Month: October 2018

Enhancing Relationships

“The more skilled you are at relating with others, the greater the likelihood that you will maximize your own and others happiness and contribute less to human misery and pain.”

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We constantly relate with our partner, children, family members, friends, customer, co-worker. Relationships are a part of life. We need people especially when we are facing difficult time. There are so many things we can do to enhance our relationships. It requires many complex but learnable skills. Let’s learn to develop long lasting, deep and meaningful relationships.

What relationships provide us?

  • Happiness
  • Support and hope
  • Feedback and reassurance
  • Sense of belonging, security
  • Intimacy
  • Comfort

Communication:

You can make a significant difference in the quality of your interpersonal relationships through improved communication. Communication should be,

  • Open
  • Pleasant
  • Constructive
  • Caring
  • Honest
  • Straight

Some do’s to enhancing relationships:

  • Spend at least quality of time
  • Express your thoughts and feelings
  • Respect them and their ideas
  • Listen to them
  • Empathize with them
  • Express your appreciation
  • Learn to tolerate, be patient
  • Dislike the behavior but not the person
  • Give emotional support when needed
  • Accept different point of views
  • Give them space
  • Be honest and fair
  • Forgiveness

Some don’ts to enhancing relationships:

  • Dominant, demand
  • Blaming
  • Criticize
  • Control, bully
  • Manipulate
  • Belittle, put down
  • Ignoring, not available emotionally
  • Playing power game, teasing
  • Taken for granted
  • Losing yourself, being dependent
  • Feeling superior or jealous
  • Addicted or abuse
  • Name calling, Verbal abuse
  • Defensive, not admitting your mistakes

Check yourself make change in you…

keep update your skills.

Value your values if you are value your relationships.

Build your resources to manage stress

“If you cannot do great things yourself, remember that you may do small things in a great way.”– Swamy Chinmayananda

Resources

empower individuals to cope more effectively with the stress. Many people enter into the dangerous situation without proper understanding, knowledge and skills to handle their stressful life events. Research evidence has shown that personal resources are key determinant in one’s appraisal of the events and coping.
Some of the personal resources are,
Health and energy
Physical characteristics
Intelligence
Self-esteem
Optimism
Hope
Sense of control
Sense of humor
Supportive family and friends
Money, job security
Social status
Education
Occupation
Some of the facts are,
1. People with greater personal resources are less vulnerable to stress.People with greater personal resources are less vulnerable to stress.
2. People with weak resources are least successful under high stressful conditions.
3. People approach a situation and appraises as challenges are depends on the amount of personal resources they have.
4. People who have more personal resources are likely to experience more positive outcomes after stressful encounter.
5. Resource loss is more stressful than the gaining resources. In order to prevent resource loss one must invest time and effort etc. to gain more resources.
6. When we fail to have or gain resources may lead to stress.When we fail to have or gain resources may lead to stress.When we fail to have or gain resources may lead to stress.
7. Personal resources that can be cultivated and acquired
8. So, we should strive to obtain, retain, protect and foster our personal resources that assure progress and quality of functioning.

Stress Awareness Programme

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      The World Federation for Mental Health is focusing the Oct 10th, 2018 as WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY campaign on Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World.  You know very well problems such as stress and anxiety can damage your mental health. And it’s not just academic stress; stress from family and relationship problems, spending most of your day on the internet, experiencing cybercrimes, cyber bullying, and playing violent video games. When coping resources are inadequate, stressful events may give rise to unhealthy outcomes such as overeating, drinking, and smoking or give up your goal.  Being able to control and manage your stress will provide with a great opportunity to acquire new skills and will also facilitate your personal growth.

CIRPE – Center for Improving Relationship and Personal Effectiveness, Puducherry,India organizing a stress awareness programme for the youth to enhance their psychological health.

Kindly register to participate in this programme.

Summary of the Programme

  • Overview of the topic of stress, including its causes, forms, and consequences
  • Testing your stress level
  • Increase awareness of use of maladaptive ways of coping with stress
  • Short lectures, Exercises, group discussion, Feedback

Duration : 2.30 Hours ( 6.30 Pm to 9 Pm )

Age limitation : 15 to 20 years can participate

Last date for registration :  7/10/2018

Date and venue will be intimated on 8/10/2018

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