Why Consider the Stress-Free Living method?

Work related stress… is a major cause for concern and challenge not only because of the health effects on individual workers, but also because of the cost or economic impact on businesses and the social cost to European countries.

- The European Agency for Safety & Health at Work.

Stress can lead to job dissatisfaction, absenteeism, intent to leave and voluntary redundancy. Stress in the workplace can be contagious, putting pressure on work colleagues, souring relationships and work atmosphere. The financial costs are clear: costly mistakes, underperformance on the job, absenteeism, grievances, accidents… How often are you in a state of stress? How about your colleagues and co-workers? Would you even recognise it if you were stressing… or has it become the norm?

Did you know that stress:

• Impairs judgment and decision-making
• Limits ability to access one’s resources
• Can ruin any performance (including: presenting, learning, selling, leading, managing, thinking, communicating, driving, negotiating, etc.)
• Affects our ability to plan for the long term
• Affects our ability to focus and stay engaged in tasks for an extended period
• Is a major factor in high staff turnover and low morale at work.

As you probably already know, stress lessens positive productivity. The more stressed your staff are, the less chance they have of long-term success. What about the effects of stress on the human body? The list seems endless - here are just a few:

• Lowers a body’s immune system = increasing susceptibility to any virus or ‘bug’ you come in contact with
• Slows down circulation = cold hands and feet and temperature fluctuations
• Causes the lymphatic system to slow down and toxins to build = headaches and migraines, fatigue, loss of concentration and memory
• Causes blood pressure to rise or fall = high/low blood pressure
• Slows digestion = indigestion and heartburn

What is covered in Stress-Free Living™ workshop?

Whichever way it is delivered (via an Open, or In-House to your staff, or a one-to-One intervention), content includes:

• The Real Cause of Stress - and it’s not what you think!
• Stress is A State - it is not something we have, it is something we do
• States Are Contagious* - this is a two-edged sword: bad states (like stress) are catching… and so are good states (like enthusiasm or creativity)
• Physiology & Internal Representations - how we do this thing called ‘stress’, and how – using the same process – we can do other, more useful things (like be motivated, focused, interested)
• Freeing Yourself from Stress - using the Stress-Free Living™ method
• Other States - using the same method to choose and maintain more useful and productive and healthy states to be in
• 10 Techniques - to help keep you in the 'now' and stress-free

How Does It Work?

The Stress-Free Living™ method provides you with knowledge that will free you from being at the mercy of your states (not only stress, but any state at all - fear, guilt, anger, sadness, apathy, anxiety, etc.), and the application of the techniques will put you in control. There are four simple steps that anyone who can learn can learn:

• Understand that stress is a state (of being)
• Discover for yourself that states are (not the result of external stimuli but are) caused by the way you process and interpret external stimuli
• Realise, therefore, that you can control your state by learning how to control the way you process and interpret external stimuli in a way that is useful
• Then learn how to do it and apply the method!

Not only can you learn to let go of stress, as a result of that learning you will also have the ability to go into any state you want at any time. Can you imagine what that means? Stress-Free Living™ is a simple to use and proven method for removing stress and maintaining more useful states (of being). Delivery options include:

• Open Workshops
• In-House
• One-to-One

As Stress-Free Living™ is delivered by a Life/Performance Coach who is also INLPTA Certified Master & Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, you can be assured of the quality of content and delivery.

What If You Use It?

If there was one ability successful people all over the world had in common, what do you suppose it would be? Before you answer that – or read the answer that follows, let’s clarify ‘successful’. We mean holistically – happy, healthy people enjoying life and work as they consistently achieve their specific and desired outcomes. What do they have in common, these rare specimens?

The ability to control their states (of being). Consider this for a moment: Your Outcomes are determined by your Performance, which is determined by your Behaviour… and that’s determined by your State!

Stress is a state. Reduce (or remove) Negative Stress = Increase & Improve Positive Productivity… Enjoy More Effortless Success. There are those who believe that stress may be the number one killer… but let’s not get too negative about it, because there is a solution! In what ways do you think your life would be different if you were no longer at the mercy of stress? And how would your life change if you could more effectively choose your state instead of it choosing you?

You don’t have to be at the mercy of stress: you can learn how to choose to be in more useful and healthy states (of being). When you consider the negative consequences of stress and the positive results of living without it, when now would be a good time to learn how?

What Some Practitioners Say...

The Stress-Free Living workshop with Owen was my first exposure to NLP and it’s benefits, and having attended the workshop myself, I then invited Owen back to deliver it to all my staff. I feel it has benefitted us all in different ways - all positive. It has given us the awareness of the control we have over our own states and how to use this knowledge. I would be very happy to pursue NLP and it’s rewards. 

- Theresa Black, Owner Gilligan & Black Recruitment