Wellness

Here's What You Learn in
Managing Stress and Wellness

Part I: INTRODUCTION
Learn educational procedures for managing stress and developing wellness-Includess self evaluation, testing, discussion with a learn-partner, writing Behavior Prescriptions (Rx), and setting practical goals. Learn same skills for monitoring behavior that are used in most modern courses which are designed to help people break "bad" habits.

Part II: UNDERSTANDING STRESS AND HEALTH

Stress and its Sources
Learn why and how everybody has some stress. Why is this true? What is the stress response and its bad and good effects? Learn to understand the roots of stress reactions in mental, emotional, and physical terms. Learn why you can not control many sources of stress BUT you can control your mental and behavior response.

Individual Differences and Stress
Learn why "one person poison is another persons meat." Differences to stress are explained in terms of aggression, withdrawal, and adaptation. Learn why some people "kick the dog," turn to drugs, or "beat the kids." Analyze your behavior and feelings in terms of these responses. Does your response make your life better or worse?

Stress and Modern Diseases
Learn how chronic stress reduces everybody's resistance and makes us more susceptible to illness, pain, and accidents. Learn why stress is the major cause of "Sudden Heart Attacks" and increases cholesterol. Determine if you are prone to stress and related illnesses because of your lifestyle. Decide how you need to change.

Review and Reflect on Your Major Leanings
There is NO quick Fix Chemical or Mechanical. The only permanent change is in behavior. You contemplate your learnings, assess the impact of your behavior and feelings on your behavior. You have more "general information" about your lifestyle than your doctor, so take the reality approach to changing from practical, down-to-earth point of view. Before we go further, "Do you really want to have a healthier, more stress free lifestyle?" Think, then act!

PART III: DEVELOP A WELLNESS LIFESTYLE

Principles of Stress Management
In the above sessions you gain an understanding of what stress is and how it influences your behavior and your health. FIVE BASIC PRINCIPLES of stress management are reviewed and you establish behavior objectives for the next six sessions.

The Wellness Lifestyles and Awareness
You learn the relationship between a wellness lifestyle and awareness. You learn that wellness is more than absence of disease. You will evaluate your behavior in terms of wellness. Finally, you develop a "behavior contract to increase your mental skills to improve your wellness. You are encouraged to find a helper to monitor your behavior.

Develop Your Relaxation Skills
You learn how to worry, fatigue and too much to do overloads your physical, mental and emotional systems. You are taught specific, practical skills to manage worry more effectively, to help you relax and to help you take charge of your behavior in important areas. You will learn the characteristics of a hardy lifestyle. You develop a plan of action and you enter a "behavior contract" with your helper to help you improve your relaxation skills.

Manage Nutrition and Weight
Your nutrition habits include everything you take into your body. Many people overindulge in food, drugs, and drin when they are under stress. Your nutrition habits can promote aggressive behavior and compound your stress. You will learn how to monitor what you eat and drink, and how to lose weight. You will learn the seven rules for a long and healthy life. You will develop a plan of action to reduce your intake of harmful foods and enter a contract to take charge of your behavior, to develop and maintain and ideal diet and weight.

Direct Your Energy in Work Exercise, and Play
Stress causes excess pressure or tension. This comes from energy which can't just be destroyed...it must find some outlet. In this session you will learn how to direct energy in work, exercise and play. You will learn behavior which will help you become better fit for work and play. The body which is physically fit can handle the pressure from stress better. You will enter a contract with your learning partner to enrich your life through several types of physical exercise.

Maximize Your Social Support System
You will learn how others are great sources of strength in stressful crises, and you will assess the quality of your relationships with other people in your life. You will develop a strategy for reducing the stress response you may have from others who are sources of stress threats: and, you will develop a plan of action and enter a "behavior contract" with your learning partner to improve the quality of your social support systems at home, work, and in your community.

Implement Your Wellness Lifestyle Goals
Now it's time for action! Here you review what you have learned, to assess your desires to change your behavior. You review your strategies for implementing your long term and short term goals for a wellness lifestyle. You will transfer your goals to the "WELLNESS LIFESTYLE CONTRACT"which you and your partner sign. You post this contract in conspicuous places where you can use it everyday as a reminder and to help you check your progress.

PART IV: HELP OTHERS MANAGE STRESS

Learn Helping Behavior
Many participants in this course want to learn how to help others-children, parents, colleagues at work or friends, cope with stress. In this session you learn the procedures for helping others. You learn how to identify certain behaviors as a symptom of stress and how to evaluate your helping skills.

Practice Helping Behavior
You learn helping behaviors through practice, trial and error. In this session you take part in a series of skill development activities which help you improve your helping behavior. You learn how to help others express their feelings and how to guide others in the development plans of action for coping with stress.

Behavior Analysis and Goal Setting
You analyze your skills as a helper. You obtain feedback from friends and person you have tried to help using structured worksheets provided in your kit. This feedback helps develop plans for improving your behavior.

PART V: EVALUATION
You complete a brief but important evaluation form. You tell us what you learned, what your goals are what you liked, and what needs to be changed. You give us a copy of your "Wellness Lifestyle Contract" so we can write you about your progress.

Here's What Readers Say...

"This one of the most practical and helpful books I have ever studied. It motivated me to take action and to improve my behavior so I would be healthier." Farmer, Quincy, Illinois

"This is an excellent program - my wife and I gained much from it and continue to do so. We have established goals to improve our Wellness Life Style Scores significantly within 60 days." President of a major land grant university

"This is an excellent program, the best I have seen in this field. Every farmer in America needs it."
Past President, American Farm Bureau

"Every member of my family has benefited from this book." Farmwife and mother, Kankakee, Illinois

"This book contains many excellent techniques to help people manage stress and increase their wellness. Dr. Robinson presents ideas in a unique way which motivates readers to take action." Medical doctor and physiologist, St. Louis Missouri

"...Foreign Service Officers in U.S. Embassies around the world state that this course improved their ability to handle stress...and every person has recommended it to their peers."
Dean, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

" I have nothing but accolades for this educational program." Retail District Manager, Major Agricultural Service Company

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