STRESS MANAGEMENT ONBOARD – STRATEGY PREVENTION AND MORE

1. Blood pressure rises
2. Breathing becomes more rapid
3. Digestive system slows down
4. Heart rate (pulse) rises
5. Immune system goes down
6. Muscles become tense
7. We do not sleep (heightened state of alertness)

Most of us have varying interpretations of what stress is about and what matters.
Some if us focus on what happens to us, such as breaking a bone or getting a promotion, while others think more about the event itself. What  really matters are our thoughts about the situation in which we find ourselves.

We are continuously sizing up situations that confront us in life. We assess each situation, deciding whether something is a threat, how we can deal with it and what resources we can use. If we conclude that the required resources needed. effectively deal with the situation are beyond what we have available, we say the situation is stressful – and we react with a classical stress response. On the other hand, if we decide our available resources and skill are more than enough to deal with a situation, it is not seen as stressful to us.