How To Manage Stress ?

 

Stress is the response to events that challenge a person. It is normal part of life, everybody experiences stress in some way or the other. Stress is negative physical, mental, emotional, nervous system reaction to any event. The person concerned feels overwhelmed, unable to cope up with the perceived demands and events. Stress is positive if it helps with creativity and that push that we all need. It is negative, if results with feeling pressurized, forced or strained. It is the external pressure supplied on the individual and viewed as a personals response to a disturbance. Stress has become an inevitable companion today in all walks of life, whether he is an officer who’s getting late for office , a soldier standing guard on snow clad mountains , an overworked housewife, a farmer tilling the field under hot sun or a patient waiting endlessly for his turn to meet the doctor. Stress could originate from external environment or from the psyche of the individual.

 

Major sources of stress:

ü Death of loved one or painful divorce

ü events occurring at work

ü injury to ones child

ü failure in school or at work

ü traumatic events

 Stress effecting health:

ü By draining our recourses, indicating negative effect, and keeping us off physiologically, stress upsets our complex internal.

ü May interfere with efficient operation of our immune system - mechanism through which our bodies recognize and destroy potentially harmful substances such as bacteria, viruses and cancerous cells.

ü Chronic exposure to stress seems to reduce circulating levels of lymphocytes (white blood cells) and increase level of the hormone cortisol, a substance that affects of our immune system.