Work Place Stress

Part of a good Stress Management Plan simply
involves identifying the areas of Stress in an
individual’s life.

A first step in dealing with Stress is to take an
objective look at circumstances and situations
that may seem unmanageable.

Then formulate a plan to reduce the level of
Stress produced by each situation.

Often situations which create a large amount
of Stress can be eliminated completely. For
those situations which cannot be entirely
eliminated, a plan to better manage the
situation, is often helpful in relieving the
overall amount of Stress the person
is feeling.

One of the most common sources of Stress
is the habit of not setting Healthy Limits on
the amount of commitments they enter into,
such as the person who can’t say “no” to
any request made.

Overextending oneself creates undue Stress,
and generally leads to exhaustion, burn out,
and inevitably, “failure” to fulfill many of ones
obligations.

Underlying causes of the behavior should be
addressed, if an individual has a difficult time
making necessary changes in their routine, or
setting Healthy Limits for themselves.

Many times an individual has a deep fear of
failure, or a desperate need to “live up” to
unrealistic limits. Health problems or other
life events finally force them to set limits
on their time.

What limits can be set comfortably? What
obligations and commitments can be let go?
Simple questions such as these can go a long
way toward helping identify the sources of
Stress, and creating a plan to reduce the
affects of Stress that stresses a person’s life
and improve their Health.

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 world, everything is fast pace. You go to
work and the pressure is to perform. The more you
do, the more is expected of you. You are on the go
form the time you step into the workplace until the
job is complete. You put your personal life on hold.
Sure you care about your family and love ones, but
work is more important.

You are always on the go. There just isn’t enough
time to sit down and relax. So what happens when
you finally end your work day and go home?

You eat and sit down in front of the TV before you
go to sleep. You continue the constant barrage of
noise. You never take time to be still. Stress needs
all the noise and activity.

Stress can’t exist in stillness.

How do you stop the Stress? By taking a time out
to be calm and still. Give your mind a mental time
out. When the mind slows down, the body slows
down; tense muscles will relax, the headache will
fade away, stillness is relaxing.

The problem is many people don’t know how to relax.
The fast pace life has conditioned them into thinking
that constant Stress is a normal way of life. So you
go through life with Stress.

Stress that breaks down your immune system,
causes muscle aches and headaches, taking a
great toll on your Health.

You need to learn how to be calm and enjoy the
stillness, to help rid yourself of the
unhealthy Stress.