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    Stress Briefly Noted
    Stress Briefly Noted
    Stress Briefly Noted
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    Stress Briefly Noted

    By Joseph Langen

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    Stress Briefly Noted provides you with the nuts and bolts of understanding and managing your stress. It gives you a nutshell picture of stress and what it involves. If you live your life in a hurry, you can read the whole book in 90 minutes.

    Here you will learn:

    What stress is
    Whether all stress is the same
    - Whether stress is ever fun
    - How you can avoid stress
    - How to help your body deal with stress
    - How to help your mind deal with stress
    - How you can settle your emotions under stress
    - How to tune up your soul
    - Tools for dealing with stress
    - Suggested further readings on stress

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Langen
    Release dateAug 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311721921
    Stress Briefly Noted
    Author

    Joseph Langen

    Personal Born in Dunkirk, NY, he moved to Rochester, NY when his father returned from his navy duties in World War II. He considered being a priest, and spent nine years in the seminary and monastery. He was married for twenty nine years and raised three children. He is currently in a wonderful relationship and lives in Leroy, NY. When he returned to the world at large after his monastery stay, he decided to explore psychology and switched from a philosophy major in the monastery to psychology and received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He stayed in Buffalo to receive a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. Then he moved to the University of Illinois for his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Along the way during his training, Gowanda Psychiatric Center and Chenute Air Force Base Counseling Center gave him practical experience. Work Life After graduating, he moved to Philadelphia where he worked for two years at Temple University Counseling Center. Next he spent two years at De La Salle In Towne, an experimental day treatment center for delinquent boys. Then he came back to Western New York and worked at Genesee County Mental Health in Batavia. Being in a rural area with limited resources, he learned to work with a great variety of people of all ages. After eleven years, he decided to return to Rochester where he grew up and took a job at DePaul Mental Health where he learned about family therapy, ending up as supervisor of the children's treatment program. By 1990, he felt ready to be more on my own and became an independent contractor at a practice in the Buffalo area. Eventually he moved the rest of the way into private practice and returned to work in Batavia. He has since retired from psychology practice and now writes full time. He also worked for three years as an AmeriCorps volunteer at GO ART! in Batavia, NY. Writing He began writing short stories in the 1980's for his own amusement and published one. In 1990. When he began private practice, he started writing a quarterly newsletter for his referral sources. Eventually he converted this to a biweekly newspaper column now published online as Sliding Otter News. These articles formed the basis of two of his books, Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life and: Navigating Life: Commonsense Reflections for the Voyage. In light of his seminary and monastery background, he took an interest in the priest-sexual abuse crisis and thought back to his cloistered years. Pondering these years led to his memoir, Young Man of the Cloth. When he realized that no one had told the priest abuse story from the priest's point of view, he decided to write what he had learned from his research and personal experience about abusive priests as a novel, The Pastor's Inferno. He has published the following books available in paperback and Ebook formats: - Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life, thoughts on the events of ordinary life, - Navigating Life: Commonsense Reflections for the Voyage, a book of reflections about life's joys and predicaments and what to do about them. - Young Man of the Cloth- a memoir of the author's nine years in a Catholic seminary and monastery. - The Pastor's Inferno- a novel about an abusive priest in search of redemption. - Release Your Stress and Reclaim Your Life- a comprehensive look at what stress is, how it affects you and what you can do about it. - Make the Best of Your Teen Years: 105 Ways to Do It. A book for teens consisting of poetry by a teen, stories about teens and narrative based on interviews with teens. -From Violence to Peace- Understanding violence and learning how to deal with it in your life and in the world. -How To Transform Your Anger and Find Peace- Understanding your anger and that of others and how to deal with it constructively. -Stress Briefly Noted is a condensed version of Release Your Stress and Reclaim Your Life, available FREE in Ebook format only from various distributors. What To Do About Violence is a brief Ebook on the nature of violence and how to approach it at personal, family, community and government levels. It is also available free from various distributors He also maintains four blogs on Wordpress: - Chats with My Muse Calliope - Make the Best of Your Teen Years - Release Your Stress and Reclaim Your Life. - Reconsidering violence -Anger in America -What To Do About Violence He distributes Sliding Otter News a free newsletter featuring excerpts from his books, his original articles and links to articles by other authors on the themes of finding inner peace and living in harmony with others. A free subscription to Sliding Otter News is available at http://www.slidingotter.com/sign-up-for-free-newsletter. There are no commitments required and you can discontinue your subscription at any time. He welcomes your comments on his writing at jlangen@slidingotter.com. Visit his Pinterest page at http://www.pinterest.com/jglangen/

