Tim Rogers wrote the book "Responding to Stress" which discusses stress management. The book has 7 chapters that cover topics like becoming stress aware by identifying stressors and symptoms, managing stress through taking action and relaxation, planning goals, dealing with people assertively, relaxing techniques like visualization, improving sleep habits, and finding a balance of doing and being. The book provides strategies to help readers reduce and cope with stress in their daily lives.

1. PRESENTED BY:
K. AKASH
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Book Review Session
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2. RESPONDING
TO
STRESS
- Tim Rogers
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3. About the book:
 Author: Tim Rogers
 Publisher: Viva Books Pvt. Ltd
 No of Pages: 71 pages
 Price: Rs. 75.00
 ISBN #: 81-7649-141-1
 Published in: 2007
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4. About the Author
 Tim Rogers was born on 7th June 1969.
 He graduated from Indian University, Bloomington.
 He is a consultant Psychiatrist.
 He work at National Health Service (NHS), England.
 He has developed an innovative clinical approach to
stress management.
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5. Contents:
1) Becoming Stress Aware
2) Managing Stress
3) Planning your goals
4) Dealing with people
5) Relaxing
6) Improving your sleep
7) Doing and being
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6. 1. Becoming Stress aware
Stress: Stress is the feeling of not
being able to cope with problems or
potential problems in your life.
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7. 1. Becoming Stress aware
 Components of Stress
 Situation
 Response
 Identifying your stressors
 Abrupt Change
 Feeling Over Committed
 Feeling Under Committed
 Joyless Striving
 Identifying your symptoms
 Physical
 Mental
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8. 2. Managing Stress
 Twin track maintenance:
 Action
 Relaxation
 Action Technique: Reduce stress by taking action for some
part of stress.
 Relaxation technique: Reduce stress by managing peace,
inner calm. Love your life for what it is.
 NEITHER OF IT ALONE IS ENOUGH FOR REDUCING
STRESS
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9. 3. Planning your goals
 Reduce stress by planning
 GOALS – What & Why:
 Brainstorming, Prioritize, Choose the goal, Listing what to do,
Listing obstacles, Overcome Challenges, Set a plan
 Urgent V/s Important
 Time Management
 Procrastination
 Being Aware
 Working on it
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10. 4. Dealing with people
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 Our responses to people:
 Assertive
 Submissive
 Aggressive
 Barriers to assertiveness:
 Being Unclear
 Self Doubt
 Poor presentation

11. 5. Relaxing
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The next part of managing stress is relaxation.
 Using your body to relax
 Using Imagination
 Virtualization

12. 6. Improving your sleep
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Sleep can manage your Stress
 Having a routine: Stick to it
 What you Eat & Drink: Light snack of carbohydrate
rich food, Milk.
 Changing Sleep environment

13. 7. Doing & Being
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 Increase Self – Efficacy: More Self Belief
 Confident
 Knowledge on one’s strengths & Weakness
 Ability to execute a plan of action
 Self Transcendence: Type of freedom
 Two Halves of a whole
 Doing
 Being

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