Wrap Up

Stress Management Wrap UpWhat do you want out of life?Are you achieving this? What is stress?Why is it important to manage stress?What is margin? Do you have it?

Common Mistakes in Managing StressExpecting someone else to reduce your stressDeciding not to changeActing like a victimTrying to play anew game by the old rulesTrying to control the uncontrollableFailing to abandon the expendablePicking the wrong battlesPsychologically unplugging from your job or

family

Maladaptive Coping TechniquesAlcohol abuseSmokingDrugsOver eatingEscapism (T.V.)Spending spreesBlaming others

Physical and verbal abuse

ComplainingOver workingDenialMagnification

“Bring the Future Into the Present”If we live responsibly in the present we will

influence the future. The same holds true if we live irresponsibly.

There is a connection between the ‘present’ and the ‘future’ and it is called choices. Prepare for your future today in how you live.

Dr. Jerry Sittser

Stress Model Intervention

Choices & directionIdentify stressors &

specificsSimplifyBalancePevey bucketMoney managementTime managementDiet & nutrition

Noise reductionAssertivenessCommunication skillsConflict resolutionSocial support

networkingBehavior modificationRelational maintenanceEnvironmental planningFamily planning

Life Situations and How You Choose to Live

Perception Intervention

Selective awarenessPerspectiveLocus of controlAttitudeGratitudeContentmentForgiveness

HumorRe-labelSelf-talkThought stoppingSuccess analysisSand analogy

How You Choose to Think

Anonymous

Emotional Intervention

MeditationAutogenicsProgressive relaxationBiofeedbackPrayer

Down Time & Pauses in the ‘Pace’ of Life

Physiological Intervention

Physical exercise

ConsequencesBy intervening a little at each level of the

stress model, you can reduce the harmful effects of stress, thereby changing the outcomes from distress to eustress.

Queen Elizabeth, 1603on her dying bed

John Rockefeller

Asian Proverb

TimingSuccessful living is related to proper timing.

There is a time and a place for everything, and people who seem to be ‘successful’ understand when that is.