Management of Stress

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I've recently presented a successful workshop on managing stress. It's outlined here. Please let me know if you'd like me to present it to your group.
 Stress Reduction
 Pieter Kark, MD
 pieterk@post.harvard.edu
 650-380-9717

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 Stress
 Who here has stress?
 What from?
 What does it feel like?
 What have you tried to reduce it?
 How has it worked?


 What is stress?

 Attention
 Attention on what you resist, persists
 That is stress
 Attention is a property of consciousness
 Attention draws things to you

 Attention
 Free attention: waves of light
 Fixed attention: particles of matter
 More resistance = more attention fixed

 Goal: free up attention
 Awakening the Will
 Objective: to strengthen the will by describing objects
 Expected results: insights, calmness, and increased awareness

 Directions: Take a walk, notice something, and decide how you would describe it. Continue, noticing different objects

 From Harry Palmer, Resurfacing®


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 Fixed Attention
 Do you have fixed attention on something?
 On what?


 The Behavior of Attention
 Exercise:
 Expected results: insights, improved well-being, recovery of self-determinism
 For one minute, shift your attention around the room and notice how it fixes for a few moments here and is repelled there….
 For one minute, close your eyes and review the events of the past week. Notice how your attention lingers on certain things while other things seem to push your attention away…

 From Harry Palmer, Resurfacing®

 Avatar®, Enlightened Planetary Civilization®, ReSurfacing®, Star’s Edge International®, Thoughtstorm®, and Love Precious Humanity® are registered trademarks of Star’s Edge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 Positive and Negative Attention
 What you put attention on becomes more real
 Positive attention  experiencing positive things
 Negative attention:
 Attention on negative to resolve it
 Dwelling in negative

 Ways to Reduce Stress
 What are yours?


Traditional Ways to Reduce Stress

 Recreation and sports
 Fun with family & friends
 Creativity

 Traditional Ways to Reduce Stress
 Spiritual
 Religion
 Meditation
 Yoga
 Mindfulness



 Traditional Ways to Reduce Stress

 All of these work by getting you outside your mind.
 How long do they reduce stress?

 Traditional Ways to Reduce Stress
 Short Term – Thinking Methods
 NLP
 Wingwave and other coaching techniques
 Landmark
 Others

 Ways to Reduce Stress
 Belief Management
 Beliefs
 Determine what you experience
 Determine your personal world or universe



 The Most Effective Ways
 Get outside the mind
 The mind is concerned with believing, figuring,, thinking
 These are done inside an idea or a system of ideas

 Skills to discreate beliefs, ideas you don’t prefer
 Skills to create beliefs ideas you prefer



 You
 What plans would you like to make to reduce your stress?

 Viewpoints
 “The easiest way to change something is to change your viewpoint. This does not always result in a change in the world, but it will place you in the optimum position should you wish to make a change in the world.”

Harry Palmer, ReSurfacing®

Avatar®, Enlightened Planetary Civilization®, ReSurfacing®, Star’s Edge International®, Thoughtstorm®, and Love Precious Humanity® are registered trademarks of Star’s Edge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.







 Viewpoints
 Objective: to free attention
 Expected Results: increased calmness, broadened perspective
 Instructions:
 Take a [30-]minute walk. On your walk, periodically notice something small; notice something big; notice something far away; notice something close.
 Write down any insights you gained from your walk




 Compassion Exercise
 Pass out Compassion Exercise cards


 Avatar®, Enlightened Planetary Civilization®, ReSurfacing®, Star’s Edge International®, Thoughtstorm®, and Love Precious Humanity® are registered trademarks of Star’s Edge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 Belief Determines Experience
 To manage beliefs, ideas, thoughts
 Learn to free attention
 Learn to control attention

 Then you can control any kind of stress


 Discussion and Questions

 Grieving
 Common after loss of a job
 Need to go through to move forward
 Once completed, you can focus your attention.