Stress Management: Beating Stress with Knowledge and Empowerment

2. Welcome to the2014FALT Conference November 18, 2014

3. Time is Tight

4. Remember Jimmy V

5. Don’t Wait (until it’s too late)

6. How are we going to frame today?

7. How’s this? • Private vs. public conversations • Post critical incident/effort cost • PERSONAL and national view • Aspiration vs. inspiration • S-s-s-s-s-h • Harvest a collective intelligence • How to sustain our efforts – the After Party

8. Story of Stress

9. Even More!!!

10. Cumulative Stress is killing your heart Destroying productivity, and Making you a safety risk! How you can beat the stats with knowledge and empowerment

11. STRESS: the cocaine of modern America How you can beat the addiction with knowledgeandempowerment

12. Presentation by Lennie Mees, MD 13222 SE Terra Cascade Dr. Happy Valley, OR 97086 503-236-8978 lennie.mees@kenniscorp.com

13. My Story

14. Is There a Higher Ground?

15. Leadership Opportunities • Pride • Trust • Collective responsibility • Communication • Caring

17. Priorities • SELF!!!! • Family • Work • Social/community • Spiritual • Environment

18. Stress Affects all of us • Safety • Sick days • Morale • Nostalgia • Prison mentality • Productivity

19. Samuel Plimsoll drew a line

20. Culture and Behavior

21. Stress and Your Heart • Stress releases adrenaline and cortisol • These chemicals effect tiny micro-infarcts • 100 x a day, 365 days, 20 to 30 years …. Or • Chronic smoldering stress • “Swiss-cheese” heart!!! • Pump failure • Irritable heart - Lethal arrhythmias

22. Cocaine and Your Heart • Cocaine releases adrenaline • Cocaine causes micro-infarcts …. • Cocaine causes “Swiss-cheese” heart!!! • Pump failure • Lethal arrhythmias • Just like stress!!!

23. You Can’t Tell Them Apart!!! • Both are addictive • Both are lethal • Yet, on one hand, we accept stress as part of our American landscape …. • But, on the other hand, we (rightfully) malign cocaine abuse • When will we learn?????

24. Are you a “Hot Reactor” • BP elevates • HR elevates • 17% of total population • 35% of professionals • Combine with “anger-in” high risk of sudden death

25. Depression?

28. Depression Symptoms • Fatigue • Loss of interest • Illnesses • Presenteeism • Aberrant behavior

29. Duration

30. APATHY

31. Morale? What’s that? Morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose, or The collective expression of a group’s emotional well-being

32. National Depression

33. Delivering the Truth

34. What is Stress? It’s not the large things thatsend a man to themadhouse …. No, it’s the continuing series ofsmall tragedies that send the man to the madhouse …not the death of his lovebut a shoelace that snapswith no time left …...

35. Perils of Peak Performance Peak Performance P e r Optimal Performance f Flameout o r Burnout m a n C e Stress

36. The Harder I Work, The More Behind I Get

37. Subject: FW: Health alertThe Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highlycontagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand,and even electronically.This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK).If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone elsevia any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT!!!  This virus will wipe out yourprivate life entirely.  If you should come into contact with WORK you shouldimmediately leave the premises.Take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and purchase one or bothof the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and BothersomeEmployer Elimination Rebooter (BEER).  Take the antidote repeatedly untilWORK has been completely eliminated from your system.You should immediately forward this medical alert to your friends.  If youdo not have friends, you have already been infected and WORK iscontrolling your life.

38. How to Spot Stress • Absenteeism • Presenteeism • Illness • Abnormal behavior • Accidents • Ask

41. Stress Prevention • Meditation • Think • Exercise • Improve your nutrition • Journal • Talk and Listen • Assertive communication • Guided visual imagery • Love

42. Mindfulness Meditation Learn to live in the “Precious Present.” Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. If we are mindful, we will make good choices in food, friends, family, and finances If we are mindful, we can accomplish goals we never thought possible

43. Think • Derek Bok burned out at Harvard • Took a teaching position at Stanford • Started each day with one hour of Thinking • Blank paper, pencil or pen and • Think about your life • Commit ideas to paper ….

44. An Idea not Committed to Paper Remains Simply a Wish Robert G. Allen, author

45. Exercise • A great stress preventer • A superb stress manager • Perhaps the best depression manager and preventer • How good do you feel after a brisk walk?

46. Nutrition VS. Try this experiment – what food makes you feel better?

47. Journaling • A double benefit …. • The emotional release of writing - what you did, what bugged you, what you loved • The position of objective observer - seeing your life and problems, then solving them

48. Listen When I ask you to listen and you start giving advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I should feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings, When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problems,you have failed me, strange as that may seem

49. Perhaps that’s why prayer works for some peopleBecause they believe they are being heard. So please just listen and hear me. And if you want to talk wait a few minutes for your turn and I promise I’ll listen to you.

50. Celebrate