What are the Biggest Causes of Stress?

One of the biggest causes of stress in our lives is our beliefs, our attitudes, and our thoughts - our very selves!

How we handle life's various challenges is very much determined by the way we think - by our unconscious thoughts and by our underlying attitudes towards challenges and changes.

Each of us has our own unique way of dealing with stress and for gaining control of our lives. Some of us go for the white knuckle approach every time - we cling tight to the hard work approach to living. Some of us seem permanently wired with tension, as if the need for fight or flight was forever imminent. Stress can be fought on a number of different fronts – what works for one person might not work for another.

For others internal stress seems minimal - as if they have 'just another brick in the wall' approach to life. Maybe they are far more optimistic in their outlook and so are better prepared for confronting challenges when they appear?

Are our thoughts and beliefs really one of the biggest causes of stress in our lives?

Whatever your views and ideas about stress, this selection of articles outlines various approaches to life's knocks, bumps and stresses.

What are the Biggest Causes of Stress?

What is Your Definition of Stress?

What is your definition of stress?

It's always useful to know your definition of any subject in order to understand and deal with it.

In this article, the basic definition of "stress" is: Any opposing reaction or force to your own intention that causes strain or tension.

Use this as the basis of deciding how you define stress in your life and how stress affects your health and wellbeing.

What is your definition of stress?

How Does Stress Affect Health?

How Does Stress Affect Health?

How does stress affect health?

Stress triggers the body to react through the fight or flight syndrome - our body's great protection against any perceived threats.

In this sense stress is useful to us - protecting us from danger and helping us to find safety. Our brain is hot wired to prepare us to fight or to flee.

Our body is designed to 'switch off' the stress reaction when the perception of danger has passed and a state of relaxation then takes place. The problem to our health comes about when the switch off doesn't occur and we remain in a continual stressed state.

How does stress affect health?

Stress Relief Tips

We look here at how both posture and breathing are affected by stress.

There are many different stress relief tips that will bring some sense of control to your life when your stress is high.

When did you last stop to think about the message you are strongly sharing with others by the way you hold yourself, by the stress signals emanating from your posture and from the way you breath?

How posture and breathing are affected by stress.

Quotes about Stress

Stress Quotes

These stress quotes show us how others have viewed and responded to stress and its effects in their lives.

Stress feels like a tightly coiled spring and affects us all - young and old, rich and poor, male and female.
Stress provokes a deeper response to life and usually signposts the changes we need to make.

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