How Do Books and Downloads Relieve My Stress?

When you are under stress, your autonomic nervous system thinks you are being threatened and turns on the stress response. This is the mechanism that helps you get out of dangerous situations. Some people refer to it as being in “fight or flight” mode.

Hormones like adrenaline and cortisol rush through the body. The heart beat, breathing rate, and blood pressure increases. Blood and energy is diverted away from things like digestion and the immune system to places like muscles which may need extra energy to escape danger. This response is designed to be short-lived, only on for a few minutes at a time.

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Welcome to the Stress Management Place.

Our Mission is simple:

STRESS RELIEF

These are stress filled times. Consider these facts:

• 75-90% of adult visits to primary care physicians are for stress related problems.


• 89% of adults describe experiencing "high levels of stress."


• 1 million employees are absent on an average workday because of stress related problems.


• More people have heart attacks on Monday morning at 9:00 A.M. than at any other time of the week.

We strive to provide for you the tools that can help you manage stress more effectively and thereby, live more satisfying and rewarding lives. We believe that personal health and wellness means being able to do whatever you want to do at the level you want to do it. Health is not an end but a means to accomplishing everything else you want to do in life.

Combined with proper nutrition and appropriate exercise, managing stress will allow you to accomplish your goals and desires joyfully, with far less stress, and with an abundance of energy.

We will you help you get there.

This website is your online resource designed to help you feel a lot better. Our goal is to provide you with resources such as: books, online media, articles, information, and other resources that can help you achieve a happy, healthy, and productive life.

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All Stress Begins with our Thoughts

All stress begins with a thought. It isn’t what’s happening “out there” that initiates the stress response. It’s how we interpret what’s happening “out there” that causes us to become stressed or not. We call this a perception of a threat. If we think this situation will lead to some kind of pain (emotional, mental, spiritual, or physical), we turn on the stress response automatically to prepare for the potential pain. The potential pain is what we call a “threat.” Prevention of stress, then, is best done by focusing on our thoughts, by changing how we think about those things we think are threatening.

This first Blog looks directly at our thoughts and some things we can ask ourselves to help us prevent stress:

Parable of the Stacked Stones

I love to bike, hike, and run in the hills and mountains of northern and southern Utah. I love the workout of going up. I love the thrill and speed of coming down. Best of all, I love the views I get when I reach the tops of the trails.

How Do Books and Downloads Relieve My Stress?

When you are under stress, your autonomic nervous system thinks you are being threatened and turns on the stress response. This is the mechanism that helps you get out of dangerous situations. Some people refer to it as being in “fight or flight” mode.

Hormones like adrenaline and cortisol rush through the body. The heart beat, breathing rate, and blood pressure increases. Blood and energy is diverted away from things like digestion and the immune system to places like muscles which may need extra energy to escape danger. This response is designed to be short-lived, only on for a few minutes at a time.

Stairs vs. Escalator

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Let’s begin with level flying …

Borrowing from the words of Jonathon Livingston Seagull, as he started with his new gulls, he said, “Let’s begin with level flying.”

As we begin this new semester, I’m going to be taking a lot of the two classes – Stress Management, the Art of Emotional Wellness – into the digital, technological, and WWW world. It’s going to be fun and interesting to watch it develop in this direction, but I’m excited for the challenge it presents.

As we pursue this path, let’s first ask ourselves, “How happy am I?” “What things do I find stressful?” “Is my stress taking its toll on how well I’m doing with my health, my performance, my relationships, and anywhere else?”

Ask yourself also, what would it be like to be living your life without the stress?

Wouldn’t that be nice?

Well that’s where we’re going in the next three months … so hang on, feel free to contribute, and enjoy the ride?