Is there good stress?
Do you experience more chronic (long-term) stress than your parents?
How does modern stress affect your life?
Is stress like the weather, gibberish and no corrective action?
Chronic stress isn’t getting mad about the bike in the driveway,
includes insomnia due to anxieties about your career, money in general, and
specifically about higher oil and mortgage payments.
Let’s Get Scientific: Research Published October 27, 2007 by American Psychological
The Association presents hard numbers: We are facing a different and tougher set of chronic stress compared to five years ago.
Competition
One in three Americans believe they are living with extreme stress, and it is
altering their quality of life, personal productivity and human relationships.
They are not guilty mothers, but they react so much to their physical environment
and personal economic competence.
Did your mom work full time? A generation ago only 32% did it, today it is
up to 78% in our cities, and 55% overall. If you were a gambler, could you
predict future direction?
Health
Chronic stress, the kind that promotes depression and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, is also linked to a lowered immune system. Only 28% of us
report that we are handling daily stress extremely well.
Get this: three quarters of us admit to ongoing physical and/or mental symptoms of stress that occurs on a daily basis. The United States Department of Health indicates that almost 25% of us
suffering from severe mental anxiety. Sure, they still work, but when these one in four run amok, they often injure or kill more people than themselves.
Are we talking about the homeless and poorest people in society?
Russ Newman, executive director of the APA, says that at least half of society is stressed.
A third are not functioning well at work and at home. Stress is the underlying cause of divorces, and up to 42% of physical assaults on spouses and co-workers.
eustress
The EU in front of a word means good. Some stress symptoms can have positive effects
results. More than 90% of people in the creative arts seek the passion they associate with
with eustress. They believe that he provides the magic in his mind by producing original and unique paintings, music and books.
Broadway and Hollywood actors look for their creative spark (eustress) to make their role come alive, compelling, and memorable. Eustress is why we remember Marlon Brando and all the actors from the Rocky and The Godfather series.
Eustress is feeling a flutter in your stomach, a racing heart, and a glow in your
eyes. It produces an acceleration and excitement of knowing that you are accessing your best gifts and talents. The writer imagines his best plots, the dancer floats in space. He’s in the zone (in the flow) and ready to create a peak performance for both you and your audience.
Stress often causes headaches, fatigue, muscle tension, and teeth grinding;
Eustress produces a positive belief in yourself and a burning desire to do your best to show the world your gifts.
managing stress
Are you tired of hearing that Americans are the most obese people on the planet?
We overeat and swallow junk food to overcome feelings of stress.
Hard to imagine, but one in three of us lose our healthy appetite due to stress.
How about alcohol, regular and fun cigarettes?
Stress reduces our level of dopamine (neurotransmitter) and we resort to artificial opioids
(narcotics) for a feeling of reward and pleasure.
Some of us bury our stress in excessive reading, video games, the Internet. The latest statistics indicate that the average adult passively watches up to 4 hours of television
daily as a stress reducer. Thinking about a mysterious plot inhibits personal stress.
thoughts and mental images.
Young people (54-72%) spend up to 4 hours listening to rock music, plus another 2 hours sending computer messages to their friends. Many choose to play video games to avoid
personal relationships and professional decision-making.
Motivation
What does it take to find healthy alternatives to stress? Experts suggest jogging and
walking for exercise, time spent communicating with family and friends, and finally praying.
Powerful motivators to avoid stress include group riding on motorcycles, rollerblading
(skateboarding) and creative hobbies that include learning a new language or technical skills. Your alternative to stress requires personal investigation. some people
Discover your singing or comedy talent to overcome your stress symptoms.
Humor
Texas A&M University researcher David H. Rosen finds that humor elevates our
hope level. Sure, you know that laughing is better than crying, but do you think
humor can significantly change your mood, mood and behaviors?
Stress often leads to hopelessness and its sister, impotence. humor and laughter
it can help overcome stressful symptoms and prevent, if not cure, bipolar disorder.
Joy is serious medicine. It requires a daily regime of about 15 minutes, for a minimum of 21 days. The results are subjective because they are
their feelings, but Dr. Rosen tested 200 people ages 18 to 42. He reports a 94% increase
their hope scores.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and invite sickness and depression.
Another study at UCLA 10.26.07 revealed that watching comedy shows helped children
tolerate pain for longer periods. Prepare children with humor before an injection
cut reports of pain and anxiety in half. Tell me, when was the last time?
did you laugh out loud?
monkeys
Churchill said: “Never bargain with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” It sounds concise and gnomic, but its meaning makes me dizzy.
Monkeys, specifically rhesus macaques, live a frighteningly similar social life to Homo sapiens. So says University of Chicago researcher Dario Maestripoeri, a professor of primate behavior.
Machiavellian intelligence is part of humans and macaques. Italian writer and adviser to princes, he lived at the time of Christopher Columbus.
Let me make it short and quick, Mach advised rulers to use nepotism (patronage),
to divide and conquer enemies, create scapegoats, and initiate political maneuvers.
So who cares? Was it in the fifteenth century?
The intense competition for power between countries (and monkeys), required Machiavellian solutions to social problems. ah According to Dr. Maestripoeri,
this led to larger evolutionary brains. It is our more active left hemisphere that
it has produced our effective cognitive responses to human problems.
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