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    Stress Management 101
    Stress Management 101
    Stress Management 101
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    Stress Management 101

    By Thomas Nelson

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    Stress Management 101, drawn from best-selling author Don Colbert's Deadly Emotions and What Would Jesus Eat?, is a concise, friendly handbook that will help readers live with less anxiety and more joy, enhanced health, and a peace that passes all understanding.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateAug 29, 2006
    ISBN9781418577841
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      This book is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice and treatment from your personal physician. Readers are advised to consult their own doctors or other qualified health professionals regarding the treatment of their medical problems. Neither the publisher nor the author takes any responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, actions, or application of medicine, supplement, herb, or preparation to any person reading or following the information in this book. If readers are taking prescription medications, they should consult with their physicians and not take themselves off medicines to start supplementation without the proper supervision of a physician.

      In order to protect the privacy of the doctor’s clients, stories recorded in this book are composite illustrations from the case histories of several individuals. Stories with identifiable people have been used with permission.

      Copyright © 2006 by Don Colbert

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Nelson Books titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      All Scripture references are from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations noted TLB are from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations noted NASB are from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE ®, copyright © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Colbert, Don.

           Stress management 101 / Don Colbert.

              p. cm.

           Includes bibliographical references.

           ISBN 0-7852-8795-7 (hardcover)

           1. Stress (Psychology) 2. Stress management. 3. Stress (Psychology)—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.

        RA785.C64 2006

        616.9’8—dc22

        2006019089

      Printed in the United States of America

      06 07 08 09 WOR 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Contents

      Introduction

      ONE: Choose Your Attitudes

      TWO: Change Your Way of Thinking

      THREE: Choose to Forgive

      FOUR: Lighten Up!

      FIVE: Learn to Relax

      SIX: Express Love

      SEVEN: Eat Right and Exercise

      Notes

      About the Author

      Introduction

      According to the American Institute of Stress, between 75 and 90 percent of all visits to primary-care physicians result from stress-related disorders.¹ The first signs of stress tend to be tension headaches, digestive-tract problems, and skin eruptions. Ironically, these conditions merely add another layer of stress.

      If we don’t treat the core causes of stress, the symptoms may become chronic. New, deeper symptoms can arise such as sleeplessness, weight loss or gain, muscle aches (especially back and neck pain), general lethargy or feelings of exhaustion, sluggish thinking, and lack of get-up-and-go or ambition.

      If we continue to ignore the core stressors, the chronic symptoms can become outright disease—the kinds that require surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and heavy-duty medications. Each of these treatments, of course, is also a stress-producer!

      Stress upon stress upon stress—and all the while, the body doesn’t differentiate what caused the stress in the first place. All the body knows is that it is experiencing stress.

      HOW STRESS AFFECTS THE BODY

      Stress is mental or physical tension, strain, or pressure. Stress reactions are the ways in which our bodies process and release both the emotions and the negative physical elements we experience in life. Through the years, scientific studies linking the emotions and disease have produced an impressive body of research. Here are some of the findings:

      • Certain emotions release hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol, into the physical body that, in turn, cause a damaging effect on the body and can trigger the development of a host of diseases.

      • Researchers have directly and scientifically linked emotions to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diseases related to the immune system. Studies have also highly correlated emotions with infections, allergies, and autoimmune diseases.

      • Specifically, research has linked emotions such as depression to an increased risk of developing cancer and heart disease. Emotions such as anxiety and fear have

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