Stress Management: An Act of Self-Love

Managing your stress is a form of love. It is taking a look at your life and deciding where changes could be made to help improve your sense of control over certain stressors in your life. Stress is not something tangible. It cannot be touched or held. However, it can originate from something tangible. Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Stress is everywhere. It comes in all shapes and sizes. It does not discriminate according to race, gender, or socioeconomic status. There is no escaping stress. However, we so often try to. The sooner we accept and adapt to the ubiquity of stress, the less suffering we will be inflicting on ourselves. In today’s society, the habitual way of dealing with stress is to fight, escape, avoid, or reluctantly put up with it, while also trying to accomplish our daily goals. There is a good chance that we can survive this way. After all, many of us have survived doing it this way for some time. However, putting all of our mental and emotional energy into fighting, escaping, avoiding, and putting up with stress all comes at a very high price.  “Putting up with” is not the same as effectively coping with a stressor. Unfortunately, however, some feel that it is. “Putting up with” stress is, in a sense, haphazardly trucking along throughout your day with no awareness of how to deal with it. It is basically white knuckling it for as long as your mind and body will allow you to...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Self-Help Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Self Care stress management stress reduction Source Type: blogs