Stress and Wellbeing

1. Stress and Wellbeing

2. Stress and Wellbeing Effects • Productivity • Engagement • Relationships • Performance • Commitment to workplace • Mental health • Emotional health • Physical health • Focus, problem solving • Leadership • Business and team success Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

3. The Problem • Over half of sick days are stress related. • People who are happier • 55% more effective in their efforts • 155% more satisfied with their efforts • 85% more effective with their time • Stay twice as long in their jobs Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

4. My research – Business owners and Human Service Workers Over prior 2 weeks • 70/77 % medium or higher levels of stress • 40/47 % significant or very significant stress • 70/66 % experience of stress at a significant or very significant level Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

5. Over prior 6 months • 71/86 % medium or higher levels of stress • 35/47 % highly or extremely stressed • 83% said it was important or very important to improve their wellbeing. Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

6. Problem stress • Stress and being worn down narrows our focus. • We often feel ‘off balance’, ‘thrown’, ‘beside ourselves’, ‘not in a good space’, ‘run over by a truck’, ‘worn out’ • It depletes, constricts, tightens, defending position and ‘our world comes in’, often feeling crowded by, or caught up in, or weighed down, by the pressures Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

7. Wellbeing • Open • More flexible • Connected • More solid • Energy giving • Ease • Confidence and surety Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

8. Assessing Stress • Load • How stressed • How worn out • Impact • Stuck/lost or trapped • Duration • Accumulated/underlying/generalized stress Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

9. It is wellbeing that resources, restores and builds capacity. It is increasing wellbeing, not decreasing stress, that produces the positive changes and the benefits. Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

10. 7 things to know about wellbeing Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

11. Wellbeing unlocks skills, abilities and capacities that were previously inaccessible. Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

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17. What is wellbeing? • Feeling Good • Positive connections with self and others • Meaning and purpose, sense of the greater • Doing things you enjoy – including ‘flow’ • Achieving something • Able to stay steady in yourself during the ups and downs of life Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

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19. When you have wellbeing you are a different person. You are wired differently, you think and behave differently and you are in a different emotional space. Building wellbeing, not reducing stress is the key to accessing the positive benefits Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

20. Levels of wellbeing • Inactive/Understood • Surface • Felt • Underlying • Core wellbeing • Felt wellbeing • Good internal relationship • Personal Strength Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

21. How to build wellbeing Building Heartfelt Positive Moments is the key to building Wellbeing • Number • Range • Intensity • Value • Click Here for articles on building wellbeing Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

22. Responding to stress • You’re not bad if you’re stressed • There’s no one answer. There’s no super technique that suits everyone. • Stress can reduce the availability of wellbeing • Stress comes in waves Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

23. 8 effective responses to stress • Monitor your level of stress • Create space on some level from what is happening • Maintain your wellbeing • Relate and Work with yourself positively • Be clear, strong, and centred in yourself – boundaries and sense of self. • Being present. • Know what works for you • Take action – get new information, get help, don’t stop. Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

24. 10 things to do when you are stressed 1. Damage control 2. Step back and look at your stress 3. Feel good 3 times a day 4. Identify and Hold on to what you value 5. Stay present Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

25. 6. Be quiet for 10 minutes a day 7. Exercise 8. Go outside once a day 9. Think kindly towards yourself 10. Get help Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

26. 7 things that can help you wind down 1. Close open loops – mentally or write them down 2. Breathe and step back 3. Physical exercise 4. Promote heartfelt positive moments 5. Valuing something more 6. Mindfulness/Centering exercises 7. Do something different Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734

27. To subscribe to Heart and Soul Coaching’s newsletter Click Here Heart and Soul Coaching helps people to expand their capacity to meet the pressures and challenges of life and work so they can be at their best. www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au Peter Sabel - 2014 www.heartandsoulcoaching.com.au ph 0407 118 734