Stress - Reframing your Thought Process

Overview:
Stress is about how you react to situations and demands, when you can learn to respond instead to those same situations, then you can change your life. Responding rather than reacting is a learned behavior for most people as, for most of us, we spend the majority of our lives on auto-pilot, unaware of what is causing our stress and how we respond to it.

Stepping back and becoming more present in your life is the first step toward understanding how stress is affecting you on a personal level mentally, emotionally and physically; and from there, how stress affects the way you deal with those around you professionally and personally.

Emotional triggers are challenging to recognize and release as we often do not realize that we are being triggered. We don't understand what is causing the trigger or the emotions that arise as result of the trigger. Triggers are often responses to something that happened years ago; and your responses are the same each time you are triggered as you don't have the tools or techniques to change how you respond.