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Dancing. Stress. with. Wendy Gammons, MS MIIA Wellness Coordinator.
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Dancing Stress with Wendy Gammons, MS MIIA Wellness Coordinator
Stress is in the eye of the beholder. Rita JusticeThe awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. (Jimmy Carter)Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.(Peter Drucker)
Stress and your life • Stress 101 • The role stress plays in your lives • Positive tools for managing stress • Resources for work and home
What’s your stress temperature? • Picture of wicked stressed on one end to wicked relaxed on other end
What helps us may also hurt us • Fight /flight
Stressors • Eye of the beholder “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes.” Marcel Proust • Hardiness • Juggler • Micros and macros • Real vs. imagined
“We are influenced not by “facts” but by our interpretation of facts. (Alfred Alder)
The Hardy PersonalityEven if I knew certainly the world would end tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Who manages stress poorly? • How know?
SOS • Start on situation • Start on self • Search out social support
Taking the stress out of your thoughts, attitudes and behaviors Relaxing ways in a stressful world Keep the body tuned up and energized Building buffers Planning the days of your lives Communicating your needs and feelings Spirituality Self help and support groups Traditional and complementary and alternative medicine Holistic Tools
Attitude- gold vs. garbage collectors Let things go (monk story) Hardy personality Change your thoughts… and you change the world
Relaxation Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. (Max Ehrmann)
Breakfast 1/2 grapefruit 1 slice whole wheat toast 8 oz. skim milk Eat the “Stress Diet”
Lunch 4 oz. lean broiled chicken breast 1 cup steamed zucchini 1 Oreo cookie Herb tea
Mid-Afternoon snack Rest of package of Oreos 1 quart Rocky Road Ice Cream 1 jar hot fudge
Dinner 2 loaves garlic bread Large pepperoni and mushroom pizza Large pitcher of beer 3 Snickers bars Entire frozen cheesecake eaten directly from freezer
“Perhaps the way to handle stress is to give yourself permission to spend equal amounts of time thinking about how to enjoy yourself. If you've spent 10 minutes worrying about what you haven't done, spend the next 10 minutes thinking about some fabulous thing you can do for yourself or with your friends and family” (Loretta LaRoche)
Self help • “The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abcess on his knee or his soul. (Rona Barrett)