Blog 14JAN12 – Results Matter – Day 11
How do you handle stress? Do you realize that you might be stressed? Everyone handles the same stress differently. Stress causes many health-related problems. Perception is a major part of stress. It’s how you perceive something and how you react to it.
What do you do when you are following a car in a parking lot and that car in front of you decides to wait for another car to back-out so that he or she can have that parking place? If you are blocked in and have to wait, that is one thing. If you are in a hurry, that’s a much greater thing. Some things we accept easier than others. Some days we accept things easier than other days.
Stressors are all around us. We can even generate stress by ourselves in a quiet room alone. Our thinking can cause stress in our bodies. Stress must be managed. Some people can think stress away. Others require solitude with contemplation and meditation. Others require exercise. Every one of us has a preferred way to handle stress. You need to find the one that works well for you.
Stress will add weight and keep fat from leaving your fat cells. Stress will cause your fat burning processes to stop. It is critical in your new lifestyle that you recognize stress and address it effectively.
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale identifies 43 life situations and assigns a number to each. They’ve determined that loss of a spouse is the highest stress event and they gave it a value of 100. A minor violation of the law is rated at 11. Divorce is rated at 73. Loss of a job is rated at 47. Birth of a new baby is rated at 39. Change in residence is rated at 20.
The Holmes and Rahe Scale is an attempt to quantify total stress and assess what it can do to your health. You select all the events on the scale that have happened to you over the past year and the cumulative total can be interpreted as such. A cumulative score of 150 and below means that you have a low to moderate chance of becoming sick in the near future. Between 150 and 299 means that you have a moderate to high chance of becoming ill. Over 300 means that you have a high to very high risk of becoming ill in the near future.
This scale makes many assumptions and there are cultural and other factors that may not yield the same results for the same events. I mean that two people having a total of 200 within one year might have a significantly different risk of illness in the near future. Different cultures assess the same events differently.
My daughter’s boyfriend was killed in an automobile accident not long ago. Loss of a loved one is a traumatic event in anyone’s life. I gave her this scale not long ago. She told me that her total was 260. That is certainly a number to be concerned about. She had seen her doctor several months ago and mentioned several of the things that were causing her stress and discomfort. He suggested some prescription meds, which he was legally required to do as a doctor.
My daughter, as a patient, has an option of choosing alternatives. She told her doctor that she was going to do x, y and z. They both agreed to that course of action. She began a vigorous exercise program – much more intense that she had been doing earlier. She began various stress management programs to relax and began taking several supplements to reduce stress. Her option worked well for her.
Would it work for everyone? I don’t know, but I think many options are better than prescription medicines. Prescription medicines address the symptoms and not the causes of problems. You may argue that supplements do the same thing, and I would not disagree with you. However, supplements generally do not have side effects. Stress management techniques do address the cause of the problem. You have to confront it and recognize it as a stress and deal with it to a degree that thinking about it does not cause you any incremental stress
Your lifestyle change must include some or many types of relaxation and stress relief options. One of the most effective ones that I have used is to write the name of the person who stresses me when I am in their presence on the palm of my hand and literally extend my arm and throw that name out of my life. I learned this technique at a seminar and was amazed how effective it was. I learned at this seminar to be thankful for what I had. I learned to not let other people bother me as much as they did. I learned that I could release stress from that person by forgiving them what they had done (or I perceived they had done) and let it go. The physical manifestation of releasing their name from my hand was the ‘letting go’ action.
I didn’t think about it much. I had written down several names on my hand at that time. I thought to myself what they had done and told myself that it was OK to forgive them and let it be. I ran into one of those people shortly after this seminar. I noticed that person talking to a friend of hers. I thought back to the seminar and assessed my ‘feeling’ about her. To my surprise, I had little to no emotion about that person any more. It really surprised me. I was not longer emotionally controlled by a person who had previously caused a stress emotion in my life.
Will this technique work for you? Possibly. There are many stress relief options. Pick several and try them out and see how effective they are in relieving you of stress. Stress will always be part of you life. We are all human. It’s how you react to that stress that will make your new lifestyle a better place to live. Lower stress levels will help you to lose weight.
