Category: Anxiety

Stress is the “wear and tear” our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment. In other words, it refers to the effect on a person when he does not have adequate resources to meet the challenges of life. It is the way your mind and body responds to the various demands made by life. Different people can tolerate different levels of stress.

Is stress always bad?

1. The stress you experience is not necessarily harmful.
2. Mild forms of stress can act as a motivator and energizer.
3. However, if your stress level is too high, problems can result.

These sources of stress are called stressors. Knowing what factors are most stressful to you and how you respond to this stress is very important, because awareness is 90% of the solution.

The symptoms of stress largely fall under 4 categories:

1. Feelings: Examples of the following are either feeling anxious, scared, irritable, or moody.


2. Thoughts: Examples of the same are experiencing low self-esteem, fear of failure, inability to concentrate, worrying about the future, preoccupation with thoughts/tasks or forgetfulness.


3. Behaviour: Examples of the following would be stuttering and other speech difficulties, crying for no apparent reason, acting impulsively, startling easily, grinding your teeth, increasing smoking / drugs / alcohol, losing your appetite or overeating.


4. Physiology/Body Reactions: Examples would be having butterflies in stomach, headaches, pain in the neck and or lower back, susceptibility to illness and so forth.

Stress and Personality:

While stressors are present in everyone’s life, not all of us get stressed by them, or to the same extent. Some of us possess certain personality traits that can predispose us toward stress:

• Tension
• Guilt Proneness
• Sensitivity
• Excitability

Individuals who possess these or a combination of these traits are more likely to experience stress.

How can stress be combated?

Many stresses can be changed, eliminated, or minimized. The right coping methods can help you. Stress Management is the ability to maintain control when situations, people, and events make excessive demands.

1. Focus on task-oriented methods: Task oriented responses would include:
   
   
   • Behaviour directed primarily at dealing with the stressor.
   • Appraise situation objectively, work out alternative solutions, decide on strategy, take action and evaluate feedback.
   • Involves making changes in oneself, one’s surroundings or both.
2. Confront the problem rather than brood about it!
3. Seek support: from family, friends, and other important people in your life.
4. Become aware of your own reactions to stress.
5. Reinforce positive self-statements.
6. Focus on your good qualities and accomplishments.
7. Avoid unnecessary competition.
8. Develop assertive behaviours.
9. Recognize and accept your limits. Remember that everyone is unique and different.
10. Get a hobby or two. Relax and have fun.

Benefits of managing stress effectively:

1. Critical Life Skill: Good stress management will impact every sphere of your life:
   
   
   • Academic
   • Professional
   • Personal Relationships
   • Health
   • Life Satisfaction
2. Enable you to deal with anxiety-provoking situations in a calm and controlled manner.
3. Enable you to keep your perspective and not buckle under stress.
4. Give every challenging situation your best and make full use of your resources in meeting that challenge head on.
5. Learn stress buster techniques like yoga or meditation.

Stress is the “wear and tear” our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment. In other words, it refers to the effect on a person when he does not have adequate resources to meet the challenges of life. It is the way your mind and body responds to the various demands made by life. Different people can tolerate different levels of stress.

Is stress always bad?

1. The stress you experience is not necessarily harmful.
2. Mild forms of stress can act as a motivator and energizer.
3. However, if your stress level is too high, problems can result.

These sources of stress are called stressors. Knowing what factors are most stressful to you and how you respond to this stress is very important, because awareness is 90% of the solution.

The symptoms of stress largely fall under 4 categories:

1. Feelings: Examples of the following are either feeling anxious, scared, irritable, or moody.


2. Thoughts: Examples of the same are experiencing low self-esteem, fear of failure, inability to concentrate, worrying about the future, preoccupation with thoughts/tasks or forgetfulness.


3. Behaviour: Examples of the following would be stuttering and other speech difficulties, crying for no apparent reason, acting impulsively, startling easily, grinding your teeth, increasing smoking / drugs / alcohol, losing your appetite or overeating.


4. Physiology/Body Reactions: Examples would be having butterflies in stomach, headaches, pain in the neck and or lower back, susceptibility to illness and so forth.

