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    Stress Is Good
    Stress Is Good
    Stress Is Good
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    Stress Is Good

    By Stanley Abbott

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    This is an important little book. This book is a simple and positive view of stress. The book exclaims that stress is indeed necessary and good. Important guidelines show you how to be creative in your preparation, approach, and planning. Much stress is put upon simplicity and creativity in a persons evaluation of how to effectively prepare for and cope well with their stressful situations. The author has learned instructing about stress from many years of conducting workshops, seminars, and personal experience as a professor emeritus from Purdue University. This is the authors second book. The first book, titled Enjoy Stress, was a recommended success.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 7, 2016
    ISBN9781524540142
    Stress Is Good
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    Stanley Abbott

    Stanley Evans Abbott is a professor emeritus from Purdue University. As a member of the College of Liberal Arts for twenty-four years, he began studying, lecturing, and conducting workshops nationwide on stress management. The impetus to do so was fostered by his father’s major, but nonfatal, heart attack in 1986. The family was surprised to find out from the doctors that the heart attack was because of stress. It was a surprise; he always seemed comfortable and easygoing, friendly, and at ease to everyone’s imagination. The trouble it seemed was because of his keeping any frustration, apprehension, and distress bottled up inside in favor of looking calm, strong, and secure. This led to an investigation into his lifestyle. How could an organ be affected by daily ethos and behavior? This study and progression of knowledge along the theme of stress contributed to the eventual evolution of a simple program. This plan aids in the development and scheduling of ways to better oneself against the many and expected troubles and aggravations that are automatically faced in life.

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      Stress Is Good - Stanley Abbott

      Copyright © 2016 by Stanley Abbott.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2016914445

      ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-4016-6

            Softcover      978-1-5245-4015-9

            eBook         978-1-5245-4014-2

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 09/01/2016

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      One: Basic Stress Fundamentals

      Two: Your Dilemmas And Situations

      Three: Know Yourself

      Four: External Stress Is Everywhere

      Five: Pamper Yourself

      Six: Pamper Others

      Seven: Creative Use Of Stress Management

      Eight: Coping Skills To Work On

      INTRODUCTION

      Stress has great potential and possibilities for you. You can face daily stress and make it a creative and positive force in your life. This is because stress, properly coped with, can make you more vibrant, creative, effective, and joyful.

      The positive contribution of stress certainly affects your long-term goals. The negative aspect of stress is when you are not prepared to cope with high levels of stress and conquer them. This is called distress.

      You can also be creative in conquering a stress environment. Stress will automatically be in your life as a consequence of being alive. Let’s face it, you absolutely will face stress. If you feel unable to cope with your stresses, you only need to work on increasing your effectiveness and creative coping skills. This can be especially true if you can be creative with your preparation and planning. This book will encourage you to learn and use increased and creative coping skills. You will then have much success with proper planning.

      You can expect measurable and immediate success at stress management if you can develop the following:

      I. A coherent set of goals and objectives for your life. You can call this a life plan or a life map. Of course, you will be using creative stress-managing techniques to accomplish this plan.

      II. A schedule and use of time necessary to work on those goals and objectives.

      III. Resources enabling you to learn and practice creative techniques for coping with your stress. This book should act as a guide.

      IV. Be motivated and want to do it now! Motivation is not sold in any shop. You are just going to have to do it!

      It is the objective of this book to help you do your part, your share, of your own stress management. Hopefully, you will have the tools to put to work immediately and continue to use forever. A short burst of well-intentioned enthusiasm followed by regression into your current habits (if they are indeed bad) is not the answer.

      You are probably reading this far because you are either in a stress-inducing profession or stress-inducing relationship or possibly both. In any case, you might have been attracted to relationships or the profession because you were attracted to the stresses they represent. So you have probably actively sought out the resultant stresses. The problem now is you have either evolved into reduced skills at coping with those stresses or the stress themselves have accelerated past your current ability to understand them and cope.

      Part of your current deal you have made with yourself and your profession was or is being made when you were younger, healthy, and full of the future. Unfortunately, regardless of your age and experience, you possibly ignored your health until something breaks.

      Good health includes the concept of wellness. Wellness includes both body and mind. We know the body needs many things. It needs a good diet. It needs continued regular exercise. It needs professionally practiced relaxation. It needs regular sleeping habits. We know all that, and you might not do any of that as well as you could. Even if you are somewhat content and happy with the way you approach those body-focused areas, it is possible that you forgot that the mind is included in the concept of wellness.

      The mind is full of ideas. That is its job. When you feel stressed, it is your mind that automatically tells you that you are stressed. Even though you might say that to yourself, using different words, the fact is the fun and joy of your profession or your relationships are reduced or gone. So hang on here and realize that we are what we think is said in the same fashion of the old saying we are what we eat. In other words, in so many ways, we create our own stress by the simple act of thinking that we are stressed.

      What is amazing is that there is a fairly simple idea associated to stress. It would be well to consider the research

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