Mike Fisher, Europe's foremost Guru on
Anger and Stress sent me a link to a video the other day which has
opened my eyes to the way I see stress.
For too long I've been looking for
methods and techniques which will beat my stress into submission.
I've been told that chronic stress is bad for my health, that it
leads to insomnia, high blood pressure and depression, amongst many
more symptoms I could mention. If ever I feel my anger rising, I've
been taught to relax and count to ten, 'Imagine yourself on a desert
island with the warm surf lapping at your feet', a stress expert
would recite on youtube as he beckons the audience to close their
eyes and feel the stress recede.
And then along comes a pretty lady who
blows it all away.
Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal is
seen delivering a TED Global sponsored talk to a packed audience in
Edinburgh.
After opening with her fear that she's
been teaching a method of beating stress over the last ten years,
which “has been doing more harm than good,” she lays it on the
line, “I’ve changed my mind about stress, and today I want to
change yours.”
She cites scientists from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, who have shown that the 'perception'
of stress effects health. Hence, thinking that stress is bad for you
makes it bad for you.
For example if someone is making a life
style choice between a stressful job and a not so stressful job, it
doesn't matter which way they go. It is in fact equally wise to
choose the stressful job so long as you believe you can handle the
stress that comes with it.
The study reveals that over the eight
years of the survey, 182,000 people died prematurely from the belief
that stress was bad for them. This in itself, as Kelly reminds us,
makes the sheer act of 'Belief' the 15th largest cause of death in
the United States.
She drives home her point with, “When
you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the
biology of courage, and when you choose to connect with others under
stress you create resilience.”
“Stress gives us access to our
hearts, the compassionate heart that finds joy and meaning connecting
with others. Your pounding beating heart working so hard to give you
energy and when you choose to view stress in this way, you're not
just getting better at stress, you are actually making a pretty
profound statement. You're saying that you can trust yourself to
handle life's challenges and you're remembering that you don't have
to face them alone.”
Her passionate words of 'connecting
with others' to get better at stress reminds me of Mike Fisher's free
webinars which are now on.
He's inviting anyone with anger and
stress issues to join him for a FREE 1 HOUR webinar on Thursday 12th
September and Thursday 26th September 2013 between
7pm-8pm. Mark the dates on your calender NOW.
Mike's webinar is an introduction to
understand how stress fuels anger and left unchecked turns into rage
and fury.
Book yourself a space now by clicking
on the link below. See Mike in action and use the opportunity to
decide whether or not you or anyone else, needs to attend one of
BAAM's many courses across the UK.
Mike Fisher founder of the British
Association of Anger Management (BAAM) has a wealth of experience and
knowledge in helping you beat anger. Take the first step by booking
your free one hour webinar today!
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