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Stress Affects our Body, Mind, Emotions and Behavior
Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. When you sense danger – whether it’s real or imagined – the body's defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction, or the stress response.
The stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, it helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life, giving you extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident. The stress response also helps you rise to meet challenges. Stress is what keeps you on your toes during a presentation at work, or drives you to study for an exam when you'd rather be watching TV.
But beyond a certain point, stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to your health, your mood, your productivity, your relationships, and your quality of life. And when this happens most people don't know how to relieve the symptoms of stress they are experiencing and these symptoms simply keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Most people don't recognize stress in their life until they start experiencing symptoms. I categorized common symptoms of stress under four categories and you can reference this in the columns included below this paragraph.
The stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, it helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life, giving you extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident. The stress response also helps you rise to meet challenges. Stress is what keeps you on your toes during a presentation at work, or drives you to study for an exam when you'd rather be watching TV.
But beyond a certain point, stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to your health, your mood, your productivity, your relationships, and your quality of life. And when this happens most people don't know how to relieve the symptoms of stress they are experiencing and these symptoms simply keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Most people don't recognize stress in their life until they start experiencing symptoms. I categorized common symptoms of stress under four categories and you can reference this in the columns included below this paragraph.
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