This document summarizes and compares stress management practices from Eastern and Western cultures. Some key Eastern practices discussed are yoga, mindfulness meditation, tai chi, and aromatherapy, which involve techniques like controlled breathing, adopting bodily postures, and using essential oils. Western practices outlined are biofeedback, guided visual imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, and transcendental meditation. These commonly use electronic monitoring, generating mental images, tensing and relaxing muscles in sequence, and simple meditation respectively.

1. Eastern and Western
practices of stress
management
SHRM
BY
Rajavignesh.v

2. Eastern
Stress management practices followed in eastern
countries are as follows:
1.Yoga
2.Mindfulness meditation
3.Tai chi
4.Aromatherapy

3. 1. Yoga:
A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which,
including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of
specific bodily postures, is widely practised for health and
relaxation

4. 2. Mindfulness Meditation:
Mindfulness as a practice is described as: "Mindfulness is a way of
paying attention that originated in Eastern meditation practices. "Paying
attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and
nonjudgmentally" "Bringing one's complete attention to the present experience
on a moment-to-moment basis"

5. 3. Tai Chi:
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese tradition that, today, is
practiced as a graceful form of exercise. It involves a series
of movements performed in a slow, focused manner and
accompanied by deep breathing.

6. 4. Aromatherapy:
Aromatherapy is the practice of using the natural oils extracted
from flowers, bark, stems, leaves, roots or other parts of a plant to
enhance psychological and physical well-being. The inhaled aroma
from these "essential" oils is widely believed to stimulate brain function

7. Western
The most common techniques used in the western
worlds are as follows:
1.Biofeedback
2.Guided Visual Imagery
3.Progressive Muscle Relaxation
4.Transcendental Meditation

8. 1. Biofeedback
The use of electronic monitoring of a normally automatic bodily
function in order to train someone to acquire voluntary control of that
function.

9. 2. Guided Visual Imagery
Guided imagery is a mind-body intervention by which a
trained practitioner or teacher helps a participant or patient to evoke
and generate mental images[1]
that simulate or re-create the sensory
perception[2]
of sights,[3][4]
sounds,[5]
tastes,[6]
smells,[7]
movements,[8]
and
images associated with touch, such as texture, temperature, and
pressure,[9]
as well as imaginative or mental content that the participant
or patient experiences as defying conventional sensory categories,[10]
and that may precipitate strong emotions orfeelings[11][12][13]
in the absence
of the stimuli to which correlating sensory receptors are receptive

11. 3. Progressive Muscle Relaxation:
Progressive muscle relaxation is a technique for learning to
monitor and control the state of muscular tension. It was developed by
American physician Edmund Jacobson in the early 1920s. Dr Jacobson wrote
several books on the subject of Progressive Relaxation

13. 4. Transcendental meditation:
It is a simple, natural, effortless mental technique for self-development
that is practised for 15-20 min twice daily while sitting comfortable with the eyes
closed.