Managing Stress With Wisdom Based Lifestyles

Stress

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by Dr. Bob Kamath

Managing stress means living a lifestyle that minimizes the occurrence of bad events and problems. This boils down to making wise choices in all aspects of life. To accomplish this, we have to wisely manage our relationships, money, time, health, job and other aspects of daily life. The bottom line in stress management is that one should live a simple life, guided by wisdom. Whereas coping has to do with ridding the conscious mind of painful emotions after one has become upset, managing stress has to do with preventing upsetting events and problems from happening.

A wise person always does the right thing. For example, to avoid money problems, he lives within his means, saves money regularly, refrains from incurring nonessential debts, does not get into businesses about which he knows nothing, etc. To avoid health problems, he resists bad habits, gets adequate exercise, and takes good care of his body. To avoid conflicts with others, he holds back from imposing his views on people or taking advantage of their friendships; he engages others in adult to adult interactions, and so on. In effect, stress management means gaining a good deal of control over all aspects of one’s life (the pump).

Stress management also requires that we avoid making wrong choices and doing wrong things. Both these mistakes are always based on deep-rooted personality weaknesses, such as greed, insecurity, possessiveness, arrogance, lust, hate and jealousy. Every serious life problem, whether it is connected to one’s job, money, health or relationships, is fueled by a personality weakness. We will study how one could put leash on these weaknesses and more about stress management in Chapter Fourteen.

Reproducted from the book "Is Your Balloon About To Pop?: Owner's Manual for the Stressed Mind," with the permission of author Dr.Bob Kamath.

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Author:Reproduced with the permission of  Dr. Bob Kamath, M.D. ©2007. All rights reserved. Graphics, Illustrations and Cover Art by Nikki Brown. Dr. Kamath, a Board Certified psychiatrist, has been in private practice in Cape Girardeau, Missouri since 1982. Dr. Kamath specializes in Stress and the psychopharmacological treatment of stress-related disorders such as depressive and anxiety disorders. He has been licensed to practice medicine in Missouri since 1977. To know more about him visit his website.

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