Red O’Laughlin
Your Prosperity Professor
281-437-8114 H/W 281-687-1188
How do you handle stress? Do you realize that you might be stressed? Everyone handles the same stress differently. Stress causes many health-related problems. Perception is a major part of stress. It’s how you perceive something and how you react to it.
What do you do when you are following a car in a parking lot and that car in front of you decides to wait for another car to back-out so that he or she can have that parking place? If you are blocked in and have to wait, that is one thing. If you are in a hurry, that’s a much greater thing. Some things we accept easier than others. Some days we accept things easier than other days.
Stressors are all around us. We can even generate stress by ourselves in a quiet room alone. Our thinking can cause stress in our bodies. Stress must be managed. Some people can think stress away. Others require solitude with contemplation and meditation. Others require exercise. Every one of us has a preferred way to handle stress. You need to find the one that works well for you.
Stress will add weight and keep fat from leaving your fat cells. Stress will cause your fat burning processes to stop. It is critical in your new lifestyle that you recognize stress and address it effectively.
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale identifies 43 life situations and assigns a number to each. They’ve determined that loss of a spouse is the highest stress event and they gave it a value of 100. A minor violation of the law is rated at 11. Divorce is rated at 73. Loss of a job is rated at 47. Birth of a new baby is rated at 39. Change in residence is rated at 20.
The Holmes and Rahe Scale is an attempt to quantify total stress and assess what it can do to your health. You select all the events on the scale that have happened to you over the past year and the cumulative total can be interpreted as such. A cumulative score of 150 and below means that you have a low to moderate chance of becoming sick in the near future. Between 150 and 299 means that you have a moderate to high chance of becoming ill. Over 300 means that you have a high to very high risk of becoming ill in the near future.
This scale makes many assumptions and there are cultural and other factors that may not yield the same results for the same events. I mean that two people having a total of 200 within one year might have a significantly different risk of illness in the near future. Different cultures assess the same events differently.
My daughter’s boyfriend was killed in an automobile accident not long ago. Loss of a loved one is a traumatic event in anyone’s life. I gave her this scale not long ago. She told me that her total was 260. That is certainly a number to be concerned about. She had seen her doctor several months ago and mentioned several of the things that were causing her stress and discomfort. He suggested some prescription meds, which he was legally required to do as a doctor.
My daughter, as a patient, has an option of choosing alternatives. She told her doctor that she was going to do x, y and z. They both agreed to that course of action. She began a vigorous exercise program – much more intense that she had been doing earlier. She began various stress management programs to relax and began taking several supplements to reduce stress. Her option worked well for her.
Would it work for everyone? I don’t know, but I think many options are better than prescription medicines. Prescription medicines address the symptoms and not the causes of problems. You may argue that supplements do the same thing, and I would not disagree with you. However, supplements generally do not have side effects. Stress management techniques do address the cause of the problem. You have to confront it and recognize it as a stress and deal with it to a degree that thinking about it does not cause you any incremental stress
Your lifestyle change must include some or many types of relaxation and stress relief options. One of the most effective ones that I have used is to write the name of the person who stresses me when I am in their presence on the palm of my hand and literally extend my arm and throw that name out of my life. I learned this technique at a seminar and was amazed how effective it was. I learned at this seminar to be thankful for what I had. I learned to not let other people bother me as much as they did. I learned that I could release stress from that person by forgiving them what they had done (or I perceived they had done) and let it go. The physical manifestation of releasing their name from my hand was the ‘letting go’ action.
I didn’t think about it much. I had written down several names on my hand at that time. I thought to myself what they had done and told myself that it was OK to forgive them and let it be. I ran into one of those people shortly after this seminar. I noticed that person talking to a friend of hers. I thought back to the seminar and assessed my ‘feeling’ about her. To my surprise, I had little to no emotion about that person any more. It really surprised me. I was not longer emotionally controlled by a person who had previously caused a stress emotion in my life.
Will this technique work for you? Possibly. There are many stress relief options. Pick several and try them out and see how effective they are in relieving you of stress. Stress will always be part of you life. We are all human. It’s how you react to that stress that will make your new lifestyle a better place to live. Lower stress levels will help you to lose weight.
Red O’Laughlin
Your Prosperity Professor
281-437-8114 H/W 281-687-1188
January 19, 2012
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