Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
STRESS MANAGEMENT
WHAT IS STRESS?
• Stress Is Pressure From External
Circumstances That Can Cause
Internal Tensions.
• This Corresponds to Our Addiction to
Speed and Our Obsession With
Activity.
• Filling Our Lives With So Much to Do
and So Little Time, We Live and Work
in a State of Chronic Catch-up, Never
Stopping to Take Our "Psychological
Temperature" Along the Way.
STRESS IS
SYNONYMOUS
WITH WORRY.
Stress is:
P
E
R F
O
R
MA
NC
E
ANXIETY or STRESS
Stress is like a fire, embers, permanent embers. We can either control them
to be harmless embers and enjoy their glow or fan them into huge fires. Not
knowing better, many of us do the latter.
STRESS IS
A “FUNNY”
EMOTION
STRESS RESULTS
FROM IMBALANCE
BETWEEN
DEMANDS AND
RESOURCES.
STRESS OCCURS
WHEN PERCEIVED
PRESSURE
EXCEEDS ONE’S
ABILITY TO COPE.
STRESS IS LOW
WHEN TOLERANCE
LEVEL IS HIGH AND
VICE-VERSA.
STRESS IS VERY
NATURAL AND
IMPORTANT PART
OF LIFE.
MOST PEOPLE
UNDERESTIMATE
“STRESS”
ALL SUFFERINGS
AND DISCOMFORT
START WITH
STRESS
STRESS MANAGEMENT
TYPES OF STRESS
EUSTRESS (HEALTHY ESSENTIAL STRESS)
SENSIBLE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES.
JOY- ANY KIND OF POSITIVE IMPULSE.
SPORTS- PRACTISED AS HOBBIES.
DISTRESS
ANGER
HATRED ,FRUSTRATION, JEALOUSY.
CONTINOUS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STRAIN OF
ANY KIND.
What Happens in Stress?
All the Organs of the Body are on ALERT :
stimulates Autonomic Nervous
BRAIN System
BRAIN
Affects...
– HEREDITY
– ENVIORNMENT
Environment
Fashion
Communication
Transport
You can’t change anyone. You can’t change your father, your mother, your
wife, your brother, your sister, your son, your daughter, not even your boss.
Change yourself first.
STRESS HAS
PHYSICAL AND
EMOTIONAL EFFECTS
ON US AND CAN
CREATE POSITIVE
AND NEGATIVE
FEELINGS.
NOT ALL STRESS IS
NEGATIVE.
EUSTRESS IS THE
STRESS OF WINNING
AND ACHIEVING.
NEGATIVE STRESS IS
DISTRESS.
IT IS THE STRESS OF
LOSING,FAILING AND
OVERWORKING.
STRESSORS CAUSE
STRESS.
STRESS RESULTS
FROM FAILURE TO
ADEQUATELY COPE
WITH STRESSORS.
TOO MUCH STRESS
LEADS TO BURNOUT
CHARACTERISED BY
EMOTIONAL AND
PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
THE CAUSES OF STRESS
The Factors That Contribute
to the Experience of Stress
Are Many and Varied. A
Useful Overview of These
Causes Can Be Gained by
Using the 'Analysis Wheel',
to View Them. Using This
Wheel, You Can Take Six
Different Perspectives on
the Causes of Stress.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
SOCIAL/CULTURAL
TYPES OF STRESS
EUSTRESS (HEALTHY ESSENTIAL
STRESS)
SENSIBLE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES.
JOY- ANY KIND OF POSITIVE IMPULSE.
SPORTS- PRACTISED AS HOBBIES.
DISTRESS
ANGER
HATRED ,FRUSTRATION, JEALOUSY.
CONTINOUS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STRAIN
OF ANY KIND.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
• PREDISPOSING FACTORS
– HEREDITY
– ENVIORNMENT
1. CHRONIC FATIQUE
2. ANGER AT THOSE MAKING
DEMANDS ON YOU
3. SELF CRITICISM
4. NEGATIVISM
5. INDIGESTION
6. HEADACHES AND INSOMNIA
7. DEPRESSION
8. CONSTIPATION
9. DIARRHOEA
10.IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS
11. FREQUENT URINATION
12. INCREASE IN CHOLESTORAL
LEVELS
• PATHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO
STRESS
– MIGRAINE
– CORONARY HEART DISEASES
– HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
– PEPTIC ULCER
– COLITIS
– NEUROSIS
– SOME SKIN DISEASES
– ARTHRITIS
A CERTAIN LEVEL OF
STRESS IS NECESSARY TO
AVOID BOREDOM, HIGH
LEVELS OF STRESS OVER
SUSTAINED PERIOD CAN
DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH.
THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS
SOLVING A PROBLEM IS TO
BEGIN TO ACT POSITIVELY AND
YOU WILL SURELY REDUCE
STRESS.
STRESS MANAGEMENT
TECHNIQUES
EUSTRESS is a state of
HEALTHY STRESS
where, LIFE is ……
a CHALLENGE rather than a HURDLE
an OPPORTUNITY rather than a
DRAB & DREADED routine