SCOPE

• What is Stress?

• Causes of Stress

• Measures to Avoid Stress

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 STRESS MANAGEMENT

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 AIM

TO APPRISE THE HOUSE WITH

STRESS AND STRESS
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 SCOPE

• What is Stress?

• Causes of Stress

• Measures to Avoid Stress

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 SEQUENCE

• Emergence of Stress
• What is Stress?
• Definition of Stress
• Types of Stresses
• Causes of Stresses
• Categories of Stress

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 SEQUENCE

• Techniques to Manage stress

• Summary
• Conclusion
• Question & Answers

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 EMERGENCE OF STRESS

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 WHAT IS STRESS ?

Stress is the “wear and tear” our minds and

bodies experience as we attempt to cope
with our continually changing environment
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 DEFINITION

Stress is a non-specific response by the

human-body to a demand placed on it
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 DEFINITION

S=P>R
Stress occurs when the pressure is greater than the
resources available
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 TYPES OF STRESS

Positive stress Negative stress

“Eutress” “Distress”
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 U FUNCTION

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 CAUSES OF STRESS

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 CAUSES OF STRESS

• Job Stress
– Work responsibilities can
be a significant source of
stress
– Conflict in the workplace
– Boredom because of under
tasking
– Over tasking and Poorly
defined responsibilities

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 CAUSES OF STRESS

• Illness
– Any illness-acute or
major-brings change in
our body condition

– Prolonged illness makes

a person fatigued,
irritable and affects his
performance

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 CAUSES OF STRESS

• Family Issues
– Source of emotional
strength and can be
cause of stress
– Job commitments
affects the family affairs
– Family commitments
may adversely affect the
performance of an
individual
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 CAUSES OF STRESS

• Life Trauma
– Can disturb an
individuals attitude or
behavior
– Problems like divorce
and death of close
family member
– Can affect the
performance in every
sphere of life
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 CAUSES OF STRESS

• Social issues
– Constantly changing
economic and political
situation
– Makes each individual-rich
or poor-doubtful about his
and his family’s future
– This Uncertainty in life
acts as powerful stressors

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 CATEGORIES OF STRESS
• Acute stress
– Demands placed on body due current issues
– Time constraint, bad weather or equipment failure
• Chronic stress
– Long term demands of lifestyle or personal
situation
– Health, relationship or job security
– It makes the controllable situation difficult at
times, once combined with acute stress

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 MESSENGERS

HAPPY SAD
MESSAGES MESSAGES

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 MALFUNCTION OF
MESSENGERS
• 1st Happy
messenger
– It makes a person to
have sleep
– Sets the body clock
and temperature
– 1st sign of
overstress, unable
to sleep properly

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 MALFUNCTION OF
MESSENGERS
• 2nd Happy
messenger
– It sets up the body
energy level
– Overstress person
would feel
exhausted tired and
without energy

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 MALFUNCTION OF
MESSENGERS
• 3rd Happy messenger
(two functions)
– A natural pain killer
– It runs body “Pleasure
Center” to enjoy life
– Overstress person feels
life painful and without
pleasure

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 STRESS MANAGEMENT

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 STRESS MANAGEMENT
• There exist two malpractices to lower the
Stress
– “Pick me Ups”
• They work by chemically
boosting one or more of Happy
Messenger levels
• Temporarily restore balance to
your OVERSTRESSED brain
• Includes sugar, caffeine, alcohol
and tobacco, which can
temporarily make you feel better

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– “Put me downs”
• These are medicines that
temporarily force the body
into sleeping or tranquilizing
• The most well known drug is
Valium
• They work temporarily and
after some time the aches
pains and fatigues comes
back

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Clock Work
– Disruption in the
function of your Body
Clock
– It will take two or three
weeks to synchronize
your Body Clock to your
schedule

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Time Management
– One of the effective way
of dealing day to day
stressor
– To do list is the easiest
way of doing things in
orderly manner

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Plan Breaks in a Day
– Aim is to have time for
unexpected events
– Try to have some time
exclusively for yourself in
the morning and afternoon
– 5 minutes in an hour to
shut down and think of a
perfect situation

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Healthy balance diet
– Its necessary to
keep the stress level
low
– It always keeps blood
sugar steady
– Small meals in a day
rather then large
ones

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Eat More Vegetables
– Serotonin, a happy
messenger is sensitive to
the diet
– More vegetable increases
the production of this
messenger
– Take salad in your in lunch

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Reduce Pick me Ups
– Reduce intake of caffeine
in the form of excessive
tea and coffee
– Reduce intake of alcohol
– Minimize intake of
tobacco

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Avoid surrounding that can trigger the
allergy
– Its consider one of the main source of stress
– Example, some people have pollen allergy ,
some are allergic to fragrance
– Avoid the area around which can trigger such
allergy

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Exercise
– Biggest stress reliever
– Distracts from the cause
of stress
– Healthy body reduces
stress susceptibility
– Even a small walk can
change mood and boosts
the happy messengers

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Learn how to relax
– Practice deep breathing
by slowly inhaling and
exhaling
– Give pause between
each breath
– Concentrate just on
breathing
– Massage is also good
for relaxation

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Remain organized
– Mess creates
confusion and sense
of loss of power
– Make thing
organized and tidy
– This will make thing
more in control

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Discuss Problems
– Loneliness is the ally of
stress
– Discuss stressors with
sympathetic ear
– May if be your wife or a
close friend

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 TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE
STRESS
• Prayers

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 QURAN & STRESS
MANAGEMENT

"Those who believe, and whose hearts

find satisfaction in the remembrance of
Allah: for without doubt in the
remembrance of Allah do hearts find
satisfaction.
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 SUMMARY

• Definition of Stress
• Types of Stresses
• Causes of Stresses
• Categories of Stress
• Techniques to Manage stress

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 CONCLUSION

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 A WORD OF WISDOM

“If you can’t put aside a little time now for

some recreation and exercise. Make
sure you put aside a lot of time later for
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 QUESTIONS

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