Happy April!
Spring is finally here. The sun is shining and the birds are
chirping. Can it be that you still have some stress in your life?
Deadlines at work, your kids baseball games or dance recital, maybe
it is the stress of finishing you taxes that has caused you to miss the
wonder of the season? SilverSpringCenter.com
has some information on understanding stress and some tips on how
to deal with it.
What is stress? We throw that word around a lot but what does it mean
exactly.
Stress is
any physical or mental response made on an individual.
Wow that covers just about everything. Let’s look at it this
way-stress can be positive or negative. Our bodies have the same
response whether the stress we are feeling is encouraging or
destructive.
For instance, the excitement you feel before a big game or when you
are going to make your stage debut or before a big date is positive
stress. Your heart beats a little faster, your palms are sweaty, your
breathing is a little faster and your temperature increases: these are
all positive body responses. Most importantly they are temporary
reactions to the stress and our bodies relax shortly after the stress
passes. It’s the stress you encounter when you are late for meeting or
working, on overload, or trying to balance family and work duties, or
when dealing with life changes that can lead to negative reactions or
behaviors.
With negative stress, your heart rate stays high, more that likely
you blood pressure goes up (it may stay high), your breathing is more
erratic and it is much harder to calm down. Over time, these elevated
body responses can lead to very serious health problems. Hence, society’s
version of stress as bad. Since it is next to impossible to totally
eliminate stress from our lives, we must find constructive ways to deal
with stress.
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