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STRESS MANAGEMENT
TECHNIQUES
A lecturer when
explaining stress management to an audience,
raised a glass of water and asked: "How heavy
is this glass of water?" Answers called out
ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied:
"The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends
on how long you try to hold it." "If I hold it
for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold
it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right
arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to
call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same
weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it
becomes." he continued, "and that's the way it
is with stress management. If we carry our
burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the
burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be
able to carry on." "As with the glass of water,
you have to put it down for a while and rest
before holding it again. When we're refreshed,
we can carry on with the burden." "So, before
you return home tonight, put the burden of work
down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up
tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now,
put them down for a moment if you can." "Relax;
pick them up later after you've rested. Life is
short. Enjoy it!
And then he shared
some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
1. Accept that
some days you're the pigeon, and some days
you're the statue!
2. Drive
carefully, it's not only cars that can be
recalled by their maker.
3. Nobody cares if
you can't dance well. Just get up and dance!
4. Since it's the
early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep
late.
5. When everything
is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
6. The second
mouse gets the cheese.
7. Never buy a car
you can't push.
8. If you lend
someone R20 and never see that person again, it
was probably worth it.
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