Stress management techniques for the workplace. Stress is the physical and emotional strain caused by pressure from external sources. It can cause tension, irritability, inability to concentrate, and physical symptoms like headaches. Employers should provide a stress-free work environment and address sources of stress to improve productivity and health. Common stress reduction techniques include humor, exercise, rehydration, naps, herbal tea, and crying. Adopting a positive attitude can help manage stress.

1. Stress Management
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at workplace

2. What Is Stress?
What Is Stress?
Stress is the emotional and physical strain caused
by our response to pressure from the outside
world. Common stress reactions include tension,
irritability, inability to concentrate, and a variety of
physical symptoms that include headache and a fast
physical symptoms that include headache and a fast
heartbeat.

3. Quote:‐
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than
he would shun food, love or exercise.
Hans Selye

4. Stress at workplace
Employers should provide a stress‐free work environment,
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recognize where stress is becoming a problem for staff, and
take action to reduce stress. Stress in the workplace reduces
productivity, increases management pressures, and makes
people ill in many ways, evidence of which is still increasing.
Workplace stress affects the performance of the brain,
Workplace stress affects the performance of the brain
including functions of work performance; memory,
concentration, and learning.

5. How to avoid or control Stress?

6. Here are some
Here are some
best Stress reducing Techniques

7. What you do?
If you are stressed, do one or all of these things, in
If you are stressed do one or all of these things in
whatever order that takes your fancy.

8. What you do?
The key to de‐stressing in the moment is getting
away from or removing yourself from the stressor.

9. What you do?
Developing new habits which regularly remove you
and distract you from stressors and stressful
situations and pressures is essentially how to
manage stress on a more permanent basis.
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10. What you do?
In this modern world it is difficult if not impossible
to change stressful situations. What we can do
however is change and reduce our exposure to
those stressful situations.
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11. Stress reduction Techniques
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These stress reduction techniques are based on the
simple principle. These tips won t change the
simple principle These tips won't change the
situation causing the stress, but they will, more
importantly, enable you to change your reaction and
importantly, enable you to change your reaction and
relationship to the stressful situations.

12. Technique 1 – Humor
Humor is one of the greatest and quickest devices
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for reducing stress.
Humor works because laughter produces helpful
chemicals in the brain.
Humor also gets your brain thinking and working in a
different way ‐ it di t t
diff t it distracts you from having a stressed
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mindset. Distraction is a simple effective de‐stressor
‐ it takes your thoughts away from the stress, and
thereby diffuses the stressful feelings.
thereby diffuses the stressful feelings

13. Technique 2 ‐ Brisk walk and self‐talk
Go for a short quick really brisk walk outside.
Go for a short quick really brisk walk outside
Yes, actually leave the building.
Change your environment.
Breathe in some fresh air and smell the
atmosphere...
Trees, rain, flowers, traffic fumes ‐ doesn't
matter ‐ stimulate your senses with new things.

14. Technique 3 – Rehydrate
Go get a big cup or a bottle of water.
Here's why... Most of us fail to drink enough
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water ‐ that's water ‐ not tea, coffee, coke,
'sports' drinks, Red Bull or fruit juice...
All of your organs, including your brain, are
strongly dependent on water to function
properly. It's how we are built.
If you starve your body of water you will function
below your best ‐ and you will get stressed.
Physically and mentally.
Physically and mentally

15. Technique 4 ‐ Catnap or powernap
(Not so easy but still perfectly possible)
Take a quick nap. It is nature's way of
recharging and re‐energizing.
A quick 10‐30 minutes' sleep is very helpful to
reduce stress.
It's obviously essential if you are driving while
tired, but a quick sleep is a powerful de‐
stressor too.

16. Technique 5 ‐ Make a cup of Tea
Any tea will do, but a flavored cup of tea is
even better.
Experiment with different natural flavorings
using herbs and spices and fruit.
Fresh mint is wonderful, and excellent for the
digestive system.
Ginger root is brilliant. Many herbs, spices,
fruits and edible plants make great flavored
tea, and many herbs and spices have real
tea and many herbs and spices have real
therapeutic properties.

17. Technique 6 ‐ Crying
Not much is known about the physiology of crying
and tears, although many find that crying ‐ weeping
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proper tears ‐ has a powerful helpful effect on
stress levels.
Whatever the science behind crying, but when you
cry you feel lighter from the stress (burden).
Of course how and where you choose to submit to
this most basic of emotional impulses is up to you.

18. Quote:
Quote:‐
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative
stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye

19. Thank your for your time.
Thank your for your time.
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