STRESS

Stress is a pressure or tension exerted on an object or person. Stress results into an adverse or very demanding circumstance. Sometimes stress can be a positive force or a negative force. Positive force can be motivating you to do something better and negative can spoil your work.

There are 3 types of stress; natural reaction, pressure points, chronic stress. Natural reaction means reacting naturally to a situation as in your heart pounds when you see a scary movie, sweating hands on a first date are examples of natural reaction. Pressure points include both minor and major stress; minor stress means getting tension before giving a presentation and major stress means stress due to major activities like earthquakes. Chronic stress means it is the most dangerous type of stress, it starts interfering with our daily lives. Feeling both worse in your mind and body, not being able to do anything or have only negative thoughts in all kinds of situations.

Things one can do to avoid stress;

·       Identify what’s causing the stress – the first step to reduce stress is to identify the factors that are causing the stress, make a list of those factors and start distancing yourself from those. Once you list down the things that stress you than make a plan on how to reduce them.

·       Build strong relationships – start building strong relationships with family, friends, neighbors etc. having strong relationships and strong communication helps reduce the stress level to a great extent. You can share things when you have a strong bond with people.

·       Walk away when you are angry – when you are angry you don’t know what’s going on in your head and you react badly to the situation and later on you regret it. Better than that is that you walk away every time you get angry. When you are angry you tend to be more stressed than any other time and stress and anger itself make a deadly combination.

·       Rest your mind – once you have walked away from that situation, think less about it. Start thinking about the good things in life. Think about the good things that will happen to you in future, where you are likely to be in the next 10 years down the line. Deviating yourself from that will help you to a great extent.

·       Get help – if you think that doing this won’t help you get help from people who can help you to get your way out. You can ask anyone a doctor, teacher, parents, friends, neighbors anyone.

Some people tend to stress about so many things and such things that are not of great importance in life while others don’t even tend to stress about the biggest things even and think that they will find their way out without any stress.