Stress Management

The average person spends valuable time worrying about:

40% of things that will never happen
30% of things that have already happened
12% of pretty miscellaneous worries
8% of real legitimate worries

We have often been confronted by individuals who appear somewhat like hamsters on a treadmill, they are running non-stop and at full-speed but never seem to be getting anywhere. This situation invariably produces employees and managers who find it difficult to cope with their daily workload, problems they might encounter, "difficult" people, change and they often complain that they "never have enough time".

These symptoms, among others, contribute to a phenomenon that claims more casualties on all levels of management than any other medical condition. Indeed research has shown that stress is becoming a frequent cause of heart disease, absenteeism and other "social diseases" such as gambling, alcohol abuse, spouse abuse, and even obesity resulting from over-eating.

Generally these lead to decreased productivity, deterioration of inter-personal relationships and an overall feeling of loss of control over life and disempowerment.

Using the foundation that a person's attitude determines their results, this one day programme will aim:

• help you identify stressors in your life
• help you recognise pre-cursors to stressful reactions
• give you the opportunity to take control over your stressors
• develop coping mechanisms
• give you the tools to de-stress and reclaim control over your emotions.
  

The programme further includes a Quality Relaxation Time CD that uses offset stereo sound in order to alter the level of brain functioning. It is well known that as we become stressed, our brain function frequency is increased to above 40 Hz. By bringing this level down to Theta level (4-7 Hz) we become calm, more creative and regular use of the CD will: