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Work Stress ReliefWithout fail, every employee I have worked with was seeking a work stress relief technique that would help them cope.For many workers, too much stress at work can become a deal breaker. At one point or another, who hasn’t heard one of your co-workers say: “I don’t get paid enough to deal with this.” Workplace stressorsThere are some very tangible workplace stressors:
These types of stress at work are undeniably real. And yet, what my clients felt was that dealing with these work stressors seemed easier to cope with to them than it did to deal with how they were being treated by their boss, co-workers or clients. Here is a list of relationship stressors that are most difficult to cope with:
Stress 101It makes sense to most people why working short-handed is stressful, or working with the fear of being laid off, etc. are stressful. People typically understand those kinds of stressors.From my experiences, it has been important to teach what it is about relationship stress that is so stressful. To get us started, let’s look at some basic information on how the stress response works. The body was designed to function optimally when in a state of “balance”.
Throughout the day, the body moved in and out of the sympathetic nervous system (stress), and the parasympathetic nervous system (relaxation). Chronic stress occurs when there isn’t a balance – when you function most of the time out of the sympathetic nervous system. When you are in balance, you have an opportunity to be choiceful about your response to another. When you are stressed is when you will tend to be more reactive. So, for each of us, our stress response is the “fight or flight” response. This is an automatic alert system that is part of our brain and its main function is to help us survive. The stress response is a response to a stressor. The stress response gets triggered by any threat of uncertainty. Whenever you feel disrespected the brain will perceive those verbal or non-verbal cues from another as a threat to your basic survival. The old adage, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Those words just are not true when you are talking about work stress relief.Managing workplace stressFor as much as we all would love to be able to control what a boss or co-worker says or does, none of us has that kind of control.So, to create work stress relief techniques is about helping YOU to adapt to stress in ways that are effective for you. Here are the work stress relief strategies I recommend: 1. Take frequent slow deep breaths from your abdomen. When you breathe deeply from your abdomen you activate the vagus nerve which then triggers the relaxation response. 2. Understand that whatever someone else says or does is really a reflection of a piece of their life story. It truly has nothing to do with you. 3. Respect that each person has learned how to survive in their own ways. Particularly in work settings, we rarely get a chance to understand the struggles and pain that a boss or co-worker carries within them. 4. Decide whether you “think” someone has intentionally disrespected you. When in doubt, ask them. 5. Don’t compromise your own integrity because someone else has. Hold strong to your true self, and the stress will be less. 6. Communicate your truth in a respectful, clear, and bold way. When you are in a place of balance, it is easier to share what needs to be shared, and to be very clear. Once you allow yourself to tap into the power you have when you are in balance by utilizing the work stress relaxation techniques that work best for you. You have more control over your workplace stress than you think! Share Your Tips, and Ask Questions Too
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She has lived with daily headaches that have not responded to any of the several drugs which have benefited many such suffering patients. She has needed chronic opiate treatment of her chronic pain syndrome.
In the few weeks that Cathi has worked with her, C.L. has begun to experience days without pain, periods of happiness, and a reduction in her opiate dosage requirements that represent a breakthrough in her stalled-out life as a single mom raising a teen-age daughter with only social security income resources.
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Working with Cathi, she is discovering "the way she does life" and learning to make choices about it. She came in last week, having "danced until dawn". She is learning to dialogue with her body in effective ways.
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M.S., a woman in her late forties with progressively more and more disabling rheumatoid arthritis since childhood, whose most recent problems have arisen over the last two to three years as complications of immunosuppressive therapy for her disease. The complications have been associated with the severely disabling chronic pain of recurrent herpes neuralgia for more than three years, and for the past 15 months, recurrent osteomyelitis in her right lower mandible.
The second, more alarming (even life-threatening) problem has caused months of diagnostic and therapy confusion among her many consultants, three successive resections of the bone over the last six to eight months, and the still ongoing threat of more relapses of the smoldering bone infection and chronic pain only made bearable by chronic, massive doses of opiates.
In the few months since M. began to work with Cathi with several modalities: stress management, therapeutic touch, guided imaging, and others, her life has become more livable, as she has become able to bear the pain and the discouragement of unresolved disease.
She has relied on many of the methods for maintaining hope and getting through overwhelming discouragement by using the inner resources she has learned with Cathi.
My hope as her primary physician, is that Cathi and M. will be able to continue to work together to maintain that inner strength and hope as she faces yet more months of pain, and further repeated surgery.
Thank you for the healing guidance you've been able to give her thus far.
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S. has improved! Cathi established a trusting relationship with her, and helped her to effectively break through her wall of silence and grief about her son's mental illness, and taught her how to "change her thinking".
S. now comes in smiling, notes some unusual continued symptoms, but no longer has chronic abdominal disabling pain.
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