( 'The greatest weapon against stress i...)Living With Stress,Health

'The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.'
-William James

Stress who has ever escaped its clutches? Even fetuses in wombs experience stress! Stress can stem from a variety of causes-relationships, job, school and daily activities-just about anything.

Stress is a demand on the physical and mental energies of an individual. It is, in effect, a response to one or more conditions.

Stress is not all bad! The condition or circumstance that causes stress may not be necessarily adverse. In fact, experts say that some stress from time to time is good. It stimulates us to do better. Some children perform better in exams and score excellent grades when they are under academic stress; brilliant solutions to the toughest problems have arisen under the most stressful condition; spectacular works of art and literature have been produced when individuals have been emotionally stressed.

Havent each one of us experienced more alertness and a sharpening of senses when confronted with a dangerous situation? Thats because, our defence mechanism goes on an all high alert. And what causes this? Our stress response - that activates the release of stress hormones into our blood stream!

It is only when extreme stress begins to affect an individual-physically or psychologically- that it becomes a cause for concern. Nevertheless, in the present time, stress has a negative connotation and is undeniably an urban malaise.

Stress through the ages

At the core of all survival lies a series of confrontation with stress and adaptations to live with it.

Homo sapiens, today, is an evolved species. Can you fathom how much stress our predecessors should have
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