Holiday Season Stress

Major Contributors to Holiday Season Stress

So what are the major contributors to creating this holiday season stress? The first and foremost is the pressure of the financial aspect of the season. Whatever your holiday may consist of it usually means exchanging gifts of some kind at this time of the year. Selecting, purchasing, wrapping and exchanging gifts is one of the most stress-producing rituals of the whole season. In our family, we take the approach of names in a hat, where each of us selects one person upon which we can lavish a grand total of twenty-five dollars. This has helped our twenty-plus member family breath much easier as the season progresses, and helps a lot in reducing the holiday season stress syndrome.

Another huge stress producing activity can be the family gatherings. Let’s face it, there aren’t a whole lot of families that I have ever heard about that have a full-time fantastic family dynamic. Our world would be a beautiful place if all families were accepting and offered unconditional mature love to everyone, but it just isn’t so. Too much rich food, too much alcohol, too many deserts; all of these things create a general discomfort that can amplify the family dynamics. Approaching these events with a willingness to forgive and forget for the sake of getting along is a great remedy for the personal soul. By taking this approach you relieve your own stress. It isn’t for the other family members, although it may rub off; but it becomes a personal release. There is no greater sense of comfort and well-being than being in a loving, nurturing, accepting family environment. This helps to dissolve the holiday season stress, instead of the anticipation of the battlefield!

Addressing Holiday Season Stress

There are ways to deal with the underlying causes of stress, many of which are physiological and come from the lack of nutrients that help your body to overcome the aging and disabling effects of stress. One of these is Ionix Supreme from Isagenix International, LLC. I call this the Nectar of Nutrition, because the liquid version is based on blackstrap molasses and it has a taste that lights up your senses like fine nectar. The stress-busting power of Ionix Supreme comes from the adaptagens that are included in the formulation. While you get the B-complex vitamins to help you with energy and relaxation, the adaptagens work to help you balance your level of energy to your situation. Try it after a large meal to help with digestion. Try it before bedtime to help with sleep. Try it in the morning to help raise your energy to face the oncoming day. It works in any situation to help you feel calmer, have more energy, and less stress. This is a great way to deal with holiday season stress, and a makes a great gift as well.

Enjoy your holiday season. It is meant to be a time of love, caring and sharing. It is ultimately what we personally make of it.

From the office of Drew Berman, contributed by Seth Lefferts. Seth Lefferts is an entrepreneur, consultant and business owner. He has spent many years in the corporate environment and has discovered that there is a way out. He is now teaching how to utilize the skillset that it takes to break free and become your own boss, and how to realize your dreams. Learn more at www.DareToDreamNow.Us.

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Managing Stress

How often do you get stressed during your day?

How would you know?

As a corporate stress management trainer for the past 27 years, I’ve developed a term for your stress. I call it your “stress signature.” Your stress signature is the place(s) in your body where you store your stress, where your stress effects. Generally speaking, stress effects the same areas in your body over and over again.

Believe it or not, there are a number of stages that occur to create stress. Read on…

Stress Stages

Generally speaking, the first of many stress stages begins with an event. For instance, you might be late for an appointment.

The next stage is an internal one as this event begins to trigger your thoughts.

If your thoughts are “everything will be okay” or “I’ll make a call and let the person know I’m running late” the stress effects might end right there.

But if your thoughts are “I’ll never make it to my appointment on time.” Or “I am really going to be get into trouble now,” your stress effects will then increase and the stress stages continue.

The next stage involves the physical problems that arise in relationship to which thoughts you are having. If you are having more of the second type of thoughts, the negative ones — your stomach may get tense, your forehead might crease up, your breath may shorten, your back may get painful, or your teeth may clench.

Managing Stress

With each of the stress stages, you have a choice. Either go on automatic, also known as being unconscious, or get in the driver’s seat, make new choices, and become conscious.

In the world we live in there are many stressors, so there are many opportunities for managing stress. This past statement is a mindset you can have. It is based on the premise that you can change the negative stress effects to positive, pain to pleasure, sadness to happiness and that it begins with the direction of your thoughts.

The next time something negatively happens to you, stop, and ask yourself how you can reframe that experience into something positive. The question you need to ask is, “what can I learn from this experience?” What is extraordinary is that when you change your negative thought to a positive one, the experience in your body changes also — the stress effects lessen. There may even come a point where you look forward to stressful experiences in order for you to learn how to better cope by managing stress.

In addition to learning to change the way you view stressors, there are natural physical triggers or antidotes for managing stress. For instance, the next time you experience stress effects on your body, drop your shoulders. When your shoulders are up, you are doing something called “bracing.” Dropping your shoulders is becoming conscious of this reaction and will relax you. Another natural antidote for managing stress is separating your lips slightly. When you open your mouth very slightly, separating your jaw, the body relaxes. Simply by taking a long slow deep breath in, or practicing even breathing (breathing in for the count of four and out of the count of four) the body will relax you. The more you practice these strategies under stress, the less stressed you will be. Good luck and Happy New Year!

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