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Stress Management in Workplace

The obsession with meeting the targets and deadlines not only stresses out the top echelons of the management, but also all the cadres of the workforce. If the stress management issues are not adequately addressed in time, the productivity of the workers and executives suffers and pressures on the management mount. People begin to suffer from various types of mental and physical ailments which affect the performance of the brain’s activities such as memory, concentration and learning.

In a small country like UK alone, over 13 million working days are lost every year due to the stress and strain of every day work. Stress induces 70% of the visits to the doctors and 85% of the serious illnesses some times resulting in serious litigation among the employees and the management.

In one US study as many as 40% of workers described their jobs as very stressful. People in mid forties suffer more than the young people. The study also reveals that young adults, women, working mothers, less educated people, divorced or widowed people, the unemployed, isolated people, people without health insurance and city dwellers are more prone to stress.

All this leads to significant liabilities for damages, bad publicity and loss of the good will and time of both the employees and the employers. Stress management is essential not only on economic and financial reasons for the organization, but also on humanitarian and ethical considerations.

The best course for stress management in workplace is to arrange in-house recreation facilities such as plays and dramas, enactment of humorous anecdotes, fancy dress competitions, games and sports and so on. Laughter and humor are the greatest stress busters. They create a different form of thinking and working in the brain. Research has established that humor visibly changes the mindset of the person.

Another easy way to reduce the stress is to go daily for a morning walk or jogging. If not, take some time out of your office job and go out for a walk in the market or the park nearby. You actually leave the building and change the environment. Inhale some fresh air and smell all the elements in the outside atmosphere—rain, wind, clear bright or clouded sky, trees, flowers, rainbow, flowers and traffic hold ups. These elementary changes will reinvigorate your body and mind.

Chant some positive idea like a mantra. Sing a lilting and lifting tune. Or, keep repeating to yourself or addressing anyone you see outside your office.

Keep yourself active in some simple activity while you are out. Fly a kiss at a kid walking close by. Pat a dog leading an old lady. Do something that is energetic to shake the lethargy and boredom off your mind and body.

All this may appear senseless and crazy, but it is surely going to help.

Take a glass of water and start sipping it to its lasts dregs. Water has not been called the elixir of life for nothing. No other liquid, fruit juice, coke, sports drink and Red Bull, howsoever nourishing and filling it may be, can become a perfect substitute for water. All the vital organs of our body, our brain, heart, blood require water to function properly. Its short supply may cause your body and mind to work at less than its full potential. Its shortage may cause dullness and stress at both physical and mental level.

The air conditioning system especially the heating systems installed in offices may cause dehydration attended by its ill effects. Keep a bottle of water on your desk. You will drink it even unconsciously. Just a sip may cause a welcome break, howsoever short, in your monotony. After you finish a glass of water, you may need to go to expel it. Going to the toilet, helloing your colleagues with a funny remark are little bits of exercises which reduce the stress.

A little siesta or a relaxed swinging in a rocking chair, during the lunch hour can recharge your spent out battery.

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