The problem with stress is that it masks as diligence or self-righteousness – so we miss its warning signals as people fail to spot signs before a serial killer’s strike.
Stress kills …
1. Economic prosperity. According to the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, Harvard researchers used data from dozens of previous studies to show how stress is up, and is causing depression, sickness and lost revenue for alarming numbers of workers and organizations.
2. Health and relationships. New research by John M. Ruiz at Washington State University shows how a partner’s personality may be hazardous to your health and can be a major challenge to your recovery when you get sick. Who'd have guessed?
3. People’s ability to see good in their day, or to spread well-being to others. We each get hit with about 22 stressors on an ordinary day. Some people go after their stressors with serotonin responses. Others find these stressors can stir up their cortisol hormones in ways that leave them angry, stressed or anxious. Do you have any strategies that work well when stressors strike at work?
4. Your ability to sleep well, and in fact new research shows relationships between stress and sleep - and suggests what can be done to overcome sleep problems related to stress. Anxiety keeps you from the very sleep cycles needed to lower its grip, unless you fight back.
Stress shows up when people …
1. Panic, grow anxious or show fear and frustration. The first problem is one of recognition - people miss signals that their brain needs help to get past stress. Why is it a problem? Chemicals seep through the brain that cause people to smile or sneer, and these can be controlled. Sadly though, the very conditions of stress block a person’s perception that they are stressed, and so stressed people tend to blame problems on others – rather than stimulate a synapses for serotonin.
2. Bully others – even in subtly bossing peers in projects, where meta messages mask what you really mean, and colleagues drop off or let you do the work alone, rather than join your stress related demands. People who dominate, blame or tell far more than they question to reboot their own brains, tend to be stressed.
3. Refuse to change to become the person they want others to see in them, and show resistance to transformations such as technology advancements, for instance, that take patience, effort and time to master.
4. Fail to use good tone in ways that inspire and motivate change in others. They name negatives or problems constantly and yet rarely suggest solutions or risk new insights or inspire change that turn difficulties around.
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ere are a few tactics that add power of a stress free mind…
Laugh and help your circles at work to laugh in ways that build neuron pathways for well being for the entire community. Research shows that people who laugh often, tend to laugh easier when the chips are down, and they inspire others to laugh troubles off as well.
Golf as a strategy to regain your serotonin for well-being and new perspectives. Move away from the stressful scene and your brain will reboot for new directions with less stress, when you return.
Walk beside a river or a creek and your naturalistic intelligence will reduce the destructive hormone cortisol that comes with and generates stress. The brain requires 21% of your body’s intake of oxygen, and exercise gives the body more – so that your brain prospers from oxygen increase.
Solve one old problem in a new way today, and you’ll likely reduce stress in that solution. Emulate successful people like Sam Walton who use strategies daily to live within the power of a stress free mind.
Run from negative people, because research shows increasingly that negativity is to the brain what Clorox would be to your stomach!
Drink water to run your brain - without health and attitude hazards that come from stress. Research shows water as amazing fuel for the stress-free brain.
Reflect to discover new tactics that help you to reduce stress and make choices you can live with! Remember that stress actually shrinks the human brain, new research shows, and its opposite generates success and well being. Begin to spot its disguises in your responses on a busy or difficult day -- and you've already started new neuron pathways for living the power of a stress free mind.
How do you stack up against serial killers called stress that mask as diligence, hard working or self-righteous habits?
» How your brain works from Widows Quest
I came across this post about how your brain works. It is quite interesting and gives us some ideas of how to relieve stress, which when you lose someone is high. Walk beside a river and this reduces the hormone cortisol which generates stress. Solve ... [Read More]
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