Erik Peper, Richard Harvey, Nancy Faass

Tech Stress (eBook, ePUB)

How Technology is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An evolutionary approach to re-envisioning our relationship with technology--and reclaiming health, happiness, and sanity in a plugged-in world Evolution shapes behaviors--and as a species, we've evolved to be drawn to the instant gratification, constant connectivity, and shiny lights, beeps, and sounds of our ever-present smartphones, laptops, and other devices. In earlier eras, these hardwired evolutionary patterns may have set us up for success, but today they confuse our instincts, leaving us vulnerable and stressed out from fractured attention, missed sleep, skipped meals, and all-over aches and pains. So how can we avoid the evolutionary pitfalls programmed into modern technology use? Erik Peper, Richard Harvey, and Nancy Faass offer real, practical tools to avoid the evolutionary traps that trip us up, helping us reduce physical strain, prevent sore muscles, combat brain drain, and correct poor posture. They first describe some of the problems associated with technology overuse, then offer strategies for mitigating technological stress, like how to: • Increase patience and calm while working at a computer • Improve communication with spouses, children, and co-workers during digital device usage • Arrange your work environment to best match your individual needs • Reduce hypervigilance and excessive cortisol production while using digital devices • Limit the bracing and freezing responses under stress that lead to 'blanking out' or not remembering details • Cultivate a sense of safety under conditions of workplace threat<

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: North Atlantic Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781583947821
• Artikelnr.: 58050036

Autorenporträt

ERIK PEPER, PhD, is Professor of Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University and President of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe. He received the 2004 California Governor's Safety Award for work on Healthy Computing. He's authored numerous scientific articles and books and was featured on ABCNews.com, GQ, Glamour, Men's Health, the San Francisco Chronicle, Shape, and Women's Health. RICHARD HARVEY, PHD, an associate professor in the Department of Health Education at San Francisco State University, served as president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and the Western Association for Biofeedback and Neuroscience. He was recently honored in 2019 by the Biofeedback Federation of Europe's Biofeedback Educator Award. NANCY FAASS, MSW, MPH, founder and director of Health Writers' Group, is a writer and editor in San Francisco. For over twenty years, she has worked with clients to develop books, articles, and web content in the field of integrative medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Are You Leaving Work Burned Out or In Pain?
 
Solutions that Go Beyond Ergonomics
2. Genetics: The Caveman at the Computer
3. Primal Stress: Do You Feel Safe?
4. Inactivity: Are You a Desk-Bound Couch Potato?
5. Lousy Ergonomics?
What Are Your Risks?
6. Desktop Computers
7. Laptops
8. Tablets
9. Smart Phones
The Seven Week, Step-by-Step Program
10. Jump-Start Your Health
11. Easy Ergonomics
12. Check Your Vision
13. Take a Break
14. Work Off the Tension
15. Cut Out Junk Food (and Inflammation)
16. Get Real about Stress
17. Upgrade Your Environment
Just Getting By or Thriving?
18. Unplug from the 24/7 Lifestyle
19. Bounce Back After Injury
20. Life after 5!
Resources
E1. Dear Employer
E2. Computer Checklist
E3. Kids and Computers
E4. Websites, Books, and Tech Tools