Stress and Personality:

While stressors are present in everyone’s life, not all of us get stressed by them, or to the same extent. Some of us possess certain personality traits that can predispose us toward stress:

• Tension
• Guilt Proneness
• Sensitivity
• Excitability

Individuals who possess these or a combination of these traits are more likely to experience stress.

How can stress be combated?

Many stresses can be changed, eliminated, or minimized. The right coping methods can help you. Stress Management is the ability to maintain control when situations, people, and events make excessive demands.

1. Focus on task-oriented methods: Task oriented responses would include:
   
   
   • Behaviour directed primarily at dealing with the stressor.
   • Appraise situation objectively, work out alternative solutions, decide on strategy, take action and evaluate feedback.
   • Involves making changes in oneself, one’s surroundings or both.
2. Confront the problem rather than brood about it!
3. Seek support: from family, friends, and other important people in your life.
4. Become aware of your own reactions to stress.
5. Reinforce positive self-statements.
6. Focus on your good qualities and accomplishments.
7. Avoid unnecessary competition.
8. Develop assertive behaviours.
9. Recognize and accept your limits. Remember that everyone is unique and different.
10. Get a hobby or two. Relax and have fun.

Benefits of managing stress effectively:

1. Critical Life Skill: Good stress management will impact every sphere of your life:
   
   
   • Academic
   • Professional
   • Personal Relationships
   • Health
   • Life Satisfaction
2. Enable you to deal with anxiety-provoking situations in a calm and controlled manner.
3. Enable you to keep your perspective and not buckle under stress.
4. Give every challenging situation your best and make full use of your resources in meeting that challenge head on.
5. Learn stress buster techniques like yoga or meditation.

Let’s face it; whether you’re a busy homemaker or a high flying executive, today’s popular mind-set is to be as busy as possible with nearly every hour and minute crammed with some kind of work. Yet the day-to-day pressure can build into chronic stress, which if ignored, can be detrimental to our mind, body, and spirit.

The Body

While most of us have stress in some form, an unhealthy response to stress happens when the demands of the stressor exceed an individual’s coping ability. While stress is actually a psychological state of mind, as it considerably affects our physiological state. “In a classical stressful situation, certain stress hormones such as cortisol are released which increases the heartbeat, sweating, uneasiness, and the urge to urinate,” with the initial indicator usually manifesting as an inability to sleep. In the long run this leads to problems such as indigestion, acidity, ulcers, low-back pains, high-blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, high cholesterol, depression, headaches, and fatigue, to name a few. Long-term stress also affects our immunity and reduces our disease-fighting capacity.

In Teens

While the teenage years can be highly stressful, some typical stressors include: stress from school, social anxiety, and depressive feelings – for example, not belonging, self-harm and other dysfunctional coping strategies. Another big one, particularly pertinent to today, is social media inappropriateness. While teens and adults overlap in how they cope with stress, the only difference is that adults express stress verbally while teens tend to isolate themselves during times of high stress. “This is because teenagers are unable to properly manage their stress due to a lack of healthy coping skills,”.

Negative Implications

If the stress is not caught and addressed in time, teenagers may utilize reckless and destructive behaviors, substance abuse, and physical violence as unhealthy coping skills. Teenagers’ academic and extra-curricular progress may also deteriorate if stress is not handled appropriately.

Getting a Grip on Teen Stress

Maintaining effective communication with your teen and adopting healthy coping skills are the two most effective ways to manage with stress.

1. Be available – make some time no matter how busy the schedule is – structure opportunities into daily life. Spending time with your teen shows them that you care even though they are pushing you away.


2. Be realistic and flexible in your expectations but praise effort more than just results.


3. Be patient and consistent during their developmental phase – they are changeable and trying to make sense of their place in the world – they can defy reason and sense sometimes.


4. Do not minimize their feelings in hopes of them “getting over it”. Their feelings are real and affecting them in ways that need to be addressed.


5. Be practical and constructive in your approach – they may need your wisdom and organization – even if they say they don’t.

You cannot and should not shield them from all stresses and risks. You must set limits as well as consequences to what is acceptable and unacceptable at home, school, and elsewhere.

