stress stress stress

8/8/2019 Stress Stress Stress

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/stress-stress-stress 1/18



Stress is defined as mental orphysical strain, pressure, tension,

worry or anxiety.



Do you everDo you everwonder why wewonder why welose hair?lose hair?

It·s because of the

same reason why this zebra is loosingits stripes, STRESS!



Work

Relationships

Major life changes Death of a loved one

Illness



Emotional

Physical Mental

Behavioral

Who does stress affect? YOU

Family, Friends, and others around you

Attitudes

Thoughts and Feelings

Habits

Responsibilities

Life



Physical and Emotional Stress

Stress can change you physically and emotionally. Stress develops your emotional intelligence and creative capabilities.

Without learning how to recognize the effects of stress andhow to deal with them, stress could hit you hard andunexpectedly.

Stress affects the body and the mind, building up pressure,

until one or both, fall apart.

Knowing how to balance the right amount of stress in yourlife can change your life tremendously.

http://www.kalavati.org/how-does-stress-affect-health.html



Behavioral Symptoms of stress

Symptoms of stress can also affect your relationships. People around you are often an

easy target to blame or yell at. You might be short tempered or irritable, which causes

you to take it out on yourself and others.

Overeating or under eating

Over sleeping or insomnia Isolation from people and activities

Being irresponsible

Increase of alcohol, gambling, sex, shopping and drugs

Biting nails

Grinding your teeth

Short temper



How does stress affect your emotional health?

People find them selves,

Not enjoying lifeNot sleeping at nightSuffering from mood swings

DepressionMemory lapsesFlashbacks or past situations



How does stress affect your health?

Disrupted sleep

Loss of energy and motivationLack of interest and ability for pleasureLastly serious emotional and physical illness

The best way to break the cycle is to balance your body's sleep patterns and naturalability to manage the production of chemicals and hormones.You do this through the way you think, the food you eat, exercise, meditation, relaxation, fun, rest and sleep etc.



Stress Management Strategies and Tips

Five Stress Management Strategies!

There are five stress management areas to consider:1. Attitude, thoughts, feelings!

The inside: As my mother always told me, 'Sometimes you can't choose what happens to you in life, but you can choose how torespond to what you are given.'

Your internal beliefs, thoughts and feelings all help you to deal with stress. Stress management techniques will strengthen your mind and spirit. These are the most powerful strategies to implement. If you practise them, you will be able to deal with stress of anykind.Feelings - Let go of unexpressed feeling using John Gray's Feeling Letter.

Meditation. This helps to slow down your breathing, heart rate and thoughts. Italso increases your stress threshold.

Relaxation. Do anything that helps you relax.Beliefs. Change your beliefs and you'll change your stress levels.

Thought patterns. Your feelings are indicative of your thoughts.Meaning and purpose. Create meaning in your life. You'll soon let go of the small things.Laughter.

Visualization and imagination will free your mind of your worries



1.How does stress affect your health Physically?!

Health related problems include:Light-headedness

HeadachesDry mouth and throat Difficulty in swallowingDifficulty in speakingFeeling coldFeeling hot and sweatyColds, flu and other infections including allergy disorders.

High blood pressureHeart problemsCold soresFast paced heartFatigueMuscle painNausea and vomiting

InsomniaWeak immune system

All of these symptoms can turn into heart conditions, cancers and other serious illnesses.



2. The Mental Symptoms of Stress

Loss of objectivity

Negative thought

Insecurity and self doubt Forgetfulness

Unfocused thoughts

Indecisiveness

Confusion

Your thoughts and beliefs are the greatest help to your ability or inability to cope. Being

negative and telling yourself that you can or cannot do something will only cause your

brain to think that way then it will start to act in that behavior.



3. Stress Threshold!

Your threshold is where your pain tolerance reaches the maximum level of being able to

bear something for so long. Every now and then you will experience a push to your

threshold. But take comfort in the fact that it will make you stronger and help you handlestress.

Everyone has a different threshold. If you experienced childhood traumas or

hardships, your threshold may be low. Whereas, not having experience in hardship will

cause you high threshold but as time goes by it will go lower.

1. Meditation is the best technique to raise your threshold.2. Changing the way you think changes what you perceive as stressful.

As your threshold rises, so will your ability to handle challenges.



4. Your Capabilities

Your capabilities and efficiency determines what you can handle. New situations may leave you high tolerance to stress if your management skills are not developed. As you

experience new situations and opportunities you will soon be able to cope with stress ina better way. Change is what helps you grow your tolerance levels for stress and many other things.



5. Habits and behavior!

Your behavior is passed down from your parents, older siblings, TV, teachers and peers.

Your automatic response to stress is not always YOU reacting. You are a product of your

habits.

How you deal with stress has been handed down to you. You can change a habit. Habits

are key to managing stress.



This exercise will help you increase your awareness about stress.

1. List four positive and four negative events that caused change in your life.

2. Take each event one at a time. Close your eyes and remember everything you can

about how you responded. Answer the following questions for each event:

2a. What were your feelings?

2b. What were your thoughts?

2c. How did you behave? What habits started or increased?

2d. Did you get sick? How?

3. Now that you have completed the four questions for all eight events, go through youranswers and:

3a. Circle any feeling, thought, action or illness that shows up more than three times.

3b. Underline any feeling thought, action or illness that is unusual for you.

4. Complete the following paragraph:

When I am under stress, I often think__(THOUGHTS)__which creates feelings in me of __(FEELINGS)__I tend to act out by __(BEHAVIORS)__and I it shows up in my body

__(SYMPTOMS)___

stress stress stress

Documents