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Today is National Stress Awareness Day. I am sure that it was marked in your diary, sandwiched between Halloween and Bonfire night!

Why do we need to be aware of stress you might ask? Well in the same way that we need to be aware of maintaining a healthy body it is vitally important to understand how your body and mind reacts to stress. This is because the long-term effects of chronic stress could be fatal. 

The International Stress Management Association UK (ISMA) defines stress as:-

“The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them.”

Those pressures may come from many differing sources and when their combined effect is overwhelming, stress occurs. This means that stress is not good for you. Stress is an unhealthy state of body or mind or both. 

Stress has become the most common cause of long-term sickness absence for both manual and non-manual employees, according to the CIPD/Simplyhealth Absence Management survey.
- CIPD Survey October 2011

British businesses lose an estimated £26 billion each year in sickness absence and lost productivity. The good news is that with greater awareness and mental health support, businesses could save one third of these costs – ‘a mammoth £8 billion a year’. According to- Mind June 2011 

For more interesting facts about the effects of stress on our health and economy see; http://www.isma.org.uk/about-stress/facts-about-stress.html

I have been treating people suffering from the effects of stress for 17 years now. If you want to find out how Josh turned things around with our help listen to josh’s success story here and you can hear Mike’s story here .

If you would like some help and advice on how to prevent stress negatively impacting on your life, please request our free report titled DE-STRESS from our contact page . DE-STRESS is an 8 point plan to build up resistance and to prevent the effects of stress damaging you physically and mentally.