| re several definitions or desriptions of stress. | | | | When stress has got it's grip on you, it will take |
| Sometimes the term is being used as indication of | | | | some time to recover from it's negative impulses |
| a certain situation or stimulus. But sometimes | | | | on your body and mind. One can go on a short |
| stress is being understand as the psychological, | | | | vacation or take a day off. In most cases people |
| physiological and chemical changes, that are the | | | | with stress take tranquillizers. But the forget one |
| consequence of this. To prevend confusion | | | | thing: they should be aware of the beginning of |
| between both definitions, one makes a distinction | | | | stress, so that they don't have to search for a |
| between a stressor (the condition that causes | | | | solution when it's to late. |
| stress), and the stressrespons (the reaction of | | | | To become aware of stress when it's building up, |
| the stressor). The word stress point to the | | | | you should learn yourself to feel your body. It |
| proces as an outcome of the stressor, and at the | | | | means that you realy should learn to feel, |
| same moment is a cause for the stressrespons. | | | | because you never gave your body enough |
| It means that we get alarming signals from our | | | | attention, except when thing went wrong. But |
| body that we have denied for a long time. Or | | | | then it's too late. You ask yourself what kind of |
| maybe worse: we didn't recognise those signals! In | | | | pain is this? Or in which part of my body I do feel |
| fact stress can be compared, when it's levels get | | | | the pain? |
| to high, with the injuries, of a boxer during or | | | | But you can also feel your body when you have |
| after a fight: he's bleeding and full of blue spots, | | | | no pain at all. Like in yoga ar form of body |
| but he doesn't feel the pain, untill he loses his | | | | enough attention. |
| consciousness (knock out). | | | | There is a little practical exercise to begin with: |
| In this broad definition of stress even a pleasant | | | | Feel your body with both sides at the same time. |
| situation can cause tensions that can be described | | | | Start with feeling the palms of your hand. Then |
| as stress, like the day of a wedding or going on | | | | feel the rest of your hands and arms. You can |
| holiday. Also one can speak of positive stress | | | | continue with feeling the rest of your body. But |
| when a person prepares himself mentaly or | | | | you must take care not to stop when you arrive |
| physicaly for a game, a special performance on | | | | at the topmost part of your body: the head. So |
| the job, and so on. After sometime the tension | | | | also feel your head on both sides. Feel the energy |
| disapears and the body returns in a state of | | | | in it in a postivie kind of way. |
| relaxation. When stress is not in the interest of a | | | | The best advice I can give you is to set in a chair |
| person and is being experienced as a bad event, | | | | every morning. Lower your head a little bit an feel |
| we speak of negative stress. It's for certain that | | | | your body from both sides, beginning with your |
| especially negative tensions are a risk for the | | | | hands. After a couple of days you are aware of |
| health, becauze they have the biggest and more | | | | the stress when it's building up in your body. And |
| prolonged effects on the central and autonomous | | | | by doing this simple excercise the stress will |
| nervous system. | | | | disappear. |