Let's all get stressed! I jest- and yet...

"Stress-
: a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, etc.
: something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety
: physical force or pressure" (Merriam-Webster Definition)

Firstly a few questions (to answer if you'd like)-

1) How do you feel about stress? Annoying, frustrating, wish you had less right now? Is stress bad for your health? (Mentally? Physically? Spiritually?)
2) How stress have you gone through in the last year? (A little, quite a bit, alot?)
3) How do you deal with stress?

http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend.html?utm_content=awesm-publisher&utm_medium=on.ted.com-static&utm_campaign=&utm_source=facebook.com&awesm=on.ted.com_UpsideOfStress

4) Any new information come to light? Or information re-stated (perhaps differently) to support what you already thought?
5) Can you use or change your perception of stress to change whether it has a good or bad effect for you?


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Hope you enjoy the video ( and the questions if you thought about them, ) and have a great night/day wherever you may be.
Peace (or Stress haha) be with you (in the nicest and most helpful way possible!)

I guess for me stress is when things are moving towards a break down of whatever that system is trying to achieve.... unless its trying to achieve stress itself!!! Basically any influence contrary to purpose - pressure beyond capacity.

Obviously stress can lead to reduced performance as the system suffers the consequences of whatever the stress is but an interesting thing I've noticed during some time sensitive stress, is that it seems to attract more of the same, with things inexplicably occurring which feed the stress!!

For the experience of it, it probably begin's as anxiety (fear of potential serious stress) and builds by hijacking focus to fracture first awareness, then emotion as the fear develops into more immediate survival response maybe, eventually.

So I deal with stress by trying to avoid it LOL, and identifying it early through understanding anxiety but also considering how it might develop and taken preemptive measures to, well, avoid it.

Once there, I usually push through having disarmed it to some extent by self control an adjusting the activity to compensate for the effects of stress as much as possible. Often that means slowing down and double checking, but time is often the driver of stress, so breaking things into smaller steps means short cycles of focus and completion can counter the fear. It can sometimes make a big task look less daunting by progressing successfully through lots of small tasks instead of trying to do it all at once.

I think we all have mechanism's to control stress, but I think ones experience of it could be relative to their usual 'normal' experience, and so experienced differently for different people at different times. So training could be an important way to increase ones capacity and therefore decrease the likelihood of becoming pressured to stress.

The talk is worth listening to because the speaker is talking about the reversal of cause and effects at the level of re-interpreting beliefs, which is effective based on my experience.

The speaker says she is changing her thought system
. . . from telling people that stress is harmful to your body, to
. . . beliefs about stress are harmful.
I agree with her.

I will add to that . . . outside factors don’t cause stress, thoughts and beliefs about events cause stress.

My thoughts and beliefs are causal.

Actually, the word stress isn’t in my thinking vocabulary. If my body (feelings or illness) talk to me and tell me something unpleasant, I listen and look at my thoughts. Where can I change my thoughts and beliefs?

Over time, I have re-interpreted all the beliefs that are currently popular that say “you should feel stress when you move, when someone dies, when you feel sick, when you change jobs . . . is is normal“

Who wrote those rules anyway? I suppose it doesn’t matter, it was I that believed them. . .therefore it is I that re-interpreted them.

In 1999, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. The treatment time was pleasant and free of fear. I attribute this to changing one particular belief about life and death right after I was diagnosed and look directly at the fear I was feeling.

My Mom died last year. I did not suffer grief. I attribute this to my willingness to look at my ideas of her not being here which caused me to feel fearful. This work was done about 7 years earlier, while her health was good. Again, in this circumstance I changed one particular belief about life and death and I was free. It proved true when she transitioned.

I have had a good year . . I listen to my body. . . I listen to my thoughts. . . I believe I am able to change my mind . . . . I want to change my mind . . I enjoy the results of doing so . . it is a way of living. . .