Maybe this will reduce your stress.
Stress. The
word alone can make someone feel paranoid, edgy and nervous. But is stress
really what is wrong, or is it the way you handle your stress that needs to
change? People look at the word stress as an enemy that needs to be terminated
for good, even though we all know that stress is an inevitable fact of life. So
the question is not so much how do you avoid or get rid of stress, but more how
do you deal and handle the stress when it does come to surface (because it
will)?
Stress is a
factor that induces bodily and/or mental pressure and tension. When you read
that definition, you automatically assume that it is a bad thing, right? Why?
The reason majority of people look at stress as bad is because of the place they
take it to when it comes along. When the mind or body has to work a little
 harder than usual, people fear it because it is not something that is a part of
their normal pattern or comfort zone and so that take that stress to a level of
where they feel much discomfort and feel painful, angry and depressing emotions
and thoughts. So the first step would be to stop being afraid of unfamiliarity
or situations where you have to step out of your comfort zone- and start
focusing on the positive points of the stress and use it to your advantage.
Take exercise
for example. We all know that exercise is good for you. It tones and builds
muscles, burns fat, strengthens your heart and helps you live a longer life. So
what makes exercise so great? Well, exercise is such an important part of life
because it keeps your working and puts stress on your muscles so they can tone
and burn the layers of fat that sit on them. Your heart has to work harder
because of the stress and strengthens. So in order to become strong and keep
your body healthy, you need to put the stress of exercise on it so that it can
keep working, rather than just sitting around and doing nothing-, which no body
benefits from. Can you see that stress is not the enemy here? Stress is actually
a motivator that keeps you going and functioning physically and mentally.
What keeps
you on your toes at work and keeping your life in order? Having a worry-free
life with pure calmness and perfection? No. There is so no such thing as
perfection and everything in life was already perfect, you would not even be
here, for you would have nothing to discover and accomplish. The next time you
are feeling tense and stress crawling itself through your mind and body, just
take a deep breath and communicate with that stress and figure out where it is
coming from. Everything happens for a reason, so if you have stress, then that
stress is trying to tell you something. By finding what it is and what you
should do about, you will productively use that stress to your advantage and
accomplish what needs to be done with the motivation and push that you need,
instead of just feeling angry for feeling that stress and doing nothing about
it. Put that energy to good use and make the stress work with you, instead of
making it work against you. You will always have stressful encounters throughout
your life; so do not make it bigger or worse than it has to be. Your body will
be feel less tense and your mind will feel great and exercised, making you
accomplish much more out of life instead of just feeling sorry for yourself or
blaming everything on stress when it is actually a companion that can help you
achieve great things.
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