Monday, June 04, 2007

Stress Overview
Stress is not all bad, sometimes it becomes like motivation of human kind in rapid environment required. But still people feel about stress in negative way even a positive stress either.

Why we are annoyed by stress although we do not want it, the more we want to stop the more increasing stress we get which is almost unable to control. In this article, there are some good advices of trying to reduce, avoid or control stress by our selves.

Stress can take a serious toll on body, mind and soul. Sometimes we push too hard or too much attention to perform something, we have lost someone we love, we are disappointed and worried too much to many things or even other positive matter from work, business, academy, friend, family, office and community, these are the sources of the emotional stress. Although either negative or positive stress is a purely mental phenomenon but also absolutely effect to the physical health. If we can not prepare ourselves to stress preventing and response, our mental and emotional health might be affected by its harm which is contributed to the damaging of physical health and life.


We try to figure out and identify the sources of stress which are surrounding us and affecting to our emotions in the first step. There are several kinds of stress and come up from different ways of sources which we can unexpectedly perceive in anytime and anywhere. Next, we should find the proper ways to cope with, eliminate or reduce them. Stress in a high volume is also a dangerous thing to our life-being and able to create bad affects to the people surroundings. Moreover, it can unnecessarily destroy our pleasant and transqil living atmosphere.

Stress and Physical Health Effects
The high-pressure lives are affected by high volume of stress that is related directly to mind and body. In this high competitive day-living, even a child also has low to high volume of unavoidable stress. Stress is everywhere if we do not try to avoid it. Not only the negative events or matters like; someone beloved died, big quarrel occurred, disappointment, the job loosing, debts burden, too much worried, etc., cause stress but also the positive events like the top prize wined, opportunity promoted, preparing to a date, starting a new job, getting married, being pregnant, addressing in public, etc.

The Health Effects of Stress
The individual's perception of stress is highly different especially, the reaction to the matters or events affected. Stress related to all body that chronic exposure to stress hormones can dangerously affect the physical illness or related symptoms; headaches, skin rashes, hair loss, racing heartbeat, muscle aches and stomach upset.
A lot of Medical Research and Study evidences shows and proved that the psychological stress can be related to a variety of physical symptoms and developed further diseases ;
Stress can develop heart disease and high blood pressure. Skin doctors have found that many skin conditions, such as hives and eczema, are related to stress.
Up to 90 percent of all illness and disease is stress-related, according to the Medical research of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chronic stress is certainly eliminate immunity that cause people more susceptible to infections. The ways to prevent diseases or increase the numbers ofinfection fighting T cells and endorphins (feel-good chemicals) ;meditation, exercise, relaxing, drawing or else.
Everyday ache or pain even health problems are mainly caused by stress; as headaches, backaches, stomachaches, diarrhea, sleep loss, and loss of sex drive.
Weight gain or weight loss is an contribution from stress.
If we do not want to risk of health diseases affected from stress, we need to identify stress triggers. The stress triggers can provide a best help in reducing amount of stress.


Identify Stress Triggers
Many times, we have been such a suffered situation of stress but we still never ever think about defining the sources of stress in facts. This can be the methods to conquer our stress inducers. Categories of stress inducers as following ;
Internal stressors or emotional stressors : the thought or feeling inside individual's brain and mind also various by personality traits; perfections, pessimism, suspiciousness or jealousy includes worrying, fear, depress, exiting, anxiety, hopeless, disappointing .
Decision stressors : when we have to make any important selections or considerations.
Phobic stressors : threaten with a high feeling of extreme fear.
Physical stressors : situation of overtax our body or too much using of a specific body organ; long time sitting, standing or sleeping, intensive exercise also mentioned to premenstrual syndrome and pregnancy.
Pain stressors : include acute pain or chronic or caused by stress.
Environmental stressors: every unpleasant thing in daily circumstanced environment; pollution of air, noise, water, light, temperature and space.
Social stressors : affected from lifestyle or community; dating, party,public speaking, etc.
Family stressors : most the relationship, problems or positive family matters included; becoming a teenager, financial problem, family quarrels.
Change stressors : when anything changed in routine life; new school, new job, new resident, new family member, etc.
Work stressors : atmosphere in working place include type of work and upper-lower subordinates involved.
Chemical stressors : drug nicotine alcohol and other kinds of stimulants.
Disease stressors : long or short-term illness or health problems.

