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Stress Management

STRESS MANAGEMENT

This stress management section of Mind Tools helps to survive the intense stress that comes with a challenging career.

The first articles helps to understand stress and what causes it: This is an important starting point for effective stress management. They introduce the three main approaches to stress management, and then shows how one can identify the key sources of stress in normal life.

We then look at range of stress management techniques. Unlike some other approaches to stress management, the Mind Tools approach is, where possible, to tackle stress at source. This means that not only do we show you how to deal with the symptoms of stress, we show you how to deal with the underlying causes as well.

By the end of the section, one should have a clearer understanding of stress and the importance of managing it. You should be able to analyze the points of pressure in your life, and plan to neutralize them. You will also have access to a range of different stress management techniques.

Also remember, as you work through, that if you have have particular issues in bringing balance to your life, this is where our coaches can help.

Stress Management Techniques :

Much research has been conducted into stress over the last hundred years. Some of the theories behind it are now settled and accepted; others are still being researched and debated. During this time, there seems to have been something approaching open warfare between competing theories and definitions: Views have been passionately held and aggressively defended.

What complicates this is that intuitively we all feel that we know what stress is, as it is something we have all experienced. A definition should therefore be obvious…except that it is not.

Definitions:
“stress is not necessarily something bad – it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is...