THE MIND

Stress Reactions

When stress is excessive, it results in one of four reactions- -anxiety, apathy and depression, anger and aggression and cognitive impairment. “Stress can be caused by traumatic events, events which challenge our limits, as well as internal conflicts,”. “For example, if your boss criticizes you unfairly, you feel the stress.” You want to be able to explain why he/she is wrong but also have a fear of upsetting your boss and this stress or internal conflict causes you to ruminate and these thoughts can very quickly spiral out of control: My boss thinks I’m incompetent; I won’t get the promotion I deserve. This series of ruminations results in catastrophic thinking, which can lead to worry, anxiety, feeling depressed and insomnia.

Top Ways to Alleviate Stress

Talk about what is stressing you to someone who listens to you, understands the stress environment and cares about you.

Ruminations create a “pressure-cooker effect”. They bounce around creating pressure. Releasing this through talking really helps.

Most relationships in life are reciprocal. It’s really important to establish good social networks so that people may be there for us in our hour of need.

It is very important to remove the source of the stress, if possible, by taking control and being active. For example, rather than being a victim of bullying in the workplace, you may choose to either put in a complaint or move post.

Distraction is a useful technique to avoid stress. Taking up a new challenge or a new activity is often very helpful.

MODERN DAY

Electronic Stress

Smart phones, gadgets, and computers all help us stay super connected but at a high price. “Smartphones add hugely to modern day stresses in that the workplace and social media permeate our lives so that we are never really free,”. “We are working or socializing 24-hours a day, checking our phones last thing at night and first thing in the morning when research shows that each time we receive an email, we can take up to 20 minutes on average to re-focus on children, partners or other focuses.

Planning

The best way to deal with smartphones is to switch them off when at home; however, this is impractical for some. “The alternative is to have windows of when you check your messages, for example 9 to 9:30pm, and to put it away for the rest of the time,” and be sure to avoid using your smartphone one hour before you sleep.

Finding Solutions

Today the aim is on maximizing the usefulness of our time and squeezing as much as we can from every minute of the day. So how can a person find time in the day to destress? We need to learn to tackle the external pressures and even our own inner voices that tell us that to be successful, he says as these are old mind-sets that we have learnt over the years that are no longer relevant. “We must replace these thoughts with new one’s that support us in the true value of taking time to de-stress the right way,”.

Shelve Your Stress with These Tips

1. Practice Regular Exercise – Exercise impacts a neurotransmitter that works like an antidepressant on your brain while lessening muscle tension.

2. Go Outside – Even five minutes in nature can help reduce stress and boost your mood.

3. Focus on Your Breathing – Ideally you should be breathing primarily through your nose through a simple technique called Buteyko breathing to help you restore beneficial breathing patterns.

4. Participate in Activities – You Enjoy Engaging in a hobby helps you enjoy yourself and take your mind off of stress.

5. Eat Healthy – Schedule time to eat without rushing and be sure to consume fresh, healthy, whole foods.

6. Stay Positive – Keep a list of all that you’re grateful for and make a commitment to stop any negative self-talk.

7. Stay Connected – Loneliness can be a major source of stress, so do some volunteering, meet up with friends or take a class to meet others.

8. Take a Break or Meditate – Taking even 10 minutes to sit quietly and shut out the chaos around you can trigger your relaxation response.

The Positive Side of Stress

Is stress is something that needs to be reduced, suppressed or avoided? Or can we accept it, use it, and embrace it? It turns out that which one of these mind-sets you hold plays a key role in how the stress in your life affects you.

Mindset

It’s not our stress levels that need to change, but our attitude to stress itself, reveals Menon, because how you think about stress and the stress in your life plays a profound role on how it affects your well-being. She explains, “It determines whether the presence of stress in your life is harmful, which can ultimately lead to burnout, depression, and heart disease or whether that stress actually leads to greater well-being and resilience.”

The Science

Research shows that when you tell people about the importance of stress mindsets, you encourage them to choose a more accepting and embracing attitude toward the stress in their own lives, suggests Menon and in turn, they actually become healthier, happier, and more productive at work, even in very difficult and stressful circumstances. According to research at Yale University, people who hold more a negative perception of stress and believe it should be reduced or avoided, are more likely to experience what we typically think of as the negative outcomes of stress. They’re more likely to have health problems or illnesses, suggests Menon and they’re more likely to become depressed and, are less productive at work. “But on the other side, people who hold a more positive and accepting view of stress are protected from the negative effects of

stress, even when their lives are stressful,” she tells, and they’re healthier and happier. They’re doing better at work and they’re better able to find meaning in their struggles.

