Cabin Fever, what is it, and how can you reduce and or eliminate the effects? People experience Cabin Fever when they are unable to leave their home and engage in social interaction. As more and more people work from home, their world shrinks in size. Now they are working and living in the same space, and we are all feeling the need to spread out.

So many people are trying to keep themselves and others safe as they tend to stay inside away from large crowds and even when they go out, they generally try to limit the amount of people that they are interacting with. The isolation, the staying in one place, is creating a lot of Cabin Fever symptomology, such symptoms may include feelings of depression, restlessness, irritability, and loneliness.

Traditionally, people may have had to stay indoors due to snowy or icy weather conditions or travel restrictions. Today, people around the world are experiencing cabin fever while physically isolating in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

While there are different tools and techniques, such as Hypnosis and Meditation,  to help deal with these symptoms, the following tips are just a few of the things you will learn, through Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching, that can help you manage cabin fever and limit its psychological, physical, and behavioral effects.

  1. Learn to relax: Using meditation and deep breathing is a powerful tool / technique to change your thoughts and emotions. The power of Hypnosis is a very effective way of learning how to change your brain wave patterns, and lower the levels of negative chemicals, such as Adrenaline, and Cortisol, that cause stress and thus symptoms of Cabin Fever, such as depression, restlessness,  and irritability. Using Hypnosis and meditative techniques will also allow you to learn how to flood your body with more positive chemicals such as norenepherine, dopamine, and serotonin. By learning to produce and increase these chemical levels your focus on the positive increases., which leads to the next tip:
  2. Focus on the positives in your life: Sometimes this is harder than we think. With all of the negative news and chatter on social and news media we need to  express and consciously focus on gratitude every day. One of the things that you will learn with Foundation Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching is to create a daily list of what it is you are grateful for and how do those things make you feel. Writing them down you can reflect on them at later times. Some examples of these things may include:
    • the blessings you have in your life: such as your friends, family, and other people who are in your life.
    • having the time to be creative and learn a new hobby or finishing a project you have been putting off for a long time.
  3. Go easy on yourself: No matter what methods you use, it can take time to adapt to a new way of living. As the fourth step in “The Four Agreements” states, always do your best. This means that some days you will find yourself doing all the right things and somedays you will find yourself falling flat on your face. Remember when a child is first learning to walk, they take a couple of steps and they fall. Well if they stay down and never get up, they will never learn to walk, Each time they get up they increase the amount of steps they take. Keep at it, continue to practice. Using techniques such as Hypnosis and Meditation will give the perfect tool to lean to keep your focus and get to your goal.
  4. Develop routines and stick to them: Creating, developing and following a routine can help you feel in control of your life and situation.
  5. Follow a healthful diet: A healthful, balanced diet is important for mental as well as physical health. Develop a plan for eating healthy and stick to it.
  6. Keep physically active:  Daily or routine exercise can helps keep the body fit and boosts the positive mood level. It doesn’t have to be a gym routine that leaves you sweaty and exhausted, but but by  developing  an exercise routine that you can perform in your home or garden you will be amazed at how this will lift your spirits.

So move past your symptoms of Cabin Fever, pick up the phone and call Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching, at  (206) 417-4900, or e-mail Foundations Medical Hypnosis at dlscott2@comcast.net. You will be very happy you did and you will start living a positive and happier life.