It is a large-scale strike that threatens Île-de-France. Wednesday, September 10, many will indeed be French and French to trample with impatience in a disturbed transport line. But how can we learn to better use this “lost” time? Amélie Boukhobza, clinical psychologist, shares some useful advice.
Transport strikes: a stress peak for the French
This Wednesday, a national call to “block the country“Threat to paralyze the Paris region (and major cities).
“”The main objective is to bring the dispute over the entire territory with micro-actions“reveals the newspaper TF1.
SNCF and RATP transport networks – but also airports, roads, hospitals as well as certain schools – may thus be closed or at least partly closed. In total, 100,000 people should take to the streets and “form of processions, blockages, even sabotage actions” are planned.
Faced with this massive strike, many workers are worried. Will they be able to go to work? And if this is the case, how to stay calm when you lose 3 hours of your day on the RER B line?
Amélie Boukhobza, clinical psychologist, gives us valuable advice to make the most of this moment of inactivity.
How to use this “lost time” intelligently?
Lost time, we all have them. “”In a waiting room, on the train, between two meetings. Or even stuck in the metro a day of strike. We draw the phone, scroll and we often come out a little more empty than before. Damage !”, regrets the expert.
Indeed, perhaps this time could on the contrary become useful: “A ten-minute micro-diestest, a podcast that nourishes the mind, a notebook to note what is going through us … simple gestures that transform waiting into breathing”, she underlines.
The idea is not to make profitable every second. “But to restore value to these moments that we believe useless. Because well used, they can become bubbles of pause, reflection, sometimes even learning. The opportunity to improve your well-being and find a balance in everyday tumult”, specifies the psychologist.
Without also forgetting the share of boredom. “The one who gives way to reverie. Because any time” lost “… is not necessarily!”, concludes Amélie Boukhobza.