 consist of 30 questions

determine your current

vulnerability to stress
Identify areas to reduce
vulnerability to stress.
 (Managing Stress, 3RD Edition, Brian Luke Seaward,
Phd, 2004)
 Evaluate some of the Physical, Mental,
Emotional, spiritual, and social factors
that affect vulnerability to stress.
Providing with another piece in your
stress status puzzle.
 Blockbuster movie Titanic has a health lesson for
all of us.

Lesson: Listen to your body when it sends you

signals.
Symptoms and changes are warnings that you
should slow down, change course, or take another
route.
 1. Make a habit of spending some quality
time each day to get to know yourself
 (Half an hour to self exploration: journal
writing, art therapy; music therapy,
exercise)
(Be selfish- believe that you deserve this
time)
 2. Make a habit of reading your emotional
barometer.
 -recognize the times when you feel angry,
frustrated, anxious and guilty.
Ask yourself what triggered this response?
Why this emotions surfaced?
What is the most appropriate action or
behaviour to resolve this?
 3. Practice the art of unconditional love
4. Nurture your creativity skills
5.Balance all components of your well
being and take time to nurture them
6. Be like a child
Step 1: Identify your stressors (Top 5 from
the most stressful to least stressful)
Step 2: Intervention ( F- fear, A- Anger)
Step 3: Integration ( Mind, emotions,
body and spirit)
0-30 – Excellent ( great resistance to stress)
31-40- Good (little vulnerability to stress)
41-50- Average (somewhat vulnerable to
stress)
51-60- Fair (vulnerable to stress)
 >61- Poor (highly vulnerable to stress)
“I cannot and should not
be cured of my stress, but
merely taught to enjoy it”

-Hans Selye