The Question

Therefore, can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? Menon points out that the science says ‘yes’ – when you change your mind about stress, you can change your body’s response to stress. “Research shows that stress is actually enhancing; in one study at University of Wisconsin researchers tracked 30,000 American adults for eight years,” she explains, and they found that subjects with a lot of stress had a 43 percent increased risk of dying – but only if they believed stress was harmful. What is surprising is those who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die than the normal population. In fact, Menon reiterates that they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress.

The Big Picture

Although stressful experiences are an important part of life, how you think and how you act can transform your experience of stress, Menon says. “When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you can create the biology of courage and resilience,” she explains. “Stressful experiences help us learn and grow and they can actually be an opportunity to develop our strengths and choose our priorities.”

Let’s face it; whether you’re a busy homemaker or a high flying executive, today’s popular mind-set is to be as busy as possible with nearly every hour and minute crammed with some kind of work. Yet the day-to-day pressure can build into chronic stress, which if ignored, can be detrimental to our mind, body, and spirit.

The Body

While most of us have stress in some form, an unhealthy response to stress happens when the demands of the stressor exceed an individual’s coping ability. While stress is actually a psychological state of mind, as it considerably affects our physiological state. “In a classical stressful situation, certain stress hormones such as cortisol are released which increases the heartbeat, sweating, uneasiness, and the urge to urinate,” with the initial indicator usually manifesting as an inability to sleep. In the long run this leads to problems such as indigestion, acidity, ulcers, low-back pains, high-blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, high cholesterol, depression, headaches, and fatigue, to name a few. Long-term stress also affects our immunity and reduces our disease-fighting capacity.

In Teens

While the teenage years can be highly stressful, some typical stressors include: stress from school, social anxiety, and depressive feelings – for example, not belonging, self-harm and other dysfunctional coping strategies. Another big one, particularly pertinent to today, is social media inappropriateness. While teens and adults overlap in how they cope with stress, the only difference is that adults express stress verbally while teens tend to isolate themselves during times of high stress. “This is because teenagers are unable to properly manage their stress due to a lack of healthy coping skills,”.

Negative Implications

If the stress is not caught and addressed in time, teenagers may utilize reckless and destructive behaviors, substance abuse, and physical violence as unhealthy coping skills. Teenagers’ academic and extra-curricular progress may also deteriorate if stress is not handled appropriately.

Getting a Grip on Teen Stress

Maintaining effective communication with your teen and adopting healthy coping skills are the two most effective ways to manage with stress.

1. Be available – make some time no matter how busy the schedule is – structure opportunities into daily life. Spending time with your teen shows them that you care even though they are pushing you away.


2. Be realistic and flexible in your expectations but praise effort more than just results.


3. Be patient and consistent during their developmental phase – they are changeable and trying to make sense of their place in the world – they can defy reason and sense sometimes.


4. Do not minimize their feelings in hopes of them “getting over it”. Their feelings are real and affecting them in ways that need to be addressed.


5. Be practical and constructive in your approach – they may need your wisdom and organization – even if they say they don’t.

You cannot and should not shield them from all stresses and risks. You must set limits as well as consequences to what is acceptable and unacceptable at home, school, and elsewhere.

THE MIND

Stress Reactions

When stress is excessive, it results in one of four reactions- -anxiety, apathy and depression, anger and aggression and cognitive impairment. “Stress can be caused by traumatic events, events which challenge our limits, as well as internal conflicts,”. “For example, if your boss criticizes you unfairly, you feel the stress.” You want to be able to explain why he/she is wrong but also have a fear of upsetting your boss and this stress or internal conflict causes you to ruminate and these thoughts can very quickly spiral out of control: My boss thinks I’m incompetent; I won’t get the promotion I deserve. This series of ruminations results in catastrophic thinking, which can lead to worry, anxiety, feeling depressed and insomnia.

Top Ways to Alleviate Stress

Talk about what is stressing you to someone who listens to you, understands the stress environment and cares about you.

Ruminations create a “pressure-cooker effect”. They bounce around creating pressure. Releasing this through talking really helps.

Most relationships in life are reciprocal. It’s really important to establish good social networks so that people may be there for us in our hour of need.

