Fw: Stress Management

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What is Stress?

Stress is the " wear and tear "

our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment;

it has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or

negative feelings.

How Can I Eliminate Stress

from My Life?

As we have seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life,

and we all thrive under a certain amount of stress. Deadlines, competitions,

confrontations, and even our frustrations and sorrows add depth and enrichment

to our lives. Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage

it and how to use it to help us. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant

and may leave us feeling bored or dejected; on the other hand, excessive

stress may leave us feeling " tied up in knots. " What we need

to do is find the optimal level of stress, which will individually motivate

but not overwhelm each of us.

How Can I Tell What is

Optimal Stress for Me?

There is no single level of stress that is optimal for all people. We are

all individual creatures with unique requirements. As such, what is distressing

to one may be a joy to another. And even when we agree that a particular

event is distressing, we are likely to differ in our physiological and

psychological responses to it.

How Can I Manage Stress

Better?

Identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our lives

is not sufficient for reducing its harmful effects. Just as there are many

sources of stress, there are many possibilities for its management. However,

all require work toward change: changing the source of stress and/or changing

your reaction to it. How do you proceed?

The Nine Stress Management

Tips:

1.Know what stresses

you most. Not your co-worker,

friend, husband, or wife. YOU!! Get your feelings out. Write them out and

describe each situation. Share all bad feelings with a friend or in a journal.

Before you can conquer your stresses you must know what is stressing you.

2.Say no.

Focus on you own goals, not your spouse's or parents'. You must know yourself,

your dreams, and your passions. If asked to chair another group or take

on another responsibility, look at your mission statement or goals for

the day. If it is does not fit it there say thank you but I just cannot.

Saying no is one of the hardest things in life, but will help make you

a success in your chosen field.

3.Learn to relax.

Work hard but know when to take

time off to be with the family, go to the beach, or read a book. Work all

day if you must but when you get home play, watch cartoons, or tell your

child a story. This allows stress tension to go away and helps you calm

the heart's pace and digest food normally, and protect your immune system.

Learn to meditate and take deep breaths to calm down.

4. Eat healthy.

Eat less junk food and more fruit and vegetables for an amazing overall

lowering of stress levels. We can actually lower the amount of the bad

stress hormone, Cortisol, by taking vitamins. Take those vitamin pills

daily.

5. Keep laughing.

Keep a sense of humor. Studies show a good attitude helps lower cancer

rates, makes surgery more effective, and keeps a relationship together

through hard times.

6. Ask yourself WHY.

Why are you doing this? Write down your wants, needs, goals, hopes, and

dreams. Does what you are doing now help you get fulfill any of these things?

What is your motivation? The more you understand why you doing what you

are doing the less stress you will have. If you cannot come up with a good

reason, then stop doing it.

7. Stay active.

Exercise is a great way to relive tension and gives you a great break from

exams. A healthy body makes a happy body. Even a three minute jog is helpful

at taking your mind off your pressures. You'll come back with an acute

focus and renewed energy.

8. Follow your bliss.

Try to know which subjects and type of people you enjoy. Structure your

life around activities that you love. ph , a wise philosopher,

advises you to follow your bliss. The more you do in life that goes with

your own flow, the more passion you'll have for what you do.

9. Organize and Prioritize.

Do the worst and hardest tasks first. Keep a to-do list and calendar with

you at all times. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Courtesy from: http://www.zeromillion.com/personaldev/stress-management-tips.html

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Stress Management

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,

Raised a glass of water and asked

'How heavy is this glass of water?'

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter.

It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.

In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the

heavier it becomes.'

He continued,

'And that's the way it is with stress management.

If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,

As the burden becomes increasingly heavy,

We won't be able to carry on. '

'As with the glass of water,

You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.'

'So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.

Don't carry it home.

You can pick it up tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now,

Let them down for a moment if you can.'

So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now.

Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon,

And some days you're the statue.

* Always keep your words soft and sweet,

Just in case you have to eat them.

* Always wear stuff that will make you look good

If you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be

Recalled by their maker.

* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,

It was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to

others.

* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,

Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

* Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

Just get up and dance.

* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

* The second mouse gets the cheese.

* When everything's coming your way,

You're in the wrong lane.

* Birthdays are good for you..

The more you have, the longer you live.

* You may be only one person in the world,

But you may also be the world to one person.

* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty

and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors,

but they all have to live in the same box.

*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you

today...I did . Life isn't about how to survive the storm,

but how to dance in the rain.

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