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Learn about stress, its impact, and effective coping strategies. Evaluate your stress levels and explore relaxation techniques like yoga and counseling. Discover immediate stress busters to help you cope and improve your overall well-being.
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Key points: • What is Stress? Is it always negative? • Facts about stress. • Why? Reasons. • How? Effective strategies.
Defining Stress • Stress may be considered as any physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental unrest and that may be a factor in causing disease. • Stressors are events that threaten or challenge us.
Depressed Bored Urge to cry Urge to hide Suspiciousness Negative attitude/thoughts Loneliness Irritation Poor decision making, doubts Low self esteem Poor memory Absence of motivation Psychological manifestations
Evaluate your stress • Scale your stress; how important is it? • Is it a frequent stress situation? • Can you control the situation? • Can you avoid or solve stressful situation? • How can you cope with this particular stress? • Why is it stressful?
Insomnia Anxiety & Depression Weak immune system Low productivity Lack of interest and apathy Decreased mood Absent-mindedness Irritation in communication
How to cope? • There are several types of stress management techniques: • relaxation techniques, • time-management skills, • counseling or group therapy, • exercises maintaining healthy lifestyle
Relaxation techniques • There are hundreds of different relaxation techniques to help manage stress: • Yoga, • Imagery, • Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Relaxation techniques • DoNothingFor2Minutes.com • Calm.com • SimplyNoise • SimplyRain • Rainy Mood • naturesoundsfor.me • Coffitivity
Imagery: • the use of pleasant or relaxing images to calm the mind and body. • By controlling breathing and visualizing a soothing image, a state of deep relaxation can occur.
Yoga One goal of yoga is to restore balance and harmony to the body and emotions through numerous postural and breathing exercises. Yoga
Additional Options: • Counseling or group therapy • Exercises maintaining healthy lifestyle • Meditation
Immediate stress busters. • Breathe slowly and deeply. Before reacting to the next stressful occurrence, take three deep breaths and release them slowly. If you have a few minutes, try out a relaxation techniquesuch as meditationor guided imagery.
Immediate stress busters. • When stressed -practicespeakingmoreslowlythanusual. Stressedpeopletendtospeakfastandbreathlessly; byslowingdownyourspeechyou'llalsoappearlessanxiousandmoreincontrolofanysituation. • Jump-start. Chooseonesimplethingyouhavebeenputtingoff (e.g., returning a phonecall)anddoitimmediately.
Conclusion Relax &Take it easy Cope & Move forward