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Causes and Effects of Stress
Anxiety
Pressure
Misery
Strain
Everyday frustrations
Desperation
Personal Problems
Tension
Life’s transitions
Anger
Panic
Dejection
STRESS RESPONSE
When your stress response is triggered, a series of
changes occur within your body. They include:
Redirection of blood away from extremities and
instead to major organs
The release of cortisol and other hormones, which
bring other short- and long-term changes.
The stress response is intended to give you a burst
of energy so you’re able
KEEP STRESS UNDER CONTROL
Understand the Causes of
Stress
Analyze your Stress Factors
and Write Them Down
Deal with the Stressors
Learn to Work under Pressure
or Unusual Conditions
TIPS TO KEEP STRESS UNDER CONTROL
Stop for a moment (especially when you feel your muscles
tightening up) and take a few deep breaths.
Do a relaxing exercise. Swing your hands at your sides and
stretch.
Take a “power nap.” Lie down and totally relax for a few
minutes.
Find time to do the things you enjoy.
Leave your study area for a while to take a brisk walk.
Find a quiet place to read a magazine or novel during break
or at lunch.
If possible, look at some peaceful images such as forests,
beaches, etc. These images can initiate a relaxation
response.
Look up.
Keep something humorous on hand, such as a book of jokes.
Output: Stress Survival Kit
Directions: Using Canva, create your own INFOGRAPHICS
using the 36x48 inches size, portrait orientation.
Submission: September 19, 2023
You can make the symbols.
You can use words or pictures.
You can bring an object from home.
Think about how the symbol helps you when
you are dealing with stress and stressful
situations.
Write a paragraph for each symbol or object
in your kit that you’ll use and how it helps you
cope with stress in your everyday life.
Emotional Intelligence
More Than One Kind of Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and
manage our emotions.
EQ helps one build strong relationships, make good decisions,
and deal with difficult situations.
Improving Your EQ
Being Aware of Your Emotions
Practice recognizing emotions as you feel them. Label them
in your mind (for example, by saying to yourself "I feel
grateful," "I feel frustrated," etc.). Make it a daily habit to
be aware of your emotions.
Improving Your EQ
Understanding How Others Feel and Why
Part of EQ is being able to imagine how other people might
feel in certain situations. It is also about understanding why
they feel the way they do. Being able to imagine what
emotions a person is likely to be feeling (even when you don't
actually know) is called empathy. Empathy helps us care
about others and build good friendships and relationships. It
guides us on what to say and how to behave around someone
who is feeling strong emotions.
Improving Your EQ
Managing Emotional Reactions
Managing your reaction means knowing when, where, and
how to express yourself. When you understand your
emotions and know how to manage them, you can use self-
control to hold a reaction if now is not the right time or
place to express it. Someone who has good EQ knows it can
damage relationships to react to emotions in a way that's
disrespectful, too intense, too impulsive, or harmful.
Improving Your EQ
Choosing Your Mood
Moods are emotional states that last a bit. We have the
power to decide what mood is right for a situation, and then
to get into that mood. Choosing the right mood can help
someone get motivated, concentrate on a task, or try again
instead of giving up. People with good EQ know that moods
aren't just things that happen to us
Improving Your EQ
EQ: Under Construction
Emotional intelligence is something that develops as we get
older. If it didn't, all adults would act like little kids,
expressing their emotions physically through stomping,
crying, hitting, yelling, and losing control!
Improving Your EQ
Types of Responses
Passive response: Behaving passively means not expressing your
own needs and feelings, or expressing them so weakly that they
will not be addressed.
Ex: If Geneva behaves passively, by standing in line and not saying
anything, she will probably feel angry with the girls and herself. If
the ticket office runs out of tickets before she gets to the head
of the line, she will be furious and might blow up at the girls after
it's too late to change the situation.
Improving Your EQ
Types of Responses
Aggressive response: Behaving aggressively is asking for what you
want or saying how you feel in a threatening, sarcastic or
humiliating way that may offend the other person(s)
Ex: If Geneva calls the girls names or threatens them, she may
feel strong for a moment, but there is no guarantee she will get
the girls to leave. More importantly, the girls and their friend may
also respond aggressively, through a verbal or physical attack on
Geneva.
Improving Your EQ
Types of Responses
Assertive response: Behaving assertively means asking for what you want
or saying how you feel in an honest and respectful way that does not
infringe on another person's rights or put the individual down.
Ex: If Geneva tells the girls they need to go to the end of the line because
other people have been waiting, she will not put the girls down, but merely
state the facts of the situation. She can feel proud for standing up for
her rights. At the same time, she will probably be supported in her
statement by other people in the line.
Thank You
