Stress Management

Stress management offers a range of strategies to help you better deal with stress and difficulty (adversity) in your life. Managing stress can help you lead a more balanced, healthier life. Stress is an automatic physical, mental and emotional response to a challenging event. It’s a normal part of everyone's life. When used positively, stress can lead to growth, action and change. But negative, long-term stress can lessen your quality of life. Physical stress can be caused by excessive work -load or physical labor and easily relieved by relaxation but what is more difficult is mental stress and more so emotional stress. To relieve the latter two stresses, it becomes important to train the brain. The key word here is ‘Samta’ which means equanimity in the philosophy of Jain. ‘Samta’ means to maintain one’s composure in both favourable and unfavourable situations. A person who cannot bear any sort of physical, discomfort and becomes easily uncomfortable by slight heat or cold becomes more susceptible, to diseases. There are some favourable situations in life because of which stress or mental tension arises. They are – success, happiness, fame, gain, respect, etc. Understanding the psychological mechanisms of how stress can lead todepression can help you prevent it. This is especially important for people who have had a prior episode of depression and would like to prevent relapse. Students in all subjects and of all levels as well as teachers and researchers in management and psychology will find this book a useful aid.

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