Module three will allow you to learn about how perception can make a vital difference in helping us to manage our stress, what acute stress is, what EU stress is, what chronic stress is, what post traumatic growth is, what your parasympathetic system is, how to begin to keep yourself well and to handle your stress well in your life.
What are some of Your Favourite Activities?
Time to add another entry in your Stress Success course notebook! Have a look at the following list of examples for what some people find to be stress relieving. After making a list of your own, be sure to hold on to this list you’ve created as we will refer to it a little later in the course.
Perception: Acute & EU Stress
These days you will hear a lot of talk about stress. You will hear people say:
- “I’m very stressed”
- “That or this stresses me out”
- “It’s a source of stress”
These are very common phrases to hear, which you may well use, but what do they mean? There are actually different types of stress and to move you from seeing stress as a terrible thing to a normal force in your life which you can use for good, the thing that can make all the difference is your perception, how you see things.
Distress
Post Traumatic Growth
Post Traumatic Growth
So the very difficult, traumatic events of our life hold the potential to help us to live our lives in a better, deeper way, to a higher level of awareness. What a wonderful concept! The stresses of your life could well be taking you to somewhere even better than where you have been before, you can not only endure stressful times, but emerge from them even stronger then before. Here are several key traits that you need to keep in mind that will help you to be able to achieve post traumatic growth:
Key Point
Parasympathetic System
REST & RECOVER RESPONSE
Your Response:
So let’s learn how about your body’s inbuilt response system for stress.
Look at this picture and note down how it works then work through the next graphic to learn more about how to formulate a healthy Rest and Recover response of your own:
Which One of These Would You Enjoy?
The following short quiz consists of multiple choice and true false questions which pertain to information delivered in this module. Proceed through each question by selecting the arrow at right to complete this module.