We can’t change all of the circumstances in our life
or control how others bring stress to us;
we must learn to handle our own interpretation and reaction.
We alone can build our resilience. Utilizing biofeedback tools enables the optimal skills to handle stress to be learned quickly.
Stress can come from anywhere be it from work, school or home. Your stress is not the same as the stress of your spouse, neighbor or coworker. How you deal with that stress is just as unique.
At Optimal Edge Performance, we help you learn the quickest, most effective way to deal with your individual stress using the science behind biofeedback, by listening to the response of your autonomic nervous system and your brain. We coach you through a variety of skills while monitoring your heart rate variability, respiration, muscle tension, and other physiological responses. Your body lets you know when you are on the right path so your brain can respond accordingly.
Mastering your interpretation and reaction to stressors gives you control and increases your resilience.
The 2017 “Stress in America” study identifies the “constant checker”
- 86% of Americans admit to constantly checking their emails, texts or social media.
- A greater stress level is linked to this constant use of technology.
- 18% of Americans identify this as a significant source of stress.
- 48% of Millennials worry about the negative effects of social media on their physical and mental health.
- Millenials report the highest stress level related to technology.
The most stressful aspect?
When it doesn’t work.
American Psychological Association
“Working with Optimal Edge Performance has indeed helped me to better handle challenges, both personal and professional. The skills Debbie taught me have had other surprising benefits (surprising to me, at least!). Through her program of biofeedback and neuro-feedback, Debbie has shown me how to improve my focus and productivity when researching and writing in the course of my career. Working with Optimal Edge Performance has been a beneficial experience all the way around!”
Not convinced it is critical to get a handle on your stress?
Here are some of the possible manifestations from that stress.
- The United Nations proclaimed Stress as the number one disease of the 21st century
- irritability
- sleeplessness
- cognitive overload
- impairment of decision making
- Impulsivity
- Impatience
- IBS
- increased pain
- Research shows that 60-90% of all visits to health professionals is due to a stress related disorder
- 60% of bankruptcies are due to healthcare costs.
- 75% of healthcare costs are from chronic illness.
- stomach pains
- headaches
- Stress has been shown to be a major contributor to heart disease, diabetes, pain and other chronic Illnesses.
- Combine coronary artery disease with highly stressed people and you increase the risk of a future heart attack or stroke.
- digestive issues
- The stress hormones the body releases raise blood sugar levels and then drastically inhibits them exasperating type 2 diabetes. Controlling stress helps to keep blood sugar in check.
- Most recently a study done of firefighters and police officers concluded that stress was the determining factor resulting in much higher rate of cardiac arrests than the general population.
- Emotional outbursts