It is very important to remove the source of the stress, if possible, by taking control and being active. For example, rather than being a victim of bullying in the workplace, you may choose to either put in a complaint or move post.

Distraction is a useful technique to avoid stress. Taking up a new challenge or a new activity is often very helpful.

MODERN DAY

Electronic Stress

Smart phones, gadgets, and computers all help us stay super connected but at a high price. “Smartphones add hugely to modern day stresses in that the workplace and social media permeate our lives so that we are never really free,”. “We are working or socializing 24-hours a day, checking our phones last thing at night and first thing in the morning when research shows that each time we receive an email, we can take up to 20 minutes on average to re-focus on children, partners or other focuses.

Planning

The best way to deal with smartphones is to switch them off when at home; however, this is impractical for some. “The alternative is to have windows of when you check your messages, for example 9 to 9:30pm, and to put it away for the rest of the time,” and be sure to avoid using your smartphone one hour before you sleep.

Finding Solutions

Today the aim is on maximizing the usefulness of our time and squeezing as much as we can from every minute of the day. So how can a person find time in the day to destress? We need to learn to tackle the external pressures and even our own inner voices that tell us that to be successful, he says as these are old mind-sets that we have learnt over the years that are no longer relevant. “We must replace these thoughts with new one’s that support us in the true value of taking time to de-stress the right way,”.

Shelve Your Stress with These Tips

1. Practice Regular Exercise – Exercise impacts a neurotransmitter that works like an antidepressant on your brain while lessening muscle tension.

2. Go Outside – Even five minutes in nature can help reduce stress and boost your mood.

3. Focus on Your Breathing – Ideally you should be breathing primarily through your nose through a simple technique called Buteyko breathing to help you restore beneficial breathing patterns.

4. Participate in Activities – You Enjoy Engaging in a hobby helps you enjoy yourself and take your mind off of stress.

5. Eat Healthy – Schedule time to eat without rushing and be sure to consume fresh, healthy, whole foods.

6. Stay Positive – Keep a list of all that you’re grateful for and make a commitment to stop any negative self-talk.

7. Stay Connected – Loneliness can be a major source of stress, so do some volunteering, meet up with friends or take a class to meet others.

8. Take a Break or Meditate – Taking even 10 minutes to sit quietly and shut out the chaos around you can trigger your relaxation response.

The Positive Side of Stress

Is stress is something that needs to be reduced, suppressed or avoided? Or can we accept it, use it, and embrace it? It turns out that which one of these mind-sets you hold plays a key role in how the stress in your life affects you.

Mindset

It’s not our stress levels that need to change, but our attitude to stress itself, reveals Menon, because how you think about stress and the stress in your life plays a profound role on how it affects your well-being. She explains, “It determines whether the presence of stress in your life is harmful, which can ultimately lead to burnout, depression, and heart disease or whether that stress actually leads to greater well-being and resilience.”

The Science

Research shows that when you tell people about the importance of stress mindsets, you encourage them to choose a more accepting and embracing attitude toward the stress in their own lives, suggests Menon and in turn, they actually become healthier, happier, and more productive at work, even in very difficult and stressful circumstances. According to research at Yale University, people who hold more a negative perception of stress and believe it should be reduced or avoided, are more likely to experience what we typically think of as the negative outcomes of stress. They’re more likely to have health problems or illnesses, suggests Menon and they’re more likely to become depressed and, are less productive at work. “But on the other side, people who hold a more positive and accepting view of stress are protected from the negative effects of

stress, even when their lives are stressful,” she tells, and they’re healthier and happier. They’re doing better at work and they’re better able to find meaning in their struggles.

The Question

Therefore, can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? Menon points out that the science says ‘yes’ – when you change your mind about stress, you can change your body’s response to stress. “Research shows that stress is actually enhancing; in one study at University of Wisconsin researchers tracked 30,000 American adults for eight years,” she explains, and they found that subjects with a lot of stress had a 43 percent increased risk of dying – but only if they believed stress was harmful. What is surprising is those who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die than the normal population. In fact, Menon reiterates that they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress.

The Big Picture

Although stressful experiences are an important part of life, how you think and how you act can transform your experience of stress, Menon says. “When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you can create the biology of courage and resilience,” she explains. “Stressful experiences help us learn and grow and they can actually be an opportunity to develop our strengths and choose our priorities.”

