- What do you do to relax after working hard or experiencing other challenging or stressful situations?
- Do you think life is more stressful today than fifty years ago?
- Than one hundred years ago?
- Than in the distant past?
- Has life been more stressful for you in Canada or in the country where you lived before? Why?
- Have you ever practiced yoga?
- If so, when was it, who was your teacher?
- What was your experience like?
- Have you ever done meditation?
- If so, who was the teacher and what was their instruction?
- What was your experience?
- In what ways are mind and body connected?
- Can you give some examples of how mind and body are connected, from your own experience.
- What is stress?
- What causes stress?
- How does stress affect you?
- Do you have a kind of red warning flag that indicates too much stress?
- When you are stressful, how do you feel physically?
- Do you feel tired during the day?
- Can you sleep well at night?
- Does your stomach hurt?
- When you are stressed, how do you feel emotionally?
- Do you feel nervous or worried about the stressful situation?
- Do you get angry easily?
- Have you ever helped someone who was feeling stressed?
- What did you do?
- What kind of advice did you give them?
- Did you listen to them?
- Who did most of the talking?
- Did you take some actions to help them? If so, what were they?
- Have you ever helped someone that you didn’t know?
- What are qualities of a good counselor?
- Is it necessary to have shared the same experience?
- Is it important to be an expert?
- Is it better to listen or to talk a lot when you counsel someone?
- Do you think stress is ever good, useful, or necessary? Why or why not?
- Do you play games, sports or do other activities that can be stressful?
- Is stress good before an exam?
- In what situations can stress be a good thing? Does stress ever make you feel more alive?
- If you are playing a sport and your team is losing, does it give you extra energy?
- Is your home life stressful?
- Can you relax at home?
- Do you enjoy having discussions about politics with other people who have different opinions?Personal Stress
- Have you felt stress recently?
- Did the stressful feeling last a long time or a short time?
- Had the cause of the stress happened to you before or was this a new situation?
- How often do you think you feel too much stress?
- Do you feel too busy sometimes?
- In what way does a too full schedule lead to stress?
- Do you like being busy?
- If you are very busy at work or at school, do you have ways to balance your life?
- If you have nothing to do, do you enjoy yourself or do you get bored?
- Does stress make it hard for you to think or act?
- How can you judge what is the right amount of stress for you?
- Is your stress caused by relationships with other people?
- At work?
- At school?
- At home?
- With best friends?
- With partners?
- Can you think of some examples?
- Does stress come when you worry about your life?
- Do you keep your worries a secret from other people?
- Do you have anyone you can talk to when you are worried?
- When did we start talking about stress as a psychological condition?
- What do you do when you have stressStressful Situations
- Are there situations that you find stressful?
- Do you feel tense when you meet someone for the first time?
- Do you get nervous if you have to make a speech?
- Do you suffer from stress when you have too much work to do?
- Do you work or study for long hours under stressful conditions?
- Does the place you live have a low-stress environment?
- Can you be alone as much as you like?
- Can you be with friends as often as you like?
- Is it easy for you to make decisions about important things?
- Can you relax when you are sleeping away from home?
- In what kinds of situations do you observe other people feeling stressed?
- What are some situations that you enjoy?
- What are some situations that make you feel stressful?
- How can you eliminate stressful situations?
- Can you plan a low-stress, cheap, one-day holiday?Controlling Stress
- How do you relieve stress?
- What stresses you out?
- Do you have a stressful lifestyle?
- How do you get control of a stressful situation that is getting too tough?
- What is the “fight or flight” response?
- How does it relate to stress?
- Do you enjoy the feeling of being stressed?
- If you are feeling stressed, what do you do?
- Do you like to relax or be active when stressful?
- Are you capable of relieving your stress or do you need help?
- Can alcohol cure stress temporarily?Living Stress Free
- How can you live a stress free life?
- Can you give five suggestions that would be inexpensive?
- Can you give five suggestions for children?
- Can you give five suggestions for the wintertime?
- Give us suggestions for making school life less stressful.
- When stressful do you like to listen to a certain kind of music?
- Does it help to go shopping or take a long walk?
- Do you like to be alone or be with other people?
- Do you eat more or eat less?
- Do certain colors make you feel happier?
- Do you always follow the same pattern to relieve stress or do you try different things?
- What are some positive ways people deal with stress?
- What are some negative ways people deal with stress?
- How do you deal with stress?
- What is the most stressful experience you have ever had?
- When was the most stressful time of your life?
- Did you learn anything from that experience?
- What do you think is the greatest cause of stress for most people?
- What is your greatest cause of stress?
- Do you deal with stress differently that your parents do/did? If so, how?
- Do you know of anyone who likes to break things or become violent when they are stressed? What have they broken? What kind of violence do they do?
- What is the most stressful job you can think of?
- What is the least stressful job you can think of?
- Which would you choose?
- A stressful job with very high pay or a relaxing job with considerably low pay? Why?
- Is being single less stressful than married life?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
- How do you reduce stress in your life?
- Do you think they would be considered good or bad ways of dealing with stress?
- Are you a member of a health spa/gym?
- Are you afraid of needles?
- Are you healthy?
- Are your parents healthy?
- Do think that you need to lose weight?
- Do you always eat healthy food?
- Is your diet healthy?
- Do you bruise easily?
- Do you catch a cold more than once a year?
- Do you consider alcohol a drug?
- Do you drink a lot?
- Do you eat a lot of vegetables?
- Do you eat lots of fruit?
- Do you eat vegetables every day?
- Do you ever get headaches?
- Do you know anyone who suffers from migraine headaches?
- Do you ever read magazines or news articles about health?
- If yes, what subject(s) do you find the most interesting?
- Do you exercise?
- What kind of exercise do you do? How often do you exercise?
- Do you go for regular medical check-ups?
- Do you go to the dentist’s twice a year?
- Do you have a lot of stress?
- Do you normally go one doctor in particular or any available doctor?
- Do you have any allergies?
- Do you have any scars?
- Do you know anyone who suffers from backaches?
- Do you know anyone with false teeth?
- Do you often eat fast food?
- Do you smoke?
- If so, do you smoke more than two cigarettes a day?
- Do you think smoking is not bad for your health?
- Do you take medicine when you are sick?
- Do you take vitamins or mineral supplements?
- Do you take vitamins?
- Do you think it is unhealthy to keep a cat in your home?
- Do you think nuclear power is safe?
- Do you think pets are good for a person’s health
- Do you think that the tobacco companies should be held reasonably responsible for a person’s addiction to nicotine?
- Do you think you are overweight?
- Do you think you will live until a ripe old age? Why or why not?
- Do you think you would be a good surgeon? Why or why not?
- Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
- Do you usually get enough sleep?
- Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy?
- Have you ever been hospitalized? (Have you ever been in the hospital?)
- Have you ever been to an acupuncturist?
- What do you think of acupuncture?
- Have you ever broken a bone?
- Have you ever burned yourself with hot water?
- Have you ever donated blood?
- Have you ever gotten a black eye?
- Have you ever had braces on your teeth?
- Have you ever had stitches?
- Have you ever sprained your ankle?
- Have you ever taken a sleeping pill to get to sleep?
- How can you reduce stress in your life?
- How have you been feeling lately?
- How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
- How many hours of sleep do you usually get?
- How often do you eat junk food?
- What kinds of junk food do you eat?
- How often do you exercise?
- How often do you get a cold? (How often do you catch a cold?)
- How often do you get sick in one year?
- How often do you go to the doctor’s?
- How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?
- How would you recommend treating a cold?
- If a company sells the public a product they know to be harmful or addictive, should they be held responsible for the use of that product even if the government approves it?
- If you smoke, how old were you when you started smoking?
- If you were President of Korea, what would you do to improve Koreans’ health?
- Should smoking in restaurants be banned?
- What are some things people can do to keep healthy?
- What are some things that cause stress?
- What are some ways to deal with stress?
- What are some ways you know that you can personally keep yourself healthy?
- What disease frightens you the most? Why?
- What do you do to stay healthy? (What are some things you do to keep healthy?)
- What do you do, if you can’t get to sleep?
- What do you think about abortion? Why do some people support it and others are against it?
- What do you think about getting old?
- What do you think is the most serious health problem in Korea?
- What do you think of cosmetic surgery?
- Do you know anyone who has had cosmetic surgery?
- Would you ever consider having cosmetic surgery?
- What drinks to you think are healthy?
- What drinks do you think are unhealthy?
- What foods to you think are healthy?
- What foods do you think are unhealthy?
- What is the best way to find a doctor, if you’re new in the area?
- What is the best way to stop smoking?
- What is the most horrible accident you have ever had?
- What is the average age of people in your country
- What kind of pollution is the most risky?
- What time did you go to bed when you were a child?
- What’s the best way to stop smoking?
- What’s the highest temperature you’ve ever had?
- What’s your blood type?
- When did you last take a bath?
- When was the last time you went to a dentist?
- When was the last time you went to a doctor?
- When was the last time you went to a hospital?
- When was the last time you were sick?
- When you were in high school, how many days of school did you miss each year because of sickness?
- Who do you think is responsible for the care of your health?
- yourself, your parents, or your doctor and medical people?
- Who is the healthiest person in your family?
- Who is the least healthy?
- Why do people smoke?
- Would you consider donating your organs after your death?
- What is the health service like in your country?
- What do you think of the health service in this country?
- How can the health service be improved?
- Have you been to hospital since you arrived here?
- What do you know about the SARS virus?
- What do you know about AIDS?
- What do you know about the common cold?
- What is alternative medicine?
- Have you ever practiced alternative medicine?
- What treatments or remedies do you follow when you have a cold?
- Which kind of medicine do you prefer to take when you are sick?
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