Lahore University Of Management Studies
Dr. Robert Epstein is a contributing editor for Scientific American Mind, the former editor in chief of Psychology Today, holds a Ph. D. in psychology from Harvard University, is the founder and Director Emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts, has written articles featured in Time magazine, the New York Times, and Discover, has written 15 books, etc. The rest of the list is long and impressive making his discoveries and words immediately more valuable than those coming from normal folk, at least to those who would listen at all. This is a synopsis on an article he wrote in the September/October 2011 issue of Scientific American Mind called Fight the Frazzled Mind.
Stress management
Scientists suggest at least four “trainable skill sets” of non-destructive ways of managing stress: “source management” or eliminating the source of the stress, relaxation (meditation or breathing exercises), managing thought or “correcting irrational thinking and interpreting events in ways that don’t hurt you”, and prevention such as planning to avoid stressors. Dr. Epstein’s study looked at the stress managing skills of 3,304 participants of ages 10 to 86 of varying nationalities. To take this test click here.
Top two predictors of happiness and success
Breathing exercises, Yoga, and meditation all have well known health benefits. “Meditation, for example, has been shown to lower blood pressure and also to help people feel ‘immunized’ against stressors. As for thought management, it is perhaps the main thing that therapists and counselors teach their clients.” However, it was prevention and source management that were shown to be respectively the first and second most important stress management “competencies” and predictors of happiness and success.
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