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Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enables individual to deal effectively with stressful situations.
Few such skills are as follows:
(i)Assertiveness:
тАвIt helps to communicate, clearly and confidently, our feelings, needs, wants and thoughts.
тАвIt is ability of an individual to say тАШnoтАЩ to a request which is against his wishes.
тАвIf one is assertive then he or she feels confident high self-esteem and maintains his/her identity. тАШ
(ii)Time Management:
тАвLearning time management determines quality of life.
тАвIt is setting the priorities, goals and values in life.
Each day making list of things one wants to accomplish:
тАвArranging work schedule.
тАвChanging perception of time.
тАвSetting aside time in schedule for exercise and leisure activities
тАвLearning to plan time.
(iii)Rational Thinking:
тАвIt is challenging the distorted thinking and irrational beliefs.
тАвDeriving the anxiety provoking thoughts.
тАвMaking positive statements.
тАвIt is learning to ignore negative thoughts and images.
(iv) Improving Relationship: It consists following essential skills: ,
(a) Listening to what the other person is saying.
(b) Expressing what one feels and thinks.
(c)Accepting the other personтАЩs opinions and feelings, even if they are different from your own.
(d) Avoiding jealously and sulking behaviour.
(v) Self-care: Healthy mind in healthy body.
тАвLearning right pattern of breathing i.e., relaxed, slow, stomach-centered breathing from diaphragm.
тАвAvoiding environmental stress like pollutions, because it affects our mood.
(vi)Overcoming Unhelpful Habits: Perfectionism, avoidance, procrastination and our strategies which provides short-term gain but makes the individual vulnerable to stress.
Perfectionists want to get everything just as they want which is not always possible. Avoidance is ignoring the issue and refusal to face it or accept it.
Procrastination means putting off what we know we need to do, i.e., postponing the things like тАШI will do it laterтАЩ just to avoid confrontation due to the fear of failure.