This document outlines a presentation on stress management. It discusses: - The objectives of understanding stress and managing it to increase productivity. - What stress is, its effects on psychology and physiology, and common workplace stressors. - How stress is triggered in the body through the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and effects like cortisol release. - Ways to renew the body through mindfulness, compassion, hopefulness, and laughter to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system and release oxytocin/vasopressin to counteract stress. - A commitment for participants to track stressful and renewing events daily to help balance renewal against stress.

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Stress Management…best bet to vitality and health
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2. Content of Presentation
Section 1:
 Introduction
 Objectives
 Stress?
 Psychology of Stress
 Neuroscience of Stress
Section 2: Renewal
 Mindfulness
 Hopefulness
 Compassion
 Laughter, Joy and Fun
Section 3:
Possible Commitments
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Post-Training Assignment

3. Introduction
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Our Vision
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Introduction
Stress is an indispensable aspect of human
lives, we survive on it.
Stress influence our behaviour and thus our
relations with others at work.
Stress has serious health interactions if not
properly managed can be consequential.
To properly manage stress, it has to be
identified, understood, and controlled.
What we call growth a lot
of times is aftermath of
some kind of stress.

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Objectives
Now a day the corporate sector is booming in a high speed that the people
have to work for prolonged hours to maintain the standard of living and
achieve their basic needs. So is the condition in the hospitals, colleges and
lots of other places. In spit of having the modern technologies and facilities,
people are feeling themselves to be work loaded and stressed.
Considering the vivid correlation between stress and productivity in
organizations’ human resources, it becomes expedient to discuss
stress management in work places.
The ultimate goal of this presentation is to have participants better
understand inevitability of stress, and rather its management and
how to channel it to organizations’ productivity.

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Stress?
Stress is the general term describing the psychological and physical
response to a stimuli that alters the body’s equilibrium (Lazarus &
Folkman, 1984 in Kosslyn & Rosenberg, 2006)
Stress is an adaptive response mediated by individual characteristics
and psychological process, that is, a consequence of any external
action, situation or event that places special physical and
psychological demands upon a person.
PHYSICAL,
PSYCHOLOGICAL & PHYSIOLOGICAL
AND BEHAVIORIAL DEVIATIONS
FOR ORGANISATIONAL PARTICIPATION”
Result/Consequences

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Workplace Stressors
1. Over time
2. Quotas
3. Deadlines
4. Competitiveness
5. Physical demand
6. Environmental conditions
7. Hazards encountered
8. Initiative required
9. Stamina required
10.Win / lose situations
11.Working in the public eye

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Workplace Stressors
Organizational policies
Unfavorable, Unfair and arbitrary
performance evaluation,
Unrealistic job description,
Frequent reallocation of activity,
Rotating work shifts, Ambiguous
procedures, Inflexible rules,
Inequality of incentives
Organization structure
lack of opportunity of participation,
lack of advancement,
lack of high degree of specialization
Organizational process
Poor communication, Poor and
inadequate feedback of work
performance, Ambiguous and
conflicting roles, Unfair control
systems, Inadequate information
flow etc
Physical conditions
Crowding and lack of privacy,
Excessive noise, Excessive heat or
cold, Pressure of toxic chemicals and
radiation, Air pollution, Poor lighting

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Psychology of Stress
Stress happens absolutely in the mind!
- It happens in the mind but ravages a whole world.
Stress in a work place - “It is a condition arising from the
interaction of people and their jobs and characterized by
changes within people that force them to deviate from
their normal functioning”

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Neuroscience of Stress
•Trigger of Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis (Sympathetic
Nervous System)
•Secretion of Epinephrine, Norepinephrine and Cortisol (Neuro
transmitters and Hormones – Vaso-Constricters)
•Results in shallow breath, pulling away of blood from extrimities
(epi-to the hand and norepi to the legs) and pulling from the
brain as well.
•Also Cortisol – anti inflammatory, conversion of fat cells to
glucose and energy, turns off immune system in abt 8-10min also
inhibit neurogenesis

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Neuroscience of Stress

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Possible Consequences
Health wise:
Cognitive perceptual and emotional impairment,
70 % visual coverage reduces to about 30%,
Type 2 diabetes,
Influenza, bacterial infection, ulcers, some forms of cancers, heart
attacks, strokes, sleep disorders, git difficulty and sexual
dysfunctions
At work:
Reduced productivity, poor tolerance for human
differences, narrow judgment, loss of creativity,
frequent mistakes, increased procrastination, etc.

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How come you’re not dead?
The body has a counter mechanism but the allostatic
load strain outweighs what the body is designed to
handle and so, gradual accumulation leads to chronic
stress.
However, humans have the ability to intentionally
increase the body’s capacity for renewal.

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Renewal
The renewal process goes through the same path with stress but
in opposite direction and hence the symptoms are opposite.
Triggered: Parasympathetic Nervous System
Released: Oxytocin in women, Vasopressin in men – Vaso-dilators –
Results: Opposite reactions, deeper breath, feeling warm, blood in
extremities, warm extremities, blood pressure down, pulse rate down,
deeper breathe.
When we are revived, we become most creative, at cognitive best, can
do most complex activities, can understand most individual differences,
better cognitively, perceptually, emotionally and immunity restored,
Neurogenesis occurs, etc.

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Renewal
The renewal process goes through the same path with stress but
in opposite direction and hence the symptoms are opposite.
Triggered: Parasympathetic Nervous System
Released: Oxytocin in women, Vasopressin in men – Vaso-dilators –
Results: Opposite reactions, deeper breath, feeling warm, blood in
extremities, warm extremities, blood pressure down, pulse rate down,
deeper breathe.
When we are revived, we become most creative, at cognitive best, can
do most complex activities, can understand most individual differences,
better cognitively, perceptually, emotionally and immunity restored,
Neurogenesis occurs, etc.

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Renewal
•Mindfulness, meditation, yoga, prayer (to a loving
God)
•Compassion, loving relationship, pets (you can
stroke), volunteering (helping those less fortunate),
care giving (voluntary)
•Hopefulness
•Laughter, joy and playfulness

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Action Point – Commitment
From today, before you crash in to your bed,
between the hour you woke up and hour you go to
bed (daily) write things that are annoyingly stressful
and/or things that are renewing.
After 2 weeks, do a self appraisal and begin to find
ways to tilt the balance to the renewing side.

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Conclusion
After all said, you will do good to agree that stress is born
usually when our minds weigh a demand to exceed
supply.
This deficiency is most common with knowledge, so a
very good antidote is to grab every opportunity to acquire
new knowledge, this is the actual growth that can help
calm the mind in the face exploration and adventure that
typifies human existence.

21. Thank You!
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