Welcome to Day 1 of the Stress Management course
What do we learn today
1. Guided Rejuvenating practice to be practiced daily that calms the system followed by a video lesson on Stressors
2. Define Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Fear
3. What happens when you are stressed?
4. How important it is to address stress?
5. Identifying the Gap
Lesson 1 Introduction and worksheet
Assessment of my current reality
1. What is my current reality in the following areas of my life - Work, Finance, Relationships, Health, Social life.
Most of my students find it difficult to assess. So the use the following technique which you can also use.
Assess yourself on the following questions on a scale of 0-10, 0 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.
How happy am I in my work?
How productive am I in my work? (Productivity means how much of my official time is spent on goal achievement?)
How stable and secure do I feel in my life?
How happy and enriching are my relationships? ( you can do this exclusive for your spouse, children, friends, office colleagues)
How will my life be if the current situation continues?
What change do I want in each of the above areas?
Can I have a visual image of the expected reality?
Life Programs - How we create and run it?
Whose Life am I copying? How original am I?
Who were your main or central caretakers when you were a child? (It could be your parents. members of your extended family, teachers, role models (People whom you admired as a child like actors, politicians etc))
Make of list of key behaviors that you copied from them as a child. As child we tend to imitate. Favorite teachers, favorite actions of parents etc. We would have copied.
Reflect on the thinking and thoughts behind those actions and behaviors. What thoughts