8 Keys to Stress Management (8 Keys to Mental Health)
Elizabeth Anne Scott
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0393708098
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Easy strategies for dealing with the near-universal experience of stress.
Stress has become a near-universal experience as well as a rising public health concern.
According to many measures, people today are dealing with stressors that are greater in number and severity than in the past several decades, and this stress is taking a toll on our collective wellness.
Bringing considerable content from her popular stress management Web site on About.com, Elizabeth Scott distills information about stress management into central ideas and strategies for consumers. These include learning to reduce the stress response and stressors, practicing long-term resilience habits, and putting positive psychology research into action. These various perspectives provide a multilayered framework for understanding stress and approaching stress management that is inspirational, action-oriented, and backed by foundational and recent knowledge in the field.
The quick-to-read “8 keys” format of the book can be utilized on many levels so that busy readers can quickly find relief from stress.
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out. Start slowly, reward yourself for small milestones, and keep trying. If you find yourself skipping workouts, don’t quit—you may need to adjust your plan, but you can find a way to make exercise work in your life. It can and should be enjoyable! Sleep Sleep is more vital to our wellness and overall functioning than we might realize. It is also closely linked with our stress levels. Safeguarding your sleep is important for many reasons. Effects of Missed Sleep We may not notice the effects
not give up. Remember from the Introduction that this is part of the process of change (see Stage 5 of the Transtheoretical Model of Change). In fact, you can actually use the experience of backsliding to propel yourself forward toward your goals. Again, the last chapter in this book, “Creating an Action Plan,” is focused primarily on the process of implementing these changes and can help you to put together a complete plan, but this is an important tip that can go a long way in helping you to
than someone who has found that resolving conflict tends to lead to a healthier relationship in the future. A belief that conflict leads to rejection may translate into habitual thought patterns of anger, avoidance, or at least negative reactions when conflict threatens to arise—and all these can bring stress. Seeking out conflict is not necessarily a good idea in many situations, but accepting and working through conflict in a respectful way can be beneficial for relationships, and those who
ways to practice gratitude journaling, there is one method that researchers prefer: 1. At the end of each day, choose three things for which you are grateful. 2. Write about each one in detail, focusing on what you appreciate the most. 3. Be sure that they are things that happened that day and that you write about them at the end of the day. For some reason, this formula has been shown to bring the greatest benefit. Additional Types of Journaling While the three forms of journaling above
