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Author stresses the importance of calm
Eric Zimmerling
Issue date: 2/14/07 Section: News
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Whether it is finding time to finish stacks of homework, trying to juggle work, school and a social life or driving home in a torrential downpour, the stresses of everyday life can be overwhelming.
Brian Luke Seaward, a part-time professor at Northern Colorado University, author of "Managing Stress in Everyday Life," and sports psychologist for numerous Olympic athletes, lectured approximately 150 students and facility on effective strategies to reduce stress in our everyday lives Monday.
The one-hour event, sponsored by the Kinesiology Student Club and the department of kinesiology, was held in at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. library.
Alice Tran, a senior majoring in recreation and leisure, said the lecture would really help her in the future.
"Luke was a great speaker," Tran said. "He gave us a list of 11 things to do that will help relieve our stress and that was really helpful. It's so easy to get stressed out from the pressure of school. Having skills that help us deal with that stress is really nice."
Assisted by two large projection screens that displayed multiple slides and clips that coincided with his 60-minute lecture, Seaward explained how stress leads to anger and how that anger can have a negative affect on a person both mentally and physically.
"It's a domino affect," said Seaward. "Stress of everyday life leads to anger which can effect your nervous system, which will affect your hormonal system and in turn will cause problems with your immune system.
"Every time you get angry it's because of an unmet expectation. You go to class and receive a pop quiz or you walk out to your car and there is a flat tire - it's how you deal with those situations that are important," Seaward said, who is also the author of "Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water."
Marlene Anderson, bursar at SJSU, attended the lecture because she said it was important to understand stress so that she could better deal with it and help others deal with it as well.
Brian Luke Seaward, a part-time professor at Northern Colorado University, author of "Managing Stress in Everyday Life," and sports psychologist for numerous Olympic athletes, lectured approximately 150 students and facility on effective strategies to reduce stress in our everyday lives Monday.
The one-hour event, sponsored by the Kinesiology Student Club and the department of kinesiology, was held in at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. library.
Alice Tran, a senior majoring in recreation and leisure, said the lecture would really help her in the future.
"Luke was a great speaker," Tran said. "He gave us a list of 11 things to do that will help relieve our stress and that was really helpful. It's so easy to get stressed out from the pressure of school. Having skills that help us deal with that stress is really nice."
Assisted by two large projection screens that displayed multiple slides and clips that coincided with his 60-minute lecture, Seaward explained how stress leads to anger and how that anger can have a negative affect on a person both mentally and physically.
"It's a domino affect," said Seaward. "Stress of everyday life leads to anger which can effect your nervous system, which will affect your hormonal system and in turn will cause problems with your immune system.
"Every time you get angry it's because of an unmet expectation. You go to class and receive a pop quiz or you walk out to your car and there is a flat tire - it's how you deal with those situations that are important," Seaward said, who is also the author of "Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water."
Marlene Anderson, bursar at SJSU, attended the lecture because she said it was important to understand stress so that she could better deal with it and help others deal with it as well.
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