stress management for executives
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Jesse Hanson, Clinical Director
Helix Healthcare Group
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To develop a deeper understanding of our automatic response to stress and its impact on mental wellness.
To understand how neuroscience has influenced our approach to stress and anxiety.
To learn about effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) techniques.
To adopt tools to create new, healthier pathways in the brain.
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Causes and Effects of Stress
Therapeutic Techniques
Methods for Stress Reduction
Stress-Reduction Exercises
Today’s Components
Individual Well-Being
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Under Pressure?
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But what exactly is stress?
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Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension caused by internal or external triggers
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VS.
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Work Related Stressors Life Stressors
• Heavy workload or too much responsibility
• Working long hours • Unclear expectations of work, or
no say in the decision-making process
• Being insecure about your chance for advancement or risk of termination
• Presentations • Client demands and expectations
• Managing family responsibilities • The death of a loved one • Divorce • Loss of a job • Increase in financial obligations • Getting married • Moving to a new home • Chronic illness or injury • Emotional problems • Taking care of a sick or elderly
family member • Traumatic event
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Cognitive Emotional
•Negative impact on memory •Clouds and/or impairs judgment •Negative thoughts and self-perception •Difficulty concentrating and organizing
•Increased irritability •Anger and agitation •Overwhelmed and inability to relax •Short temper •Enhanced Anxiety •Relationship challenges at home and work •Ineffective communication
Physical Behavioural
•Digestive and gastrointestinal symptoms •Increase in frequency and effects of colds •Rise in heartbeat, cardiac risks
•Poor eating habits •Decreased motivation for exercise •Sleep disturbance •Isolation •Self-destructive coping behaviours (smoking, drinking, drugs) •Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing)
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“Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
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Cortisol can kill, shrink, and stop the generation of new neurons in a portion of the brain called the hippocampus.
Chronic stress can shrink the medial prefrontal cortex.
Stress can increase the size and activity of a portion of the brain called the amygdala.
These brain alterations affect the way we interact, learn, remember, make decisions and accomplish goals.
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SYMPATHETIC PARASYMPATHETIC
High blood pressure Low systolic blood pressure
Fast heart rate (pulse) Slow heart rate (pulse)
Dilated pupils Constricted pupils
Tend toward dry mouth Tend toward increased saliva
Cold, clammy hands/feet Warm, dry skin (hands/feet)
Quick reflexes Normal or slow reflexes
Anxiousness Relaxed
Excessive sweating Calm, even disposition
High energy, low stamina Low – normal energy, high stamina
Digestive problems Can digest anything
Mind often races May tend to laziness or depression
Excess muscle tension Relaxed muscles
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53 Year old woman diagnosed
with Crohn's Disease Traditional
medical world calls her condition
"idiopathic"
Dr. Mate’s research shows that digestive
issues are stress-related and stress-
created He examines her present day and early childhood
stressors
As she learns to heal early life stressors, she
becomes better at handling current
stressors
She is now free of her digestive
issues and has not been hospitalized
since
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Consider two examples when you experienced “stress”
What were the physical and emotional indicators that told you it was time to intervene?
What did you do to manage the situation? Did it work?
Professional Family/Personal
Physical
Emotional
Response
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Where Our Awareness Typically Begins
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You have a choice
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Harvard studied two groups: One was given the task of playing piano scales for 2 hours daily for 5 days.
The other group was given the task of merely thinking about playing the exact same piano scales as group one.
Scans showed that the same region of the brain had expanded in the volunteers who merely thought about playing.
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#1 •BREATH
#2 •POSTURE
#3 •BODY THERMOMETER
#4 •TENSION RELEASE
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The instruments vibrate in a way that activates the right and left brain in a back and forth pattern called binaural frequency, which is essential for healing and theta brain states.
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Book a complimentary
consultation at 416.921.2273 (CARE)
www.helixhealthcaregroup.com