Stress Management and Anxiety Reduction

In todays frentic world which is full of pressure and ambiguity  managing change and being resilient is a critical career and organizational competency. To help develop this take a look at our 5 step model to help you improve your stress management and anxiety reduction. Step 1. Be Aware of Your Stress Symptoms Chnage especially if imposed by an organization can be difficult and it is very common [...]

  This continues our Cognitive approach to stress management . First step was to develop thought awareness The second step is what we call Rational Thinking The next step in dealing with negative thinking is to challenge the negative thoughts that you identified using the Thought Awareness technique. Look at every thought you wrote down and rationally challenge it. Ask yourself whether [...]

Over the last 25 years there has been a growing awareness of the importance of stress in the workplace. Going back before this and few peopole would even recognise it let alone admit to feeling stressed. A situation faily similar to the developing world where diagnosiss of stress is more rare even though life may be much harder. Nowadays t is recognised that stress can be a killer and that many f the [...]

Have you ever jointly experienced a situation and afterwards noticed your colleagues taking something completely different away from the situation?. We have different brains and so it goes to follow different perceptions. Our  experience of stress comes from our perception of the situation. Often that perception is right, but sometimes it is not. Often we are unreasonably harsh with ourselves or [...]

People' s understanding of sress varies. Try asking several peopole what they mean by the term. You are likely to get a range of replies that fall into three broad categories: 1. Stress is an external factor exerting forcing upon the person This is a very common way of viewing stress. Engineers ofter refer to stress as a load or a demand placed on for example a building. The inference being that [...]

I guess the main question here is: Is anxiety a mental illness? No, it certainly is NOT! Anxiety disorder is NOT a mental illness, it is a behavioral condition, there is a very BIG difference. Mental illnesses are clinical conditions which have a 'biological' basis, anxiety disorders are caused by a 'resetting' of the 'baseline' anxiety level; this happens through reinforcing the anxiety disorder [...]