Lately, I notice myself feeling stressed; sometimes very stressed. I don’t necessarily think that I am stressed about anything in particular, but it is there gnawing at my nerves from the moment I open my eyes in the morning until I close my eyes at night.
Despite having studied the physiology behind the stress response (fight or flight response), the positive and negative effects of stress on the physical and emotional body, as well as how to alleviate stress in our everyday lives, I am not immune to the effects of stress.
I catch myself feeling irritated with people, losing patience when tasks become more complicated than expected, having trouble concentrating at work. Not to mention the muscle aches, headaches, low levels of energy and chocolate cravings throughout the day.
So what is the answer?
There is no easy answer. Stress is an unavoidable state of living and for the most part we learn to adapt and we hopefully learn how to effectively cope with daily stressors.
We grit our teeth, bear down, and push our way through the day. Though all of those tip sheets out there to effectively cope with stress are well intentioned, are they really effective? Some days I wonder.
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I like you feel a great deal of stress at times. Healthy living means we somehow need to learn to manage the stress we have, so that the negative impact it can have on us is minimized.
I also am trying to figure out how to live healthy in todays world.
Posted 10 Apr 2007 at 7:11 pm ¶Rick, you are so right when you say that healthy living is about learning how to manage our stressors. I think so often people learn how to deal with their stress, but never really learn how to manage so that they can thrive.
To complicate things more, everybody is different. What works for one person, won’t necessarily work for another.
No easy answers eh?
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