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Seminar. Seven Ways to Manage Stress and Enjoy Inner Peace. Stress is the body’s physical, mental, and emotional response to a demand, which is called a stressor. Some amount of stress is useful, but too much is harmful. What is stress?. Seven Ways to Manage Stress and Enjoy Inner Peace.
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Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Stress is the body’s physical, mental, and emotional response to a demand, which is called a stressor. Some amount of stress is useful, but too much is harmful. What is stress?
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Stress Types • Negative stress can result from loss of job. • Positive stress can result from job promotion.
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace • Light stress can result from running from the rain. • Severe stress can result from an illness like cancer.
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Negative Stress Symptoms • Tension Headaches • Over anxiety • Loss of appetite • Overeating • Insomnia
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace To deal with stress effectively, I must first identify its source.
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace “Why are you downcast, o my soul? Why so disturbed within me?.”Psalm 43:5, NIV
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Lifestyle Adequate sleep Healthy diet Avoid caffeine, tobacco & alcohol Regular exercise
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace “Everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things... I discipline my body and bring it into subjection.”1 Corinthians 9:25,27
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace • Breathe Deeply • “O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord…. • Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live” • Ezekiel 37:4,5. • Let’s Practice!
Relax Muscles • “And I will lay sinews upon you… and you shall live” • Ezekiel 37:6 Let’s Practice!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace • Life is pressurized, but you can join healthy activities instead. • Replace “preasure” with “plessure”.
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.” 1 Samuel 16:23
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “For he is the kind of man who is who is always thinking about the cost.” Proverbs 23:7
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace When I receive a negative message, I have the freedom to decide: a) Empower it to become my master (stressor) b) Imprison it to become my slave!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace The Stress Equation • Activating Agent + My Thinking = My Feelings I Receive + I Think = I Feel
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace • When a Negative Message passes through Negative Self Talk it produces Negative Feelings. • When a Negative Message is channeled through Positive Self Talk, it produces Positive Feelings!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Talk with a Supporter.A sensitive support system helps to relieve stress.
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “But David took an oath and said, ‘Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself,
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved. Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death. ” 1 Samuel 20:3
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace “Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me. So I said, ‘Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest’.”Psalm 55:5,6
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace “Be still, and know that I am God”Psalm 46:10
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace “Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.”Mark 1:35
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace “Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”Genesis 2:3
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace In the beautiful Garden of Eden – free from strain and stress – Adam and Eve joined their Creator in a Sabbath Celebration of joy and peace.
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace • Adam was not a Jew; so it could not be Jewish! • Like Marriage and family, it was given to Adam for the whole human race! Many think the Sabbath rest was only given to the Jews
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27 Just as marriage was made for man, so the Sabbath was made for man!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Black man or White man, Sabbath was made for man! Rich man or poor man, Sabbath was made for man! Englishman or Hispanic man, Sabbath was made for man!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Created by Christ, it’s Christian!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Off to the Honeymoon!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace • Adam and Eve’s marriage was on Friday, the next day was Sabbath. • Friday night was the first night of their honey moon. • Sabbath was the first full day the couple spent together. • So this is a special day for God’s Happy Family!
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Which day is Christ’s Sabbath? Let’s check the EASTER WEEKEND Luke 23:53 to 24:1
Seven Ways to Manage Stressand Enjoy Inner Peace Events: Christ’s Crucifixion Christ’s Entombment Christ’s Resurrection We say: Good Friday Easter Sunday Saturday First Day of theWeek Bible says: Preparation Day Sabbath