Stress The Most Silent Killer

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Stress is the effect of emotional and physical pressures on your mental and physical wellness.

Different people experience stress differently.

Do you notice how much the world has changed in the past 50 years?

Human used to travel from one place to another on their feet. There’s no car, motorcycle, bus, no, nothing! It went for years of using pails to carry water from rivers. In fact, people relied much on the strength of their limbs and some animals to do most of the work.

All of the sudden, the amount of change has become shocking. One person could have gone from telegram, car, black and white bulky television, to stereo system, to ipod, to airplane, to landing on the mars to watching everything that’s going on in the world on a plasma television from the comfort of their home within their lifetime.

In this fast changing world, it is perfectly all right to admit to being stressed. There are many different method to overcome stress and different people handle it differently. What works for you may not work for others.

Understanding the stress and know how to control or even eliminate it is the key to the freedom of your life.

Why is it that some people can handle stress so effectively no matter what come to their way while some others throw themselves into the sea of depression just because of the tiny little thing such as a little changes in their routine or because of their assumption on what other people may think of them.

Can it be like some people find pasta is an excellent while others feel yucky about it?

I believe that you have heard of the expression “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.

Many people don’t know much about that most probably because they have never owned a camel or do not know very much about it.

Well, every camel has a limit of the weight which they can carry. If a camel has carried the maximum weight, an extra tiny weight of a feather can break its back. Literally.

The same thing goes to stress. It is accumulate and accumulate and accumulate until out of the blue, you blow up over a silly little thing such as a door left open by one of your family members.

You will undoubtedly look very unreasonable as you “scream” about the door.

It is not about the door, it is about the collection of stress.

When you do not feel comfortable about something, a regular nagging of anger, fear or frustration generate negative feelings and some unwanted reaction in your body, resulting in pains, aches or a temper.

A person who stresses easily tend to quarrel with their family members, friends, and co-workers more frequently and that leads to fights, arguments, aggressive attacks, over-reactions, changes of jobs, shy away from society and impulsive driving of vehicles.

Failure to identify the warning signals and the constant experience of stress may lead to ending up in a hospital or worse, in the coffin. (No joke. I have seen this many times)

In the next post, we’re going to see the causes of stress. Meanwhile, I’ll appreciate it if you can leave your comment and tell me what you think of this article. Thank you.