Question

Spend a moment or two thinking about your current stress coping strategies. Discuss 2-3 positive coping techniques that you currently use frequently to manage your stress. Why do you consider these positive strategies?

Discuss how each “positive” coping strategy you listed affects you in the different dimensions of health (physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual).

Now share 2-3 “negative” coping strategies that you use frequently to manage stress. Why do you consider these negative?

Discuss how each negative coping strategy you listed affects you in the different dimensions of health (physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual). Reflecting on course material and your responses above, what insights do you have about yourself, stress and/or stress management?

Answer 1

Positive attitude I will use for handling my stressful situation by increasing my physical activity and avoid unhealthy lifestyles like smoking, alcohol and caffeine use and calling and talking with someone to ventilate my feelings. These positive coping strategies help me to achieve goals and remove out negative thoughts and make encouragement ourselves.
Increasing my physical activity, avoiding unhealthy habits and talking with someone improves our concentration, motivation, mood memory it also improves self-esteem and cognitive function. It makes interaction with social groups and increases spiritual health and intellectual ability.
Negative coping strategies to manage my stress are self-talk, drinking a lot of coffee, using tranquilizing drugs. These negative strategies increase my physical and mental illness, make me out of spiritual ability and avoid social gathering and intellectual development.
Self-talk increases my mental stress and harms myself, drinking more coffee during the stress spoils my physical health and using tranquilizers makes me get an addiction to that and makes me unhealthy.
  stress management I use regularly is meditation, relaxation techniques, and physical recreation to overcome my stress. It will keep my body and spirit calm and avoid negative thoughts.