STRESS RELIEF - Managing Stress

Stop stress from ruining YOUR health.

• Do you feel as if you want to pull your hair out?  
• Do you feel as if your body is breaking down?  
• Do you feel aches and pains for no good reason?  
• Do you hold your shoulders up all the time or feel as if your stomach is churning?  
• Do you feel as if you can not breath properly and occasionally have heart palpitation?  

If your all medical results have not come up with an answer, then most probably it is something called Stress!

Stress can be psychological, mental, physical, or emotional. When it sits in your body long enough, it has to come to surface in one way or another, it can slowly creep up and hit you in every which way - until YOU do something about it.

Pay attention to your mind-body! Take time OUT for yourself!

Most women give "time out" to their kids than give themselves, and when they do, they go shopping, over eat or have their nails and hair done.

When I say pay attention to Yourself, I mean Your Inner Feelings. Yes feelings.  If you are always on the go and have no time to do much, then you are definitely running away from what you need to feel. Do not wait until you have to scream, cry or throw something to release stored up tension.

It probably wouldn't surprise you that doctors report between 75% and 90% of their patient appointments are due to the negative effects of stress.

Over $300 billion or $7500 per employee is spent in the U.S. on stress-related compensation claims, employee turnover, medical insurance and expenses, absenteeism, and lowered productivity. This, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. In a Roper global survey,
33% of women and 19% of men workers report being "super-stressed.”

I could go on and on about the costs, both human and monetary, but you already know about stress don't you? You've felt it in your body every time the pressure of your obligations and responsibilities in your job, finances or relationships overwhelms you.

You can't sleep at night. You overeat or choose unhealthy foods. You resort to self-medication with alcohol or meds. Or maybe, you just react with anger and then frustration from being between a rock and a hard place…which then leads to depression, the leading cause of occupational disease for the 21st century. You're overweight, tired, and cranky.

What really is stress? It's an individual's response to a threatening situation. It's the same response that saved our ancestor's lives when they gathered and hunted for their meal.

There's 2 reasons we hold onto this stress:
1. You are unwilling to look at ourselves.
2. You walk around with vague goals and uncompleted tasks.

Sounds pretty simple huh? Yeah, right. I've been there, I know what it's like having worked in a corporate setting, I used to work in a law firm as assistant to two attorneys, then managed another small firm for years under much pressure and duress, to a point that my body started breaking down. I was told I needed operation for my carpal tunnel and knee replacement due to constant use of dicta-phones, not mentioning the emotional pressure of having to come home to find even more problems.

It really comes down to this: Change it, Change You, or Leave it. There are no other options. Stress doesn't go away by wishing on a star. Let me give you some actions you can take right now on a daily basis to counteract the effects of stress:

1. Force yourself to smile, even if you have no reason to. It is nearly impossible to have a negative thought when we are smiling because we have so many positive memories anchored to the physical act of smiling.
2. Breathe consciously. This simply means to take many moments in the day when you breathe slower and deeper letting your belly expand and keeping your shoulders down low. Do this with smiling.
3. Bring pictures to work of the best vacations or other wonderful times you've had. Look at them often.
4. Repeat this word to yourself often…PERSPECTIVE

Your well-being simply depends on this:
What you eat and drink.
How you move.
What you think. 

Fight-or-Flight

Some of the early research on stress (conducted by Walter Cannon in 1932) established the existence of the well-known “fight-or-flight” response. His work showed that when an organism experiences a shock or perceives a threat, it quickly releases hormones that help it to survive.

In humans, as in other animals, these hormones help us to run faster and fight harder. They increase heart rate and blood pressure, delivering more oxygen and blood sugar to power important muscles. They increase sweating in an effort to cool these muscles, and help them stay efficient. They divert blood away from the skin to the core of our bodies, reducing blood loss if we are damaged. As well as this, these hormones focus our attention on the threat, to the exclusion of everything else. All of this significantly improves our ability to survive life-threatening events.

Not only life-threatening events trigger this reaction: We experience it almost any time we come across something unexpected or something that frustrates our goals. When the threat is small, our response is small and we often do not notice it among the many other distractions of a stressful situation.

Unfortunately, this mobilization of the body for survival also has negative consequences. In this state, we are excitable, anxious, jumpy and irritable. This actually reduces our ability to work effectively with other people. With trembling and a pounding heart, we can find it difficult to execute precise, controlled skills. The intensity of our focus on survival interferes with our ability to make fine judgments by drawing information from many sources. We find ourselves more accident-prone and less able to make good decisions.

There are very few situations in modern working life where this response is useful. Most situations benefit from a calm, rational, controlled and socially sensitive approach.

In the short term, we need to keep this fight-or-flight response under control to be effective in our jobs. In the long term we need to keep it under control to avoid problems of poor health and burnout.

Are you now ready to drop all the extra emotional and mental stress?
Do you now want to feel calmer and more relaxed? 

If you even think of the slightest chance of possibility...then, the answer is YES!
YES, I Can. YES  , I have the power within.
and 
YES, I deserve to make a Change and Feel better.

When do you start?! NOW
Now is as good as any other time.

To schedule your personal or professional session with Liza, Call 818-551-1501