Stress Management For Life Chapter 1 Stress in Today’s World

Stress in Today’s World Best of Times opportunities freedom of choice vast array of information Worst of Times feeling overwhelmed stress information overload Control Your Own Destiny proper skills right information

Stress: What Is It? “A scientific concept which is too well known and too little understood.” Hans Selye a demand made on the adaptive capacities of the mind and body Three Important Aspects of Stress can be a positive or negative factor reaction rather than the actual event determines outcome body is strong and healthy  positive outcome or lack ability to handle demands  negative outcome

Relationship Between Stress, Health and Performance too little stress  boredom, lethargy too much stress  physical and emotional breakdown proper balance  healthy, productive life

Yerkes-Dodson Principle to a certain point, stress is healthy, useful and beneficial when stress exceeds ability to cope diminished performance, inefficiency and/or health problems may result

Terminology of Stress stressor – any event perceived as a threat that causes adaptation or the initiation of a stress response eustress – positive, desirable stress that motivates and inspires distress – negative effects of stress that drains energy acute stress – short term, sudden, intense, disappears quickly episodic acute stress – repeated bouts of acute stress, extended over arousal chronic stress – long term stress, unrelenting demands and pressures, last an interminable time

Holistic Health “Modern man is sick because he is not whole” Carl Gustav Jung Health is more than the absence of disease and is more than just physical. Holistic health encompasses physical, intellectual, spiritual, social and emotional dimensions. The holistically healthy person is complete and balanced.

Dimensions Of Health

Holistic Health: Putting It All Together

Sources of Stress time management personal expectations family employment STRESS school information overload living arrangements choices relationships environment physical health daily hassles