12 "S" Sa Sobrang Stress

12 “S” sa sobrang stress

Nakaka-challenge ang Buhay pero kaya mo yan…
Right attitude lang,
Tamang pag-iisip yan

Kapag sobra na ang stress mo, pagod na ang isipan, nanghihina pa ang katawan, gumawa ng paraan na bagay sa iyo upang makayanan ang stress sa Buhay mo…..

PILI NA……

12 “S” Panlaban sa SOBRANG STRESS

1. SPIRITUALITY
Ang paniniwala at pagtitiwala sa Lumikha o Diyos ay nagbibigay ng katuturan at halaga sa Buhay. Magdasal at mag-meditate.

2. SELF-AWARENESS
Tuklasin ang sariling kakayahan at katangian. Tanggapin na may mga bagay na kahit gustuhin mang baguhin ay di talaga kayang gawin.

3. SCHEDULING: TIME MANAGEMENT
Ang panahon ay mabilis na lumilipas kaya hindi dapat ito aksayahin. Mas magaan ang mga Gawain kung ito ay nakaplano at pinatutuunan ng sapat na oras.

4. SIESTA
Ang sapat ng oras ng tulog sa gabi, konting idlip sa tanghali, at pahinga kung napapagod na ay nakakatulong upang mare-charge ang katawan at isipan.

5. SENSIBLE DIET AND EXERCISE
Igalaw ang katawan. Iunat ang mga muscles at buto. Huminga ng malalim at gawing kalmado ang isipan. Regular na mag-ehersisyo at huwag kalimutang kumain ng tama.

6. SENSATION TECHNIQUES
Mag-relax at mag-pamasahe upang maalis ang mga tension at pananakit ng katawan at makaipon ng panibagong lakas.

7. SPORTS
Maglaro ng sports, pero bago sumabak sa anumang laro, alamin muna sa doktor kung ito ay kaya ng katawan o kalusugan mo. Makakatulong din ang pagsisimula ng hobby or gawain na paglilibangan mo.

8. SOCIALS
Makihalubilo sa ibang tao. Sumali sa grupo o organisasyon sa iyong komunidad. Nakakapagbigay din ng tuwa ang pagtulong sa kapus-palad.

9. SOUNDS AND MUSIC
Makinig sa nakakahalinang tunog ng instrument, huni ng kapaligiran, musika at awit. Mas makakabuti din kung ikaw mismo ng tunog at musikang ito.

10. SPEAK TO ME
Ang pakikipag-usap sa ibang taong mapagkakatiwalaan o kaya’y paglalahad ng problema at damdamin sa iba ay nakakatulong maibsan ang bigat na dinadala.

11. STRESS DEBRIEFING
Kung hindi na makayanan ang nararamdamang problema o bigat ng pakiramdam, sumangguni na sa propesyonal – pari, counselor, health o social worker o kaya’y sa duktor.

12. SMILE
Ngumiti, tumawa, magsaya at maging positibo ang pananaw sa Buhay. Nakakagaan ito ng pakiramdam.









Epekto ng Sobrang Stress



PHYSICAL
- iba’t ibang kirot at pananakit ng katawan
- problema sa panunaw at iba pang sakit ng tiyan
- paglala ng mga dati nang sakit at kundisyon





EMOTIONAL
- sobrang tension o nerbiyos
- pag-iyak
- problema sa pagtulog
- problema sa sex




BEHAVIORAL
- pagbabago ng moods.
- pagbabago sa personalidad.

At kung hindi nabibigyang lunas ang sobrang stress,

maaring mauwi ito sa depression at iba pang sakit sa pag-iisip

Krisis sa Buhay? Problema sa trabaho? Walang minamahal o nagmamahal?

NAKAKASTRESS ANG MGA YAN!

Panatilihing balance ang kalusugan ng isipan at katawan:

- maging alerto sa senyales ng sobrang stress
- alamin ang sariling kakayahan; at
- gumawa ng mga paraan na bagay sa iyo upang makayanan ang mga stress ng buhay mo

KAYA MO YAN!

How to help others listen better......

Before you can share your message of peace, your target audience has to listen well. Rebecca Shafir writes in her book THE ZEN OF LISTENING….To help others listen when we speak involves:

1. connecting with your listeners, making it easy for them to get into your message.

2. Forming a trusting relationship with them.

3. Being mindful of what your audience wants and needs to know.

4. Knowing their barriers towards you.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IS TO DO THE COMMON THINGS UNCOMMONLY WELL

Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve before Kings,
he will not serve
before obscure men.
– Proverbs 22:29

Mr. Boswell, the owner of a hardware store was looking for a young man to hire. Several dozen young men responded to his ad, but he eventually narrowed his choice down to three: Ted, John and Bob. Then he devised a final test. He gave each of them a new screwdriver set with an innovative design and told them to deliver it to Mr. CM Hendersen at 314 Maple Street.

After a while, Ted phoned the store to ask whether the number was actually 413, rather than 314. Later he returned saying that there was no house at that address.

When John came back, he reported that 314 Maple was a funeral parlor and that Mr. Hendersen had lived at 314 ½, but had moved away.

Bob took longer than the other two young men. Like John, he also discovered that Mr. Hendersen had moved away, but had managed to secure his new address and had gone there. Mr. Hendersen didn’t recall ordering the screwdriver, but when Bob pointed out its unique features and told him the price, Mr. Hendersen decided he wanted the screwdriver and paid for it on the spot.

Which young man was hired? Bob, of course. He was given a task to do and he did it. A leader doesn’t let any obstacle stop them from reaching his goals. Persistence and patience produce payoff.

