Wellness Tip of the Week 3.0
Volume 3, Issue #4
September 13, 2007
Huey Pearson
Cordova Park Elementary

How Do You Deal With Work Place Stress?

Yes, workplace stress is a serious problem.

Yes, the cost to people, businesses and society is enormous.

Yes we must do something about it.

We all have workplace stress.  It might be a:

New workplace

New supervisor

New building

Old workplace

Old career

Old supervisor

Old building

When I get a case of severe workplace stress I take out a book I purchased several years ago called,

"Health, Healing and the Amuse System, Humor as Survival Training" by Paul E. McGhee.  Then

I find some ways to help relive it.

Here are a few ways I cope with workplace stress.

1.  Watch a Marx Brothers movie (in extreme cases two times in a row)

2.  Go to the beach and stay for a long time

3.  Run faster

4.  Listen to jazz music

How do you take care of workplace stress?  Send me a couple of your successful strategies.

This Stress-Test consists of viewing a photo of 2 Dolphins...

The dolphins appear to be nearly identical when viewed by stress-free individuals.

The test is not sufficiently accurate to detect mild stress differentials,

but is very accurate on individuals with higher stress-levels.

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