organisational stress - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

atreas. LLkewu health maintenance through proper diet, properexerclac and enough sleep can keep the body in better shape fordealing with stress.Unttl 1960 11 was thought that people could not controltheu mvoluntary nervous systems, whlch In turn controls mternalprocesses such as heanbeat, oxygen consurnptlon. stomach acldflows and bran waves Now there 1s evldence that people canexercise some control wer these Internal processes. Accordtng toRobcrr and Jack(1978) 910-feedback IS where. people underrnedtcal gu~dance can learn from snstrurnent feedback to tnfluences~rnprorns of stress l~ke tncreascd heart rate or severe headache tnorder to reduce thew undestrable effectsBiofeedback has beeninvol\ed in treattng dlseasc and tn decreas~ng physlolog~calresponse associated ~ 7th stressSensors attached to the body tomonitor psvcholo@cal funct~onrng prowde the mnrd tndlvrduals~7th contmuous feedback, so that they can restore theu Wes tonOn.ftT~~Kd mtP(e8.One of the bqgest sources of smss is the attempt by peopleto Live up to the unpourble standards they set for themselves.They expect themwh to be 'perfect' at work even when they arcn