Friends in My Circle

When I was little,I used to believe in the concept of one best friend,and then I started to become a grown-up.
And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up, God would show you the best in many friends.

One friend is needed when you're going through things with your special one.
Another friend is needed when you're going through things with your parents.
Another will sit beside you in the bleachers as you delight in your children and their activities. Another when you want to share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.

One friend will say, "Let's cry together,
"another, "Let's fight together,"
another, "Let's walk away together."


One friend will meet your spiritual need,
another your beer fetish (hehehe),
another your love for sports,
another will be with you in your season of confusion,
another will be your clarifier,
another the wind beneath your wings.

But whatever their assignment in your life,
on whatever the occasion,
on whatever the day,
or wherever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair disheveled,
or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself.
Those are your best friends.

It may all be wrapped up in one person,
but for many, it's wrapped up in several..
one from 7th grade,
one from high school,
several from the college years,
a couple from old jobs,
on some days your mother or your dad,
on some days your neighbor,
on others, your brothers or your sisters,
and on some days, your kids......

SO I HEARD YOU WANT TO DIET…

You have seen a friend who lost weight and now you want to diet too. How do you start?

1. Read. Study books on the many diet alternatives around. Make sure you know what you are doing. The last thing you want to do is to go on a diet that will make you sick. Avoid quick-fix diets. Studies show that gradual weight loss of 3-5 pounds a month is best.
   

2. Ask around. What works for others might work for you too, especially if you have similar cultural, religious and family backgrounds. The bad experience of others will also help you avoid their errors.
   

3. Sort out myth from scientific fact. There is a lot of wrong information going around. Do your research. Listen to experts. Assume a critical and evaluative attitude towards all the diet recommendations you will be barraged with.
   

4. Prepare your environment. Tell your family and friends that you will be dieting. Refuse to allow them to place you in situations where you will be forced to eat what you do not want. Get your family to diet with you.
   

5. Learn to give unhealthy stuff away. Invite friends to eat your excess food. If someone gives you a cake as a gift, give it away to someone who can use it.
   

6. Keep a meal diary. Be aware of what you eat. Write down in a diary everything you eat and analyze your meals as to food group, amount and time of meal. You might find out that you binge or that a lot of your snacks can be replaced by better food choice.
   

7. Avoid mindless munching. Eating with a group or eating in front of the TV leads to mindless munching. If you are the lone dieter in the house, prepare your meal in a tray and eat ahead of others or alone. But explain your plan to others so they do not get offended and remain supportive. Watch movies and TV without junk food.
   

8. Follow the food pyramid rule. Eat more at breakfast, less at lunch and least a dinner. Unless you work at night, chances are you will be sedentary at night and will use up fewer calories. Eat less at night.
   

9. Do not miss your main meals. Skipping a meal leads to binging and eating excessive portions during the next meal because of hunger.
   

10. Exercise. Diet alone rarely works. Weight loss happens when we burn more than what we take in. Exercise to burn calories. It will also enhance your immune system, firm up muscles and make you feel good about yourself.

Do not go on a diet to look good. This is part of the vanity trap most dieters fall into. Aim only to be healthy. A healthy you will assure that you will be productive and fit to be of service to others.

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My existence does not depend on the fact that I am thinking;
It depends on the fact that, whether I know it or not, I am being thought –
Being thought by a mind much greater than consciousness which I ordinarily
Identify with myself.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

CARING FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PATIENTS

Having an Alzheimer’s disease patient in the family is an opportunity for others in the circle of love to evolve to the limits of our potential. You know why?

• Caring for the person whose mind now functions through dementia, is a chance for us to become less self-centered and more others-oriented.

• By attempting to respond positively than snappishly or correctively when he or she engages in repetitive conversation, or causes problems with incontinence, or exhibits other behaviors perceived as trying or abnormal, we set in motion the potential to learn the high art of patience.

• Connecting with the being whose memory loss is chronic, degenerative and not to be annulled, enables us to learn how to accept situations that cannot be changed, and to accept previously unacceptable behavior – that which is being incapable of being altered in others.

• Efforts to continue a relationship with the one in altered consciousness is also lesson in love: It is a means of mustering love feelings for another in spite of, or because of, or irrelevant to the haywired, hit or miss psyche.

• In our fast paced, future directed society of long-term materialistic goals, we who are in senile company are required to slow down. We are dancing with those who can teach us to experience and appreciate life on a momentary basis. Typically, they can remember for only a moment. If there is to be a rapport, a rarified exchange, we have to adjust to their not-so-quick tempo. In doing so, we begin to observe and be grateful for momentary joy – the seemingly small but spiritual high victories for those upon this sojourn.

• Closeness here can instruct us about judgment as well. Christine K. Cassel, a physician writing to her peers on “Ethical Dilemmas in Dementia”, in Seminars in Neurology (Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1984), said this about casting judgment on the demented: “It is dangerous to judge someone else’s quality of life by one’s own current standards. Different persons have different values and sources of life satisfaction. We cannot assume that these are lives not worth living. Values change as life experience changes. Perhaps, it is wrong to evaluate the experience of life as a “downhill” course from the patient’s prior vigorous existence.”

In reality, that “victim” might be a spiritual guide, an important instructor, who has stayed on in the physical body longer than the body would will it – if, in fact, the body has a will – to teach lessons of the spirit to others. The true purpose of those with dementia might be far beyond the drama of the personality and physical body.

They are not to be pitied, forgotten, placed apart from the “normals” or even, like the STruldbrugs, hated and despised; but channels of light to whom others pay homage, object of honor who possibly live in sacrifice to teach and touch the hearts of those they love.

Source: The Quest Spring 1990,
The Theosophical Society in America