Stress: Beyond Coping is an internationally renowned company providing stress management seminars and other stress education tools.
The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar is built around two key concepts: The Stress Tank and The Stress Pyramid.
The Stress Tank© describes how we are exposed to numerous STRESSORS every day of our lives. Some common stressors include:
- stress at work or losing a job
- financial trouble
- conflict in relationships
- lots of changes (either good or bad) in our personal lives
- fighting a long term illness for oneself or a loved one
- constantly worrying about the future, or constantly regretting the past
- dealing with a steady stream of day-to-day hassles and irritations
Do any of these sound familiar to you?
If stress levels overflow past the danger point, various kinds of HARM can result. For example, we can experience:
- mild to severe breakdowns to our health. Medical researchers today estimate that between 60-90% of visits to doctors are stress-related.1 Stress has been linked to a wide range of illnesses, including heart disease, asthma, diabetes, mental illness, high blood pressure, ulcers, as well as the common cold and the flu.
- accident proneness. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health estimates that 60-80% of industrial accidents are stress-related.2
- mild to severe breakdowns in our relationships. During stressful times, we tend to focus exclusively on our own needs and not to notice anyone else's. Over time, this pattern can damage every relationship we have.
- mental illness. Dr. John Ratey, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, says that long term stress "can lead to full-blown mental disorders such as anxiety and depression, as well as high blood pressure, heart problems, and cancer. Chronic stress can even tear at the architecture of the brain.”3
Fortunately, there is a PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE that can PREVENT stress from reaching the danger point.
This pressure relief valve is kept fully open when seven key lifestyle factors are practiced daily.
These seven lifestyle factors are illustrated in the Stress Management Pyramid:©
P - Prayer/Spiritual Centering The importance of a healthy spiritual relationship is one of the hottest topics in stress management research today. Why? Does prayer really work? Does faith result in real, scientifically measurable benefits to our health and well-being? Do those who actively practise their faith live longer or better than those who don't? The answers have astounded the science community -- will they suprise you, too? Take an in-depth look at stress -- from God's perspective -- in the Stress: Beyond Coping seminar.
R - Relaxation Do you have problems relaxing or getting to sleep when stress levels get too high? There are entire stress management seminars that do nothing but teach people how to relax. The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar offers the 10 best tips on how to manage stress by relaxing, includig the most powerful relaxation tip of all -- one that our customers have called "life-changing."
E - Exercise Scientists have discovered a "stress paradox" about exercise: even though it's stressful, exercise is actually good for our physical and mental health. Exercise can even protect us from other kinds of harmful stress. The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar explains why and how to use exercise as a stress management tool.
V - Viewpoint Mark Twain once said, "My life has been plagued with many difficulties, most of which never happened." It's been estimated that 95% of the things that people worry about never even happen! Does this "phantom stress" ever get the better of you? The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar cites today's leading neuroscientists to describe the power of a positive viewpoint in managing up to 100% of the stress we experience.
E - Eating Healthfully Confused by all the conflicting nutritional advice given today? The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar cuts through the maze and offers time-honored, scientifically-proven principles for healthful eating. Learn how to use the Nutrition Rocket for optimum health and wellness.
N - Neighborly Love Research shows that individuals with close, supportive relationships (spouses, siblings, friends) have fewer serious illnesses and live longer than those with no close social ties -- even if they eat unhealthfully and never exercise!4 The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar describes the power in relationships to keep us well. Learn how to manage stress through loving relationships by learning and practising good communication skills, the Parity Principle, the Golden Rule (the relationship principle found in every major religion in the world today), good conflict management principles, the healing art of forgiveness, and much more.
T - Time Management Good organization gives us significant control over the amount and degree of stress we experience, and good time management helps us accomplish the goals we consider to be the most important in life. The Stress: Beyond Coping seminar reveals the time management/goal setting system that was worth $25,000 to Charles Schwab, the multi-billionare industrialist and investor. In addition, you will learn how to use SMART goals and a PDAL (Prioritizd Daily Action List) to keep your life and time on track.
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1 Alan Monat and Richard s. Lazarus, eds. Stress and Coping: An Anthology (Columbia University Press: New York, 1991), p. 483.
2 Internal Medicine News, vol. 18, no. 18, September 15-30, 1985.
3 John J. Ratey, MD. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2008), 58-59.
4 Dean Ornish, M.D., Love and Survival (Harper Collins Publishers, 1998)
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