Stress

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Stress
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What is Stress?

• the bodys reaction to the physical and mental
  demands of daily life

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How does your body react to stress?

• adrenal glands release the hormone adrenaline
  which has positive AND negative effects

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Stages of Stress
alarm
resistance
exhaustion
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The Alarm Stage

• Body prepares for immediate confrontation
• Helps you reach your goals
• Body is alert and focused

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Alarm Stage- Effects on the body

• breathing increases pupils dilate
• hearing sharpens digestion slows
• heart rate increases muscles tighten
• more blood flow

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The Resistance Stage

• body tries to return to normal

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Resistance Stage- Effects on the body

• pupils constrict
• hearing returns to normal
• heart rate decreases
• muscles relax
• less blood flow

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The Exhaustion Stage

• Body can no longer sustain its resistance
• The risk of stress related disease increases

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Exhaustion Stage-Effects on the Body

• headaches ulcers diabetes
• depressed immune system
• high blood pressure gastritis
• heart disease diarrhea
• strokes death

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Types of Stress

• Short term Stress
• Occurs with emergency situations
• Body returns to normal after the incident
• This is NECESSARY stress and keeps you ALIVE!

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Stress

• Long Term Stress
• Occurs with continual problems
• Does not help the body adapt to the situation
• Stress is not relieved so body doesnt return to
  normal
• This is BAD for the body!

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Ways to Manage Pressure
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Managing Pressure

• Talk

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Managing Pressure

• Redirect
• Physical activity!

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Managing Pressure

• Relax

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Managing Pressure

• Laugh

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• Laughing helps arteries and boosts blood
  flow?2145 07 March 2005?NewScientist.com news
  service?Andy Coghlan
• Laughing appears to be almost as beneficial as a
  workout in boosting the health of blood vessels,
  a new study suggests."Thirty minutes of exercise
  three times a week and 15 minutes of hearty
  laughter each day should be part of a healthy
  lifestyle," says Michael Miller of the University
  of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, US,
  whose team has shown that laughter relaxes
  arteries and boosts blood flow.He showed clips
  from the comedy movie King Pin to 20 volunteers.
  Before and afterwards, he made ultrasound
  measurements of blood flow and dilation in the
  brachial artery in the arm. The scans showed that
  in all but one of the volunteers, the volunteers'
  arteries relaxed and blood flowed more freely
  than usual for 30 to 45 minutes after the
  film.The opposite happened when the same people
  watched harrowing scenes from the war movie
  Saving Private Ryan. In 14 of the 20 volunteers,
  the artery wall constricted, reducing blood flow.
  Overall, blood flow decreased by 35 after the
  stressful clips and increased by 22 during
  laughter.Laughter liningsThe results suggest that
  laughter could help keep the lining of the
  arteries - the endothelium - healthy and thus
  reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. "At
  the very least, laughter offsets the impact of
  mental stress, which is harmful to the
  endothelium," Miller says."It's logical that
  positive emotions might have the opposite
  effect," says Andrew Steptoe of University
  College London, UK, whose studies in 2000 showed
  that acute mental stress impairs endothelial
  function. "There is increasing scientific
  interest in the possibility that positive
  emotional states are beneficial to health," he
  says.Miller, who presented his results to the
  American College of Cardiology meeting in
  Orlando, Florida, on Monday, now hopes to find
  out why laughter is beneficial. "We don't know if
  there's a direct effect by laughing, or an
  indirect effect by reducing stress.
• http//www.newscientist.com/article.ns?iddn7103