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Stress Management
The ability to recognize how your body reacts to the stressors in your life can be a powerful skill. Most people are more aware of the weather, the time of day, or their bank balance than they are of the tension in their own bodies or their personal stress response. Your body registers stress long before the conscious mind does. Muscle tension is your bodies way of letting you know that you are under stress, and body awareness is the first step toward acknowledging and reducing stress.
You inevitably tense your body when you experience stress. When the stress is removed, the tension will go away. This chronic muscle tension restricts digestion, limits self expression and decreases energy. I can just hear you saying "well I don't feel tense". Much of the tension in your body isn't' felt because most of your awareness is constantly directed toward the outside world. You must be willing to EXPLORE your inner world to release the cause of the busy mind / tense body syndrome.
Reducing Stress and Creating Better Health
Stress has become the number one malady of our times. The constant pressure associated with living in a fast-paced world has created an environment where nearly everyone is suffering form excessive stress. Stress reduction is key to increased health and performance, but relaxation alone is not enough. Every one faces some stress and tension everyday. It's how you manage or release it that counts. We will teach you practical strategies you can use to increase your awareness and take control of your life. In the middle of the Stress you can be alert, clear, dynamic and still.
What is Stress Management?
Stress Management is a broad term which encompasses education, facilitation and training in the impact that stress is having on an individual or group. The field of Stress Management teaches and promotes skills to relieve the accumulated (dis)stresses of our everyday lives. Clients learn a host of stress-diminishing practices that, together, restore health. Among these are body awareness, breathing techniques, relaxation techniques, self-hypnosis, intentional control of body functions (bio-feedback), visualizations, goal setting, emotional self-management and techniques to release limiting beliefs.
What is Stress?
Stress is an everyday fact of life. You can't avoid it. Stress is any change that you must adapt to, ranging from the negative extreme of actual physical danger to the exhilaration of falling in love or achieving some long-desired goal. Stress is usually described as the wear and tear the body experiences in reaction to everyday tensions and pressures. Whether the stress you experience is the result of major life changes or the cumulative effects of minor everday hassles, it is how you respond to these experiences that determines the impact stress will have on your life. How you interpret and label your present experience and what you predict for the future can serve to either relax or stress you.
What are some of the symptoms of stress?
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