Managing Your Stress

by Wayne E. Oates

This practical manual focuses on increasing one’s stress tolerance, renewing depleted resources for resisting stress, and learning new skills for managing stress. Wayne E. Oates suggests abilities which can be cultivated and mastered effectively to manage stress, including the capacity to make decisions, to tolerate frustration and ambiguous situations, to target anger, and to find a "clear-cut sense of purpose in life." Further proposals for combating the ill-effects of stress include spreading the stress load; building, maintaining, and replenishing the life-support system; and interrupting and choosing an end to stress. Throughout the book, Oates highlights the value of spiritual commitment in stress management.

74 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985