Stress Management

Vedic vichar conducted stress management programme under the following headings.

• Managing stress-related symptoms
• Reducing individual vulnerability.
• Interpersonal relations in the workplace.
• Managing job-related stressors.
• Managing the organization's stress.
• Helping to manage personal stressors.
• Family Management
• Family conflict & Stress
• Interpersonal Conflict and Psycholog

Disaster response workers are often community members who have experienced the disaster themselves and are thus both directly and indirectly affected. Since we expect stress to exist in the responder’s world, we need to be prepared and engage in activities to mitigate the negative effects of stress.

Stress is a natural response to a perceived challenge or a threat. When someone perceives a situation as challenging or threatening and dangerous, he or she is likely to experience the situation as stressful. Physiologically, stress is a buildup of hormones in your body that create tension, strain, or pressure and that is initially a positive response readying the person to freeze, flee, or fight. At an optimum level, this “positive stress” can act as a motivational force and provide physical strength and clarity of thinking.

Once the additional stress hormones are no longer necessary or the person perceives he or she is no longer in danger, the excess stress hormones need to be released from the body or they build up and become toxic. The body’s stress control or ‘allosteric system’ becomes charged too frequently with no chance to vent the buildup of energy

If the threating or dangerous situation continues, managing it requires the use of known coping mechanisms or the development of new coping mechanisms as a means of adaptation to the continued stress of the situation.

Excessive or chronic stress that has no opportunity for release can have negative effects on a person’s physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral states. Too much cortisol will damage memory, hurt or weaken your immune system and enlarge your stomach which can increase the risk of heart disease.

The human response to stress as can be seen in the cycle below includes our initial reactions and then the wear and tear on our body, from the muscles in our legs that hold us up to the sweat glands that try to cool us from the heat as well as many hormones and organs that help try to manage a stressor. Under stress, our immune system can be compromised, allow for an increase in health related problems such as colds or infection. If we do not recover from a stress response to our normal functioning, we then have an increased risk of experiencing more negative effects from additional or repeated stressors.

Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of and for the motive of improving everyday functioning.