Optimising your response to stress is more than just an essential process to foster a well lived life. A chronic failure to manage stress can exacerbate health risks and potentially contract your lifespan.
Which stress management techniques are most effective?
The answer is………… it depends.
To give you a new perspective take the relationship between wind and flame. The wind blows out a candle but fans a flame. One day you open the window and find that the breeze blows out the birthday candles on the cake on the table. A week later the kitchen happens to catch fire. You then think, well, opening the window last week blew out the candles. The fire now is more intense than that so we better open all the windows of the kitchen and surrounds. Then you get confused when the fire consumes your house in minutes. You may then think you get variable random results when wind interacts with flame because you don’t see the underlying relationships between the variables.
This is the same with stress. Notice how applying problem solving when you are feeling emotionally and physiologically overwhelmed often makes you more stressed and destabilised as you find it hard in that moment to access your cognitive resources. Asking whether, say, structured problem solving is a good stress management technique is the wrong question. A more nuanced question is when is the optimal time and what sequence should you apply something to where you are in the stress cycle.
This what distinguishes the StressSolved program from the almost infinite free and paid information available online and offline. We have well over a decade experience with thousands of clients researching and optimising when, how and in what order to apply stress management techniques. That is the value the StressSolved program can add. Your life is too important to be wasting time with low resolution approaches. You will find the results reliably effective as hundreds have before you.
Research shows that we treat our children and our pets with more care than we do ourselves. It is not self-indulgent to focus on yourself to optimise your stress responses. The more optimised you are the more effective and useful you will be to the people around you, whether that is family, at work, or the wider community. You could see optimising your psychology as an essential responsibility. The fact that a by product is you feel more content with your life is just a bonus.
You don’t wait until your car engine has smoke rising from it before you get your car serviced. Be proactive in the same way about your mental health. Invest in yourself. Take that step today. You won’t regret it.
More energy, resilience and clarity will become your new, sustainable default orientation to the world.
Through my work as a clinical psychologist and executive coach I’ve successfully helped hundreds of people from all walks of life optimise their mental health and fitness: executives, housewives, students and everyone in between. There are both common and unique features of each individual’s stress response. An effective stress response toolkit requires both structure and flexibility to be optimal. It also needs to become intuitive over time so that continual optimisation is unconscious.
To work with a skilled and experienced clinical psychologist through a 6 to 10 session evidence based stress protocol could cost you up to 3000. If you could find one with that skill and experience they will likely have a long waiting list. StressSolved offers a cost effective, convenient way to access premium materials anywhere in the world you happen to be.
