Its author, Lucía Toro, presents this strategy based on neuropsychology that was born with the intention of “reaching everyone”
‘From stress to self BEING’ is a practical manual that aims to become “a real revolution for your mind”. This is how the author Lucía Toro defines it, a graduate in Higher Architecture at the University of Granada, who had an accident that altered the trajectory of her life. “I saw myself in bed unable to move. Doing nothing created extremely high stress levels for me. My mind couldn’t stop”. Thus, she got into reading books on personal growth, self-improvement and self-help. With her certification as a Personal Coach by the University of Malaga, she completed a resilient process that has led her to publish her first manual on the techniques that she also applies in personal coaching sessions. “I understood that everything happens for a reason and now I am dedicated to help people to overcome their stress and flow with life,” she says.
She defines her manual as a strategy with an eclectic base of different techniques such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), systematic desensitization, Design Thinking, mindfulness or emotional intelligence. All of them encompassed in neuropsychology, a branch of neuroscience that studies the direct relationship between the brain and behavior since, she points out, “as you think, so you feel and act.”
The author summarizes this practical strategy with ‘pfff’, exercises to “stop”, and ‘Do‘, activities to decode and operate. Through these instruments, it is intended that a person suffering from stress “becomes aware of the limitations that trap him/her and overcome the obstacles that prevent him/her from living life.”
“Stress is the response process that a person generates when he/she perceives a situation as a threat.” With this definition of the axis around which the manual is developed, Toro affirms that each person is affected by stress in a different way, since the sources and causes that produce it are different and varied. However, as she points out, the repercussions derived from all these sources and causes end up affecting the health and well-being of all people. In this sense, she adds that both the personality traits and the environmental circumstances of each person, among other factors, can be determining factors. “If you see yourself with limited resources in the face of a situation or demand, the stress you feel is greater when you see that you have fewer resources to face it, whether mental, physical or otherwise.” At this point, the author underlines the importance of “being faithful, consistent and honest with yourself and with your values, as well as working on the expression of emotions as a means of overcoming what is happening.”
One of the objectives of the tools in ‘From stress to self BEING’ is to raise awareness about being “here and now”. “Focus on the present, we are here, and ‘now’ is the only thing we have.” This premise is completed with another one that invites us to be aware of what is happening. Thus, the author reveals that the originality of the manual lies in the intention of translating in a practical way the theoretical bases that explain what is happening, that is, why someone suffers from stress. “Go to the root of the problem of that situation that causes you stress. Be aware and start to take action. The purpose, she points out, is to “open your perspective.”
Lucía Toro affirms that “The real key is how we respond to what happens to us.”
