Stress Management Reflection

After gain vigoring somewhat try out in this class my pinch is that, sieve symptoms may be affecting your health, even though you exp peerlessnt non realize it. You may look at illness is to blame for that peck headache, your frequent forgetfulness or your decreased productivity at work. But sometimes stress is to blame. Indeed, stress symptoms can affect your body, your thoughts and whimsys, and your behavior. There is a foresighted list of serious health problems that may develop due to stress. almost take on depression, diabetes, hair loss, heart disease, high blood pressure, stomach upset, sleep problems, chest of drawers pain, back pain, obesity, obsessive-compulsive or anxiety disorder, sexual dysfunction, withalth and gum disease, ulcers, cancer. Some examples on how stress can affect your behavior argon overeating, chthonian eating, angry outbursts, drug or alcohol abuse, increased smoking, social withdrawal, insistent spells, relationship conflicts. When you recognize common stress symptoms, you can take stairs to manage them.Like we learned in this class stress centering could let in physical activity, relaxation techniques, mediation, yoga, tai chi, get a massage, and even things equivalent retention a journal recognizing your stressors and working on them. E very(prenominal)one is different so finding your own relaxation techniques will ease tremendously. Throughout this variety I pitch learned about myself that I am non the only one in the world that has stress, it is more common than I thought. I have learned that if I take the time to do breathing reckons or right a journal about my thoughts I feel a large relief and a portion out less(prenominal) stressed.When I have a lot do I tack that if I make a list and proposal ahead it helps defame my stress. I learned that when I am in a very stressful situation or the week has added up to breaking even out for me, doing breathing exercises helps me feel way more relaxed and calm. A nonher thing I learned about myself regarding my relationship with my boyfriend is I have befit a negative thinker, due to some issues we had in the past. This causes so such(prenominal) stress in my life that I cannot even begin to explain. However, aft(prenominal) taking this class I have learned many ways to cope with this and it has been a tremendous help to me and my relationship.I see my strengths are keeping organized and motivated. If I am not organized it is a grand stressor for me. When I bear motivated I accomplish a lot more things in one day, which in return is a huge stress relief. Some areas that I show room for improvement are I need to set more weekly or periodical remainders for myself instead of just long term goals, by doing this I deal I would feel more accomplished. Another area of improvement for me is I need to have more trust for my boyfriend. Forgive, forget and move on. one last improvement would be to improve my level of self discipl ine.The topics I related to the most or the ones that I was most interested in were body awareness, breathing exercises, the worry and anxiety chapter, goal cathode-ray oscilloscope, and time management. I really enjoyed the body awareness exercises because it recognizes that when stressed the body automatically tenses. Our go throughs kick the bucket hard, tight and tense. Holding this latent hostility is very tiring, and hence, a feeling of become flat can occur. If the muscular tension has no release, because of the constant stress levels and not knowing how to relax your muscles can cause strain on your body.After doing this exercise in the book I was qualified to recognize what tense muscles matte up and looked like and what relaxed muscles snarl and looked like. So now when I have tension I feel that I am better at be able to let it go through body awareness and muscle relaxation. The breathing exercises we did in class I really enjoyed doing, I was able to take this from class and hold in to my daily life when I was feeling stressed. I was really able to relate to the worry and anxiety chapter because I used to have huge anxiety problems which I have had counselling to work through.Another chapter that interested me was the goal setting chapter because it is something that I have cherished to work on improving myself, so I loved the particular that I had the opportunity to learn more about goal setting and that it had activities in the book. Time management was another big one for me. I feel like learning more about time management helped improve my organization skills. If I was to take this class again I would like to learn more about the different stress relieving techniques. I guess not so much learn about them because we did learn about different ones, but I would have liked to employ more of them.For example, I would have liked a yoga day. I would have liked to learn about more ways to prevent stress, I felt like we learned a lot abou t what to do when we are stressed but not enough about what to do prevent it. Our true sources of stress arent always obvious, and it is way too easy to overlook our own stress-inducing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I dont consider there is anything that is unclear about what we learned in class, our book did a very good job at covering stress management.I felt the books activities were very helpful and for once I bought I book for naturalize that I will go back and refer to for approaching day help. straightaway that the course has ended and I am more aware of my stressors, my plan is to continue my stress journal where I write about what causes my stress, how it do me feel both physically and mentally, how I acted in response, and what I do to make myself feel better. Also, continue to learn new healthier ways to manage my stress. Change the situation, or change your reaction. Remember the four As, avoid, alter, adapt, or accept.Remember my healthy ways to relax and rech arge when I am overwhelmed and feeling stressed. Some of the things that work for me are, going and getting a massage, doing something with my florists chrysanthemum or sister, playing with my daughter, taking a long bath with split up of lavender scent and candles, driving around and listening to my favorite music, and doing one of my many hobbies. If I am noticing that I continue to have a lot of stress I will either find a way to enjoy the situation (except the things I cannot change) or find a way to leave/change the situation.The concepts discussed in this class apply to my future career goals by being constantly stressed out and not knowing how to deal with it can cause lack of motivation. I think that my future career goals call for a lot of motivation, so it would help if the stress in my life was minimal so I could stay focused. Another topic discussed in class that could be applied to future career goals is goal setting and time management. My future career goal is to be come an OB nurse, with this job there could be extra stress due to the weird hours worked and just the job its self.So I believe the concepts discussed in class I will be able to apply to my future career and my personal everyday life. In conclusion, after taking this stress management class I have learned that stress has many negative impacts on the body. I learned more about myself in regards to my stressors and I learned about some things that I didnt even realize were stressing me out. There were topics I could relate to and some I really was interested in. I will continue to write in my stress journal and find ways to help and avoid stress.