Stress in the workplace. Stress is, unfortunately a by product of the world in which we live, we are never able to fully switch off. A daily commute and a full day in the office is stressful in its self, especially if you have had to get the family ready before you even step out of the door. Lets not forget those who work from their home, that too has its own stresses. Wherever our work places maybe, the constant bombardment from different media platforms and the competitiveness that is in almost all industries cause stress related illness. This is a fact. Stress is responsible for lost work days and in the current financial having to take time off work causes more stress and a cycle of anxiousness that can be extremely detrimental not only to our own health and well being, but also to those around us.
Most work related stress is caused by ourselves or an employer putting too much pressure on us. Dare I say that as women we beat ourselves up over the smallest things? We want to be good at our jobs, but also an outstanding mother, accomplished cook and at the end of the day a desirable partner. It is perhaps worth reminding ourselves that we do not have to excel in all these things every day, even the best jugglers drop a ball occasionally! As an employee, we are entitled to certain courtesies from our employer, not least proper lunch breaks and realistic goals as stated in our contracts, these are often overlooked. As self-employees it is very hard to switch off and relax.
We all want to be successful but doing it at the expense of your our health, rather defeats the object. Here are 10 top tips to help you manage your workload and daily activities to minimise your stress levels.
Prioritize your workload. This might sound obvious but many people don’t do it. Decide what is important and do that first. Leave less critical work until later, or delegate it to someone else.
Keep a stress diary. When you feel stressed and things are becoming too much to cope with, write down how you are feeling and what you were doing at the time. Try to identify what is causing you the stress. A diary will help you do this.
Set your alarm clock 30 minutes earlier so you have more time to eat a proper breakfast before you go in to work. Many people skip breakfast but it is the most important meal of the day.
Keep your desk at work free from clutter. Remove all unnecessary items and just keep things that enable you to do your job on your desk. Maintaining a tidy and uncluttered work environment helps you focus on work.
Learn to relax. Stop for 5 minutes each hour if you can. Look away from your computer or get away from the telephone. Take some deep breaths and try to empty your mind.
Learn to say no! You can’t do everything even if you think you can. Managers and colleagues might ask you to do work but if you don’t have the time, then politely say no. If it is that critical then make sure they understand your current work will have to be put on hold. Explain that any existing deadline you had will have to be extended. This might prompt them to ask somebody else.
Eat properly. You are entitled to a lunch break so make sure you take it. Move away from your desk and eat your lunch in a relaxed space so you aren’t tempted to continue working or answer telephones.
Set realistic goals. It’s healthy to make targets for yourself but make sure they are achievable. If you have to make a certain number of phone calls to clients each day then work out what’s reasonable for you to do.
Curb your aggression. As things get on top of you, it’s easy to become aggressive towards people. Try not to lose your temper when things go wrong, or when people don’t do what you ask them to do. When you feel that rage starting to build, sit back, take a couple of deep breaths and smile.
Show some humour. Being able to laugh can be a great tonic for stress. You can turn a stressful situation around just by injecting some humour into a conversation.
by Margot Bloom - Mrs Bloom's Modern Lifestyle Management - www.bloomhq.blogspot.com
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Health Magazine News. Before women are pregnant, many will consider taking the soft option and have a caesarean section. When they become pregnant and their hormones do somersaults. They read some more about caesarean and realize that maybe they aren't the easy option they'd thought, either for themselves or their babies, and it dawns on them that this could be a painful experience.
The other thing that happens when you're pregnant is that people immediately feel entitled to express an opinion and give you advice. You are inundated with horror stories about other people's experiences in labour; and somewhere along the line somebody mentions Childbirth Hypnotherapy or Hypnobirthing and how you can have a natural pain free birth. So you go home and Google it... This is how it all began.
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At the beginning of the last century there was a young obstetrician, Grantly Dick-Reed working at the London Hospital in Whitechapel. This was the area of the docks, which was the poorest slum area of London, at a time when only wealthy people who could afford to pay could go to hospital.
