Closing Thoughts

This UFT guide to positive stress management was designed to help you learn some effective ways to deal with the stressors in your personal and professional lives.

There is no doubt that stress is part of school life. Assuming the responsibility for the well-being and growth of students is a complex task. Schools may be daunting and education itself is changing toward greater professionalism. Those changes, though for the good, will bring new stresses. Wanting to work with students and being frustrated by a straining environment can cause a lot of tension.

The complexity of multiple stressors in your personal and professional lives makes it absolutely necessary for you to approach stress management with the broadest of perspectives. You must set personal goals to use stress reduction techniques and to make reinforcing behavioral, psychological and physical changes. To do any less is to be applying Band-Aids when tourniquets are needed.

There is both positive and negative stress. The difference between the two lies in the way you perceive and handle each situation. Shakespeare wrote, “Things are neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Before you lose control, take a deep breath, let it out slowly and feel your composure return.

Good luck and good health.

 

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