STRESS MANAGEMENT
Having gone through the reactions of stress on physiological and Psychological health, it is essential to learn about stress management techniques.Prior to that it is better to assertain the level of stress by a qualified psychologist by administering stress measuring scale.
Before going to stress management techniques, let us see what other professionals say about STress management. Er.B.Amaresan, software Engineer,Silicon valley,USA says the following.
"I strongly feel these are important to get rid of Stress."
Meditation.
Religion.
Take responsiblity of your decision.
Honesty.
Content.
Be passionate about your life.
Sports.
Love.
And when I thought about why people are getting stressed, I think they encounter a problem and they want to resolve and they know that its beyond their capability. When you have the attitude of "I will do what I can and learn what I dont" some problems are resolved.
And last but not least, people forget one important thing in life. When they have problem they think they can solve it. What they dont realize is that they could only solve from their knowledge base. They should seek out an expert and solve it immediately. This is where councellor, psychiatrist come in picture. There should be a awarness created for this.
One can adopt the above suggestions and get relieved of from real life stresses.
II) Dr. K. Hari prasad , Chief Executive, Appollo Health city, Hyderabad in his wrintings in the health column of The Hindu magazine under the Heading
Cope with Stress has written the following.
Stress is the major culprit in IT and BPO industries, with the main causes being deadlines,targets,monotonous nature of jobs,night shifts,long working hours and aggressive career objectives.
Stress by itself is not dangerous but if left unattended could assume dangerous propositions.
Sleeping disorders,gastro-intestinal disorders,headaches,visual disturbances, Mood swings and
sexual dysfunctions are the common symotoms of stress.
He also writes sedentary life style,dietry habbits,tobacco,alcohol and stress are the deadly combination for dangerous diseases.
He says IT and BPO personnel are yet to focus on health.
The simple prescription for creating Healthy IT and BPO organisations is Firstly to have a scientifically developed induction system.To conduct regular educational sessions on stress and Lifestyle Management.
Psychologists says that we can face the stress in two ways. Out of which one helps us in tackling the stress in an effective way and another method makes us not sensing the stress at all. Though we cannot change the effects of stress ,we can see how we can reduce the level of stress.
1. Protective skills:
Every individual has got capacity to protect them from stress from childhood onwards.This self defensive methods are learnt from our own life and not from outside sources.
The ill effects of self defensive method are, the focus will be entirely oppsite to the truth and it will be self cheating and it will block the individual's development.
condition of Stress our self protective skill
1.Failures Telling reasons for failure, Pointout others as the reason
Try to compensate.
2.Guilty consious Finding out the reasons, blame others
telling reasons,change the mistakes.
3. Enimity perception, joyful imaginations
suppressing our feelings and reactions
showing enimity against those who do not match with our views.
4.Low self Esteem Imagination, Taking compensative
measures, Finding out the reasons.
5.Love failure self defence from recurrence of such failure. reasoning and imagining
6.Set backs in individual's Thinking that no setbacks,imagining pleasant life. events and compensating for the losses.
7.prohibited sexual suppressing the unlawful sexual feelings,
activities telling the reasons for such activities.
Karl Meninger have given some hints on how to manage day-today life stresses .This comes naturally.Normally we bring out the internal stress by way of laughting,weeping or by cursing. We reduce our Stress by diverting our attention by doing over work or by participating in sports. By doing the above activities the severity of our condition does not change.But to tackle that situation we change ourselves.
How to change or reduce the level of Stress?
1.Increasing the power of withstanding stress.If at any time we are unable to concentrate and do the work efficiently ,then it means that we have lost 'the withstanding power of Stress. This situation araises depending on the environment in which the person lives. Hence one must try to increase the power of withstanding stress.
2.Learning to handle the Stress. Initially,we don't do any job or activity with self confidence and efficiently.But we get skill after repeated attempts only.For example car driving.
Without considering his knowledge,,ablity and health conditions if one selects a goal ,he puts himself to severe stress to get success.if he meets failure he will be depressed.
Altrenatively,based on our capacity if we choose the goal and even failure comes we will accept it gracefully To withstand the mental tiredness we must keep our body in a good condition.if the goal we choose is fitting to our skill then we can stop mental tiredness.
