Stress Free Living: Tips and Tricks to Shedding the Stress and Enjoy Stress Free Life
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The stress of being places on time, of making sure other people are on time, of meeting deadlines, paying bills, doing your job, or even finding a job can take a toll on you, which means it take a toll on your health. When you are stressed, everything seems to fall apart, which only makes things worse!
Stop the cycle right now. Manage your life so that you are less stressed, have more time to enjoy your day, your family and your life without being a prisoner to stress and the anxiety that it causes.
Stop letting stress rule your life and take your life back. This book will give you the tips, tricks and insider info that will let you shed the stress and live life on your terms.
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.
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© 2012 by Charles Johnson
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Contents
Introduction
Stress vs. Adjustment Disorders
Emotional Intelligence and Stress
Stay Positive
Your Diet and Stress
Get Physical
Exhale Away Your Stress
Meditation
Avoid the Stress – At Work
Avoid the Stress – Parenting and at Home
Avoid the Stress – Miscellaneous
Take Me
Time
Conclusion
Introduction
Stress, it seems unavoidable because life itself is full of situations that cause stress and anxiety.
Things that seem out of our control just stack up until we feel overwhelmed and unable to cope.
What is stress? Stress is pretty much anything that causes strain to our bodies; it can be physical, emotional, or psychological.
Basically, stress is our body’s natural reaction to something that has happened. Some stress is not harmful to us; that sort of stress is referred to as eustress.
Eustress can be called positive stress, which seems at odds with how we normally think of stress. However, according to the above definition, stress is anything that causes strain on our bodies, so what kind of stress causes strain in a good way?
The rush you get when playing sports, that adrenaline rush is a type of stress, but it is a good feeling.
You might feel the same thing on a roller coaster, skiing, or anything that we find exciting and thrilling; it releases adrenaline and cortisol, which causes the heart rate to increase, diverts blood flow to our main muscle groups all of which give us a push of energy and a quick increase in strength.
That response to stress, good or bad, is called the fight-or-flight response and it is designed to help humans get out of stressful situations quickly.
When the danger is gone, everything goes back to normal and adrenaline and cortisol will no longer be released into the body. Roller coasters are an example of how we willingly trigger that response for fun.
Stress that is negative or harmful to us can be broken down into two categories, acute stress, and chronic stress.
Acute stress is stress that occurs short term, it is the stress that we feel when a situation causes us distress. Acute stress is the typical stress that people encounter and deal with on a day-to-day situation.
Chronic stress is stress that is long term and very damaging to the human body. The body’s response