“Fear always goes away once two things are realized: First, you’re a spiritual being. Second, nothing can ever be lost or taken from a spiritual being that cannot be recreated; not pride, nor money, nor love.

Phew!
The Universe”

Come to think of it, fear should keep you on your toes and allow you to seek better and more effective way to reach your goals. Even though FEAR could just be an illusion, created by a fragment of your imagination, the fact that it feels so real and palpable at times puts us in a position where we can really ignore it, and sometime allow fear to take over and stops us from seeking new opportunities and reaching new heights. It is not uncommon to fear uncertainties because of a lack of control of events and circumstances that can possibly create moments of stress and anxiety in our mind. Crossing a path to the unknown can be mentally demanding and not many can successfully reach the other side without turning around and going back to a place they feel more comfortable in venturing. By thinking outside the box, out of your comfort zone will allow you to find new opportunities that wouldn’t ever be present if you would have stayed in your little cocoon. Just like the acronym, FEAR is just a false expectation appearing real, which create a moment of stress that isn’t necessary. By confronting your fears, you break down the walls that were built by yourself, and realize that there was nothing for you to worry about. As life is a journey for everyone on earth, it is important that you focus more on your spiritual self, that you create your own world from within and make sure that you do not allow any negativity coming in your world.

Just imagine this. If you had the power to built a new planet from scratch, with all the basic things you see, such as air, water, weather and all that great stuff. You then add people into this new planet, yes, humans. However, instead of allowing hatred and war, and crime and terrorism, you eliminate any possibilities of these scenarios entering your world to create a world of peace and serenity. All of what you see today, including crime and violence, terrorism and greed, was created by just a few people who wanted to bring chaos in this planet so no one really focuses on what is really going on. By doing this, it allows them to do whatever they please, extort as much money and resources as they possibly can because they know that eventually, some day in the near future, people will eventually wake up and realize the truth behind our imminent reality. All of what is going on today is a cover up for something much bigger than what you can imagine. Whatever you do from this point forward, focus on yourself primarily and become a better person for your own future. Do not spend time wondering what others are doing or how this person is making so much money and you aren’t. Continue walking on your own path as NO one will be walking by your side. Look straight ahead and focus on the horizon. If you don’t see it clearly, you just need to walk further until it appears. It all depends on you and how far are you willing to walk on that path. Always remember that your journey of a thousand miles always starts with the first step. So go ahead, take that step!

“Fear always goes away once two things are realized: First, you’re a spiritual being. Second, nothing can ever be lost or taken from a spiritual being that cannot be recreated; not pride, nor money, nor love.

Phew!
The Universe”

Come to think of it, fear should keep you on your toes and allow you to seek better and more effective way to reach your goals. Even though FEAR could just be an illusion, created by a fragment of your imagination, the fact that it feels so real and palpable at times puts us in a position where we can really ignore it, and sometime allow fear to take over and stops us from seeking new opportunities and reaching new heights. It is not uncommon to fear uncertainties because of a lack of control of events and circumstances that can possibly create moments of stress and anxiety in our mind. Crossing a path to the unknown can be mentally demanding and not many can successfully reach the other side without turning around and going back to a place they feel more comfortable in venturing. By thinking outside the box, out of your comfort zone will allow you to find new opportunities that wouldn’t ever be present if you would have stayed in your little cocoon. Just like the acronym, FEAR is just a false expectation appearing real, which create a moment of stress that isn’t necessary. By confronting your fears, you break down the walls that were built by yourself, and realize that there was nothing for you to worry about. As life is a journey for everyone on earth, it is important that you focus more on your spiritual self, that you create your own world from within and make sure that you do not allow any negativity coming in your world.

