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Breaking Down the Walls
of Stress
Breaking down the walls (stressors) of stress
is one of the keys to living a more productive lifestyle. If
we learn and practice stress management techniques we can
reduce stress by minimizing these stressors. Your
communication, thoughts, beliefs, decisions, behaviors etc.
play a role in how your life is arranged.
If
you believe that nothing ever good comes to anyone, then
you’re building a wall of negative beliefs and way of
thinking. To rearrange this negative thinking, review
all the good rewards you’ve received in your past and
acknowledge all the good that comes to people around the world
when they do good deeds and make wise decisions.
You
can also review the bad you’ve experienced in your life for
making b ad decisions and also review the history of humankind
and how bad decisions have affected many others. After you’re
done weighing the scale, you’ll see that good does come to
people. Life can bring us many rewards if we have the right
stress management tools.
When a person is
stressed, common sense should warn them to take a few deep
breaths and relax. If you find yourself overwhelmed
with stress, doing some physical exercises can minimize the
stress and help clear the mind. When the mind is cluttered,
we’re at risk of making bad decisions.
How we
view stressors can also determine our ability to cope with
stress. Stressors are a stimulating force that causes
stress. Stressors include dealing with financial obligations,
family pressures, life pressures, results from bad decision
making, medical situations, mental outlook, and so forth. We
can see how we can break down the walls of stress by looking
at some examples.
Pretend you’re working at a
high-paced job that has overwhelming demands on you. Your job
involves arranging meetings, meeting deadlines and overseeing
a specific area of the business.
Each day you’re
expected to handle each task well enough to avoid
complications. Now let’s suppose your boss asks you to handle
a particular task that will include increasing the revenue of
the business. Your responsibility is to produce an effective
advertisement campaign that focuses on a specific
product.
You begin the task and consider all the
details required to make the advertisement campaign effective.
Once you begin the process, you decide that other products of
interest to you might benefit from the source in question.
Therefore, you begin designing and creating additional
information jumping completely off track of the subject.
You’ve spent several hours of company's time and finally
finish the task and hand it to your boss for review. Your boss
approaches you and asks you what were you thinking when you
designed this campaign. You tell him what your goal included.
Now you have a problem since you made a bad
decision.
You’re already pressured from the job and now
the pressure increases since your boss is angry that you
didn’t follow plans as instructed. If you’d have handled the
task as instructed, the results would probably have proven
fruitful. However, you’ve now added stressors to your life and
increased your stress.
Breaking down the walls
of stress includes making good decisions and following the
guidelines that help you to do what is
right.
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