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Stress Management Stress Management Stress Causes Stress Effects How To Manage Stress From Elizabeth Scott, M.S., your Guide to Stress Management As I've mentioned in past newsletters, the way we process the stress we experience can minimize or magnify how it affects us. The same experience can feel more or less difficult depending on how we look at things, the changes we make to deal with the challenge, and the things we do to manage our own reactions. This newsletter explains some of these things we do to exacerbate our stress, and shows how to better manage it. Feel free to share this with anyone you feel could benefit--and if you've received this as a forward from a friend, you can subscribe to this newsletter as well! Here's to a less-stressed week! --Elizabeth Are You Magnifying Your Stress? What are some of the ways we can exacerbate our stress by the way we look at it? And why do we fall into these traps? This blog explores one of the most common stress-magnifying thought mechanisms. Read more Rumination: Taking Things From Bad To Worse Rumination is one of those things that can take a stressful situation and make it feel even more stressful. It starts off simple enough: we may be trying to solve a problem or figure out how we feel about something, but we end up in a repetitive negative loop of our most stressful experiences. Learn more about rumination and how to free yourself from it. Read more Search Related Topics:  rumination  positive thinking  negative thought patterns Best (and Worst!) Ways To Relieve Stress Sometimes the emotions we feel from life's challenges can be overwhelming. We all have certain defense mechanisms we use from time to time to help us deal with stressful emotions with an intact ego or sense of hope. Most of us know about denial, but what are some of the other common defense mechanisms people use? Do any of these sound a little too familiar? Read more Search Related Topics:  inner peace  resilience  coping strategies How To Deal With Negative Emotions Negative emotions can make stress seem larger and more foreboding than it is. Unmanaged negativity can also create more stressors to manage, and weaken our ability to handle life's challenges. Here are some simple steps to better management of these negative emotions that we all have from time to time. Read more Search Related Topics:  emotional stress  anger  rumination Related Searches Stress Techniques How to Reduce Stress Management of Stress Stress from Work Coping with Stress Featured Articles Understanding Stress: Stress Basics, Causes of Stress & Research Stress Tests / Personality Tests / Stress Assessment Students and Stress: Study Habits, Organization Skills & Stress Help Managing Job Stress: Getting Along With Co-Workers and Thriving Parents Under Stress: Surviving The Thoughest Job You'll Ever Love Financial Stress - Managing Your Money AND Your Stress   More from About.com Run Your First 5K Even couch potatoes can be ready for a 5K with just a couple months of training. Read more...> Help! I'm Too Busy Time and stress management tips to help you feel as though you have more time. Read more...> This newsletter is written by: Elizabeth Scott, M.S. Stress Management Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Stress Management newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2013 About.com   Ongoing Stress Relief Resources Facebook Page: About Stress Follow @About_Stress On Twitter What Type Of Personality Do You Have?   Follow me on: Advertisement