How to Manage Stress and Get More from Life

Meeting any challenge produces a certain amount of stress, apprehension, uncertainty, and fatigue. Understanding how your mind and body react to pressure is an important step toward managing the harmful effects of stress.

Identifying the triggers

To manage stress well we must first become aware of how pressure affects us. No two people are the same and our responses and reactions are unique to each of us. Increasing our awareness of how we experience stress is the first step in doing something about it.

Knowing your stress profile

Each person's stress reaction is unique, depending on their make-up. Everyone has a threshold at which the pressures become too much, and this is different for each of us. This varies between individuals and also within the same person at different times and in different situations.

Taking control and building confidence

Stress is a universal syndrome, but it’s how we perceive and respond to life’s pressures that affect our stress levels. When our efforts are channeled and we feel in control, despite the potential risks involved, we flourish – it builds self-esteem and confidence and the result is better emotional and physical health. The more we feel in control, the less likely stress is to affect us badly.

Developing stress-reducing habits

Developing wise habits, self-awareness, and a degree of self-protection – by managing boundaries and appropriate assertiveness, for example – can help to balance the negative side-effects of modern life that threaten health and performance.

Knowing how to care for yourself

Unfortunately, faced with urgent demands or increasing pressure, it’s easy to lose sight of the very things you need most to protect yourself, with predictable results. This course will encourage you to set 'punctuation points' to act as reminders for self-care.