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“Mom, I’m, too sick to go to school today.” We joke about feigning illness to avoid school, but the illness is not always feigned. Stressors that students face each day can be just as detrimental as those faced by their parents. Yet stress management for students is not as readily available as is stress management for adults.

Charts purporting to show “who is affected by stress” list occupations. On a scale of 1 to 10, police officers rate 7.7 and teachers rate 6.2 – but students are not rated. “Student” is not considered an occupation. Online searchers type in a phrase such as “teachersjob + stress reduction” and get a fair response. Type in “stress management for students”, and the response is far Continue Reading

Since 1997, Herbert Benson, of the Harvard Medical School, has reaffirmed that “Sixty to ninety percent of [doctor-patient] visits are prompted by conditions related to stress.” Especially in today’s world, stress management is truly vital to emotional, relational, and overall physical health. As a psychologist, I understand that most tend to consider meditative exercises as too difficult to learn; and too time consuming to practice.

Although activities like watching television and listening to music can be relaxing, they do not elicit the relaxation response that is most beneficial for managing stress. In order to de-stress, people need to do something that sounds contradictory, namely engage in activity that is not passive. The Surgeon General recommends Continue Reading

Getting stressed is a perfectly normal reaction if you have too many things coming at you at the same time. But always getting frazzled and cracking under pressure isn’t the way to handle it. You need to apply some stress management tips to toughen yourself up in the face of pressure and to keep yourself from breaking down.

One of the biggest causes of stress is the workplace. From worrying about job security, dealing with heavy workload, and going through the daily commute, your job carries with it a lot of pressure.

Studies have shown that stress can have a severe negative impact on your health and well-being. Heart problems are just one of the physical manifestations of the tension you feel. If you bring your stress home as well, it can also severely impact your Continue Reading

Stress has become a part and parcel of everyone’s life today, and we often find ourselves stretching beyond our means to meet the demands on our time. The balancing act between the professional and personal world can be taxing to most of us, and in a lot of cases this constant balancing has led people to serious health problems. Burn-outs, nervous breakdowns, cardiac problems are all offshoots of this ever present stress. And at the moment it feels like that stress has been your partner for the longest time.

Why are we all so stressed? Why have the percentages of health problems related to stress shot up so drastically in the recent years? And more importantly, what can we do to help ourselves? Have you ever given hypnotherapy for stress management a thought? Does it seem Continue Reading

A comprehensive approach to stress management is to make sure you deal with each part of stress. There are three major stresses in your life : physical, nutritional, and emotional. To be complete, each of these components of stress need to be understood and acted upon.

Physical and structural stress

To reduce stress physically you have to do the most efficient exercise

with the least risk of pain, injury, and death. Exercise must improve your strength, your endurance, your body fat, and bone density. It must improve your strength and longevity.

Physically, you must::

Know the difference between aerobic, anaerobic exercises and fit these both into your exercise program.

Know how is health lifestyle and exercise related and take the steps to Continue Reading