What happens when you are in a stressful situation? Does your head hurt or your back ache? Does your stomach start to get upset? One of the best ways to more easily relieve your stress is to know how to define the stress you are experiencing. Psychologists tell us there are two types of stress. [...]
What happens when you are in a stressful situation? Does your head hurt or your back ache? Does your stomach start to get upset? One of the best ways to more easily relieve your stress is to know how to define the stress you are experiencing.
Psychologists tell us there are two types of stress. One is known as distress and the other is known of eustress. They are both a result of your fight or flight response and can have the same physiological affect on your body. Even though they have the same physiological affects, they are as different as two sides of the same coin. One is actually useful to your body while the other is harmful.
Eustress is an anxious feeling that feels more like anticipation than dread. You may experience eustress before giving a presentation at work, going out on a date, before a job interview or when preparing a gourmet meal from a recipe you’ve never tried to cook before.
Although all these types of activities can give you the feeling of uncertainty, the outcome isn’t fatal. A good way to look at eustress is when a man’s hands shake as he shows the engagement ring to the one he loves. It also manifests itself as the bride’s pre-wedding jitters while she prepares to walk down the aisle. While stressful, I am sure you would agree that both these would be “good” stress because they represent taking a step toward a positive outcome.
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Some people talk about avoiding stress. There is no way to completely avoid stress. Stress is a normal and natural part of life. There is never going to be a time in your life when you are not dealing with some sort of stress. Even if you go on the perfect vacation you will still [...]
Some people talk about avoiding stress. There is no way to completely avoid stress. Stress is a normal and natural part of life. There is never going to be a time in your life when you are not dealing with some sort of stress. Even if you go on the perfect vacation you will still deal with at least a tiny bit of it.
Some people don’t realize that there is that there is both good stress and bad stress. The problem is that most of us have way too much of the bad type. This makes the affects of good type to be just as bad. If you are dealing with stress on the job, there are some simple ways to relieve stress to help yourself get through it without damaging your health or your relationships.
First let’s take a quick look at the types of stress. Good stress, also known as eustress, is the type that keeps us alive and provides us with the input to make good decisions. Eustress helps you do the best on the project you’ve been assigned, keeping you focused and preventing you from making mistakes. Eustress makes you think, and I’m sure you’ll agree that is something that everyone should do before they start any project or task, even when it is one that they do all of the time.
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Lately, stress has received a lot of bad press causing a lot of people to believe that all stress is bad. This simply isn’t true. While stress can be bad, or at least perceived as bad, it’s not necessarily bad. Some stress is actually positive and can be helpful, depending on the situation. All stress [...]
Lately, stress has received a lot of bad press causing a lot of people to believe that all stress is bad. This simply isn’t true. While stress can be bad, or at least perceived as bad, it’s not necessarily bad. Some stress is actually positive and can be helpful, depending on the situation.
All stress is not the same. The type of stress you are experiencing depends on the situation you find yourself in. Let’s take a look at the different categories and classifications of stress and how they affect you.
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