Stress Buster Techniques
Quick stress buster technique for supply chain professionals!
Is it easy working as a supply chain or procurement professional?
Does this sound like your day?
High pressure Deadlines,
Constant Juggling of priorities,
Demanding customers and suppliers,
…and the never ending dramas of your employees or colleagues!
So do you ever get yourself so worked up that you become short tempered, irritable and go home exhausted and not “available” for partner, kids or friends?
To View this Video please click on link below, http://productiveminds.com.au/2016/02/stress-buster-technique/
Dislike what’s happening to you? It’s called Workplace Stress!
And you have some control over how your body reacts to it. So what do I do?
Have you ever drawn a breath…yeah, I’m sure you have…But have you done it to slow yourself down…
You know, when your heart is racing, your muscles tighten up, and your stomach is contracting or about to bring lunch up?!
What about when your teeth start to grind and your head feels like it’s about to explode like a overcooked popcorn bag in the microwave…!
Guess you know all about anxiety!
These feelings and responses were developed in us over thousands of evolutionary years.
We needed to have these responses to enable us to be wary of really scary things that wanted to “Eat Us”!
When our brain “interprets” danger, Adrenaline and Cortisol go “nuts” in our body to help us to run away or fight the danger and known today as the Fight, Flight or Freeze response.
To View our Fight, Flight, Freeze infographic on this please click on link below,
http://productiveminds.com.au/what-we-do/resources/fight-flight-freeze-infographic-2/
But where are the Sabre Tooth Tiger and T Rex when were in a procurement negotiation or dealing with difficult clients or team members?
All this stress is in our head, and our mind being such a powerful machine makes these fears REAL,
…well sort of!
So what’s the Stress buster Tip, “O Great Wise One?”
Breathe.
“Is that it?”
Yup!
But let me explain all the really technical moves… o.k.
Slowly, slowly breathe in thru your nose,
Filling your lungs up with the good stuff called air,
as deeply as you can…hold your breath for 2-3 seconds,
and then slowly breathe out through pursed lips.
Then repeat the performance for 2, 5 or 10 plus minutes periodically throughout the day.
To View our infographic on this technique please click the link below,
http://productiveminds.com.au/what-we-do/resources/relax-breathe-infographic/
So go sit somewhere comfortably and close your eyes, If you’re self-conscious, go somewhere private, or close your office door.
Of course it’s Not advisable when driving a forklift!
For those of you who smoked a pack a day for the last 20 years you will need to adjust the tempo accordingly.
Keep at it!
When you have mastered this you can add some “fancy thinking techniques” to help you really sort this stuff out, but that’s for another article.
So give it a go, what have you got to lose…well maybe lots of stress!!
Sitting comfortably,
Chris Richardson
www.productiveminds.com.au
Is it easy working as a supply chain or procurement professional?
Does this sound like your day?
High pressure Deadlines,
Constant Juggling of priorities,
Demanding customers and suppliers,
…and the never ending dramas of your employees or colleagues!
So do you ever get yourself so worked up that you become short tempered, irritable and go home exhausted and not “available” for partner, kids or friends?
To View this Video please click on link below, http://productiveminds.com.au/2016/02/stress-buster-technique/
Dislike what’s happening to you? It’s called Workplace Stress!
And you have some control over how your body reacts to it. So what do I do?
Have you ever drawn a breath…yeah, I’m sure you have…But have you done it to slow yourself down…
You know, when your heart is racing, your muscles tighten up, and your stomach is contracting or about to bring lunch up?!
What about when your teeth start to grind and your head feels like it’s about to explode like a overcooked popcorn bag in the microwave…!
Guess you know all about anxiety!
These feelings and responses were developed in us over thousands of evolutionary years.
We needed to have these responses to enable us to be wary of really scary things that wanted to “Eat Us”!
When our brain “interprets” danger, Adrenaline and Cortisol go “nuts” in our body to help us to run away or fight the danger and known today as the Fight, Flight or Freeze response.
To View our Fight, Flight, Freeze infographic on this please click on link below,
http://productiveminds.com.au/what-we-do/resources/fight-flight-freeze-infographic-2/
But where are the Sabre Tooth Tiger and T Rex when were in a procurement negotiation or dealing with difficult clients or team members?
All this stress is in our head, and our mind being such a powerful machine makes these fears REAL,
…well sort of!
So what’s the Stress buster Tip, “O Great Wise One?”
Breathe.
“Is that it?”
Yup!
But let me explain all the really technical moves… o.k.
Slowly, slowly breathe in thru your nose,
Filling your lungs up with the good stuff called air,
as deeply as you can…hold your breath for 2-3 seconds,
and then slowly breathe out through pursed lips.
Then repeat the performance for 2, 5 or 10 plus minutes periodically throughout the day.
To View our infographic on this technique please click the link below,
http://productiveminds.com.au/what-we-do/resources/relax-breathe-infographic/
So go sit somewhere comfortably and close your eyes, If you’re self-conscious, go somewhere private, or close your office door.
Of course it’s Not advisable when driving a forklift!
For those of you who smoked a pack a day for the last 20 years you will need to adjust the tempo accordingly.
Keep at it!
When you have mastered this you can add some “fancy thinking techniques” to help you really sort this stuff out, but that’s for another article.
So give it a go, what have you got to lose…well maybe lots of stress!!
Sitting comfortably,
Chris Richardson
www.productiveminds.com.au
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