One night, Dick-Reed was called out to attend a home delivery; It was in such a poor dwelling that there was water dripping through the roof and no money for a bed or blankets. When he got there, he offered the woman chloroform for pain relief, but she waved him away. Much to his credit he stood back and watched as she gave birth naturally and easily with no drugs and no pain. He asked her why she had refused pain relief, as this was completely outside his experience, and she simply said to him: "It didn't hurt". It wasn't meant to, was it, Doctor? This simply statement stuck in his head like a mantra.
Back at the hospital that evening, he was met by a nurse who said: "It's been a very boring evening, but it looks as if there's a woman down the corridor who'll need help soon, and he was really struck by the contrast between the beautiful, natural delivery he had just attended, and the fact that in the hospital it was considered boring unless there was an intervention.
Dick-Reed had seen many women having painful births which contrasted so strongly with the natural delivery he had just attended, and he puzzled why it should be so. Eventually he came up with the theory that the root of the problem was fear. Because of fear, the muscles tense up, and the natural process of birth is inhibited, so it becomes less efficient, longer and, therefore painful.
At the end of his career he wrote a seminal book on natural birth, 'Childbirth Without Fear', and the principals he propounded still hold good today. The research into how the hormones work in pregnancy was not done until after he had finished his career but, in due course, his theory was fully vindicated.
Since Dick-Reed's time, the principles have been developed further, most notably by Hypno birthing, the leading method of childbirth education today, which will no doubt be developed further over the years ahead.
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Health Magazine News. Claire Hegarty a Stop Smoking Hypnotist says you can give up smoking. A lot of people are now thinking about giving up smoking especially now that an average packet of cigarettes costs £5.50 and according to reports before the Conservatives sadly got into power, cigarettes within the next five years could go up to £10 a pack to convince people to give up their habit of smoking. So it is no winder that people are now turning to Stop Smoking Hypnosis in their battle to give up the fags, but does it really work.
So how does hypnotherapy help people to stop smoking? According to Claire Hegarty who is a Hypnotherapy expert, she says it is about retraining the mind. To make things simpler, Claire explains that the brain is sue to a person smoking and craves for a cigarette, but if you retrain that brain and the thoughts of the brain, you can then encourage and retrain the brain to stop having cravings for cigarettes, hence you no longer feel that you need to have a cigarette to cop with stress or after a meal.
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Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy allows you to stop smoking and retrains the mind so you do not have cravings, irritability, mood swings or bad temper because you have given up smoking which can happen if you try to give up without using hypnotherapy.” Claire Hegarty says
One of the most frequent reasons why people who do not use hypnotherapy to give up smoking return to the fags is due to the cravings and will power. A lot of people fail because they do not have the will power to give up smoking and according to the survey the person who has given up smoking is encouraged to go back to the fags by their partners due to their mood swings and basically being hard to live with.
Hypnotherapy has provided an easier way to stop smoking. It works with the unconscious mind by giving it positive suggestions so that the mind can start the positive changes in behaviour pattern of the person. Research has proved that hypnotherapy is highly effective with smoking cessation, with a success rate of more than 66%. The success rate of other methods like Nicotine Replacement Products, behaviour therapy and trying to quit on your own came out to be 25%, 25% and 5% respectively.
The hypnotherapy session involves a meeting with a Hypnotherapist who puts the person into a hypnotic state and feeding suggestion to the subconscious like he is not a smoker and hates cigarettes. The cigarette smoke makes him ill and he has no cravings for nicotine. Many therapies are applied and smoking is paired with unpleasant experiences of the person. The subconscious thus repulses or signals to quit whenever the person is going to light a cigarette or involved in a smoking environment.
Hypnotherapy is successful in case of stopping smoking as it directly deals with the subconscious. The urge to light a cigarette and cravings for nicotine come from within so subconscious is the best place to stop the cravings before they become intense. Many times combining hypnosis with other stop smoking methods give last longing effects.
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