Stress,
How does it affect you?
In today's busy and hectic lifestyles its not so easy to see the cause and effect stress has on us. It affects everyone whether its comes from home or in the workplace. It is the bodies natural reaction to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on people and affects everyone differently. What may be stressful to you may not be to someone else and vice versa. We as individuals all react differently to stress.
What does matter is how you help manage the stress, whether you are an individual, retired, unemployed, employee or an employer. Take back the control of your wellbeing and start improving your quality of life!
Dealing with and managing stress can be aided by understanding what stress is, identifying where the stress is coming from, learning relaxation techniques, meditation, prioritizing and much more. Once learned the benefits can be reaped again and again!
What can you do?
Education and practical intervention such as individual therapies & workshops, corporate workshops, onsite body therapy services. These could have a dramatic effect on enhancing the lives of individuals, employee's and employers. Thereby positively impacting on quality of life, improved health and attitudes, increased productivity & profits and controlled absenteeism /sickness levels.
For individual therapies click here
For Wellbeing Days in the Workplace click here
Where does it come from?
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Family issues & arguments, family demands, family needs, relationships
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Money problems, neighbours, schools, bullying
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Unemployment, redundancy, new job
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Interviews, learning a new skill, getting a new boss
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getting married, moving house, buying a car
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Work - targets, deadlines, pressures, new colleague
These are just a few, the list grows and grows the more you ask !
How can you tell if you suffer from stress?
Symptoms of stress can include:
- Finding it hard to concentrate and make decisions
- Being short tempered, tense, low tolerance levels
- Sleeping badly, feeling tired most of the time, lethargic, run down
- depressed, minor things become huge, out of proportion
- Feeling stretched beyond your limits and unable to cope
- Drinking and smoking more in order to get through the day
- Feeling that you've achieved nothing at the end of the day
- Suffer from fatigue, aching limbs, headaches, panicky
- Often off sick from work, no commitment, attitude change,
If it is prolonged, stress can lead to:
- poor mental health (e.g. anxiety, depression)
- heart disease, high blood pressure
- Long term sick
- menstrual problems in women
- asthma attacks in asthma sufferers
- back pain, upset stomach (i.e. ulcers) and various minor illnesses
- skipping breakfast, drinking too much alcohol, smoking, abusing drugs
This site was last updated Sunday, 04 July 2010