Stress and burnout coach Ynco de Jong on the Brain Direction Method©|Other Thinking Podcast #21

Stress and burnout coach Ynco de Jong about the Brain Direction Method©|Other Thinking Podcast #21

Stress and burnout are serious workplace challenges, with negative consequences for both employees and organizations. Constant stress leads to poorer performance, can affect health and lead to a negative work atmosphere. It's time to take this seriously! But how? In our latest Anders Denken Podcast, stress and burnout coach Ynco de Jong talks about the Brain Direction Method©.

'Most approaches to dealing with burnout take a psychosomatic approach,' Ynco continues. 'Then you start working with behavior and thought patterns to influence how people feel. And you practice techniques like mindfulness to experience less stress. However, the neurosomatic perspective of the Brain Direction Method© assumes that the basic blockage causing stress is at the level of the brain.'

This approach, according to Ynco, involves a specific questioning technique that uses re-experiencing. 'This is how we reach the point at which the blockage occurred; a point of loss of control, with negative physiology attached. The brain stores that event and the feeling associated with it separately, with the result that this negative physiology is activated on occasion. If that happens frequently or violently, the body goes into a stress reaction, when there is really no context for it. That takes a lot of energy, which can eventually lead to burnout symptoms.

Curious about Ynco's insights and advice?

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