Stress occurs when people believe they cannot cope. That out-of-control feeling causes them to become “creative” about what MIGHT happen.
Contrary to popular belief it is NOT other people or events that create stress. No one forces you to feel stressed. Stress is a feeling that you manufacture within yourself by the way you react to situations.
So, why does stress spread, often with alarming speed, around the workplace?
The answer is that emotions, like mumps, measles and the common cold, are contagious. Once one person catches a good dose of the stress virus they can spread it to their colleagues by the way they talk up their own fears.
The actual cause of stress lies in the way you imagine what MIGHT happen. Once you start to create fear-filled scenarios in your mind you literally scare yourself to stress. Other people’s fear-filled conversation can stimulate your imagination to create scenarios that are truly scary.
Your First Task in Managing Stress
You need to be clear that you created the stress you feel by feeding your imagination with fearful scenarios of what MIGHT happen.
It is therefore possible that these scenarios might NOT happen.
most of which never happened.” Montagne |
Who knows what the future holds? Do you have a totally accurate crystal ball?
You need to recognise that if you are capable of using your imagination to scare yourself half to death, you are also capable of using your imagination to make yourself feel totally safe and secure.
The Search for the Best Way To Manage Stress
I worked as a manager for 30 years and I’ve been a management coach for the past 12 years. During all that time I have searched continuously for effective methods of managing stress in the workplace by using imagination in a positive way.
The challenges are really daunting. To gain control of your imagination and actively shift it away form the negative images that are stressing you, it is necessary to:
1. subdue your negative images and feelings (despite all the media and colleague negativity around you).
2. Clarify what you really want to happen and create images of what it will look like when it happens.
3. Determine to believe that it can happen.
4. Generate the feelings that you will feel when it does happen.
Not easy to do when all around you are losing their heads.
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you….” “If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, Rudyard Kipling |
Now, by combining the most effective tools from several different self-improvement methods I have come up with a really useful tool. I call it “Inspired Thinking.”
“Inspired Thinking” coaching has helped managers in many large corporations and small businesses. It has also inspired people set up successful businesses in Corporate Investment and Management, Corporate Training, Environmental Consultancy, Web Site Development, Clothes Retailing, Restaurants and Wine Retailing.
The coaching will take your from a “stuck in a rut” place to a life of achievement and feeling really good about yourself.
The coaching progresses you through seven development stages that encompass:
1. The right place to start changing the way you think.
2. Clearing out the old negative junk in your thinking.
3. Changing your beliefs about everything that’s important.
4. Locking on to thoughts and ideas that inspire you.
5. Energising your new thoughts and ideas.
6. Mastering the two feelings that make you totally confident.
7. Living every moment in a new and inspiring way.
“Inspired Thinking” Coaching is not suitable for everyone. If the idea interests you the first step is to get in touch with me for a free discussion so that I can assess whether I consider you to be suitable for this type of coaching.
Please use the form on my web site to contact me: http://davidferrers.com/contact-me/
