Deena Deemas

Sometimes stress starts with a thought. A conversation that went wrong. A message you’re reading too much into. Sometimes it doesn’t start in your head at all. Your body just tightens. Your chest gets heavy. Your stomach drops. You can’t even name why. Either way, the stress response lives in your body. Your heart speeds up. Your muscles brace. Your breathing changes. That’s your nervous system activating. Which is why “just calm down” doesn’t work. You’re trying to solve a body problem with...

In this time, and with everything happening around us, it is very natural to feel fear, stress or even a kind of heaviness or shutdown. Even in the Qur’an, Allah says: “We will certainly test you with a touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life, and crops. Give good news to those who patiently endure.” (Al-Baqarah 2:155) So feeling fear and stress is part of life… but how do we be patient with it? And how do we deal with it? What do I mean when I say this is normal? It is a very...

في هذه الفترة، ومع كل ما يحدث حولنا، من الطبيعي جدًا أن نشعر بالخوف، بالتوتر، أو حتى بنوع من الثقل أو التعطل. حتى في القرآن، يقول الله تعالى ؛ ( وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ الْخَوْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَنفُسِ وَالثَّمَرَاتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ )(155) سورة البقره فالشعور بالخوف والتوتر… جزء من الحياة بس كيف نصبر عليه؟ ونتعامل معاه؟ ماذا أعني عندما أقول إن هذا طبيعي؟ إنها استجابة طبيعية جدًا من جهازنا العصبي لما يحدث حولنا. عندما أقول إن الجهاز العصبي...