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    Stress-less: Your guide to better living
    Stress-less: Your guide to better living
    Stress-less: Your guide to better living
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    Stress-less: Your guide to better living

    By Zita Weber

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    In Stress-less: Your guide to better living, you’ll make discoveries about what’s known about stress and how we can stress less in our lives yet retain our interest and verve for living. Without stress there is no life, however, there is ‘good stress’ and ‘bad stress’ and how we can tell the difference is what counts. How do we give ourselves a ‘stress inoculation’ shot? How do we use stress to help us in our work and relationships and how do we counter stress that negatively affects our daily lives?

    You’ll hear from other people who’ve experienced stress and what they found helps them. Sharing strategies is a positive way of opening up the conversation about what helps and hinders our stress levels. You’ll also be given the opportunity to do some tasks and exercises that will help you understand yourself and your responses to stress. By understanding yourself and your responses better, you can empower yourself to use stress as a positive force in your life. And you’ll be empowered to eliminate the stress that gets in the way of healthy living.

    Stress-less for a more positive life. Your journey begins here.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZita Weber
    Release dateDec 11, 2011
    ISBN9781466071926
    Stress-less: Your guide to better living
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    Zita Weber

    Dr. Zita Weber PhD is an experienced therapist, counselor and academic who specializes in grief and loss, women and depression, relationships and sexuality. She is the author of Back from the Blues, Out of the Blues, Good Grief, Skills for Human Service Practice, The Best Years of a Woman's Life, Unfaithfully Yours and Sex for Sale.

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      Stress-less - Zita Weber

      Stress–less

      Your guide to better living

      By

      Zita Weber Ph.D.

      Copyright 2011 Zita Weber

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re–sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever including Internet usage, without written permission of the author.

      Contents

      Author’s Note

      One – What’s this thing called stress?

      Two – Am I going mad?

      Three – Getting through the day

      Four – Facing up to what has to be done

      Five – Handling work: the specter of burnout

      Six – Taking the stress out of relationships

      Seven – Helpful strategies

      Eight – Just for fun

      Author’s Note

      Stress as we’ve come to know it is something negative that we feel we should eliminate from our lives. Yet, without some level of stress, we would be listless and bored. The trick is getting the balance right. Just enough stress to make life interesting and worth living but not enough to create the many physical and psychological ailments of our fast–paced modern society.

      In this little book, you’ll make discoveries about what’s known about stress and how we can stress less in our lives yet retain our interest and verve for living. Without stress there is no life, however, there is ‘good stress’ and ‘bad stress’ and how we can tell the difference is what counts. How do we give ourselves a ‘stress inoculation’ shot? How do we use stress to help us in our work and relationships and how do we counter stress that negatively affects our daily lives?

      You’ll hear from other people who’ve experienced stress and what they found helps them. Sharing strategies is a positive way of opening up the conversation about what helps and hinders our stress levels. You’ll also be given the opportunity to do some tasks and exercises that will help you understand yourself and your responses to stress. By understanding yourself and your responses better, you can empower yourself to use stress as a positive force in your life. And you’ll be empowered to eliminate the stress that gets in the way of healthy living.

      Stress–less for a more positive life. Your journey begins here.

      ONE

      What’s this thing called stress?

      Everyone’s heard of it. Stress. It’s all around us. It’s part of everyone’s life. Stress is the application of some force or pressure to something. Basically, we need some force or pressure in our lives to get us moving. Stress also can keep us moving.

      Imagine too much force being applied to something. It bends. Too much force may cause a permanent distortion. Or the object may break. So it is with people.

      Think about stress as arousal. When you have very low levels of arousal, you feel under–stimulated and chances are, you are under–motivated. You need more stimulation or arousal. On the other hand, very high levels of arousal will leave you over–stimulated and you feel revved up.

      People who find themselves in a state of over–arousal show all the signs of too much stress – at risk of bending or breaking. They complain of anxiety, tension, fatigue, and other physical symptoms. Sometimes people who are stressed try to cope with their over–arousal by smoking, eating or drinking too much. This is likely to add to their problems. It may feel like stress management to them, but in the long–run, such behaviors merely complicate and add to their high levels of stress.

      Stress – your friend and foe

      Let’s take a look at the simple term, ‘stress’. It’s not so simple really. Stress is a word which masks something much more complicated – stress can mean different things to different people and different things to the same person in different situations.

      Remember that where

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