggers reservations, and possibly even fears for many. Already in the 19th century, the acceleration of life circumstances caused shockwaves for many people. Meanwhile, the speed at which our private and professional lives change has even intensified. Change "lurks" everywhere, permeating our entire lives. What seems solid one day can be obsolete the next. Are we physically and mentally able to keep up with this tremendous pace of life? The answer, according to experts, is ambivalent. Yes, on the one hand, we have become accustomed to this pace, possibly even find it fascinating, enthusiastically let ourselves be carried away, or become driving forces of the ever faster change. On the other hand, the enormous centrifugal forces to which we are exposed demand their toll: overwhelm, stress, fears, depression, and even burnout. The numbers are alarming. Many affected individuals also become physically ill as a result. The fragility of interpersonal and familial relationships, job insecurity and existential fears, the constant pressure of change - they weigh on many more than they may want to admit. Yet even changes that we seek from ourselves, perhaps even long for, often pose tough challenges for us - the resistances within ourselves are too great. It is precisely these seemingly overpowering forces of resistance within us that make the changes around us appear even more threatening. "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for change," Goethe wrote. And a Chinese proverb says, "When the wind of change blows, some build walls, while others build windmills." Andreas Herz has lived according to the Chinese proverb "If the day was not your friend, then it was your teacher" since his cancer diagnosis and faces changes with this attitude.