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MOOD
MANAGEMENT SUCCESS UNDER YOUR SKIN The following is a short excerpt from Megan Johntz’ workshop on Mood Management for corporations and organizations wanting to improve their most valuable commodity - their people. Contact Megan Johntz today to put PsychTools to work building your company's success.
A recent survey found 36% of
workplace violence was caused by marital or relationship issues; 24% of
workplace violence was caused by stress of the job or stress from co-worker
strife, and only 18% of violent acts at work were due to being fired. American
workers are often on the edge, and unskilled at managing their emotions well. Those
who have mastered their moods, are shining, and rising to the upper levels of
corporate America, but there seems to be a huge gap between those people and the
majority of employees in a given company. Imagine
the success of an organization able to say about each employee that he or she is
emotionally mature, able to take criticism well, take responsibility for their
mistakes, look for creative solutions benefiting the whole company instead of
becoming territorial for one department, and on and on. That’s the company
able to survive and prosper in this fiercely competitive age. So
let’s take a look at what to do with these troublesome emotions. Pay attention
to each tool you learn, for they translate into your family life as well as they
do at work. Feeling basics:
Trouble
emotions:
Physiology
of feelings Feelings are simply a chemical dump in your body, which in turn creates many physical and mental reactions that we have come to label with the terms “anger” or “happiness”, etc. These chemicals running around in your bloodstream do some very helpful things (extra adrenaline during a crisis helps you fight back or flee), but when misunderstood and mismanaged, they can build up and be detrimental to your very physical health. In the seven years or so that I’ve been studying emotions and health, I’ve run across many studies indicating a build up of these emotions - these chemicals - may be linked to serious health problems.
The following list is simply what Megan Johntz has come across in seven years,
so I’m sure there are other studies out there that I just haven’t had time
to investigate. You probably have heard of some other physical ailment
associated with anger, or depression, etc. So take my partial list, and then
keep an ear open during the nightly news, as researchers are finding new
correlations between emotional distress and physical health every day.
As I write this, today a study was reported
in the Journal of the American Medical Association citing childhood trauma -
emotional scars from mom and dad divorcing or childhood abuse - making it more
likely that person will smoke, and have a harder time quitting than someone who
did not suffer major childhood trauma.
Please remember back to your horrendous
statistics class, and know that just because two things (i.e.: anger
mismanagement and the growth rate of cancer) seem to exist together, it
doesn’t mean one causes the other.
We always need more research. So all of that said, the following is a list of
studies I’ve come across that associate mismanaged feelings with physical
ailments. Migraine Headaches Arthritis Degenerative Joint Disease Incontinence Low Back Pain Sleep Disturbances Gout Obesity Higher Mortality Rate Bulimia Anorexia Hypertension Lupus Upper Respiratory Infection Epstein Barr Large Bowel Cancer Cardiovascular Disease TMJ Teeth Grinding Irritable Bowel Syndrome Colitis Smoking Alcoholism Prescription Drug Abuse Depression Low Self-Esteem Assertiveness Difficulties Low Social Support Panic Attacks Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Phobias During the workshop,
participants explore areas such as:
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