Jul 30
2007

There’s a lot of stress around, and this means that clever companies are giving away items as stress relief promotional items.

We’ve all seen someone squeezing a stress relief ball.  AFLAC salesmen give away stress relief balls in the shape of the famous duck.  But there are many other stress relief promotional items available to the discerning marketing professional. 

Stress relief games are increasingly popular; these can be stress relief crossword puzzles and puzzle cubes in the style of the old Rubik’s Cube.  There are also key chains and bottle openers, which can be inexpensive and are always popular. 

It is always useful to suit the customer’s particular needs when considering stress relief promotional items, such as the mini massaging key chain for an industry that requires physical exertion from its workers, or incense and aromatherapy for office workers.  You can also find playing cards, lotions, miniature pillows, posters, books, action figures, and even Australian chewing sticks.  There are stress relief promotional items to suit almost any need.

Of course, pharmaceutical companies and medical professionals aren’t the only ones who use stress relief promotional items in their businesses.  Stress can be found in every job at every level.  As we continue to recognize the dangers associated with high levels of stress in the workplace and in our everyday lives, the need and usefulness of these stress relief promotional items continues to grow as well. 

The days when stress relief balls were the only available stress relief promotional items are long gone.  These items have also proven invaluable to salesmen in their marketing campaigns.  They are a fun and inexpensive way to promote products and instill goodwill to potential customers.

Promoting goodwill is the main goal of the sales professional, and there are few better ways to do this than to come bearing gifts.  In such a competitive marketplace, stress relief promotional items serve a very important purpose in supplying name recognition to the companies that use them.  And who wouldn’t want a cute little AFLAC stress relief ball sitting on his or her desk?   

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Jul 30
2007

There are right ways and wrong ways to deal with stress.

In an attempt to alleviate the tension and worry that accompany stress, some individuals will unwittingly engage in self-destructive behavior.

The stress that can lead to being short-tempered can urge someone to lash out angrily at a trusted friend or loved one. It can incline some to excessive alcohol drinking or coffee drinking with the result of high caffeine intake, leading to more stress symptoms. It can lead to aggressive or violent behavior.

One of the most common results of stress is insomnia. When something is troubling you, and you are physically uncomfortable, it’s difficult to relax enough to sleep. When you do manage to fall asleep, it’s often interrupted during the night, or not the type of deep sleep that is genuinely restful.

Taking a sleeping medication may be helpful in some situations, but long term dependence on any kind of drug to deal with life’s problems is self-defeating. Instead, learn and use some simple meditation techniques to focus the mind and induce a relaxing state.

A heightened focus on problem solving is natural for some types of individuals. But obsessing, even in the face of serious issues, is counter-productive. Try to see the problem as you would if it were being experienced by a friend. You would be concerned, of course. We’re often much better at maintaining objectivity when the problem belongs to someone else.

Some people try to cope with stress by doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Throwing oneself into projects at work is one way of shifting focus away from problems at home. But avoidance can only be partially successful, and only temporarily at that.

Some problems do go away on their own and ignoring them can be a viable strategy. But circumstances combined with evaluations that lead to chronic stress do not disappear simply because we’re not thinking about them. A temporary break to gain perspective and get the emotions under control is healthy. Hiding one’s head in the sand is not.

Fundamentally, all these incorrect and unhelpful methods have a common root. Reality doesn’t go away when some aspects of it are inconvenient or unpleasant. Life is filled with obstacles placed in the way of achieving values. The existence of those hurdles and the need to overcome them – when combined with doubts about our ability to do so – leads to stress.

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