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Understanding stress
For the purposes of this web page
lets consider stress to be anything that stimulates you and increases
your level of alertness. Life without stimulus would be incredibly
dull and boring. Life with too much stimulus becomes unpleasant and
tiring, and may ultimately damage your health or well-being. Too much
stress can seriously interfere with your ability to perform
effectively in all areas of life! The art of stress management is
to keep yourself at a level of stimulation that is healthy and
enjoyable. This hypnotic audio program will
help you understand stress, to monitor and control stress so that you can
find and operate at a level that is most comfortable for you.
There are several major
sources of stress:
· Survival
Stress: this may occur in cases where your survival or
health is threatened, where you are put under pressure, or where you
experience some unpleasant or challenging event. Here adrenaline is
released in your body and you experience all the symptoms of your
body preparing for 'fight or flight'.
This is controlled mainly by
release of adrenaline. Adrenaline causes a number of changes that
help you to survive. The main ones are:
1. It mobilises sugars: this
gives your body access to more strength, energy and stamina. This
helps you to fight harder or run faster.
2. It reduces the blood supply to
your skin and short-term inessential organs. This minimises bleeding
if you are hurt, and ensures that energy is not wasted on processes
that are not immediately useful.
3. You may experience nausea or
diarrhoea: this eliminates excess weight that might otherwise slow you down.
You may have experienced these
changes as 'fear'. However where speed and physical strength are
important this adrenaline stress will be helpful and beneficial -
fear can help you to survive or perform better.
In as much as these adrenaline
changes shut down the function of organs that are essential in all
but the short term, prolonged exposure to adrenaline can cause ill-health.
· Internally
generated stress: this can come from anxious worrying
about events beyond your control, from a tense, hurried approach to
life, or from relationship problems caused by your own behaviour. It
can also come from an 'addiction' to and enjoyment of stress. Your
personality can affect the way in which you experience stress. You
may be familiar with the idea of 'type A' personalities who thrive on
stress, and 'type B' personalities who are mellower and more relaxed
in their approach.
Stress can cause the levels of a
neurotransmitter called noradrenalin to rise. This can give a feeling
of confidence and elation that type A's like. The important point
here is getting the right balance and that is where our hypnotic
audio cassette will help you. Order it now
and let stress become a thing of the past.
An unbalanced or unhealthy diet
is also an important factor. Caffeine raises your levels of stress
hormones, makes it more difficult to sleep, and can make you more
irritable. Bursts of sugar from sweets or chocolate can make you feel
more energetic in the short term. However your body reacts to
stabilise abnormally high sugar levels by releasing too much insulin.
This causes a serious energy dip shortly after the sugar high. Too
much salt raises your blood pressure and puts your body under
chemical stress.
· Environmental
and Job stress: here your living or working environment
causes the stress. It may come from noise, crowding, pollution,
untidiness, dirt or other distractions. Alternatively stress can come
from events at work such as a badly organised or unhappy environment.
Does that ring any bells? How about too much or too little work ·
having to perform beyond your experience or perceived abilities
· having to overcome unnecessary obstacles · time pressures
and deadlines · keeping up with new developments · changes
in procedures and policies · lack of relevant information,
support and advice · lack of clear objectives · unclear
expectations of your role from your boss or colleagues ·
responsibility for people, budgets or equipment · career
development stress ·under-promotion, frustration and boredom
with current role · over-promotion beyond abilities · lack
of a clear plan for career development · lack of opportunity
· lack of job security · Stress from your organisation or
your clients · pressures from your boss or from above in your
organisation · interference in your work · demands from
clients · disruptions to work plans · the telephone! This
list just goes on and on! No wonder we all get stressed!!
· Fatigue
and overwork: here stress builds up over a long period.
This can occur where you try to achieve too much in too little time,
or where you are not using effective time management strategies.
Here you can get into a vicious
circle of stress, which causes you to hurry jobs and do them badly.
This under-performance causes feelings of frustration and failure,
which causes more stress, which causes more hurry and less success,
and so on. Stress-creating behaviour can compound this, as can an
inability to relax at home or on holiday. If you do not manage long
term stress effectively, it can lead to long term fatigue, failure
and one of the forms of physical or mental ill-health.
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