HEALTHY CHANGES:
4 Steps Towards Overall Health

Step 1:
Understanding Your "Total Health"

Step 2:
Make the Commitment

Step 3:
Assessment & Goals

Step 4:
ACTION TOOL RESOURCE CENTER

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Mental/Emotional Health: Stress Management




MANAGE YOUR STRESSORS

Here are three different types of stress buffers, or ways to combat stress and its effects on your life:

Support Network
Your “support network” includes friends, co-workers, family and other people who are able to help you handle stressful situations.

Lifestyle Effects
Your lifestyle affects the way you experience stress. It is importance to get enough rest and sleep. Stress levels are greatly affected by exercise and by the chemicals you consume.

Your environment itself may be causing you stress. There is a need to manage the stress from your environment, once you identify the elements that are causing you stress. Make healthy decisions about the environment you live in, and begin to create an environment that is healthy for everyone in it.

Relaxation and Stress Management
If you are accustomed to living with a certain level of stress, it becomes a part of your life; a habit, really. If you choose to live with less stress, it won't magically disappear from your life: you'll have to retrain your thinking, as well as make changes to your lifestyle.

Build relaxation and stress management into your new lifestyle. Use enjoyable and relaxing events to counterbalance the routine unpleasantness of stress that you cannot avoid. Begin to notice the times/events that cause you stress, and employ relaxation techniques immediately to offset their effects.

Read More:
Building Defenses Against Stress: MindTools.com

There is no one solution to handling stress. Everyone is different and you need to choose the stress relievers that work best for you. Here are some suggestions:

The most important thing is to realize that you are not a victim of your circumstances. Rather, use these tools to change your perspective on the events in your life that make you feel stressed and take control of your reactions to them.

Read More:
Reducing Stress: Discovery.com
Taming Stress: Discovery.com

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