Stress, Anxiety & Stress Management - Workshops, Seminars & Private Counselling
Located in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia (NS), Canada: available online anywhere.
STRESS: if we ask a 100 people what stresses them, each person will give a different answer: each one will
need a different solution.
Located in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia (NS), Canada: available online anywhere.
STRESS: if we ask a 100 people what stresses them, each person will give a different answer: each one will
need a different solution.
- Stress is not a personal weakness you have: most people will suffer from stress at some time in their
lives. - It is a serious condition - with potentially serious consequences.
- It is also a very individual experience: everybody is affected by it differently - see Stress and also
Anxiety/Depression. And please check the Stress Management Workshop page.
Managing Stress: Above all, Stress Management is about determining (analyzing) your source, or sources of stress, and then choosing,
or selecting a strategy that will reduce the effects of stress, or remove the source. In order to dos so, it is helpful to first know what stress
is - and what it does.
What is Stress? Although we all talk about stress, few people are truly clear on what stress is really about.
or selecting a strategy that will reduce the effects of stress, or remove the source. In order to dos so, it is helpful to first know what stress
is - and what it does.
What is Stress? Although we all talk about stress, few people are truly clear on what stress is really about.
- Stress is often considered to be something that happens to people: an event such as an injury or a promotion.
- Others think that stress is what happens to our bodies, minds and behaviours in response to an event (e.g, heart pounding,
anxiety, or nail biting). - The official Health and Safety definition of stress is: ’Stress is the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other
types of demand placed upon them. It arises when they worry they can’t cope’. - "Stress" is not just one thing, or a single event, that happens to us.
- Everything we experience "stays with us", and their after-effects stay around for at least a year.
Stress due to Excessive Inhibition:
One cause of Stress is "inner pain", by hanging onto their hurts, and inhibiting themselves, people:
Chronic excessive muscular tension is a system of habitual muscular contractions that keep a person's
spontaneous impulses in.
Managing/combatting Stress:
To truly combat stress, in most cases requires more than adding some new things into life.
One cause of Stress is "inner pain", by hanging onto their hurts, and inhibiting themselves, people:
- learn to avoid feeling excitement by holding their breath or squeezing muscles.
- Tightening against intense pleasure pain;
- emotions: fear, joy, anger, grief, orgasm, laughter.
Chronic excessive muscular tension is a system of habitual muscular contractions that keep a person's
spontaneous impulses in.
- A holding against feeling, emotion, expression.
- Repression, depression.
- Depressing yourself.
- It absorbs energy: hinders spontaneous body function: sensation sensitivity creativity
productivity communication and feeling. - Producing deadness, numbing whole areas of the body; inhibiting breathing, movement, the flow of
energy.
Managing/combatting Stress:
To truly combat stress, in most cases requires more than adding some new things into life.
Attitude: Holding onto stuff brings fixation:
Letting go (and maybe forgiving) brings relaxation:
- Fixation is stunting growth.
- Creating in a person the experience of being blocked off, in a dream like state of half aliveness: halts
the process of actualizing the Human Potential. - Stuck: separate from him/herself and the world.
- Excessive tension, words, sensory limitation all lead to automatic, conditioned behaviour.
- A lack of joy, honesty, humour, love: being bored to death; deliberate, phoney.
Letting go (and maybe forgiving) brings relaxation:
- Read "The Awakening", "Slow Me Down, Lord", and
- the Desiderata.
- (We have relaxation tapes - ocean waves rolling on shore - with bird sounds overlaid). Inquire. We
can help. - Learn to go for walks (more like strolls) - and focus on your surroundings - breathe them in...
Stress / Anxiety Management - Counselling/Coaching
How Does one manage or cope with stress? There are perhaps as many ways to cope with stress, or to
manage or reduce it, as there are people.
Things to do immediately that will help temporarily:
- Physical exercise (activity) is an excellent stress buster.
- Relaxation techniques can help.
- Depending on the "sources" perhaps a spiritual approach may be needed, or
- Increase one's Life Skills, or
- Additional education to improve life's circumstances - such as a workshop/seminar.
However - although many of the most commonly recommended techniques will help deal with the effects
of stress - they do not always solve "the problem". Truly coping with it - and overcoming it - requires
other steps. Some of the steps you can do on your own - others require help and new insights.
This is one source that provides such help. Healing often (usually) involves several dimensions.
Some of the best ways to facilitate healing (coping - overcoming) is through various Relaxation techniques.
These not only counter Stress, but also calm us mentally, physically & emotionally. In our workshop we
teach & demonstrate:
I treat the "whole person" - see human potential (and humanism.)
of stress - they do not always solve "the problem". Truly coping with it - and overcoming it - requires
other steps. Some of the steps you can do on your own - others require help and new insights.
This is one source that provides such help. Healing often (usually) involves several dimensions.
Some of the best ways to facilitate healing (coping - overcoming) is through various Relaxation techniques.
These not only counter Stress, but also calm us mentally, physically & emotionally. In our workshop we
teach & demonstrate:
- Meditation (for more on this, visit Joel and Michelle Levey's site
- Visual Imagery
- Body Massage
- Deep Relaxation
- Autogenics
I treat the "whole person" - see human potential (and humanism.)
Managing Stress, and coping in a better way.
To truly manage and reduce stress, identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our lives,
by itself, is not enough for reducing its harmful effects. Just as there are many sources of stress, there are
many possibilities for its management. However, all require work toward change: changing the source of
stress and/or changing your reaction to it (below is an outline): detailed training in our Workshops.
Here is an outline of some ways to proceed toward managing your stress, or better coping strategies.
To truly manage and reduce stress, identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our lives,
by itself, is not enough for reducing its harmful effects. Just as there are many sources of stress, there are
many possibilities for its management. However, all require work toward change: changing the source of
stress and/or changing your reaction to it (below is an outline): detailed training in our Workshops.
Here is an outline of some ways to proceed toward managing your stress, or better coping strategies.
- Become aware of your stressors and your emotional and physical reactions.
- Recognize what you can change.
- Reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions to stress.
- Learn to moderate your physical reactions to stress.
- Build your physical reserves.
- Maintain your emotional reserves.
| Relaxation for Body & Mind - Stress Buster Relaxation Below Your Mind - we offer a form of Deep Relaxation & Autogenic Training that effectively goes "below your mind" - so deep that it leaves you renewed, refreshed and re-empowered . Inquire about our relaxation tapes; also see Workshops. |
| If you're overwhelmed - burned-out, pressured - We can help! Write or call today with no obligation for more information. See "Contact & Info", email: outreach@dawncoveabbey.org |
If you suffer from Anxiety Disorder, you should discuss this with your doctor.
Klaas Tuinman MA
Dawn Cove Abbey
Short Beach, (Yarmouth County) Nova Scotia, Canada
Klaas Tuinman MA
Dawn Cove Abbey
Short Beach, (Yarmouth County) Nova Scotia, Canada
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