How to Cope with Stress: Practical Tools for Resilience and Well-Being
Hi, and welcome to this course: How to Cope with Stress: Practical Tools for Resilience and Well-Being.
We all experience stress in our lives – it’s part of our human condition, and our bodies are designed to perceive and react to stressors. But sometimes when that stress becomes chronic or we don’t have ways to reset, it can create a lot of wear and tear both physically and emotionally. I know, I’ve been there myself.
If you are hoping to eliminate all stress from your life this course may not be for you. But if you are looking to:
- cope better with stress
- have ways to re-set in your day and experience greater inner calm and peace
- become “stress smart”
- learn how to relate to your stress differently so that you can experience greater ease and well-being
- build resilience
- have tools you can bring into your day to shift from surviving to thriving
You’ve come to the right place!
About This Course
Hi, and welcome to this course: How to Cope with Stress: Practical Tools for Resilience and Well-Being.
We all experience stress in our lives – it’s part of our human condition, and our bodies are designed to perceive and react to stressors. But sometimes when that stress becomes chronic or we don’t have ways to reset, it can create a lot of wear and tear both physically and emotionally. I know, I’ve been there myself.
If you are hoping to eliminate all stress from your life this course may not be for you. But if you are looking to:
- cope better with stress
- have ways to re-set in your day and experience greater inner calm and peace
- become “stress smart”
- learn how to relate to your stress differently so that you can experience greater ease and well-being
- build resilience
- have tools you can bring into your day to shift from surviving to thriving
You’ve come to the right place!
I put together this course to teach you three practical tools that you can use in your everyday life, tools that don’t take much time in your day, but that can be very effective in coping with stress, building resilience and cultivating well-being.
If you have 10 minutes a day to invest in yourself, this investment is well worth it – You are well worth it. My intention is that you will walk away with practical tools that you can begin using right away, that will make a difference in how you show up each day, that will help bring greater ease and joy into the moments of your life.
I hope you’ll join me for this journey.
*Note: This course is a great companion to my book The Transformative Power of Ten Minutes: An Eight Week Guide to Reducing Stress and Cultivating Well-Being
Lesson 1 provides a framework for this course and begins with a very short meditation and then an invitation to observe how stress shows up in your life. We begin to explore the difference between short term versus chronic stress, I offer a teaser into the three tools that you will be learning to use in your daily life, and I share why this topic of stress is near and dear to my heart. We end with another very short meditation that you can use any time to help interrupt the stress response. (13:35 minutes)
Lesson 2 begins by distinguishing between stressors in your life and your stress response. We explore the physiology of the stress response and learn about why stress can be like a “false alarm.” By understanding what is happening in one’s body, this empowers you to have more choices available to you. We discuss the four components of the stress response, the importance of re-setting, and the concept of learning how to listen to the “false alarm” in a helpful way. (11:20 minutes)
In lesson 3 we learn how we are wired to operate on “automatic pilot,” and how to use the tool of the flashlight to bring mindful awareness to our automatic, habitual patterns of stress. This awareness, so simple and yet not so easy, creates choice for us to respond in new ways. We end with a discussion about how this simple tool can help to rewire our brains to react to stress differently. (11:56 minutes)
Lesson 2 begins by distinguishing between stressors in your life and your stress response. We explore the physiology of the stress response and learn about why stress can be like a “false alarm.” By understanding what is happening in one’s body, this empowers you to have more choices available to you. We discuss the four components of the stress response, the importance of re-setting, and the concept of learning how to listen to the “false alarm” in a helpful way. (11:20 minutes)
Lesson 2 begins by distinguishing between stressors in your life and your stress response. We explore the physiology of the stress response and learn about why stress can be like a “false alarm.” By understanding what is happening in one’s body, this empowers you to have more choices available to you. We discuss the four components of the stress response, the importance of re-setting, and the concept of learning how to listen to the “false alarm” in a helpful way. (11:20 minutes)
Lesson 2 begins by distinguishing between stressors in your life and your stress response. We explore the physiology of the stress response and learn about why stress can be like a “false alarm.” By understanding what is happening in one’s body, this empowers you to have more choices available to you. We discuss the four components of the stress response, the importance of re-setting, and the concept of learning how to listen to the “false alarm” in a helpful way. (11:20 minutes)
We begin this lesson with another short thought experiment which many people find enlightening. We explore unhelpful thought patterns and common thought traps that contribute to stress. You will learn about strategies to begin to feed yourself a healthier diet of thoughts that can have a positive impact on your experience of stress. (10:03 minutes)
In lesson 8 we learn about how the “magnifying glass” is an essential tool for cultivating positive experiences, and why our primitive brains make this difficult to do. We learn some simple ways to turn on the positivity circuitry in our brain, and I share some stories that will illustrate the Velcro problem and the Magnifying Glass in action. (11:48 minutes)
In this lesson we focus on the practical application of the “magnifying glass.” We learn how to “install” positive experiences as we go through our day, and I offer a short experiential exercise to practice this. You are invited to reflect on how you might use this tool in your daily life. We end with a summary of the three tools learned in this course. (10:17 minutes)
This final lesson involves two meditations to help practice and integrate the strategies taught in this course. The first meditation is approximately 12 minutes long and will help you practice using all three tools in a visualization and mental rehearsal exercise. The second meditation is under three minutes and offers a short practice that you can use throughout the day to help interrupt the stress response. (15:16 minutes)
Total running time: 117 minutes
*While four meditations are embedded into the lessons of this 10-day class, this package also includes 7 additional meditations, for a total of 11 audio meditations available for download that will help to reinforce the skills being taught and will assist you in growing inner resources to cope with your challenges with greater resilience. The meditations that accompany this package include:
*Visualization for Deep Relaxation (15 minutes)
*Visualization to Reduce Stress and Burnout (12 minutes)
*Meditation to Explore What You Might Change (7 minutes)
*Finding Inner Peace During Challenging Times (6 minutes)
*Protecting Yourself From Absorbing Others’ Stress/Pain (4 minutes)
*Three Minute Mindful Pause (3 minutes)
*Short Meditation to Interrupt the Stress Response (3 minutes)
*Quick Meditation to De-stress (3 minutes)
*Three Minute Reset (3 1/2 minutes)
*How Full is Your Container (5 minutes)
*Quick Meditation to Shift into Positivity (4 minutes)
What People Are Saying:
Tami: I loved this course. The teacher offered refreshing ideas that have never been used and that have helped me to refrain negative thoughts.
Chris: Very useful course, easy to listen to & absorb, have found it really enjoyable. Thank you.
Leslie: Thank you! Really enjoyed this course. Easy to remember tools to help when stress arises.
Susan: I really enjoyed the course. It is filled with story, examples and tools that all very helpful.
Tom: Thanks so much… one of the best. Would recommend.
Kim: Thank you so much for all the tools in this course. It was incredibly helpful and I can see myself using these regularly. I looked forward to each day as another idea was presented. Namaste
Linda: Wonderful, extremely helpful, concise and insightful.
Cindy: Highly recommend this course! Lots of practical advice with 3 tools you can start using immediately to realize how much control you really do have over stress.
