The 7 Factors That Cause Stress

Stress is like air. It is everywhere (if you choose so see it). But here’s the good thing. You have some options here. You can choose to inhale the stress into your body or you can choose to exhale it out off your body.

Stress is mainly caused by anxiety and depression which may be brought to you through these events and condition:

1. Specific events and happening such as argument with love ones or suffer from loses.
2. Health – including mental health (e.g. loneliness) and physical health (physically disable).
3. Marriage
4. Sex
5. Financial
6. Job
7. Bad habits

There are many more things that you do in your life daily that adds more stress in your stress bucket where you may not realize that you are helping to escalate the problem.

Here are some of the ways where you can change your bad habit into a more productive and less stressful habit.

1. Spending the future money – While credit card is a great tool for us to carry our money or future money around, always remember to spend wisely. Make sure you have the ability to pay it off so that it won’t get you into bad debt which will stress you up.

2. Empty gas tank – I always drive on empty gas tank because I love challenge and I will only look for gas station when the fuel in the tank is really low and I will only get my gas from my favorite gas station (brand, not a specific location). In the end, I’ll have to do anything to reach the next gas station such as switch off the unnecessary stuffs that consume gas, drive slowly and less brakes.

However, this may not be the case for everybody, most people (based on my experience) get stressful when they begin to imagine that they’ll have to push their car or call somebody else to tow their car which causes unnecessary inconvenience and expenditure.

3. Drinking – not water but alcohol. Some people drink with the intention to wash away their stress but in the end, the opposite happens. While you drink, you have a high tendency to make mistakes that serve as stress provider.

4. Using tools or machinery with potential problem – Let’s take car for example. If you drive a problematic car, here’re the high probability questions in your head. Will the car start? Will the tire go flat? Will the smoke come out? Will it explode? This is an absolute no no. Too mush stress for you.

5. Do not know how or when to say no – Have you ever promise somebody on something and feeling stress when you can’t make it or don’t like to do it such as drive your friend’s kid to school where you can actually spend the quality time with you family. Just day “NO” (I have a whole chapter talking about this topic in my Cure Stress Naturally, Easily and Permanently ebook)

In the next article, you will discover how your body reacts to stress …