Stress

In my training to be a teacher, it wasn’t easy at all. Class start at 8 am, and I only arrived home at 7 pm and at night I need to do a lot of assignments. The word stress always come out from me and my friends So today, I will share something about stress. I got email about this matter and thought that I might share it as well.

Stress" can often be a subjective term with many connotations, but most often it refers to the state of feeling pressured, rushed, overwhelmed, threatened, frightened or anxious. Stress can present itself in many different ways, but it can also be caused by many different events and situations - which will differ from person to person.

Something that causes me stress may not bother you in the least, while something that I could handle just fine would throw you into a tailspin. It all depends on each individual's ability to handle the things that happen to them on a daily basis.

However, we often have more than one cause of stress in our lives, don't we? Handling pressure from a single situation is easier than feeling overwhelmed by many different situations. The more stressful events and situations we have in our lives, the more our stress begins to multiply and create problems.

You're probably already well aware of the detrimental ways in which stress impacts your life, but you may not realize just how bad it can get if you don't take control of it now. Among other things, stress can cause or contribute to:

· Insomnia

· Depression

· Weight gain/loss

· Poor health habits

· Anxiety

· Relationship problems

· Increased tendencies toward addictive substances (like alcohol, cigarettes, drugs)

· Increased incidence of illnesses like colds, flu, infections

· Heart disease

· High blood pressure

· Migraine headaches

· And more

Perhaps you've already experienced some of these conditions in your own life, and you notice they seem to get worse the longer your stress goes unmanaged.

Believe it or not, stress also has positive benefits, like providing the motivation to finish a project on time, or creating a sense of urgency in a dangerous situation.

Stress can be caused by many different factors and reveal itself in many different ways in your mind and body. But there is one thing you probably haven't considered, and that is: most stress is caused by YOUR PERCEPTION of the events surrounding it.

Something that makes you feel stressed may not bother me, and something that overwhelms me may not bother you? That's because we each have unique ways of perceiving, handling and coping with the things that happen to us each day.

A perception could be called, "What I think this means" because not only do we see, hear and process information about things happening around us - we also draw conclusions about these events and base our thoughts and feelings upon those conclusions.

Depending on your existing beliefs and your past experiences, you might draw a completely different conclusion than I would from the same event. Because you and I would perceive a situation differently and draw different conclusions about what it "means," one of us might get stressed by it, and the other wouldn't.

Let's use an example to demonstrate how perceptions and conclusions are connected.

Imagine that you are swamped with work and you're rushing to meet your deadline at the end of the day. There are a lot of distractions and interruptions that keep interfering with your workflow and you worry that you're not going to meet your deadline, getting more and more stressed by the minute.

This kind of situation could make anyone feel stressed, right? But depending on your perceptions and the conclusions you draw about them, your stress may be much more intense than someone else in the same situation. For example, let's say you were once fired for not meeting a deadline, and you now have a worry in the back of your mind that it may happen again. How much more pressured would you be than someone who never had that experience?

The reason you feel more stressed is because you think the current events MEAN that you may get fired, or that some type of negative consequence will result from you being unable to complete your work on time.

But that's not where it ends, is it? Once you've got this thought in your mind, more negative thoughts and feelings start popping up, clouding your focus and making it almost impossible to concentrate on your work - making it even more likely that you won't meet your deadline - which makes you feel even more stressed!

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