I'm sure we all have an answer – but in reality you should never want to be stress free. HUH?
And because stress is good for you!
Stress is as natural a part of a human life as is breathing. Stress is most simply our body’s reaction to “something” in our environment that is making us a bit out of balance [or homeostasis.] Physically, and mentally, we want to be in balance and so we react to this balance shift. It is our mental and emotional reaction to this shifting that determines the type and level of stress.
Stress has negative, positive and neutral definitions:
- something that causes mental or emotional strain
- omething that we put extra emphasis or significance on
- the mechanical/physical definitions related to torque
Just being alive and interacting with our social and physical environment creates stress or “off balance-ness” and we can add more by how much we emphasize or give importance to what we are doing in those environments.
And physically – just standing, sitting and breathing create mechanical and/or physical stress.
We just aren’t used to thinking of the positive or mechanical sides of stress when we think STRESS! We think it’s like the image above!
Think for a moment that the positive and negative definitions can fit the exact same stressful situation. One can be very happy and enthusiastic about something with significance and yet be negatively stressed about it as well…think weddings or having a baby….
We are never stress-free. We are human. Our stress may be good or it may be bad – but it is here to stay in our lives.
So what do we do about our stress if it’s always here?
Learn about it and use it to our advantage!
P.S. 2 down on my ebook writing list is one on stress – stay tuned for it's publication
Seems so many words have come to have both positive and negative meanings. It’s all in how we choose to hear them.
The fact is, if we weren’t experiencing some sort of stress, we’d be long past dead!
Thanks – love the way you said it! Yes we only cease to be stressed when we are dead 🙂