Stress Diary Eliminating Stress from Your Environment Health and Nutrition Reducing Chemical and Medical Stress

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Finding Your Optimum Stress Levels

Anticipating Stress Managing Stress by Preparing For It

Imagery Mental Adjustment of Stress Levels

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Slowing Down Out of Work

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Improving Attitudes Reducing Stress You Cause for Yourself

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STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

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Thought Awareness, Rational Thinking & Positive Thinking Controlling Internally-Generated Stress

Time Management Reducing Stress by Improving Your Effectiveness and Efficiency

Self-Hypnosis and AutosuggestionPowerful Relaxation Techniques

Physical Stress Reduction:

PMR and Deep BreathingControlling muscular tension and adrenaline

Meditation Taking Exercise Improving Health and Reducing Tiredness Relaxation by sustaining focused attention on one thing

Anticipating Stress Managing Stress by Preparing For It

Key points: By anticipating stressful situations you can prepare for them. This may involve rehearsals, plans to counter stressful contingencies, or avoidance of an unpleasant situation altogether. Stress may also be caused by the size of an event. If this is the case, put it in its proper context within your goals. Where stress arises from uncertainty, ask for information you need.

Imagery Mental Adjustment of Stress Levels

Key points: With imagery you substitute actual experience with scenes from your imagination. Your body reacts to these imagined scenes almost as if they were real. To relax with imagery, imagine a warm, comfortable, safe and pleasant place, and enjoy it in your imagination. Imagery can be shown to work by using machines that measure body stress. By imagining pleasant scenes and unpleasant scenes, you can alter see your body stress change.

Meditation Relaxation by sustaining focused attention on one thing

Key points: Meditation is a useful relaxation technique. It gives you a period of peace and time in which you can let your body relax, and clear your mind of stressful thoughts. You do this by concentrating on one thing for a long period of time, possibly 20 - 30 minutes. This could be your breathing, an object, a sound, or an imagined scene.

Taking Exercise Improving Health and Reducing Tiredness

Key points: Exercise is an important stress management technique. It helps you to eliminate physical stresses of obesity, strain on your body and lack of stamina. It also relaxes tense muscles, and helps you to sleep well. In addition to this it can improve blood flow to your brain. This helps to bring more nutrients to it while you are thinking, and improves the efficiency of elimination of the toxic waste-products of thinking.

Physical Stress Reduction: PMR and Deep BreathingControlling muscular tension and adrenaline
Key points: PMR and deep breathing are purely physical techniques for relaxing tense muscles and calming down under stress. They can be used in conjunction with mental techniques such as imagery and meditation.

Time Management Reducing Stress byImproving Your Effectiveness and Efficiency

Key points: Time Management is an essential set of skills that help you to take control of your life, and work efficiently and effectively. By working effectively you can have confidence in the security of your job and your future, and can still have time to do what you enjoy in your own time. This helps to significantly reduce long-term stress.

Improving Attitudes Reducing Stress You Cause for Yourself

Key points: If you experience a lot of stress from other people, or find that you are out of control in your life, then your attitude may be at fault. You can eliminate a great deal of stress by being positive, by keeping things in perspective, by setting personal goals and by welcoming change.

Slowing Down Out of Work

Key points: Taking part in a noncompetitive sport of hobby can be an excellent way of relaxing after a stressful day.

Health and Nutrition Reducing Chemical and Medical Stress

Key points: Some of the stress you experience may be caused by the chemicals you consume. You can eliminate a great deal of this stress by reducing the amount of coffee you drink, stopping smoking and eating the right amount of a well balanced diet