HOW TO MANAGE STRESS EFFECTIVELY:
Stress is a normal part of life. How you deal with it will
depend on your attitude. You may become overwhelmed by things that other people
deal with easily. Learning to keep a balance among work, family and leisure is
difficult and needs skillful management of your time. Planning helps, and so
does staying calm.
Activity –
Take a Five Minute Vacation:
Each day, set aside five minutes for a mental health break.
Close your office door or go into another room, and day-dream about a place,
persons or idea, or think about nothing at all! You will feel like you have been on a mini-vacation.
Cope with changes
that affect you:
It would be nice to “live happily ever after”, but real life
keeps “throwing monkey-wrenches” at us. Coping with these unexpected (and often
unwanted) changes can be stressful. Children have accidents, parents get ill,
jobs disappear – we need to be flexible and learn way to cope.
Activity – find
strength in numbers:
Search out a support group that deals with the issues you
are facing. By team up with people who share your problems, you may find a
fresh solution. Try starting a group of your own by using the public service
announcements in your local newspaper, radio station or TV station.
Deal with your emotions:
We are all challenged to find safe and constructive way to
express and share our feelings of anger, sadness, joys and fear. Your ways of
experiencing and expressing emotions are unique because you are unique.
Activity – identify
and deal with your moods:
Find out what makes you happy, sad, joyful or angry. What
calms you down? Learn ways to deal with your moods. Share joyful news with a
friend; “cry on a should” when you fell blue. Physical exercise can help you
deal the your anger. Keep a stack of your favorite funny cartoons or a
collection of humorous stories of video tapes for times when you fell the need
to laugh.
Have a spirituality to call your own:
Learn to be a peace with yourself. Get to know you are: what
makes you really happy, what you are really passionate about. Learn to balance
what you are able to change about yourself with what you cannot change. Get to
know and trust your inner self.
Activity – build your Own “YOU”:
Set aside quite, quality time to be totally alone. Do a
breathing exercise-try counting your breaths from one to four, then start at
one again. Or do something you love to do, like dancing, going to baseball
game, building a bird house, whatever work for you.
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