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What is stress?
 1. Alarm
Stress is your alarm system that is keeping a pulse on your safety.
2. Survival
A healthy amount stress keeps us alert, motivated and safe.
3. Always There
We cannot fully eliminate stress in our lives, what we can do is
process and manage our stress.

Ritu Riyat - The Stress Detox Founder | Mind/Body Health Expert

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Why stress is
not the enemy
MYTHS OR FACTS?
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 Stress can be beneficial

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 1. Healthy stress or “eustress”

• Eustress can release endorphins and temporarily boost

performance
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 Stress is universal

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 2. Stress is different for everyone
• Stress have different causes and different manifestations
• Stress does not arise from circumstances or occurrences
• Changing the way we perceive stressors will help us to reduce
stress

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 What comes to mind when you hear the word stress?

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 Stress is directly related
to the hours you work

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 3. Doing what you love
• People who love what they do will have less stress despite working
more hours

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 Stress only needs attention
when you develop major
symptoms

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 4. Ignoring minor symptoms can lead
to major symptoms
• There are as many as 50 common symptoms of stress
• We may not even realize that what we are feeling are symptoms of
stress
• Listen to what your body and your mind are trying to tell you

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 Stress management
doesn’t mean
eliminating all stress

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 5. Stress cannot be eliminated
completely
• Trying to eliminate all stress would only create more stress
• Maintain a balance between the stress you can and cannot control

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 Summary
• Eustress makes us ready to adapt to meet challenges
• People have different emotional reactions to the same
circumstances
• Loving what you do for a living will help minimize the stress
• Not managing your stress can lead to major symptoms
• Focus your stress-management efforts on eliminating the
stressors that you can control and developing strategies to handle
those you cannot

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HOW TO BEFRIEND
STRESS?
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 Instead of viewing stress as negative,

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 reframe it as something that is preparing you to
achieve your goal
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STRESS AND WORKING
FROM HOME
 Have you experienced…
Chronic Pain Sleep Problems

Unwanted Weight
Moodiness Change

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• SET A SCHEDULE…AND TRY TO STICK TO IT
• USE PERSONAL ERRANDS OR ACTIVITIES TO
TAKE BREAKS
• WORK IN A SPACE THAT’S DISTINCT FROM THE
REST OF YOUR HOME
• EAT A PROPER LUNCH

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 Breathing Exercises to
Relieve Stress
One-Minute
Belly Breathing
Alternate Nostril
Breathing
Breathing

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