Making Stress Work For You

Our lives are a continuing struggle against competing demands, which can spur us to creative achievements, provide us with excitement or burn us out in bitterness, apathy and frustration. The stress response, our body’s response to any change, demand, pressure or threat from the outside, takes over when positive or negative things happen to us. We know that psychological stress can depress the body’s immunity system, increasing the susceptibility to infectious diseases and physical changes that may lead to psychological Issues.

Learn not to avoid stress, but to harness its creative energy toward a productive outcome for yourself and those around you. Explore the effects of organizational stressors on our work and personal lives. Examine how perception impacts stress levels and how you can control and learn to leverage them. We are always under stress. Complete freedom from stress is death. Since we cannot avoid it, learn to make it work for you, instead of you working for it.

John C. Bruckman Ph.D.