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Stress Relief Canberra

Would you like to reduce your stress levels, improve your ability to respond to stressful situations, and build resilience?

Stress relief is such a common issue that my clients come to me about.

We work together to quickly reduce physiological responses, re-frame beliefs/thoughts/attitudes and build new behaviours so that life’s experience is from a “whole-brained state” – more balanced, calm and peaceful.

Stress is “a response to a pressure or threat” and our bodies are actually beautifully designed to respond well to stress, and then return to our natural balanced state. Stress can be our friend from the perspective that it can save us from a life-threatening situation, motivate us to perform better or overcome an obstacle, and propel us to achieve our goals outside of our comfort zone. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal brilliantly explains in her TedTalk How to make stress your friend how your beliefs about stress contributes to its effect, and that trusting yourself to handle life’s challenges and utilising our human connections in times of stress is extremely important.

However, life experiences such as grief, trauma, work-life imbalance, issues with relationships and health have the potential for us to be in elevated levels of stress for longer periods. Our body, as well as our thoughts, feelings and behaviours start changing, moving us away from our desired health and wellbeing.

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We first uncover what is causing the stress. Often people are aware of the cause of their stress, however in other cases the source of the stress may be complex having occurred over years, or it may not be as it appears on the surface.

A common source of stress in our lives is when our subconscious learns to automatically respond to experiences that are similar to past trauma, for example if we experienced a car accident when it was raining, we can feel anxious every time we are in a car and it is raining. Another source of stress is when our beliefs that are stored in our subconscious are not in alignment with what we want consciously for our life. For example, we consciously know we deserve love and are wanting to find it, but our subconscious was programmed when we were a child that we were not deserving of love, and that creates an inner conflict and stress that is reflected in life.

Once we understand what is causing the stress, we use simple and effective strategies to release the stress and unravel the common side-effects from longer periods of stress:

  • Undereating and overeating
  • Short temper, anger, loss of patience
  • Sleep concerns
  • Stomach issues
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse
  • Alienation/disengagement from life.

What do people say and experience after working with me?

I have hundreds of client hours supporting people just like you.

“Deana’s ability to coach and guide me has assisted me in achieving fantastic results in my life. I feel a great sense of calmness, confidence and power. Deana’s coaching has empowered me and given me the ability to believe I have the power to make adjustments and reframe my thoughts to achieve anything. My physical symptoms of tightness and anxiety have released significantly and people around me are noticing the new calmness about me. I am excited for the future as a positive person and inspirational role model to my children. I am so grateful for the guidance I received from Deana. She is an amazing inspiration and coach.”

Michelle, Canberra

“Saw Deana last week after watching an interview on Gaia with Rob Williams, the creator of a practice called PSYCH-K®. This process offered an opportunity to change some past experiences that had recently resurfaced in my life resulting in extreme anxiety, emotion and fears. During the 2 hours we spent together Deana coached me through the despair until it vanished, along with the endless thoughts that had always accompanied these feelings. Very grateful indeed.”

Claire Lees, Canberra

“The support and guidance I received from Deana Cuming has positively changed my life. I am an achiever personality and have found it difficult over the years to relax and reduce the stress I put on myself. My desire to aim for perfection and be liked by everyone has caused me undue stress and anxiety. Working with Deana has had a massive impact on my ability to analyse and put my life and thoughts into perspective, this has resulted in me feeling completely happy and balanced in my life. Over the years, I have attended differing therapy sessions, acupuncture and read numerous self-help books, it was not until I worked with Deana that I began to notice significant changes in my thought patterns and the ability to self-manage my thoughts to achieve a positive result. I am very grateful for the guidance I have received from Deana, this guidance has helped me to achieve the best from my gift of life.”

Shelly J, Canberra

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Simple strategies to help with stress relief

Because I am passionate about empowering people to achieve health & wellbeing, please find below some simple strategies that you can start incorporating into your life right now that can effectively provide stress relief.

1. Using the whole-brain posture

A simple and effective posture when sitting quiet and relaxed for a few minutes helps alleviate stress. Sit comfortably in a chair, cross one ankle over the other, cross one wrist over the other, bring your palms together, interlock your fingers and relax your hands in your lap (or you can take your crossed hands and fold them under and towards you to rest on your chest). To understand why this works for stress relief and to see what this posture looks like watch this video by Bruce Lipton – Using 100% of your brain

2. What gets me to my happy place?

Another very simple strategy is to keep handy a list of the things you know work for you (e.g. on the fridge door, purse, typed into your phone) – a reminder of the little things that can make a big difference to shift our mood in a positive direction.

Here is my list for simple de-stressing to give you some ideas:

  • Breathe deeply
  • Whole-brain posture (see above)
  • The quick coherence technique (www.heartmath.org)
  • Go outside for 5 minutes
  • Listen to music (positive/uplifting songs)
  • Go for a walk
  • Make a cup of tea and drink outside
  • Smell flowers
  • Watch the kids play
  • Watch animals or nature
  • Have a bath
  • Smell essential oils
  • Ring a friend
  • Draw an inspiration card.

3. The GET-IT morning ritual

I learnt this morning ritual from my mentor Brendan Bruchard, and it is a great way to start each day. Typically this can be done in a few minutes, if you have time you can spend longer, and set the intention for your day.

G is for Gratitude: what is one thing to be grateful for today (doesn’t have to be a new thing every day)

E is for Excited: what is one thing I can get excited about for my day (can be small)

T is for Trip-up: what is something that might trip me up today and what can I put in place to mitigate it

I is for inspiring: what is one thing I can do today to surprise and inspire someone (e.g. tell a random stranger they look nice or tell someone you appreciate something they do, write a note for wife/child and pop in lunch box)

T is for talk: talk out aloud with meaning and conviction, a statement or paragraph from a book, something that is true and positive about you or life. These could be from a list of statements that you brainstorm that are your best qualities.

4. Journal

Why not end each day with a couple of minutes of reflection, write down the 3 things you were grateful for today.

Why not try this for a week and see if you notice any difference.

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