Just imagine this. If you had the power to built a new planet from scratch, with all the basic things you see, such as air, water, weather and all that great stuff. You then add people into this new planet, yes, humans. However, instead of allowing hatred and war, and crime and terrorism, you eliminate any possibilities of these scenarios entering your world to create a world of peace and serenity. All of what you see today, including crime and violence, terrorism and greed, was created by just a few people who wanted to bring chaos in this planet so no one really focuses on what is really going on. By doing this, it allows them to do whatever they please, extort as much money and resources as they possibly can because they know that eventually, some day in the near future, people will eventually wake up and realize the truth behind our imminent reality. All of what is going on today is a cover up for something much bigger than what you can imagine. Whatever you do from this point forward, focus on yourself primarily and become a better person for your own future. Do not spend time wondering what others are doing or how this person is making so much money and you aren’t. Continue walking on your own path as NO one will be walking by your side. Look straight ahead and focus on the horizon. If you don’t see it clearly, you just need to walk further until it appears. It all depends on you and how far are you willing to walk on that path. Always remember that your journey of a thousand miles always starts with the first step. So go ahead, take that step!

When a person works beyond his or her capacity and the mind of an individual comes under pressure then that condition is stress. This Stress comprises hypertension, depression, anxiety, heart attacks and disruption of immune system etc. We come across this stress by our some common habits. They are explained in the following manner:

• Perfection

Everyone in this world wants to be perfect, but nobody is perfect in this living world. People have habit to improve themselves for being perfect. They are fully concentrated on such a task and if they are not successful, then in that condition they possess the condition of stress. In such a condition a person has to accept what he or she is.

• Anger

Anger is the biggest and most common enemy of health. People have a habit of getting angry on his family members, friends and colleagues to get work done and also to release their frustration and excessive anger leads to the stage of stress which can only be remedied by controlling our anger.

• All- Day Sitting Routine

In our new developing world every task is performed by sitting at one place. We do not require any physical labour to get the task be completed whether it is personal or professional. This lack of exercise and physical labour causes stress. The stress caused by this reason can be suppressed by doing regular exercise.

• Excessive work

Now the man of today’s generation is busy in earning money and for that he or she works beyond his or her working capabilities. Doing excessive work without taking rest leads to the state of stress. The stress caused by such a reason can be suppressed by taking a good amount of sleep.

• Lack of entertainment

When we entertain ourselves by watching movies, hearing songs and other entertaining activity, then our mind gets relaxed but if this entertainment is lacking to us then there comes the condition of stress. The stress caused by such a habit can be remedied by having the proper amount of entertainment.

• Problem

Sometimes a person has gotten tensed by any personal or professional problem in such a condition he or she discuss that problem with his or her family members, friends or co-worker in order to get rid of that problem but as a consequence of it he or she get deeply indulged in that problem and get stressed. To get rid with this type of stress takes a visit of psychiatrist and also takes a good amount of sleep. Bangalore Baptist Hospital is a hospital which is situated in Bangalore and is meant for caring and serving people. Bangalore Baptist Hospital has different medical department and psychiatry is one among them. The best psychiatrist of India is Dr Vimal Kumar, whose clinic lies in Delhi.

Thus stress is that condition which can be a part of any person and its remedy lies within our control. Due care should be done for a person suffering from stress.

When a person works beyond his or her capacity and the mind of an individual comes under pressure then that condition is stress. This Stress comprises hypertension, depression, anxiety, heart attacks and disruption of immune system etc. We come across this stress by our some common habits. They are explained in the following manner:

• Perfection

Everyone in this world wants to be perfect, but nobody is perfect in this living world. People have habit to improve themselves for being perfect. They are fully concentrated on such a task and if they are not successful, then in that condition they possess the condition of stress. In such a condition a person has to accept what he or she is.

• Anger

Anger is the biggest and most common enemy of health. People have a habit of getting angry on his family members, friends and colleagues to get work done and also to release their frustration and excessive anger leads to the stage of stress which can only be remedied by controlling our anger.

• All- Day Sitting Routine

In our new developing world every task is performed by sitting at one place. We do not require any physical labour to get the task be completed whether it is personal or professional. This lack of exercise and physical labour causes stress. The stress caused by this reason can be suppressed by doing regular exercise.

• Excessive work

Now the man of today’s generation is busy in earning money and for that he or she works beyond his or her working capabilities. Doing excessive work without taking rest leads to the state of stress. The stress caused by such a reason can be suppressed by taking a good amount of sleep.

• Lack of entertainment

When we entertain ourselves by watching movies, hearing songs and other entertaining activity, then our mind gets relaxed but if this entertainment is lacking to us then there comes the condition of stress. The stress caused by such a habit can be remedied by having the proper amount of entertainment.

