| If you don't handle stress it can make you | | | | With the stressors identified and graded, you |
| feel tired, drained and depressed - it can | | | | now can create a system to manage the stress. |
| also kill you. Here are some simple stress | | | | |
| management tips to help you combat stress and | | | | Grade 1 Stressors and Actions Required |
| preserve your health. | | | | |
| | | | For all grade 1 stressors, you must find a |
| Stress management is the active and constant | | | | way to either eliminate or extricate yourself |
| correction to your body and mind to the | | | | from the stressor source. |
| forces of stress and pressure. | | | | |
| | | | If the grade 1 stressor is your boss, you may |
| The worst form of stress is the daily, | | | | need a new job. |
| repetitive and constant stress from any | | | | |
| source. | | | | If it's a mother-in-law interfering in your |
| | | | happy home life, you may need affirmative |
| It makes your body constantly react, release | | | | action. |
| hormones and enzymes into your circulatory | | | | |
| system, and in the end, destroys your immune | | | | Take the list of grade 1 stressors, and put a |
| system altogether. | | | | workable solution next to each item. |
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| Learn to manage stress now, and you can avoid | | | | Re-read the list, and consider the |
| that heart attack and stroke, just waiting to | | | | alternative of not acting on removal of the |
| happen. | | | | stressor. |
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| How Does Someone Know They are Stressed | | | | If you get a heart attack or stroke, your |
| | | | life may be over. Acting now can save your |
| Many people do not know they are suffering | | | | life. |
| from stress and the effects of stress. | | | | |
| | | | Grade 2 to 5 Stressors |
| A few simple self-tests, and you can see if | | | | |
| you are both stressed and suffering from | | | | For the lesser graded stressors, do exactly |
| stress. During any time of the day, do a body | | | | as you have done for the grade 1 stressors, |
| survey. | | | | but you do nothave to be so critical as you |
| | | | were for the very negative stressors. |
| Are you hands clenched? Do you have "nervous | | | | |
| leg" (leg moving up and down with the ball of | | | | If a grade 2 stressor happens to be a |
| the foot as a pivot)? Is your face tense? | | | | neighbor's annoying cat, you might counter |
| | | | the stress by listening to music you enjoy |
| Is there some pains in your shoulders or arms | | | | (and not removing the cat, which you might |
| that should not be there? Test you pulse? Is | | | | find impossible to do anyway). |
| it over 80 beats per minute when you are at | | | | |
| rest? | | | | Be less critical, but nevertheless, even in |
| | | | grade 5 stressors, find a workable solution. |
| Do you have high blood pressure? If any of | | | | |
| these answers are a yes, you can be sure you | | | | Stress First Aid |
| are being stressed and suffering from stress. | | | | |
| | | | If you find your hands clinched, or your face |
| Identify the Stressors | | | | tensioned, take one minute "time out". Sit |
| | | | quietly and relax the tensed and stress |
| It is very crucial, both for your health, and | | | | reacted areas. |
| well-being, to be able to identify the | | | | |
| stressors in your life. It is not really | | | | Consciously relax the part of you that is |
| difficult. Start now. | | | | stressed. |
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| Make of list of all those people, situations, | | | | This minute is for you. If you can't find a |
| and factors that cause you stress. | | | | quiet place to go, use the bathroom. |
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| Make the list first in any order. | | | | Put some cold water on your face and wrists. |
| | | | Sit for a moment till you are calm. Do this |
| Then when you finish all the items that are | | | | any time you see yourself stress and tense. |
| stressors, you must grade them form 1 to 5, 1 | | | | |
| being the worst, and 5 the least. | | | | It could save your life. |
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