Work Place Stress

Daily Stress Care is very important part of any Health
Care Plan. It is the little things that build up over
time that can finally cause the larger Health problems
leading to poor Health. It just gets to be too much
and then we collapse.

In an office situation you may need to work with all
types of people.Some times there is some one who
is part of your work enviroment that causes you
Stress on a daily basis.

Don’t add to your Stress by keeping feelings bottled
up inside you. It’s not easy to always let people know
that things they say and do are annoying to you. Try
these things to help relieve the Stress.

Keeping control of your temper, explain the way you
feel when a person does a certain annoying thing.
By giving your view, the person may see his actions in
a different way and have more understanding of
why you are upset.

If you can’t explain the problem to the person, talk
about it with a neutral friend or your pet. By
expressing your emotions out loud you have a chance
to hear the problem in a different way. Don’t be
surprised by the amount of emotions you hear when
talking about the problem.

Be aware that your opinion may not change another
person’s behavior, but just talking about something
can help ease some of the Stress you feel. You may
be able to learn to react in a better way to the
annoying problem and decrease your Stress.

By using Daily Stress Care you can eliminate Stress
build up which leads to Health problems later.

What Is Stress?

STRESS is a Primitive Reaction to a life threatening
situation, which the cavemen used to escape from
wild animals and other physical Life Threating events.

Now days, we no longer face Life Threatening attacks,
our threats come from belligerent people, prolonged
work periods to meet deadlines, worries about things
we can not control and other modern STRESSES. But
we still carry our Primitive STRESS Systems that react
in the same way to all of our modern day STRESSES.

The caveman was able to turn the system off after
the danger was over. Our modern society keeps
bombarding us daily, so we are unable to rest after
each STRESS event. The results, our system
continues to receive STRESS HORMONES without
any with relief or rest time to turn off the process.

Since this is an AUTOMATIC reaction that happens
deep within the brain, many times we are not even
aware that it has happened. We are so busy and
distracted by things going on around us that we don’t
observe what is going on inside us.

The affects of all the chemicals finally are noticed
when our HEALTH is effected. We get sick for no
apparent reason, have heart problems, gain weight,
or just seem to be too tired to do anything. Then
we are forced to slow down and get
the rest needed.

We need a little STRESS in our life to give us the
energy to do things and to keep us motivated.
The idea of HEALTH CARE is to provide a rest from
all the STRESS so we don’t get overstressed and
cause Health problems later. Play it smart leave
work for a day and give your mind and body a rest.

In today’s work environment everything is fast paced.
You not only are suppose to work faster, but do more
and work longer. Humans aren’t built for this type of
constant fast pace. This type of work pace drains
you of energy and leaves you
less productive.

At first the adrenaline rush is great; you are full of
energy and loads of ideas. Then in a few hours you
start to feel tire, ideas are less clear in your mind
and you can’t think clearly. You start to make
simple mistakes.

What you need to do is to slow down and take a
break. Give your subconscious mind time to process
all the information with which it has been bombarded.
A short break will clear your mind so you can think
clearly again.

Here are three ways to slow down, refresh your mind
and DECREASE WORKPLACE STRESS.

1. Your mind and body are connected. When the mind
is over whelmed, the body feels the tension. This
causes the blood circulation to slow down. Which in
turn decrease the amount of oxygen going to the
brain, which makes your thinking cloudy. Get up and
move around, exercise the large muscles of the legs
and arms to pump the oxygen back into the brain.

2.Give your mind a rest. Let all the analyzing,
problem solving and planning be absorbed by the
subconscious. Do something easy and simple to
occupy your conscious mind without taxing the
subconscious mind.

3.Get away from your desk; go to the restroom and
take a few sips of water from the water fountain.
Change of scenery will help to relax your mind and
keep your from getting drawn back to your work.

This also means to leave your desk for lunch time.

STRESS MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE should
be a part of everyone’s HEALTH CARE PLAN. It is
your work habits that lead to STRESS. By taking
short breaks every two hours, your work will be more
productive, your thinking will remain clear and the
STRESS to your system will decrease through
out the day.