STRESS MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES |
Does your Stress Cause you to
- Feel wound up
- Feel as tight as a drum
- Feel like you are “always behind on your activities”
- irritability
- feel hearth palpitations, tightness in the chest, sweating.
- Crave more foods high in fat lately
- Have difficulty with falling asleep at night
- Wake up feeling nervous in the mornings
Effective Stress Management Practices
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) by Kabat-Zinn (1990). This practice helps individuals with stress, chronic pain and illness (Majid, Seghatoleslam, Homan, Akhvast and Habil, 2012)
- The principal behind the practice is to teach you to use your breathing as a mechanism to sooth yourself and reduce your stress hormones.
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Studies show that mindfulness has long-term effects on the brain. It can protects against cortical thinning, so that you are cognitively more alert and robust.
- Becoming a witness of yourself challenges you to change your relationship with your thoughts and emotions
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Mindfulness increases ability to experience negative events with less physical reactivity.
Does your Stress Cause you to
- Feel wound up
- Feel as tight as a drum
- Feel like you are “always behind on your activities”
- irritability
- feel hearth palpitations, tightness in the chest, sweating.
- Crave more foods high in fat lately
- Have difficulty with falling asleep at night
- Wake up feeling nervous in the mornings
Effective Stress Management Practices
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) by Kabat-Zinn (1990). This practice helps individuals with stress, chronic pain and illness (Majid, Seghatoleslam, Homan, Akhvast and Habil, 2012)
- The principal behind the practice is to teach you to use your breathing as a mechanism to sooth yourself and reduce your stress hormones.
-
Studies show that mindfulness has long-term effects on the brain. It can protects against cortical thinning, so that you are cognitively more alert and robust.
- Becoming a witness of yourself challenges you to change your relationship with your thoughts and emotions
-
Mindfulness increases ability to experience negative events with less physical reactivity.