By Daniel Benor, MD

Do you suffer from work-related stresses of heavy workloads? Deadlines? Abrasive co-workers? Impatient managers? Challenges with technologies that are new, changing or not functioning as they should?

Do you sometimes find yourself worrying yourself into several sorts of frazzles?

Are you hard-pressed to keep your work from infringing on your personal or family life? Too tired after a day at work to muster the energies to fully be there with your husband/ wife/ partner/ children?

A major problem with issues of these sorts is that we worry about them. Fretting and worrying then often take on lives of their own.

Do you worry about
•    Delays that are not your fault but that impact on your work deadlines reflecting badly on you?
•    Typographical errors you missed – that make you look silly or incompetent?
•    How to present a delicate problem to co-workers or managers who are often not delicate in their criticisms?
•    How to explain you’re running late – to someone waiting for you at home at the end of a day?

When you worry, you may get up tight. Your inner up-tightness may raise your stress hormones, which then make your body up tight. After a while, your body may start complaining – expressing itself through aches and pains. These can make you more up tight… And away you go – into a vicious circle of being more and more wound up, inside and out.

As if that isn’t enough, when you are all wound up you may become more edgy. This can lead to feeling irritated in your interactions with others, which again sets up other vicious circles of them irritating you and you responding in ways that irritate them…

Example   (assumed names, composite report).

Patti was an average secretary who had done well and had been satisfied in her company. Over her 6 years of work for a middle-management boss, she had several times been acknowledged as “Employee of the Month.”

Following the takeover of her company, she was reassigned to a management secretarial pool, where she worked under the supervision of Josie, another secretary. Josie was generous with criticisms and stingy with encouragements and compliments. Patti found herself increasingly irritable at work and at home, started having headaches and backaches, and her work performance suffered noticeably. She made frequent errors in typing from dictation, was easily distracted, and distressingly forgetful at home as well as at work.

Patti found me through the TWRapp.com website. I helped her by phone and Skype to learn and use TWR (Transformative Wholistic Reintegration). She was able to rapidly reduce her anxieties, converting them more manageable concerns. As she became less tense, her headaches and backaches diminished. If she ever felt these pains starting up, she was able to use them as barometers of her tensions and as alarm bells that alerted her to identify issues that were making her up tight. She then used TWR to de-fuse the anxiety-producing issues, and reduced the pressures she felt building up inside her. This markedly improved her concentration as well.

All of this took only three sessions. In an email follow-up six months later, Patti reported she was doing so much better with her continued and expanding uses of TWR that she had just been acknowledged again as Employee of the Month.

TWR ( Transformative Wholistic Reintegration ) is a powerful tool for self-management of such stresses and vicious circle. This can be a tremendous benefit in your work and personal life.

You can TWR away your problems by:

For more detailed instructions, check out http://twrapp.com.