• Problem

Sometimes a person has gotten tensed by any personal or professional problem in such a condition he or she discuss that problem with his or her family members, friends or co-worker in order to get rid of that problem but as a consequence of it he or she get deeply indulged in that problem and get stressed. To get rid with this type of stress takes a visit of psychiatrist and also takes a good amount of sleep. Bangalore Baptist Hospital is a hospital which is situated in Bangalore and is meant for caring and serving people. Bangalore Baptist Hospital has different medical department and psychiatry is one among them. The best psychiatrist of India is Dr Vimal Kumar, whose clinic lies in Delhi.

Thus stress is that condition which can be a part of any person and its remedy lies within our control. Due care should be done for a person suffering from stress.

The hectic lifestyle of the present-day has led many people to suffer from stress. Also known as strain, anxiety, tension or pressure, the situation has now turned into an epidemic as more and more people are suffering from depression or high blood pressure. Often the result of overwork, stress has been found to be a major cause of heart attacks. Stress is also a major reason behind alcohol and drug abuse. Health care officials are looking for newer ways to help people reduce the stress. Alternative therapies are also gaining acceptance among the masses like the personalized stress ball.

Personalized Stress Balls – Affordable and Effective

There are different manifestations of tension found in the workplace. However, only two basic solutions exist to get rid of the suffering. One is to get rid of the source of tension. However, this may not be an easy affair to achieve in the workplace. The other remedy is to find ways in reducing tension whenever one feels under stress. There are many options available now that one can follow to reduce tension. One of these options is to use a personalized stress ball that is quite inexpensive and easy to use and which could be practiced during normal office hours.

About Personalized Stress Balls

The sharp rise in popularity of the stress ball is due to its light and simple design, and also because of its proven ability to actually reduce stress. These balls are smaller in sizes (around 7 cm in diameter) and are made of polyurethane foam. There are bubbles within the ball that give its shape and which are formed from a chemical reaction. However, the time taken to make these balls could be a bit longer, especially when customized or molded shapes are ordered. An important consideration when ordering in bulk numbers is to be careful about the quality of the product. The presence of flimsy or thin rubber covering or a small hole will lead to leakage of the carbon dioxide gas present within the ball and make these items useless. In some balls, gel is used that make squeezing easier but it can be a big mess if the ball breaks down or there is a leakage.

Manufacturers of the stress balls have knowledgeable people working with them who can help with the selection of the right stress balls at the time of ordering, including the size and shape, the right logo and slogan to use.

The hectic lifestyle of the present-day has led many people to suffer from stress. Also known as strain, anxiety, tension or pressure, the situation has now turned into an epidemic as more and more people are suffering from depression or high blood pressure. Often the result of overwork, stress has been found to be a major cause of heart attacks. Stress is also a major reason behind alcohol and drug abuse. Health care officials are looking for newer ways to help people reduce the stress. Alternative therapies are also gaining acceptance among the masses like the personalized stress ball.

Personalized Stress Balls – Affordable and Effective

There are different manifestations of tension found in the workplace. However, only two basic solutions exist to get rid of the suffering. One is to get rid of the source of tension. However, this may not be an easy affair to achieve in the workplace. The other remedy is to find ways in reducing tension whenever one feels under stress. There are many options available now that one can follow to reduce tension. One of these options is to use a personalized stress ball that is quite inexpensive and easy to use and which could be practiced during normal office hours.

About Personalized Stress Balls

The sharp rise in popularity of the stress ball is due to its light and simple design, and also because of its proven ability to actually reduce stress. These balls are smaller in sizes (around 7 cm in diameter) and are made of polyurethane foam. There are bubbles within the ball that give its shape and which are formed from a chemical reaction. However, the time taken to make these balls could be a bit longer, especially when customized or molded shapes are ordered. An important consideration when ordering in bulk numbers is to be careful about the quality of the product. The presence of flimsy or thin rubber covering or a small hole will lead to leakage of the carbon dioxide gas present within the ball and make these items useless. In some balls, gel is used that make squeezing easier but it can be a big mess if the ball breaks down or there is a leakage.

Manufacturers of the stress balls have knowledgeable people working with them who can help with the selection of the right stress balls at the time of ordering, including the size and shape, the right logo and slogan to use.