If we understand our internal problems or conflicts thoroughly, then only we can handle the problem satisfatorily.
Before going to stress management techniques, let us see what other professionals say about STress management. Er.B.Amaresan, software Engineer,Silicon valley,USA says the following.
"I strongly feel these are important to get rid of Stress."
Meditation.
Religion.
Take responsiblity of your decision.
Honesty.
Content.
Be passionate about your life.
Sports.
Love.
And when I thought about why people are getting stressed, I think they encounter a problem and they want to resolve and they know that its beyond their capability. When you have the attitude of "I will do what I can and learn what I dont" some problems are resolved.
And last but not least, people forget one important thing in life. When they have problem they think they can solve it. What they dont realize is that they could only solve from their knowledge base. They should seek out an expert and solve it immediately. This is where councellor, psychiatrist come in picture. There should be a awarness created for this.
One can adopt the above suggestions and get relieved of from real life stresses.
II) Dr. K. Hari prasad , Chief Executive, Appollo Health city, Hyderabad in his wrintings in the health column of The Hindu magazine under the Heading
Cope with Stress has written the following.
Stress is the major culprit in IT and BPO industries, with the main causes being deadlines,targets,monotonous nature of jobs,night shifts,long working hours and aggressive career objectives.
Stress by itself is not dangerous but if left unattended could assume dangerous propositions.
Sleeping disorders,gastro-intestinal disorders,headaches,visual disturbances, Mood swings and
sexual dysfunctions are the common symotoms of stress.
He also writes sedentary life style,dietry habbits,tobacco,alcohol and stress are the deadly combination for dangerous diseases.
He says IT and BPO personnel are yet to focus on health.
The simple prescription for creating Healthy IT and BPO organisations is Firstly to have a scientifically developed induction system.To conduct regular educational sessions on stress and Lifestyle Management.
Psychologists says that we can face the stress in two ways. Out of which one helps us in tackling the stress in an effective way and another method makes us not sensing the stress at all. Though we cannot change the effects of stress ,we can see how we can reduce the level of stress.
1. Protective skills:
Every individual has got capacity to protect them from stress from childhood onwards.This self defensive methods are learnt from our own life and not from outside sources.
The ill effects of self defensive method are, the focus will be entirely oppsite to the truth and it will be self cheating and it will block the individual's development.
Let us see how an individual uses his self defensive skills against the stress due to the following reasons.
condition of Stress our self protective skill
1.Failures Telling reasons for failure, Pointout others as the reason
Try to compensate.
2.Guilty consious Finding out the reasons, blame others
telling reasons,change the mistakes.
3. Enimity perception, joyful imaginations
suppressing our feelings and reactions
showing enimity against those who do not match with our views.
4.Low self Esteem Imagination, Taking compensative
measures, Finding out the reasons.
5.Love failure self defence from recurrence of such failure. reasoning and imagining
6.Set backs in individual's Thinking that no setbacks,imagining pleasant life. events and compensating for the losses.
7.prohibited sexual suppressing the unlawful sexual feelings,
activities telling the reasons for such activities.
Karl Meninger have given some hints on how to manage day-today life stresses .This comes naturally.Normally we bring out the internal stress by way of laughting,weeping or by cursing. We reduce our Stress by diverting our attention by doing over work or by participating in sports. By doing the above activities the severity of our condition does not change.But to tackle that situation we change ourselves.
How to change or reduce the level of Stress?
1.Increasing the power of withstanding stress.If at any time we are unable to concentrate and do the work efficiently ,then it means that we have lost 'the withstanding power of Stress. This situation araises depending on the environment in which the person lives. Hence one must try to increase the power of withstanding stress.
2.Learning to handle the Stress. Initially,we don't do any job or activity with self confidence and efficiently.But we get skill after repeated attempts only.For example car driving.
Without considering his knowledge,,ablity and health conditions if one selects a goal ,he puts himself to severe stress to get success.if he meets failure he will be depressed.
Altrenatively,based on our capacity if we choose the goal and even failure comes we will accept it gracefully To withstand the mental tiredness we must keep our body in a good condition.if the goal we choose is fitting to our skill then we can stop mental tiredness.
If we understand our internal problems or conflicts thoroughly, then only we can handle the problem satisfatorily.
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