How Stress Happens

Each of us experiences some level of stress in our life. We feel stressed when dealing with situations we perceive as problems within our family or with people in the workplace. We often also feel stress when experiencing financial challenges. Or, sometimes being stuck in traffic is enough to create a pile of worry in our mind. These situations cause us to experience challenges in our life that we perceive as a threat to our overall well-being.

Whether you are live with a lot of stress or even just a small amount of fear or worry – anxiety - it is easily within your ability to resolve these issues before they accumulate stress. Your ability to ‘let go’ of stress can have a great effect on every aspect of your day to day living. Having the ability to enjoy a healthy mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, all depends on your capacity to relieve stress.

For most of us, it is difficult to break away from stress altogether. That’s because we’re actually somewhat attached to it. Stress in itself is not a bad feeling at all. In fact, stress is a very natural process to experience. Stress is an natural response to environmental stimuli, present in all living creatures as a means of survival.

Wide ranges of both positive and negative feelings produce stress. When you feel danger or fear, you experience stress. Any situation such as an anticipation, worry, or nervousness will produce a level of stress that signals your body to respond. Even positive experiences in life can cause a form of stress; things like having a baby, getting a new job, or starting your own business. These are all examples of “positive related” stress.

Your body responds by gathering up all its necessary resources that cause both physical and psychological reactions. The response depends on the type and amount of that particular challenge or expectation. If the situation is not perceived as a threat or danger, you may experience very little response.

But if a particular challenge or expectation is perceived as dangerous or a threat to both your physical and mental well being, you will experience what is called “high stressed mode”. During high stress mode, your adrenaline is pumped, you feel tension in your muscles and your breathing accelerates.

You may feel sick in your stomach and tightening in your chest. Once you deal successfully with the challenge and no longer feel any danger or fear, you begin to calm down and your systems will return to its’ normal balance.

Prolonged stress can cause health problems by placing increased strain on your body. And even short term stress can effect your ability to effectively make clear decisions – even make poor decisions that result in overeating, alcohol abuse, relationship conflict – even depression.

That’s why it’s a vital important skill to learn how to ‘let go’ and to recognize the root cause of stress. The best way to do thing is to learn what is called “The Release Technique”. I’ve arrange a free five lesson course that explains the details of what stress really originates from – and what you can do about it. Life becomes much easier – much lighter and more enjoyable when you can prevent stress from accumulating by simply learning to “let it go”.