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Good Stress
By admin | November 1, 2007
Sooner or later all of us will find ourselves in situations that require major efforts to overcome. Maybe it’s a work assignment that we think its to big for us to handle, maybe it’s our financial situation that we can’t cope with, or we just worry a lot for our loved ones. All these situations have one thing in common. All of these situations are stressors.
What is stress?
“Stress is the condition that results when person-environment transactions lead the individual to perceive a discrepancy, whether real or not, between the demands of a situation and the resources of the persons biological, psychological or social systems”
Wikipedia
Stress as a phenomena is difficult to define because it doesn’t affect all of us in the same way. The term stress itself “, “as it is currently used was coined by Hans Selye in 1936, who defined it as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change”".This was a wide definition, because Selye wanted to include both kinds of stress.
Good Stress
Not all of us have heard about good stress. People often ask them selfs can stress be good for you. And is there a type of stress that can be considered good or useful. Studies show that such stress exists and that the absence of good stress could be bad for us. People who experience moderate levels of stress before surgery have a better recovery than those with high or low levels, one of the studies showed.
Good stress is what we need in certain situations. Chemicals that your body produces in stressful situations is essential for your survival. When faced with danger your body helps you to cope with possible ‘fight or flight’. You don’t have to be faced with a life threatening danger for stress to be good for you. Small levels of stress can be of great help when you are faced with some task in your daily life that requires your complete focus and concentration.
When experiencing the appropriate levels of stress people often describe that as being ‘wired’ and focused and recognize that their abilities improve, they become very concentrated and their productivity increases.
Stress becomes bad when it lasts for a long time, and then it turns bad and becomes a serious issue if left untreated for a long time.
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