Stress Management

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Stress is one of the biggest problems that professional people need to handle before other problems. Stress will be in different forms. You will encounter stress because of a challenge or any high demanding activity. With stress, you will feel frustrated, angry, nervous, and weaken. However, stress will be affecting you in two different ways. You will be affected positively and negatively at the same time. It will affect you positively the time it will help you to avoid danger or meet a deadline. Besides, it will affect you negatively the time it will result in serious health problems, such as health problems like depression, anxiety, and personality disorders. Also, you might get a cardiovascular disease like heart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, heart attacks, and strokes.

Major causes of stress

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Stress management strategies

 

There are four main strategies for managing stress, that are avoided, alter, accept, and adapt.

Avoiding Strategy: Stresses are real and we are real either; there are many things that you can do to avoid a lot of stress. They are not difficult, just plan ahead of time, rearrange your surroundings, and stay focused.  To avoid stress, take control of your surroundings, by leaving early for work or taking longer to avoid the stress of traffic insane, use the less-traveled route. Pack your lunch to avoid the stress of waiting in the line of the restaurant. Also, avoid people who bother you, by putting some distance between you and them and sitting far from them. Learn to say no and draw up your to-do list so that you make sure that you are doing everything which is planned.

Altering Strategy: Having stress does not allow you to give up and stay with it for longer. You may need to breathe and change your situation for the better. While changing the situation, respectfully ask others to change their behavior toward you. For instance, you might be getting stress because of people who are making jokes over you, then telling them to stop might allow you to be fine. Also, communicating your feeling will allow you to release stress. In simple words say, I feel frustrated if you do this or that to me, are their things that we can do to balance things out? Besides, manage time better and state limits in advance to ensure that all things that you are doing are on plan and have to end.

Accepting Strategy: In some cases, you will see that you don't have anything to do on your stress, accept, and go on. While accepting, talk with someone to release stress. You may need to schedule a meeting with your advisor, counselor, and you may feel better after talking it out. Also, forgiving will help you to free yourself from burning more negative energy. Forgiving is not easy, but it is possible. Forgive and go over. Besides, practice some positive self-talk and learn from your mistakes to ensure that you won't get stress again.

Adapting Strategy: Sometimes we face a difficult situation and we get stress thinking that we can't pass through it. This method of adapting will help someone to move through in every possible situation. In adapting, you will only be asked to change your standards and expectations. also, you will need to practice thought-stopping and practice reframing the issue. You will need to look at your situation from a new viewpoint. Create a feeling that you can handle everything and always look at the big picture.

You will choose the strategy based on your situation. Each strategy is best based on the situation, choose carefully and wisely, and live your professional life free from any form of the stress.

 

 

 

Reference List

Mayo Clinic. (February 14, 2020). Stress Management. Retrieved from https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/stress-relief/art-20044476