How To Manage Stress

Having heard Dr. John Gray, author of the best-selling Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, talking about his book, Why Mars & Venus Collide, I found it interesting when he described the differences in how men and women handle stress as well as why the sexes treat stress differently.

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The impacts of stress on your mind and body are several. They could be categorized into emotional, mental, and physical impacts. The effects that stress has on the psychological conditions of an individual include behavioral and mental symptoms of stress. The emotional impacts of stress are those that are related to emotions or relationships.

People suffer [...]

Who needs critical incident stress management training? Any professional that comes into contact with critical events or incidences. Some of these professions include, but are not limited to, emergency room hospital staff, law enforcement personnel, emergency medical service professionals, fire personnel, psychologists and military professionals. The events these professionals have to handle [...]

Let’s get one thing out in the open right now. There is always going to be prople who do things or say things that will ‘push your buttons’. These people will try to make you angry, just because they can. How you handle each situation is up to you. You have [...]

If you had a stone in your shoe, what would you do?  Most people I know would answer with the obvious solution – take your shoe off and dump the stone out.  Problem solved. 

What I find amazing though is that we may know this intellectually, but there are so many examples in life where [...]

Every feel like punching something (a wall, pillow, etc.) when under stress?  Just the thought of physical release of the stress energy building up inside sounds great.  Well, instead of punching something out, how about using a stress ball to relieve all that tension. This simple ball that usually measures 3 inches in diameter works [...]

There is just a thin line between your performance and stress. Same task or situation can be viewed as stress or opportunity for learning. The following strategies you need to check to improve your learning and performance. ABCDEF  strategies are follows1. AvoidanceIf you feel incompetent you probably seek to escape from it. Avoidance will prevent [...]

The Power Of Responsibility

            These past two weeks have provided some stupendous observations relating to who and what is responsible for the quality of my life. What is the quality of our lives? It’s the sum total of our inner experiences, regardless of circumstances. It’s this internal experience that we call our “inner state of [...]