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Can you think of a time when you felt absolutely stress-free?

Do you feel like the positive people in your life are better able to handle stress when they’re faced with it? How about yourself?

Have you internalized this harmful message?

In fact, stress was really only used in the field of physics to explain the elasticity of an object and it’s capacity to handle strain!

Symptoms of #stress range from feeling blue to heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.

“The non-specific responses of the body to any demand for change.” (Selye, 1965) In other words, not all stress is bad!

Remember this phrase the next time you feel stressed, then list off a few things that you’re grateful for!

Sometimes we get so used to being stressed that those feelings of anxiety don’t even register as “stress” anymore!

Stress is something that we will experience no matter how hard we try to avoid it—the only control we have is how we respond to it!

When was the last time that you felt stressed about your stress levels?

Hippocrates described stress as a disease that combined elements of pathos (suffering) and ponos (incessant and relentless work).

In Chinese, the translation of the term “stress” consists of the characters representing “danger” and “opportunity.”

“Good” stress (or eustress) is short-term, and feels energizing, exciting, and perceived as something within your coping ability.

Negative stress creates long-term anxiety, feelings that dwell in the mind, and decreases our ability to focus and perform tasks.

What do you think, would it be a good thing to live a life completely free from stress of all kinds?

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