05-Stress Management Techniques

Reduce Stress with These Tips
Stress. We think of it as bad. Stress is terrible. We “suffer” from stress. We must find a way to reduce stress.
Actually, not all stress is bad. The response that we call stress - also called the fight-or-flight response - is automatic and immediate when we sense that we are threatened by something or someone.
Physically, [...]

Stress Management at the Root
As we have written repeatedly on this blog, stress is often misunderstood. Many people think stress is the unusual demands made on you. They believe stress management is management of unusual demands.
* A parent may believe that family stress management consists of someone making the children perfect.
* An employee may think that work stress management [...]

Stress Management Suggestions
If you have read many of the articles on this blog, you will understand that stress is not the demands made on you, but your response to those demands. You will know that there is beneficial eustress and detrimental distress.

In this article, we give five stress management suggestions - ideas for practical stress management.
1. Stress [...]

Stress Management and Stressors
You hear a lot about stress management in this new millennium. It seems as though, ever since the year 2000 broke across the globe, there has been an increasing demand for someone to find a magic wand that would produce total stress management.
Stress management and stressors go together, however, and those who discuss one without [...]

Stress Management Activity - Journaling
Those who are best at stress management still wish they could gain total mastery over stress. Those who are very weak at stress management wish for an activity, preferably the waving of a magic wand, that would remove stress from their lives once and for all.
A stress management activity that can help both is the [...]

Tips for Stress Management
In previous blogs, we discussed the fact that stress is not the extra demands made on you, but your response to those demands. We also discussed the differences between beneficial “eu-stress” and detrimental “dis-tress”. Both are stress, but they have different effects on our bodies.
In this article, we give 7 stress management tips - brief [...]

Different Stress Management Techniques for Different Stressors
Stress management is a much-discussed topic in our fast-moving society. We find stress management committees in the workplace. Workers are scheduled into stress management classes.
Different stress management techniques may be needed for different situations, however. Different stressors cause different responses in us. Different stress management techniques may also be needed because people respond differently.
Different stress [...]

How Stretching Relieves Stress
How stretching relieves stress in everyday life is a topic that should be discussed often. It is a practice that should be employed often, too.
Animals know that stretching relieves stress. They may not know why, but they know that it does, and they use it for that purpose. Humans also know that stretching is a [...]

Introverts: Stress Management Techniques
Most stress management programs demands techniques such as role playing, group discussions, and other behavior that is difficult for introverts. The very stress management that is to help reduce stress creates demands on the introvert that elicit stress. Wanting to avoid the added stress, introverts may create excuses to absent themselves from such stress management [...]

Comprehensive Stress Management - a Big Task
Jerrod S. Greenberg, Professor in the Department of Public and Community Health at the University of Maryland, opens his book, “Comprehensive Stress Management” with a delightful picture of a spring day. He speaks of what he’d love to have been doing on that beautiful day, and then startles the reader with the sudden manifestation of [...]

Simple Tips for Stress Management
Stress is commonly considered a negative part of life. It happens to all of us. It’s an “occupational hazard” for some. It seems inevitable, and it is harmful to both physical and mental health. It is, according to popular use of the term, an enormous, inescapable burden. We need stress management training to cope.
This is [...]

Guided Stress Management: What a Class Offers
You’re sitting in your office, tending to your normal workload, when your employer enters. Frowning, she asks why you have not finished the project she gave you yesterday. You begin to explain, but you aren’t quick enough to stop a flood of stress throughout your body. You may unconsciously manage that stress even though you [...]

How to Begin to Manage Stress - Stress 101
Many people struggle through every day, trying to manage the stress that all but overwhelms them. They know what stress is. They know what it does to their lives, but they don’t know how to begin to manage stress. They need stress management techniques.
Some say that stress is the leading cause of death among humans [...]

KISSMT - Keep It Simple Stress Management Techniques
You may have heard that stress management is difficult - that stress is nearly impossible to control.
Managing stress is not a matter of flicking a switch and forgetting it, but neither is it impossible. You need just two keys:
1. One key is to weave stress management techniques into life just as you would weave in [...]