Inner stress awareness

Stress is an unpleasant state of
emotional and physical feeling,
that is experienced in situations that
are perceived as unhealthy or unsafe.
Stress is the body's emergency response
to real or imagined danger.
A stress reaction prepares the body for
a burst of action to fight or flee a threat.
Stress that lasts a long time
can exhaust the body and frazzle the mind with worry.

The word stress means different things to different people.
Some people feel the effects of stress as events or situations that
cause them to feel tension, pressure,
or negative emotions such as anxiety and anger.
Others view signs of stress as the response to these situations.
This response includes noticeable changes
such as increased heart rate,
chest pain from stress and muscle tension,
as well as emotional and behavioral changes.

“One of the first things I experienced was
a huge increase in physical energy.
As a cancer patient since 1998, fatigue has been my constant companion.
I was and continue to be amazed at how light my feet are these days.
I can accomplish so much more with so much less effort.
What a joy it is!
Part of the energy comes from a renewed feeling of enthusiasm for life -
also something I haven't felt for years.
It seems that I have stepped up to a new level of clarity
about what's important and
what I need to do to accomplish the goals I choose.
This has contributed to a new hope for the future and
a belief that perhaps, after all, I can succeed.
It has been very revealing and helpful
to identify both the places where I was stuck
and the means to move on.
I feel a sense of optimism that I haven't experienced in a very long time.
I feel happy! And the best part is that I continue to feel "up."
The good feelings don't stop.
Thank you so much for making such a huge difference in my life.”

C.Farkas, CPA

In reality,
it is not the actual event of the stress,
it is the individual's internal interpretation and
response to a stressful event.
So, it is not these stressors themselves,
but somewhat people's perceptions of them, that cause stress.
Awareness and mindfulness can deepen using stress management techniques.
Stress merely is an indication of body's fight or flight response.

Positive Creative Stress or Destructive Negative Stress

Stress can be positive creative or destructive negative.
It all is based on the nature of the person and each situation.
If a Ferrari drives @ 15 mph, it will be boring and
if a bicycle tries to go @ 140 mph, it will break.
Either of these situations can create stress.
So, we cannot say speed is good or bad.
It all depends on the nature of the individual.
For example, a deadline (forcing the person to change speed)
demands of daily life (forcing the person to change form) and so on...
Each stress is a person's physical and emotional response to change.
Some people welcome change and some resist.
Not all stress is severe.
Mild stress can provide a sense of excitement and
help people perform at their peak.
But severe stress can fill people with worry,
disrupt sleep, and interfere with efficiency.
Stress that lasts a long time can weaken health and undermine happiness.
Positive creative stress expands auric life force field.
Destructive negative stress contracts auric life force field.

Stress of life in a busy city is usually more
compared to being in a serene location where
there is lots of nature and
not many stressful situations where one needs to de-stress.

Effects of Stress

We may feel effects of stress when
we are too busy to notice the grand life happening around,
working under a deadline instead of a lifeline,
or have limited time to finish all of our tasks.
Often people struggle with stress because of challenges at work,
such as a below average comment by a supervisor or
in social situations like
an argument with a friend or family.
People need not experience events directly to feel stress.
Media television, radio, newspapers, and the internet flood people with
information about the crime, disasters, terrorism, and
other upsetting occurrences throughout the world.
People can also imagine future misfortunes and
regret past failures, causing stress.
This is information indigestion.

Some people may be sensitive to dealing with stress
in situations involving the risk of failure or personal shame.
Others have extreme fears of life events or
things associated with physical threats
such as poverty, loneliness, illness, earthquakes, or flying in an airplane
and become stressed when they encounter or
think about these perceived threats.
Major life events, such as the death of a loved one,
also causes extreme stress.

Stressors

The factors that cause stress are called stressors.
Stressors vary in intensity and continuity.
For example,
the responsibility of caring for a sick family member
may be an ongoing source of significant stress,
whereas getting stuck in a traffic jam
may cause mild, short-term stress.
Some events,
such as the death of a loved one,
are stressful for everyone.
But in other situations,
individuals may respond differently to the same event,
stress for one person may not be stressful for another.
If tension continues at high levels, the body experiences exhaustion.
In exhaustion, energy reserves are used up,
leading to extreme fatigue and inability to resist new stressors.

Major life stressors

Stressors can be classified into three general levels:
disastrous events, extensive life changes, and daily life demands.
Also, merely thinking about unpleasant past events or
anticipating unpleasant future events can cause stress for many people.
Stress management is internal energy management.