1. 1. STRESS How It Effects You and What You Can Do About It
2. 2. Stress is a part of life. With good stress, or eustress, there is an increase in productivity. Once your coping skills are exceeded by your lifes demands, you are experiencing negative stress, or distress.
3. 3. What Stress Does to Your Body The human body is well adapted to deal with acute distress. It is intense and flares quickly but the body recovers quickly as well. Chronic distress keeps the body in fight or flight mode for a long time and it can have sever negative consequences for your health. If you remain exposed to stress for an extended period of time, you can grow over twice as vulnerable to some serious health problems.
4. 4. Your lifestyle and choices can affect your stress level, preventing your body from recovering from stress. Get 7-8 hours of sleep. Staying healthy is your best defense against stress. Exercise. Even moderate exercise can reduce stress.
5. 5. Avoid situations that cause stress. By prioritizing tasks and activities, control procrastination, and manage commitments, you decide what is most important to you and what you have the time to accomplish without causing yourself undue stress. This can make your life easier, less stressful, and more meaningful.
6. 6. A few ways to help you deal with stress. Let your feelings out by talking, laughing, crying, writing and expressing your anger when you need to. Focus on the present. Meditation and guided imagery are two ways to focus and relax your mind and stay grounded in the present. Do something you enjoy. Making time to do something you enjoy can help you relax. It might also help increase your productivity in other areas of your life.
7. 7. Stress can make you focus on only the bad in a situation. That's called negative thinking. It can make you feel afraid, insecure, depressed, or anxious and can trigger your body's stress response. Dealing with these negative thoughts and the way you see things can help reduce stress.
8. 8. Having support in your life has a big impact on how you experience stress and can help you stay healthy. Having the love, trust, and advice of others is very important. Support can also be something more concrete, like time or money. If you're feeling stressed, look for support from: Family and Friends Coworkers Professional Counselor Someone you know from church or a Clergy member Employee assistance programs at work Stress Management classes or Support groups
9. 9. Relax, Its good for your health.
10. 10. Credits A special thanks to my sources My Health, An Outcomes Approach; by Rebecca J. Donatelle (2013-Pearson) http://www.stress.org/what-is-stress/ http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/features/what-stress-does- to-body http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/stress-management- relieving-stress http://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/stress-management- avoiding-unnecessary-stress And for the pictures: http://thespiritscience.net/2014/12/02/3-secrets-to-handle-stress/ http://neatoday.org/2012/09/07/how-do-educators-handle-work-related-stress/ http://pixabay.com