The topic of relationships is present in all of our lives: either because we have or because we do not have a relationship. You have probably experienced that both being in a relationship and living as a single person come with uncertainty, doubts and questions. Maybe these few thoughts will help you to take a step back and look at the topic of relationships in a different way. Just like studying, work, self-care or other areas of your life, connection is also a learning process. What does it take to learn something new? Practice, experience and mistakes. So, it is natural that you do not know everything.

Stresses cannot be avoided because they are part of our lives. If we wanted to avoid distress (i.e. the harmful effects of stress), we should not go to work, expose ourselves to challenges and should rarely meet our family members. It is not worth fighting against them, but recognizing their enormous energy, we must create positive forces from negative ones, as well as learn how to survive even the most difficult life situations and conflicts without injury. Along this learning-regeneration process the capacity of flexible resistance, resilience is strengthened.

I’m sure you have used the expression „I’m having a stressful time”, „I’m so stressed” etc. in your life. Today this word has become a bit of a cliché, and we often do not even know what it really means. Not to mention that it clearly has a negative meaning. In our two-part article we explore the meaning of stress and its effect on our body and soul.

What can you do to maintain your health every day? Let’s look at the options available to anyone. It’s probably not the first time you’ve heard tips on this topic. Even in elementary school biology class comes up the trinity of proper nutrition, sufficient amount of sleep and regular exercise.

Let’s start right away with a tale entitled: “On the courage of trying.”

A king wanted to know who among the people living in his court was the most suitable to choose as his adviser. He figured out to test sages and knights… and chooses the bravest among them for the important position. So, he called the court people together.

You’re finally in a relationship, everything is beautiful, you think that you have achieved what you wanted. With this, you also sit back and just enjoy the fact that you are not single.

But what’s next? What can you do to make your relationship work in the long term and make you happy together?

Gottman and Krokoff (1989) conducted a longitudinal research with couples, on the basis of which 7 principles were formulated for achieving and maintaining well-being in a relationship (Gottmand and Silver, 2016):

Why are we anxious?

Anxiety itself is adaptive. When we are in a situation of danger, our brain senses this and physiological changes occur; our blood is overloaded with oxygen, we hyperventilate, our pulse increases, our blood pressure is elevated, our muscles tense up, we start sweating.

It happens to many of us that we get blocked in a stake situation and do not perform as we would have expected from ourselves. But why does this happen? Many people think that they have not studied enough or that they have problems with their attention. However, stress often causes this problem.