With the exception perhaps of Buddhist monks, stress is in our lives, to a lesser or greater extent. Managing stress means to be in position to understand the factors that can cause you stress and be able to minimize them or even better eliminate them completely. This is a difficult process and not all people can successfully manage to control their stress levels. The very first step in the process to manage stress is to understand what actually is stress. With the term stress we mean all the physiological changes that occur in humans when threatened or endangered by a stimulus or a situation. Therefore, any stimulus that can cause stress is known as a stress factor. Anxiety on the other hand, is nothing other than the feeling of fear and tension born in us when we face a new, provocative or dangerous situation (i.e. when we are in a state of stress). Stress is not necessarily something negative. In small levels it can be the driving force behind us. The desirable is that in the morning stress should be low, then rising during the day and at the evening to close at the low levels found in the morning.
The current pace of life is more intense and the ever-increasing demands force most of us to wake, sleep and live with stress, leaving no time to rest either the spirit or our body. Thus, even in conditions that there is no stress, we are still in a situation of constant muscle tension, which gradually became our way of living. The symptoms of intense stress occur at four levels:
- Feelings (distressed, irritability, restlessness)
- Mind (negative, destructive and irrational thoughts)
- Behaviour (indecision, excessive demands on others, loss of humour)
- Body ( headaches, abdominal pain, grit, sweating)
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With the exception perhaps of Buddhist monks, stress is in our lives, to a lesser or greater extent. Managing stress means to be in position to understand the factors that can cause you stress and be able to minimize them or even better eliminate them completely. This is a difficult process and not all people can successfully manage to control their stress levels. The very first step in the process to manage stress is to understand what actually is stress. With the term stress we mean all the physiological changes that occur in humans when threatened or endangered by a stimulus or a situation. Therefore, any stimulus that can cause stress is known as a stress factor. Anxiety on the other hand, is nothing other than the feeling of fear and tension born in us when we face a new, provocative or dangerous situation (i.e. when we are in a state of stress). Stress is not necessarily something negative. In small levels it can be the driving force behind us. The desirable is that in the morning stress should be low, then rising during the day and at the evening to close at the low levels found in the morning.
The current pace of life is more intense and the ever-increasing demands force most of us to wake, sleep and live with stress, leaving no time to rest either the spirit or our body. Thus, even in conditions that there is no stress, we are still in a situation of constant muscle tension, which gradually became our way of living. The symptoms of intense stress occur at four levels: