Managing Personal Stress

A Quick Overview On Dealing With Personal Stress

In today’s day and age of hectic lifestyles and always being on-the-go, stress seems to be a constant companion for most people.  Stress is the culmination of reactions you have when you are dealing with more than you are used to dealing with.

 

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The reactions stem from the hormones that your body produces when it feels that pressure.  

These reactions can include a quickening of your heart rate, faster breathing, and a sudden burst of energy.  This culmination of reactions is often referred to as the “fight-or-flight stress response.”  In short, brief periods, this response is actually quite helpful to deal with important situations, such as a big project at work or a family crisis. (Or a Self Defense situation!!!)

However, experiencing this stress reaction too often can lead to bad effects on your health and your life.  This is what many people experience nowadays in our hectic, fast-paced world, and thus have to come up with measures to deal with that stress.  We will examine some of these measures below.

When you are feeling the stress reaction too often, you can experience such physical discomforts as headaches, an upset stomach, nausea, back pain, and insomnia.  Additionally, your immune system can be compromised and weakened, leaving you more prone to becoming ill from various microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. 

If you are dealing with health complications (such as heart disease or diabetes, for example), repeated stress can make these complications even more severe.  

Oftentimes, you will find yourself more tense, irritable, and depressed.  As a result, your relationships with family, friends, and co-workers can suffer, and your performance at work and/or school can also suffer.

Stress can be a major problem for people who often have to deal with it.  In order to manage this stress and not allow it to ruin their relationships and work/school performance, they have to learn to manage that stress.  They need to figure out exactly what is causing this repeated stress, determine ways to manage that stress, and enact healthy ways to reduce or eliminate that stress.

Especially in our world today, the lack of time for completing the activities we need to get done for work and/or for our families can often lead to stress.  


Therefore, one good way to reduce or eliminate stress is to manage our time better. 

A good way to improve our time management skills is to make a schedule and stick with it to the best of our abilities.  By doing this, we’ll still be able to accomplish what we need to accomplish, yet have the opportunity to relax with loved ones and/or by ourselves and do an activity that is enjoyable, which can also help to reduce and eliminate stress.

Stress is a part of our lives, especially in this hectic day and age.  

While stress in limited quantities can be helpful to improving our performance over the short-term. Long durations of stress can be detrimental to our work/school performance, our relationships, and our health.  By determining what is causing our stress and taking steps to reduce or eliminate the causes of that stress, we can do a better job of handling the stress that comes our way and, accomplish the tasks we need to accomplish, and still be able to enjoy fun activities (i.e. “downtime”) to help maintain a relatively stress-free, normal life.