Introduction
In today’s world and environment, stress transverses the gender, race, class, or even age notion to become far-fetched in the society at large. Stress can be allied to work, role, people, sleep, time, food, and pain, including our own fears on other pertinent issues.
It also has much to do with our perception of the daily state of affairs that occurs in our lives therefore making our stress levels be associated with what we believe in. Therefore, Stress can be seen as a self-motivated interaction between a person and the environment in relation to two-way relationships that operate via an intricate set of feedback processes.
However, when we learn to negotiate the anxieties in our environment, we remain imperturbable to this interaction. Prolonged stress can cause physiological and physical problems and in some cases, reaction to stress can prove fatal.
Since we can decide on what to believe or think, we posses the aptitude on how we can respond to the exigent events and circumstances in our daily lives. So, we can adapt and learn on how to ‘’switch off’’ the stress response and deal with stress.
Problem Solution
Regardless of the humiliation and degradation other might heap upon us and the appalling environment we might live in, our own choices ultimately defines our identity and we should be in control of how we choose to respond.
Such circumstances should not change us on the inside unless we consent to it since no one has the authority and power to make anyone respond in a particular way on the inside unless we opt to react that way. Each of us solely has the freedom to forge his or her opinion, ideas, choices and attitudes.
Our choice of attitude is quite significant in the daily decision making and is more imperative than one’s education, position, successes or failures, bankroll, or even past events and circumstances. To some degree, our attitudes and reactions are consequential from the stress-produced emotions which are controllable.
Also to some great extent, we can choose on how we can deal with depression, hostility, fear, guilt, jealousy, worry, and any other emotional circumstances known to generate physical reactions. By questioning and reflecting upon our own attitudes, it may prove an important step towards living a better health and less stress life.
We should also have a constant communication with our close friends and family who are preferably concerned or not, with the aim of getting different opinions or even assistance if possible on our troubling circumstances since they are occasionally close to us.
This will considerably help us before going overboard with our reactions which may prove regrettable. We should also participate in recreational events and programs in order to turn away and switch off the invariable psychological tapes that keep playing in our heads and reminding us of painful events and aggravations.
We should also learn to focus on events and people that bring joy, peace, love, and happiness in our lives, and build up an attitude of gratitude and appreciation towards these events and people. Also by focusing on all the good things in our lives, it will help us forget the traumas or negative events that have happened and be optimistic about the future rather than being restless.
Conclusion
I have only highlighted some of the necessary steps required in dealing with our stress although a lot more can be done to trim down stress in how we think, work, and react to situations that become even more dramatic than necessary.
In my opinion, we can build up our body’s ability to be in demanding situations without unwarranted stress and things taken for granted such as going for retreats, long runs, and other recreational activities can build our ability to stay focused in the midst of irrepressible events or chaos.
Although we can not change the most anxious person in world into a bullfighter within a single day, these are just some steps that are freely available to us which we can us to gradually form a routine of living a stress free life.