Stress, according to Dr. Selye is the “single, non-specific reaction of the body to a demand made upon it”. A non-specific reaction of the body is when there’s some situation, irritation, or force confronting you, your body responds in a particular way. This response is far different, however, than your body’s response if you step on a thumbtack with a bare foot, walk into a freezing meat locker, or get slapped upside the head. What’s the difference? For the latter events, your body,s reaction is quite specific. You feel the pain of the thumbtack, the chill of the meat locker, or the sting of the slap in a specific location at a specific time. The pain or discomfort is quite specific. By contrast, an irritating situation is a more nebulous, non specific stimuli. Both can cause a form of pain as well. This pain however, comes in the form of stress. You don’t always recognize it, yet the price it exacts upon your body can be significant.
Causes of stress
Personel finances
Career
Too many responsibilities
Marriage
Health
Children
Loneliness
Sex
Relatives
Neighbours
WAYS TO REDUCE THE STRESS :
Half the time, when you’re under stress, simply taking a sip of water will immediately make you feel better. A dry mouth seems to accompany many types of anxious situations. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
Physical movement can relieve tension. You can take a walk around the block, stretch right within your office, and use the stairs instead of the elevators. After work, blow off steam by going places where it’s okay to yell-sports bars, baseball games, conventions, or pep rallies. By the way, when barreling down the highway alone in your car, some therapeutic singing may also help reduce stress. Yelling may even work.
Have you noticed that you begin to slouch when you get a phone call, or you slink further and further into the easy chair when you watch television? The body was made to be upright and erect. When you talk, eat, walk and sit with full and proper extension, your systems work better and minor stresses melt away.
- Contemplate pleasant thoughts.
Whether it’s a waterfall, the picnic you had last Sunday, what it will be like when you’re with your lover next, visualization can calm the mind and soothe the soul. You don’t have to get heavily into meditation or yoga ; simply develop the ability to take two to five minutes out of your day to peer out the windows, or simply close your eyes. Get into a quiet space, and feel good about aspects of your life.
Tomorrow morning as you get ready for work, rather than switching on the radio or TV, quitely envision how you would like your day to be. Include everything that’s important to you-the commute, entering your building or your office, sitting down at your desk, handling tasks, and taking breaks. Envision interacting with others, going to lunch, conducting or attending meetings, using the phone, finishing up projects, and walking out in the evening. With this exercise alone, you’ll begin to feel a greater sense of control in aspects of your job that you may have considered uncontrollable.
A tennis ball, a racquetball, or a hand-gripper at your desk is a marvelous stress reducer. Squeeze it when you feel tense to achieve a release.
If The Far Side by Gary Larson or Cathy by Cathy Guisewite bring a smile to your face, keep such cartoons within easy reach. One good laugh, and your whole temperament can change, plummeting the stress you feel back down to a manageable level.
- Build slack into your schedule.
A paradox among accomplished people is that the more they achieve, the more they believe they can achieve, and with less effort. If you think something is going to take two hours, plan on it taking three and schedule accordingly. This a great stress reducer. If you finish in far less than three, fine.
Serving others helps you to increase your self-respect and sense of accomplishment. When you staying isolation, your worries intensify. So, serve soup or pick a cause. Choose one cause or one issue, and take some kind of action outside your home. There’s little use in intelectually resonating with the world’s challenges and problems. Action is customarily invigorating. Your ability to make a real, if minute, difference will immediately lessen your concerns about attaining some breathing space.
- Reduce some of your costs.
Living beyond your means is one of the most stressful forms of existence in our society. What can you do right now to eliminate some onerous monthly expenses? Can you trade in your car? Can you sell vacation property? Can you eliminate subscriptions? Take a look at what you don’t need.
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