Whenever I make phone calls or send off e-mails to family members and friends to touch base and inquire about their well-being, the answers are almost always the same: busy, crazy busy, insanely busy, busy, busy, busy. I know full well that Im expected to respond with something like thats good, or thats a good problem to have. Being able to say that there is plenty going on in our lives, even if it drives us nuts, is almost considered an asset in our culture, although its made to sound more like a burden.
The holiday season may be an especially challenging time when we try to get many extra chores squared away in addition to our already overloaded schedules. But, let's face it, being swamped with work and activities has become a way of life for many of us all year round. It is so much part of us, it would be hard to get off the treadmill, even if we tried.
Without intending for it to happen or knowing how it got started, many people now find that they live in a rush they dont want and didnt create, or at least didnt mean to create, says Dr. Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and author of Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life (Ballantine Books, 2006).
While being active and engaged can be a positive experience, losing sight of what we want and whats important to us should not be the outcome. Being too busy [] can become a habit so entrenched that it leads you to postpone or cut short what really matters to you, making you a slave to a lifestyle you dont like but cant escape, says Dr. Hallowell.
Much of todays hurry, bustle and agitation has been created, or at least accelerated, by the arrival of communication technologies allowing us to stay connected with the outside world at all times. We have even adopted a term that originated in the computer industry to describe our responses to our many pressing demands: multitasking, says Christine Rosen, editor at The New Atlantis who writes about the social and cultural impact of technology. Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible, she says.
In recent years, scientists have begun to pay more attention to potentially adverse effects of the multitasking phenomenon on peoples health, not only in terms of stress management but also with regards to mental health. When neurologists studied brain functions through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, they were able to observe the inner workings of multitasking as blood flowed to different brain regions whenever test participants shifted their focus. Multitasking, or task-switching, as the process is sometimes called, requires time and energy, and if too much of it is required at any given time, a bottleneck effect may occur while the brain struggles to respond simultaneously to several stimuli, according to research conducted by Dr. Ren Marois, professor at the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. The reason is that the human brain can only focus sequentially, not simultaneously, on different tasks at hand. It must disengage from one before engaging in another. This limits it to a finite amount of goals it can pursue before its capacity maxes out.
For example, someone who is writing a report might be able to take on a second task, like checking e-mail, without losing their train of thought. But if that e-mail asked for a decision about something, that would amount to a third task, and the brain would be overwhelmed, he said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) about his findings.
Yet, many of us, especially when we are good at it, take pride in our ability to get lots of stuff done within a short period of time, and find it very rewarding. The question is, at what price?
Besides giving us toxic stress, making us sick, causing accidents and errors and turning us into rude and irritable people, the greatest damage from being too busy is that it prevents us from controlling our own lives, says Dr. Hallowell.
Chronically overworked and overtired, we often dont have enough energy left for doing the things we really want, such as spending more quality time alone or with loved ones. A fat reducing review can help you build a clear summarize of what you require to focus on to complete your fat reducing purpose if you're a rookie; or serve as a reminder for those who are at an advanced or more advance phase of their weightloss strategy. Promptly after are seven steps that can serve as methods for your special weight loss plan. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not a similar thing. Many weight loss programs have fooled people into considering that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss plans only work by causing a person's body to eliminate more muscle flesh and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. It doesnt have to be this way. We can question our behavior from time to time in terms of what we want to achieve and how important our goals really are to us. The holiday season can be a good opportunity to re-examine our priorities.
If you enjoyed this article, you may also enjoy reading "A Season to Slow Down."
Timi Gustafson R.D. is a registered dietitian, newspaper columnist, blogger and author of the book The Healthy Diner How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun, which is available on her blog, Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D., and at amazon.com. You can follow Timi on Twitter and on Facebook.
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