Stress: Definitions
A stress management strategy that includes: learning to say "no"; limiting exposure to stressful people and situations; paring down your "to do" list; and staying away from "hot button" topics.
What is tips to avoid stress?
The part of the nervous system that prepares the body for the “fight or flight” response during any potential danger.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Muscle tension or jaw clenching, Difficulty breathing, Panic attacks, Blurred eyesight or sore eyes, Sleep problems.
What are psychological effects of stress?
A stress management strategy that is used to improve mental and emotional well-being by keeping track of our thoughts, feelings and experiences.
What is journaling?
The feelings or thoughts that an individual has about how much stress they are under at a given point in time or period of time.
What is a perceived stress?
The part of the nervous system restores the body to a calm and composed state and prevents it from overworking.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Older age; being female, especially a working mother; less education; being divorced or widowed; experiencing financial strain; being isolated or lonely; being a target of racial or sexual discrimination; living in a city
What are individuals at higher risk for stress?
A stress management strategy that allows us to prepare by writing down helping coping statements ahead of time so that we can read through them ahead of time?
What is coping cards?
A method of stress reduction in which one notices their negative patterns of internal dialogue and uses strategies to replace or balance thinking.
What is positive self-talk?
Is experienced as an immediate perceived threat, either physical, emotional or physiological. The threats don't need to be intensely threatening. It can occur multiple times throughout the day.
What is acute stress?
Individuals can learn techniques that counter this area of the brain that control's the body's response to stress.
What is the hypothalamus?
Decreased immune system functioning; heart disease; hypertension (high blood pressure) and risk of stroke; gastrointestinal problems; weight gain or loss; headaches; sleep disturbances; loss of concentration and problems learning.
What are the effects of chronic stress?
An intentional and self-regulated focusing of attention, whose purpose is to relax and calm the mind and body.
What is meditation?
The stress of unrelenting demands and pressures for seemingly interminable periods of time.
What is chronic stress?
The effect of a level of stress that is neither too low, resulting in boredom, or too high, resulting in exhaustion, ill health and burnout.
What is optimal performance?
A stress management strategy that includes: finding ways to calm mind, getting enough sleep (7-9 hours), eating a healthy diet and limiting alcohol.
What is focusing on healthy lifestyle?
A system techniques that help pull you back from negative emotions, memories, thoughts or flashbacks and focus on the present so you can calm down. Many focus on one or more of your five senses.
What is Grounding?