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Stress Management:in tough times. STRESS Continuum Good stress distress impairment DocsDocs The “Paradox of Medicine”:Balancing between the fact that people are mostly the same yet uniquely different. What genetic snowflake symptoms do you have under stress? What do you predict might cause you stress this year? 2 types ofStressors Strategies/Service Things you can change Things you can NOT change LEARN Stress ManagementEmotion Focused Strategies L E A R N S LEARN Stress Management Laugh E A R N S Cultures, Humor Medicine Greeks – home of the comediane Native Americans… Clown Doctors Voltaire: “The Art of Medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” Medicine today? Think of humor as atool for your LIFE SKILLS tool box!!! Humor is a skill you can learn… just like physical exam and history taking and writing prescriptions There is noMindbody disconnect Smile Study Waitresses Nurses 7-11 Clerks VCU employees? What is humor? An attitude toward life. Taking your work seriously… but yourself lightly. Humor is healthy. Humor connects us to others! It makes us MORE effective! Set a mental Channelfor humor! Look for humor each day. At conferences… write down the serious stuff… but write down the jokes and funny stuff too! People laugh just as much at borrowed humor as they will your own. Start a humor file… and go through it often. Find humor on the INTERNET! For life skills education, decide on your main points FIRST then think about how humor can be added to make it memorable. LEARN Stress Management Laugh Exercise A R N S Fighting the invisible tigers. Exercise is the all purposeweigh stabilizerde-stressorsleep aidstudy focus aid LEARN Stress Management Laugh Exercise Attitude R N S It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s your ATTITUDE tow