How to Survive Work Stress
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Stress Management Techniques

This section of Mind Tools helps you survive the intense stress that can come with a challenging career.

The first articles help you to understand stress and what causes it: This is an important starting point for effective stress management. They introduce you to the three main approaches to stress management, and then shows you how you can identify the key sources of stress in your life.

We then look at a range of stress management techniques. The Mind Tools approach is, where possible, to tackle stress at source. This means that not only do we show you how to cope with the symptoms of stress, we help you deal with the underlying causes as well.

By the end of the section, you should have a clearer understanding of stress and the importance of managing it; you should be able to analyze the points of pressure in your life, so that you can plan to neutralize them; and you will understand how to use a range of different stress management techniques.

Also remember, as you work through, that if you have particular issues in bringing balance to your life, this is where our coaches can help.

	Stress Management - What you need to know about stress.
	Stress Diary - Identifying the short-term stress in your life.
	Job Analysis - The first step in managing work overload and job stress.
	Performance Planning - Planning ahead to reduce performance stress.
	Imagery - Mental stress management.
	Physical Relaxation Techniques - Deep breathing, PMR and the relaxation response.
	Thought Awareness, Rational Thinking and Positive Thinking.
	Anger Management - Channeling anger productively.
	Burnout Self-Test - Testing yourself for burnout.
	Building Self-Confidence - Developing the self-confidence you deserve.
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These techniques and many others are explained in Mind Tools' Stress Management Masterclass and on the Stress.MindTools.Com site. As well as showing you how to relax, the Stress Management Masterclass helps you win control of your job, build strong and positive working relationships, and more. Click here to find out more.

The first article in this section explains what stress is and introduces the three main approaches to managing it. Click "Next Article" below to read the article.

Warning: Stress can cause severe health problems and, in extreme cases, can cause death. While these stress management techniques have been shown to have a positive effect on reducing stress, they are for guidance only, and readers should take the advice of suitably qualified health professionals if they have any concerns over stress-related illnesses or if stress is causing significant or persistent unhappiness. Health professionals should also be consulted before any major change in diet or levels of exercise.

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Extension Resources (Not included in the Mind Tools E-book.)

* Shows articles available in full only to Career Excellence Club Premium members.

Beating Self-Sabotage - Recognizing and overcoming it*
The Breaking Point - by Bruna Martinuzzi
The Green-Eyed Monster - Keeping envy out of the workplace, by Bruna Martinuzzi
Ready for a Real Vacation? - Preparing to make the most of your precious time*
Thinking On Your Feet - Staying cool and confident under pressure
Getting a Good Night's Sleep - Starting each day fresh, and full of energy*
Rest, Relaxation & Sleep*
Toffler's Stability Zones - Finding peace amid chaos*
How to Relax After a Hard Day - Leaving work at work*
Murphy's Law - A tongue-in-cheek way of expecting the unexpected
Eustress - "Good stress"

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