Healthy Frenzy

Living in the corporate world means living at a fast pace. From Monday until Friday you have to face the same stressful events. By the weekends, you have to meet commitments to you family, yourself and friends from outside you workplace. During public holidays you try to find ways to effectively and usefully occupy the day. Petrol prices are up. Your car needs maintenance. It’s no longer safe to go out late at night in the parks. You have to be careful even when you are outside of the house because someone might snatch your possessions. When you’re on holiday you’re constantly worrying about your home. The list of worries can go on.

1. Practicing Meditation

“It’s not the situation but how you deal with the situation that determines your stress.” How true is that? Let’s analyze our views of life. Basically there are two types of views: one thinks that he has control over his destiny, known as the people with internal locus of control; and the other one thinks that his fate is predestined, and he is where he’s meant to be, or known as the external locus of control.

Bodies can heal, thoughts can change, but emotions rooted in the damaged past or the feared future can harm us for a long time. To manage the 5 major types of negative emotion, we need to employ the power of reason and a range of emotion-healing techniques.

Stress in the workplace is becoming more common these days. Among factors that contribute to workplace stress are competition among employees, large workloads, negative work attitudes, quality control, legal challenges, training, and office politics. It is time for the management to be aware of the how serious stress levels are in their respective departments and review the best Stress Management solutions for its employees. Here are the top ten causes of stress as described by The Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health: