Stress Management
Knes 342 Stress Management Study guide
The Nature of Stress: - Our focus in this class is to explore stress through the lens of “wisdom” and “common sense” (look at stress with understanding of contemporary issues) - Wisdom and compassion rather than anger and fear to handle stress - Some changes that occurred includes o Economy – financial uncertainties o Technology- (iphone, ipods, ipads) feeling the stress of having to catch up to technology or the understanding of technology, information retrieval (internet, and the real info, speed of gaining info) communications ( social networking such at email, twitter, facebook) o Personal boundaries- lack of personal boundaries because advancement of technology has lead to an invasion of personal spaces. Occurs in several forms such as home, work, finances, nutritional habits, relationship, etc ▪ Lack of boundaries that leads to a fractured society where people feel little to no sense of community or belonging o Not having healthcare, new diseases, questions of vaccines, total freak out of bed bugs, natural changes (weather, seasons, global warming, fires, hurricanes, etc - percent all of disease that is stress-related: ← Today 43 percent of adults suffer health conditions caused by stress. ← Which leads to 80 percent of all doctor visits for stress-related problems. ← Today stress has been linked to heart disease, cancer, lung aliments, accidents, and death. Physicians now estimated that between 75 to 8o percent all of disease in stress-related - Lifestyle diseases- unhealthy habits that ultimately lead to a pathology (disease) and occur after years or even decades of not correcting or changing those unhealthy habits. (no medication or cure) - Stress- The word stress used to related to humans was first used by Hans Selye (1976) in his book The Stress of Life. “describe the level of tension people feel is placed on their
The Nature of Stress: - Our focus in this class is to explore stress through the lens of “wisdom” and “common sense” (look at stress with understanding of contemporary issues) - Wisdom and compassion rather than anger and fear to handle stress - Some changes that occurred includes o Economy – financial uncertainties o Technology- (iphone, ipods, ipads) feeling the stress of having to catch up to technology or the understanding of technology, information retrieval (internet, and the real info, speed of gaining info) communications ( social networking such at email, twitter, facebook) o Personal boundaries- lack of personal boundaries because advancement of technology has lead to an invasion of personal spaces. Occurs in several forms such as home, work, finances, nutritional habits, relationship, etc ▪ Lack of boundaries that leads to a fractured society where people feel little to no sense of community or belonging o Not having healthcare, new diseases, questions of vaccines, total freak out of bed bugs, natural changes (weather, seasons, global warming, fires, hurricanes, etc - percent all of disease that is stress-related: ← Today 43 percent of adults suffer health conditions caused by stress. ← Which leads to 80 percent of all doctor visits for stress-related problems. ← Today stress has been linked to heart disease, cancer, lung aliments, accidents, and death. Physicians now estimated that between 75 to 8o percent all of disease in stress-related - Lifestyle diseases- unhealthy habits that ultimately lead to a pathology (disease) and occur after years or even decades of not correcting or changing those unhealthy habits. (no medication or cure) - Stress- The word stress used to related to humans was first used by Hans Selye (1976) in his book The Stress of Life. “describe the level of tension people feel is placed on their