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 | Stress Management Tip #4 >How to Manage Stress
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| The A to Z's of Managing Stress
Awareness and acknowledgment of stress indicators (symptoms) and stressors (causes).
Breathing plays an important part in managing stress.
Choice gives you the feeling of having more control of your life, celebrate the days of your life.
Direction and discipline give you a sense of accomplishment, and feeling good about yourself.
Expression of feelings, emotions and thoughts (in appropriate ways).
Feelings, emotions are the body's natural responses to stressors.
Grounding yourself offers you the ability to respond realistically to the here-and-now situation.
Hourly assessment of yourself and your body is helpful in determining stress indicators and stressors.
Invest in yourself and others.
Journal keeping is essential to uncover your profile of stressors.
Killer stressors are: resentment, self-pity, frustration and negativity. Life producing stressors are: realistic goals, appreciation of self and others, and diversification of thoughts and actions.
Lighten your load of negative stressors (thoughts, feelings, emotions) by acknowledging and processing through them.
Monitor your stress indicators and stressors.
Nourishing food is a valuable tool to emotional and physical health and well being.
Options are necessary to keep motivated.
Personal stress profile will help you uncover your stress indicators and stressors.
Quiet time for relaxation and rejuvenation.
Reach out to someone, know that you are not alone even though you feel alone.
Set realistic goals that are derived from past experiences and gave you feelings of well-being.
Take control of your time.
Unrealistic goals are to be avoided.
View your life as a process of being and becoming.
Watch your attitude, breathing, environment, and nutrition and make them positive and natural.
Xtra time for yourself.
Your environment should be free of stressors such as: fluorescent lighting, dirty ventilation, and sick buildings.
ZIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. YOU BE THE ARTIST, THE CREATOR OF YOUR CANVAS. PAINT A PICTURE OF JOY AND PASSION.
Revised from article by Dr. Rae Baum, Ph.D. |
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