As the reference above then we set the identified stress-category by letters as following;
E refers to Eliminate : stressors that we have known and can change or avoid with other replaces such as uncomfortable chair or bed, cut off some your affordable works by using other services such as laundry, food delivery, have a maid or a driver, etc.
R refers to Reduce : try something to reduce the amount of stress such as light music in working atmosphere, have an assistant or consultant, using a more intelligent electronics, organizer or computer.
C refers to Coping : master the stressors which cannot really eliminate or reduce by your activities but they are as the internal stress so we have to gather all concentration and calmness.
In our routine life, we face various kinds of stress, sometimes they come up unexpectedly altogether that we have to beware and deal with them properly. We all realized that not all of stressors we are totally able to eliminate, some stressors we can get rid of them, many stressors we can reduce the amount of stress and some categories we can just only deal with them.
The start we are suggested to :
- make a note of your stressor-lists.
- evaluate and identify them by their category-references.
- marked down the category-letters for each stressor or triggers.
- separate the stress triggers into groups by their letters of categories.
- consider how to efficiently organize all stress triggers .
This way will be easy and more overview for us to concentrate on the management of stress triggers also efficiently increasing your productive .

How to Reduce Stress
These are some advices of the stress triggers we have categorized; E, R, and C.
The E-List
This kind of stressors, they are too big and unable to be easily eliminate by some little creative changes. By the other hand, you have to cost some money to eliminate them against their tolls taking on your health and lifestyle. In order to you do some new changes for elimination, you have to carefully organize such as ; Moving to a new house, changing a new job, quitting smoking, caffeine, alcohol or every kind of stimulants for good.
The R-List
The R-list are needed creative actions against the tolerable external stressors. Although you may not to get rid all of the their threaten but you certainly reduce majority of the unavoidable affects.

When you list down your worries on the paper or whatever, it automatically start to take off your little stress because this is like a reminding of your short-term or long -term daily involved or tasks or relationships around that you have to face every day but still you are not totally organized them efficiently. So it continues to a further concentration of organizing that you might feel that some are just very break through problems and you should have solve long time before.
You may make the helpful lists daily, weekly for short-term lists also monthly, even yearly as long-term lists or goals. Organize the shot-term lists in creative, careful, efficient and fast then try to further organize the long-term lists. The C-listFor some stress triggers that you really try or can do none of the successful reduction but you also are unable to control. The important point is ; don't loose hope, relax, stay calm and very calm then try to compromise intelligently the best for both you and them.

In addition, another best stress killer ; timing is extremely suitable and efficient for some specific cases or matters which can be automatically reducing or fading off their strength by the time passed then recovering your brightness and pleasant of joy. Start to reorganize your lifestyle in a happy way, change the priority, understand more of the facts and realities and more forgiving attitude. The truth of reality is nobody is perfect so this in some cases, you have to realize and learn to delegate task or trust to give a chance to the other, practice imperfect. After you had practiced along these advices, you surely found your life will be change improved in a better way as we keep along the tranquiller optimal way.


Learn to Relax
The most importance that we can not neglect is enough sleep or rest to contribute more of the body energy and sense of conscious as well otherwise the unexpected affects will destroy your well-being. Whenever you find or face things that are stressors, learn these techniques to stay very calm, gather all concentration of consciousness, think of a beautiful and calm picture in your head, stop and go to an exercise, join to hobbies or do meditation or yoga and do not think that relaxation is wasting your time or able to loose your good opportunities but you should practice everyday to spend just few minutes of relax or meditation in order to provide the boosting up physical energy and conscious mind.
Steps of relax techniques ;
- Find an undisturbed place or corner then exercise a muscle relax.
- Control fresh air deep breath for increase the oxygen in blood.
- Tighten your clothes in a comfortable feeling.
- Lie down to relax in a quiet area.
- Try to leave aside all the tasks and worries or tension in this moment.
- Gently muscle you forehead and hold this tension about five seconds then release so the
blood will run through quickly contribute a relax feeling.
- Continue gently process to your eyes muscle and work down until your toes.
- After finished, calmly still close your eyes and lie down with tranquil feeling for a few
minutes.
We can develop a lot of tranquil ways to fulfill the happiness to our life without any affects to other and also suggest them to practice as you in order to enjoy every efficient way of living.

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