A Simple Framework for Mastery Over Stress
There are so many strategies and tips for managing stress. This leaves you with the challenge of how do they all fit together? Here is a simple framework to help you think through what options you may want to take to get stress relief.
A few years ago, I found myself grappling with stress on multiple fronts. In my quest for solutions, I encountered various fragmented answers that failed to provide the coherent narrative or framework I sought. Fueled by this dissatisfaction, I embarked on the journey to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding and effectively responding to stress.
The Framework: Creators and Removers
Stress, stemming from unpredictable events that can last a moment or endure for decades, manifests in various aspects of life such as money, relationships, and work—let's term them as stress "creators." On the other hand, behaviours, environments, and practices like exercise, meditation, and stress defence techniques act as stress "removers."
While my background is in engineering, and I acknowledge the non-scientific nature of this framework, its simplicity and insightful approach align with the principles of great engineering. Mastery over stress, I contend, necessitates two key elements: resilience, or the capacity to absorb stressful surprises, and the ability to remove stress faster than it accumulates.
Two Simple Rules for Stress Mastery:
1. Stress creators minus stress removers results in stored stress.
Creators - Removers = Stored Stress
2. Maximum stress capacity (the point of potential breakdown) minus stored stress results in the capacity to absorb stress (resilience).
Maximum Stress - Stored Stress = Capacity to Absorb Stress (Resilience).
Conclusions: The Holistic Approach
These rules lead to two crucial conclusions. Firstly, the ability to remove stress must outweigh both the creators of stress and the stored stress itself—operating effectively in the immediate and long term. Secondly, the connection between resilience and stored stress underscores the importance of enhancing stress removers.
Contrary to common advice that often focuses solely on eliminating the causes of stress, my approach recognizes the limitations of such a strategy. Events causing stress are often beyond our control.
At Feeling Fitness, we adopt a comprehensive strategy to assist clients in:
Reducing their stress creators.
Mitigating their stored stress.
Enhancing their stress removers.
Building their capacity to handle stress (resilience).
By addressing these four pillars, clients not only gain skills to manage stress in the moment but also grow their capacity to handle stress in general.
In conclusion, this framework provides a holistic and practical guide for people seeking to master stress in real-life scenarios. While understanding the framework is the first step, implementing this framework into my life took years. If you are interested in feeling the benefits of a calmer lower stress life, I would love to save you some time.
Introductions
Hi, I am Hurudza, the founder of the Feeling Fitness. I want you to know that I feel your pain - I have worked in high performance roles and in success and failure I struggled with crippling stress and anxiety.
The Feeling Fitness System was a labour of love aimed at building calm and freedom into my life. It’s taken 10 years to get to this point, that is 9,500 hours of effort and counting.
To get started on your journey to a calmer lower stress life ….
Benefits of Feeling Fitness
so you will quickly - feel lighter, calmer, less pressure, more clarity, more focus and enter flow states more easily.
Enjoy better, deeper sleep, Get your motivation back, handle challenges every time, let setbacks go.
Independence
Feeling Fitness is skills based so your growth is under your control & you don’t need share your feelings or secrets.
Testimonials
Here are a few of my favourite comments from clients …
Communications Executive
“Feeling much better. Much much better!!!”
Marketing Manager
“Really grateful for your programme, I feel like skipping in the street”
Lawyer
“I feel like I have new tools in my arsenal”
Technical Director
“The techniques are simple and they work”
The Process
It is a 3 step process to relieve stress and teach you the skills so you can apply it yourself. It is designed so that relief comes as soon as possible. It all starts with:
Step 1 - Create a personalised plan
Step 2 - Enjoy learning & feeling the skills and tools working for you
Step 3 - Enjoy the feeling of calmer, lower stress life
What do you get?
Step 1 - Create a Personalised Plan
Your Free Stress Assessment of what are the main causes of stress and areas for potential improvement in your stress reduction practices,
A Personalised Roadmap to your goals, where we get to know each other and I can your goals for stress management and we can discuss potential solutions that work with you, and
Guided Stress Relief so you can feel if my approach works for you.
Step 2 - Enjoy Learning & Feeling Your New Skills and Tools Working for You
Personalised 1:1s for specific areas of focus identified in your plan,
In person 1 day Workshop in:
Stress defence techniques,
Stress removal techniques
Natural supplements for stress reduction
How to change your sensory environment for stress reduction
Supporting reading materials
Supporting tools
and we offer ongoing support, accountability, tools and coaching to ensure you stay in control and address the causes of stress.
Next Steps
To get started on your journey to a calmer lower stress life ….
