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    The Zero Stress Zone: "A Layman's Guide to Stress Management"
    The Zero Stress Zone: "A Layman's Guide to Stress Management"
    The Zero Stress Zone: "A Layman's Guide to Stress Management"
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    The Zero Stress Zone: "A Layman's Guide to Stress Management"

    By Top Harris

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    This Laymans guide to stress management offers easy to understand, simple to use, stress reduction and avoidance techniques. We can utilize these techniques in our daily quest for a stress free environment. By introducing zero stress as a mindset and not just a catch phrase, this book will help us get to that place I call, "The Zero Stress Zone." As you will discover, it is so fun and easy you might ask yourself why you need a book to get there. In the end however, if you ask yourself that question, you will have gained an understanding of how simple stress management can really be. Additionally, you may not be the one experiencing the stress. It may be those around you manufacturing drama in order to burst your anti-stress bubble. Don't let it happen! keep them on the outside suspended in their manufactured tension while youenjoy the cool comfort ofyour Zone. You can even choose to use these techniques to help them; or not. Whichever; always remember, just like on an airplane, you have to put your mask on first, before you can help others.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateSep 19, 2007
    ISBN9781467827812
    The Zero Stress Zone: "A Layman's Guide to Stress Management"
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    Top Harris

    Captain Eugen "Top" Harris, a veteran Southern California police officer, has been in the business of "People" since graduating from the police academy in 1987. Having worked a myriad of assignments from the mundane to the ultra-stressful, he has seen people at their best and, unfortunately; at their worst. Armed with these experiences Top has made it his mission to take what he has learned about the real life, "human condition," and pass it on so that others might benefit without having to endure unnecessary, learning-curve pitfalls. As a graduate of the West Point Leadership Academy who also possesses a Bachelor's Degree in Business and a Master's Degree in Organizational Management, Top believes that higher education greatly improves critical thinking and problem solving skills. Along with that, he subscribes to the notion that life skills and knowledge are born from  numerous places outside of Academia. He draws the lessons from these areas then fuses them together in a simple, easy to grasp format. Top is a California Law Enforcement Master Instructor with expertise in the many critical disciplines that are extreme stress producers. In light of that, he puts his greatest emphasis on the life lessons given to him by his mother, "Miss Ruby," for it is through that "Mother-Wit" that he has grown to understand life. Quite simply, Top is committed to sharing what works, and he welcomes you to the "Zone."    

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      The Zero Stress Zone - Top Harris

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2008 Top Harris. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 7/24/2008

      ISBN: 978-1-4343-3251-6 (sc)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Bloomington, Indiana

      Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Notes

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Notes

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Epilogue

      Dedicated to Deedo, my beautiful baby boy.

      Dad loves you… Always.

      Prologue

      Webster defines stress (stres) as; 1. Mental or physical tension, strain, or pressure. 2. Strain or straining force.

      I had several goals in mind when deciding to create this guide to stress management. First and foremost the objective is to assist people in dealing with day- to- day stress by helping them to identify coping strategies. Developing personal strategies has proven immeasurably helpful throughout the course of my life; consequently I believe it is important to develop individual stress management tools for regular use in our pursuit of a stress free environment. The place I want people to get to? The Zero Stress Zone.

      Realistically, zero stress is a lofty goal that will probably never be realized because life brings with it stressors and outside influences over which we have no control. But, like the quest for perfection, although we may never attain it, the outcome of the effort makes us better persons in the end. In the quest for stress free, at minimum we can become stress resistant.

      Second, I seek to foster an understanding of the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and actions. Controlling the outcome of a situation sometimes becomes easier if we understand that we can; in fact, control the outcome of situations. For instance, as adults, and even during our pubescent years we have experienced jealousy in one form or another. It is in the context of stress management, that we must realize jealousy is a normal emotion. Perhaps we were the jealous boyfriend, or the envious employee, or even the competing sibling.

      Whatever the case, although we all feel these emotions, we don’t all go on a murderous rampage as a result. Something stops us from acting adversely in response to those powerful feelings. Although we are not always able to control our emotions, we can actively control our responses to those emotions. Controlling action or reaction is the key to self-maintenance of one’s own mental health and stress reduction. In the pages that follow we will discuss self-initiated control mechanisms and how to apply them effectively.

      The third goal is to demonstrate that it is possible to manage stress without becoming slaves to therapy, drugs, or other medical or scientific remedies. By no means, however, is this book intended to be a substitute for legitimate medical or psychological diagnosis. Commonsense will be the word of the day. Commonsense will form the foundation of the coping strategies that will emerge from the reading. The concepts, in most cases, are so simple you may ask yourself why you had to buy a book to tell you these things. In the end though, if you ask yourself that question you will have gained an understanding of how simple stress management can be.

      Lastly, the information will be delivered in layman’s terms in order to break from the mind numbing scientific and academic approaches commonly associated with stress management. I am not a Ph. D., nor am I a scientist, philosopher, or intellectual. I am an average person, of average intelligence, drawing from personal experiences and the experiences of others. In fact, many of the concepts to be explored were passed to me from my mother, Ruby, and are referred to throughout the text as Rubyisms.

      Although from a blue-collar background, I understand that stress does not discriminate. It affects white collar, blue collar, and even no collar people. Therefore, within this text, no one; is more important than the other. Having been exposed to the multitude of stresses we all face on a daily basis, I place emphasis on dealing with stress at its most basic level, and thus the average Joe and the CEO are synonymous when it comes to individual stress management.

      Ultimately, the overall objective is to provide basic, real world stress management skills in a clear, concise, simple manner. There are no absolutes, and to every rule there are exceptions, so this book is not intended to be the end all, be all, answer to stress. What it is, however, is a guide to better understand those things we can control, thus improving our ability to cope with stress and maintaining our own mental health.

      Chapter One

      Open Your Umbrella

      I remember those winter days back in elementary school when the weather turned from sunny perfect to rainy miserable. My mother would get us up early so we could get ready for the day. As we awoke we heard that unmistakable sound of the hard rain pouring against anything standing between the black clouds and the ground. Immediately we wanted to get back in bed to escape the wet misery that awaited us outside. With Miss Ruby, however, that was not to be.

      Instantly, anxiety took over because we knew it was going to be cold, wet, and miserable. Imagine leaving the warm comfort of sheltered slumber to enter the unrelenting rain soaked outdoors. On top of that, it wasn’t even to go somewhere fun, it was to go to school for Pete’s sake. We dreaded everything leading up to that first step out the door and often spent many of our initial waking moments trying to figure out how not to go outside. My stomach hurts! My head hurts! My throat hurts! Heck, one of these has got to work. It never did.

      Then,

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