Category Archives: Body / Health / Movement
Stressful Life Style vs Low-Stress Life Style
One of the top 3 reasons women start coaching and mentoring is to make changes in their lives. Part of the reason they want to make the changes is due to the stress they are experiencing. They have recognised that the stress is mostly self-induced and would like to shift from a stressful lifestyle to a low-stress…
Eustress vs Distress
We all experience stress in our daily lives. How we experience that stress depends on how we choose to think about the stress, feel the stress and respond to the stress. “It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Eustress vs Distress…
The General Adaptation Syndrome by Hans Selye
Endocrinologist and Scientist Hans Selye (1907-1982) introduced the “General Adaptation Syndrome” (GAS) theory in 1936. GAS is the three-stage process that describes the body’s response to stress. According to Selye, the stress response is the body’s “non-specific reaction to demands made to its internal equilibrium.” The stress damage results from prolonged exposure to the stressor and happens in 3…
What is Stress?
The past couple of weeks, I have been talking a lot about stress. So today, I wanted to write a post on it. Let’s get started… What is Stress? There are many definitions of stress including – “pressure or tension exerted on a material object” and “a state of mental or emotional strain or tension…
Stress – Portrait of a Killer
The following Stress video – “Stress, Portrait of a Killer” from National Geographic discusses a scientific overview of the body’s stress response system involving the stress hormones known as Adrenaline and Cortisol. Left unchecked, these two hormones can wreak havoc in the body. Questions for Reflection – What did you learn or were reminded about after…
Helping and Enabling – Is There a Difference?
Is there really a difference between helping and enabling? Yes, there is according to the research. However, before we discuss the differences, let’s look at what “helping and enabling” are – Helping is: being there or doing something for someone that they CANNOT do for themselves, and Enabling is: doing something for somebody that they COULD or…
5 Critical Factors for Successful Change
Change is one of the few certainties in life. Many of us want to change different things in our lives or about ourselves, but that is not the challenge. The challenge (or issue) is we criticise and judge ourselves harshly for not making the change. And subsequently end up being in resistance with the present moment, which equates…
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