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      Book preview

      Stress Briefly Noted - Joseph Langen

      Stress Briefly Noted

      Joseph G. Langen, Ph.D.

      Sliding Otter Publications

      LeRoy, NY

      Copyright © 2015 Joseph G. Langen

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the author.

      Produced in the United States of America

      Smashwords edition

      Sliding Otter Publications

      LeRoy NY

      www.slidingotter.com

      jglangen@gmail.com

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter 1- What is Stress?

      Chapter 2- Is All Stress the Same?

      Chapter 3- Is Stress Ever Fun?

      Chapter 4- Can I Avoid Stress?

      Chapter 5- How Can I Help My Body with Stress?

      Chapter 6- How Can I Help My Mind with Stress?

      Chapter 7- How Can I Settle My Emotions?

      Chapter 8- A Tune-up for Your Soul

      Chapter 9- Your Stress Toolbox

      About the Author

      Suggested Readings

      Foreword

      I don’t have time to read a book on stress! I’m too stressed! If this sounds familiar, this is the mini-book for you. It will help you with the basics of understanding and dealing with stress on all fronts. You might even have time to read a longer, more complete book on stress when you are done. In the meantime, here are some practical suggestions for how to deal with stress in critical areas of your life. Stress Briefly Noted is by definition a brief book. It is not a comprehensive treatment of stress. I have a more complete book on stress and I suggest it and other readings at the end of this book.

      If you don’t know where you are headed in life and what gets in your way, how will you get there? Or maybe you don’t have any goals and float along with the stream of life, going where it takes you. If you are happy with that and it works for you, this probably isn’t the book for you. I wrote this for busy people who have life goals or would like to develop some if they only had time. Please join me for a brief look at your stress and find out what you can do about it.

      Chapter 1- What is Stress?

      The history of stress

      Unlike many topics of popular self help books, stress is an established and thoroughly researched concept. Hans Selye, was born in Austria-Hungary in 1907 and trained as an endocrinologist. His chief work centered around the study of stress and its effects on the body. He defined stress as "the body’s response to a demand for change. He saw the body’s normal state as one of homeostasis or being settled into a routine. Anything which disrupted this state was seen as a stressor." He studied the body’s complex response to stress, mainly by tracking the various hormones released by the body to help it adapt to changes in its routine and helping it regain equilibrium.

      Over the years, other researchers and thinkers have looked at stress beyond the hormonal response of our endocrine system. Hormones triggered by stress affect all of our body systems. Digestion, immune systems and sexual response are all put on the back burner to help the body focus its resources on dealing with stress. Energy is sent to the muscles to help them prepare to respond to threats or avoid them. The brain and senses are also placed on high alert to detect and react to the threat posed by stress.

      Where does stress hit you?

      And that’s just what happens in your body. Your brain and senses focus your mind on stressors to understand what is happening to you. You put aside thoughts of anything else for the time being and focus on how you can handle stress. That’s all you can think about. Did you ever try to solve a math problem while under stress? Your mind is preoccupied and can’t focus on nonessentials. Your very survival might be at stake.

      Your emotions kick into high gear under stress. Fear reigns until you have a better understanding of what threatens you. Anger and aggression brace you to respond to attacks. More gentle emotions such as love and compassion fade into the background during periods of stress so you can concentrate on the upcoming battle.

      Your soul is thrown into turmoil. Your sense of being at peace with the world

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