STRESS HARDINESS

Stress Hardiness : Stress Hardiness Health Promotion Program Navy & Marine Corps Public Health Center

Hardiness : Hardiness Some individuals are able to deal and cope with stress better than others! Hardiness is the ability to deal effectively with stress

Hardiness : Hardiness Can become tougher and stress hardy through encountering stress, coping and learning from experiences! We all can enhance stress hardiness skills!

Key Components of Hardiness : Key Components of Hardiness Control Challenge Commitment How to improve Stress Toughness

Control : Control Belief that person has control over their life Can manage any problem that they face Outlook is positive! Feeling in control helps to decrease stress!

Challenge : Challenge View life as a challenge Do not see as a threat or a endless group of problems… Seek & take on challenges Believe will learn from challenging experiences! Ways to improve Stress Hardiness!

Commitment : Commitment Have a mission! Committed to what they do! Belief that what they are doing is meaningful, purposeful & right!

Improving Hardiness : Improving Hardiness Respond appropriately to change. Assess how you react to changes and to stress. Remember that not all types of change is negative! Downplay & minimize the effects of change through exploring the consequences of change

Enhancing Hardiness : Enhancing Hardiness Change your Self- Talk! Watch and monitor what you say to yourself Often when we write our thoughts down they seem to be illogical, incorrect, harmful or silly! Modify interpretation and meaning of self-talk so that it is not negative Switch your inner voice from I can’t… to I Can Handle It!!

Self-Talk Tip : Self-Talk Tip Things are neither good or bad, But thinking makes them so. -Shakespeare

Practice Relaxation Skills : Practice Relaxation Skills Relaxation Strategies used to reduce stress and to relax improve toughness! They allow time to regroup, recharge and to reduce physical, and mental responses to stress Relaxation techniques include- Muscle Relaxation, Breathing, Imagery, Visualization, Meditation, Prayer…

Get Fit! : Get Fit! Staying & maintaining physical fitness is a great stress buster! Keep your body tuned up and ready to go! Helps to buffer and immunize against the effects of stress!

Practice Hardiness : Practice Hardiness Face tough situations & handle the distress! Practice the coping skills of- healthy response to stress, positive self-talk, relaxation strategies, view as challenge & belief that will be okay! See self as stress hardy!

Stress Reduction Tip : Stress Reduction Tip Don’t sweat the small stuff! It’s almost all small stuff! -Dr Richard Carlson

Stress Hardy Plan : Stress Hardy Plan What is your plan to improve your Toughness and Stress Hardiness? When will you start to get tougher? How will you improve your hardiness? Where will you practice?

Hardiness : Hardiness View self as in Charge, in Control andPositively Challenged! Look at your aggravations and hassles as a Quiz on how well you arehandling stress!