Stress Management Help, Training and Therapy

Dr. T.H. Holmes, of the University of Washington in the U.S, created what he called his Social Readjustment Rating Scale in which he gave numerical values to many different types of stressful situations. He was able to correlate, with considerable accuracy, the number of stress points a person accumulated in any two year period, with the degree of seriousness of the disorder which that person was then likely to suffer. For example, Death of a spouse results in 100 stress points, Divorce 73 points, Marital Separation 63, Jail term 63, Death of a close family member 63 points, Personal injury or illness 50, Marriage 50 points, Marital Reconciliation 45, Retirement 45 points, Change to a different line of work 36 points, Outstanding Personal Achievement 28 points, Trouble with your boss 23, Change in residence 20, Holidays 13 points; Christmas 12, Minor violation of the law 12 points.

As you can see, getting married is almost as stressful as a jail term! Retirement is more stressful than changing to a different line of work and marital reconciliation is only slightly less stressful than a separation.
Even Christmas results in 12 stress points!

More than 250 points within a two year period is likely to be followed by a life-threatening illness; 150 points by an illness which may be serious, but not life-threatening; with 20-50 points, recurrent bronchitis, cold sores or other illnesses may result.

This does not mean that you should avoid stress. Stress is a necessary incident to being alive. Rather, you must learn to deal with stress in such a way that it does not trigger the silent response.

We know that there are two kinds of stress; good stress (called eustress) and bad stress (or distress).
We must have stress to survive. In primitive life, if attacked by an animal or another human being, we had the choice of either fighting or running away "The fight or flight response". In our modern society there are many situations in which we can neither fight nor run away: the income tax demand, the mortgage payment, the business deadline.
In these situations, we tend to internalize the overt, or visible, reaction to stress and add it to the invisible non-specific stress.

Many illnesses have multiple causes. A person may not exhibit any symptoms until anxiety and stress (work stress, marriage stress or financial stress enters the picture and they begin to show signs and symptoms of illness).

Migraine headaches are an example of illness where stress is a major causative factor. It is not uncommon for sufferers of this condition to have "letdown" headaches: the headache which occurs after the guests have gone, after the stress has gone.
The headache which occurs on the first day of a holiday, after the stress of packing for the family. See other Examples of stress-related illnesses in the table below.

Tension headaches, on the other hand, usually start during the stress as a tension in the neck or the back of the head and gradually spread to the whole head. Some find that the tension is spreading to the whole body. Some tension headaches become so severe that they develop into a migraine.

Anxiety and tension are almost always seen together. As anxiety increases, tension in the whole body becomes more pronounced. There are various types of anxiety. There is the free-floating anxiety and the anxiety associated with certain places such as the theatre or shopping centres. Anxiety ranges through the anticipatory anxiety, as before making a speech, the performance anxiety, as in giving the speech, to the post performance anxiety (did I make a fool of myself'?). Anxiety ranges in severity from mild anxiety, which does not impair performance, all the way to that degree of anxiety which makes a person totally dysfunctional - the extreme of Generalized Anxiety Disorder which is almost incapacitating and commonly there all the time.

Panic is anxiety which has gone beyond the level of the manageable. Panic is loss of control. Panic is totally irrational. It seizes your mental processes.
It paralyses your gut. When anxiety turns to panic, it becomes dangerous, not only to yourself, but to others.

Stresses result in anxiety and we are constantly being bombarded with stresses.
The object, therefore, is to develop methods in which stressful situations do not produce the stress reaction in the body.

Stress Work at Elevated Therapy International deals with the psychosomatic disorders, the functional somatic symptoms, work-related, marital and personal disorders of stress.
It is also applied to those stresses encountered by therapists, healers, the newly-divorced, single parent and gay clients and is based primarily on a systematic examination and modification of one`s attitudes towards oneself, those around you and your environment. Learning to become assertive; the ability to express feelings adequately but without being aggressive, defensive or emotional, without triggering anger or retaliation from others and without allowing yourself to be manipulated or exploited.
My goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to teach people to use it to help them. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant and may leave us feeling bored or dejected; on the other hand, excessive stress may leave us feeling "tied up in knots."
What we need to do is find the optimal level of stress which will individually motivate but not overwhelm each of us.
It is not actually managing stress. It is learning to manage and balance your lifestyle and perspective understanding the fundamental and important issues of life so that daily stresses cease to take on such significance.
"A Stress-Free Day" at Elevated Therapy must, therefore, be backed by changes in attitude and behaviour if the results are going to be sustained.

Identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our lives is not sufficient for reducing its harmful effects. Just as there are many sources of stress, there are many possibilities for its management and balance.
However, all require work toward change: changing the source of stress and/or changing your reaction to it.
How do you proceed and do that? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>>>>BY HAVING A 1+1 DAY WITH DR. MICHAEL G MILLETT YOU COVER:
Self-Assessment Methods
Assessing & Understanding your Stress causes both Emotional and Physical
Finding Solutions and reactions and recognising what you can change
Self-Help Methods
Treatment Methods, Techniques & Tools
Giving yourself every resource
Setting new meaningful goals
Self - Hypnosis Advice
Maintaining your Emotional Reserves
Targeting Specific Problems
Check-lists and further information to assist you in life-style changes

The cost of this special one day 1+1 course with Dr. Millett is £299.
A 50% deposit will be required when the booking is confirmed.

STRESS MANAGEMENT IN LONDON