Work And Life With Stew Friedman

Erik Peper, a professor in the Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University, is an internationally known expert on workplace health, stress management and holistic health. His book, co-authored with Richard Harvey and Nancy Faass, is Tech Stress: How Technology Is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics.In this episode, Stew and Erik discuss how to cope with ever-present technology in ways that reduce stress and strain. Erik describes and illustrates, with Stew as his subject, some ergonomic strategies -- how to position our bodies at our workstations, for example -- and ways of re-framing our thoughts and feelings about how we work with the aims of increasing energy and avoiding burnout. Here then is an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation.  For just one hour of your next work day, try stopping for a minute every 20 minutes or so, to breathe or stretch and to take stock of how you’re working.  What do