STRESS

MANAGEMENT
 STRESS AND HEALTH
PHYSICAL HEALTH CONCERNS LINKED TO STRESS

1. IMMUNE SYSTEMS lessened ability to fight off

illness and infections
2. CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEMS high BP and
heart diseases
3. MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEMS tensions,
headaches and backpain
4. GASTRO-INTESTINAL diarrhoea, constipation
 In simple terms, Stress is:

- response to demands of life

- demand supply gap
Situations are not inherently
stressful
They are potentially stressful

IT ALL DEPENDS ON
HOW ONE HANDLES THEM
 Fundamental Qs
Who is responsible for your health?
No one else is bothered about your health.
Is one session enough?
Convert knowledge to action &
the only way to start is to start.
How long do we need to practice?
Lifelong, of course.
 Relaxatio
n

Thinking

Exercise Diet
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
 Follow the principle of

M ore of: Green vegetables, Salad, Fruit, Food supplements (if

SATVIK need be), Whole wheat flour, Porridge, Brown rice,
Sprouts, Amla gooseberry, WATER

Less of: Sugar, Oil (5 tsp/p/d - mix), Salt (1 tsp/p/d) {SOS},

RAJASIK Tea, Coffee, Spicy, Processed, Fast food, Pickles,
Bakery, Dairy products, Outside food

None of: Too hot, Too cold, Alcohol, NV, Cold drinks, Stale
food, Colours-preservatives, Tobacco
TAMSIK
 Issues related to diet
regular timings & no. of times
balanced diet
proper mastication
water intake
two hours gap between food and sleep
attitude while eating
 AVOIDING

EXCESSIVE

INDISCRIMINATE

MEDICATION
Somebody rightly said:

Consult the Doctor, pay his fee so

that he can make his living !

Take the Doctor's prescription to

the
pharmacist, buy the Medicines,
for he
has to live !

Bring the Medicines home, throw

them
REGULAR

EXERCISES
 How many of you know that
exercise is good for health?
It is not what you know that
makes you healthy
It is what you do with what you know that
makes you healthy
If you dont give time to fitness, youll
have to make time for illness

Mohd. Azharuddin
 Relaxation

Hobbies
Breathing
Awareness of Breath
Deep Breathing
Equalised Breathing
Humming Sound
Shavasana
Laughter
 Lifes Little Question

Are some
Are some peoplepeople just just born
born positive
positive
thinkers
thinkers
.. .. .. or
or isis itit their
their CHOICE?
CHOICE?
 Manage Your Self-Talk
If you think you Can, or you think you Cant
YOURE RIGHT! Henry Ford

This is going to
be a useless day! This is going to be
a wonderful day!

THINKING
THINKING
 GOD!!!
GRANT ME THE COURAGE
TO CHANGE THINGS I CAN,
THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT
THE THINGS I CANNOT,
AND THE WISDOM
TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
 To live is not sufficient.
we need also the Joy of Living;

and the Joy of Life requires

Health.

Above all, we need the Health

which embraces the Body, the
Mind
and the Soul."

- Alexis Carrel
 Health is not a commodity that can be
purchased either in a Specialist's clinic,
or in a Pharmacist's shop, or even in a
reputed Hospital.

You can acquire it only by your own

efforts.
Remember,
It is not just sufficient to acquire
Health, it has to be maintained by