Bad Habits causing Stress

When a person has bad habits, you can bet that this person will have stress throughout their lifetime. For example, if a person smokes cigarettes it increases the vitals functioning capabilities, which gradually affects the heart, lungs, and other vital organs. An autopsy will tell if a person smoked or not when the person is opened up. If the person was, a smoker it will show on the body’s organs and the person’s lungs will be black. Now we know that a person’s internal organs are pinkish and when black is current then problems occurred in the person’s life. When a person has problems, stress is obviously overwhelming. Likewise, if a person drinks heavily it affects the central nervous system and reduces a person’s ability to cope with stress. Heavy drinkers put their self in harm’s way by destroying the body and potential going to jail in the future. As you can see, bad habits can cause stress and will cause stress. When a person is born, they are often healthy and if this person avoids bad habits that cause harm then the person’s life will be rewarding. If you are free of chemicals and substances that can cause you harm you will have the ability to make good decisions that offers you a successful future. Eating too much is also a bad habit that needs modified. If a person overeats regularly and avoiding exercise then this person is subject to obesity, heart failure, strokes, diabetes and so forth. We see this causes problems and problems are one of the elements that cause our stress to increase. One of the obvious bad habits that create potential dangers is stress itself. When a person is lacking the ability to manage his or her life and becomes stress every time an expectation presents itself then this bad habit too can cause harm to the body. Coping means we have the ability to manage our lives successfully without creating stressors that cause our stress to increase. Minimizing stressors can help us to live a more productive lifestyle and provide us hope when times are hard to deal with. It is never easy to eliminate a bad habit since it is obviously a ritual, but it is possible to work toward reducing and finally eliminating the habits that cause us stress. If you are use to smoking a cigarette after each meal then tell your self that today you are going to drink water instead of smoking after a meal. If you drink coffee and it opens your smoking cravings up, then start drinking orange juice, milk or some other healthy beverage. If you are a heavy drinker, tell your self every day that you are worth saving. Sit down and review with your self the many problems you are facing and if some are less severe than others are. If you are often late paying your bills then you know that this is a problem, so you will need to learn and practice paying your bills on time. When you do not pay your bills on time, late charges occur or shut-off notices following. As you can see, we all cause a lot of our own problems, which initiates stress. Sitting down and evaluating our situation and decisions can help bring forth rewards by seeing the problems we created and learning how to eliminate the problems in our lives. For example if you are often late for work then you know you have a bad habit that can cost you your job. You may think that loosing your job is not a problem, since someone else will hire you, but loosing your job is not the only problem in the picture. If you continue to adhere to your behaviors by being late for work, you are going to get a bad repetition with businesses. Business owners talk amongst other owners. Now you can permanent displacement is potential, poverty, potential crime, and so forth. We are adding to the list of problems by ignoring or not accepting that our bad habits are the leading cause of uncontrolled stress. Our decisions are at the top of the list that determines if our stress is overwhelming or not.

Breaking Down the Walls of Stress

Breaking down the walls (stressors) of stress is the key to living a more productive lifestyle. If we learn and practice stress management techniques we are reducing stress by minimizing stressors. Your communication, thoughts, beliefs, decisions, behaviors and so forth play a role in how you life is arranged. If you believe that nothing ever good comes to people then you are building a wall of negative believing and thinking. To rearrange your thinking you can review all the good rewards of your past and acknowledge all the good that came to many people around the world for doing good deeds and making wise decisions. You could also review the bad that came in your life for making bad decisions and also review the history of humankinds and how their bad decisions affected many, including them self. After you are done weighing the scale, you will then 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 tell them to take a few deep breaths and relax. If a person is overwhelmed with stress exercising can minimize the stress and help clear the mind. When the mind is cluttered, we are at risk of making bad decisions. I want to share my stressful situation with you. Writing is a great gift and art, but sometimes it is the most frustrating task to handle. Writing articles, books and other publishable pieces has many steps to follow. However, I minimize my stress by viewing writing as a gift and a source for learning. My goodness I have written around 50 articles on stress management and you would think that I am ready to blow a fuse. I am writing the articles from my own experiences and it sometimes brings forth a wealth of stress, since I have to pull up all my resources. I am learning from this experience however and it has proven to be a great source for me, since I am not only writing about stress, I am studying human behaviors, the human mind and the human body, as well as producing helpful tips for relieving stress. Therefore, I turned my negative stress upside down producing a positive reward. This is all part of breaking down the walls of stress. How we view, stressors can also determine our ability to cope with stress. Stressors are a stimulating force that causes stress. Stressors include, financial obligations, family pressures, life pressures, results from bad decision making, medical, mental, and so forth. We can see how we can break down the walls of stress by looking at examples. Pretend you are working at a high-paced job that has overwhelming demands of you. Your job involves arranging meetings, meeting deadlines, and overseeing an area of the business. Each day you are expected to handle each task sufficiently to avoid complications. Now your boss has asked you to handle a particular task that will include increase of revenue for the business, since your responsibility is to produce an effective advertisement slick that will focus on a specific product. You begin the task and consider all details required to make the advertisement slick effective. Once you begin the process, you decide that other products of interest to you might benefit the source in question. Therefore, you begin designing and creating additional information jumping completely off track of the subject. You have spent several hours of company’s time and finally finish the task and hand it to the boss for review. The boss approaches you and asks you what were you thinking when you designed these slick? You tell him what you goal included. Now you have a problem since you made a bad decision. You are already pressured from the job and now the pressure increases since your boss is angry that you did not follow plans as instructed. If you would have handled the task as instructed the results would probably proved fruitful, however, you are adding stressors to your life and increasing your stress. Breaking down the walls of stress includes making good decisions and following the guidelines that help us to do what is right.

Limiting Stress

How can we limit stress in a fast pace world? Learning is one of the best tools available for managing stress. When we have an education and research the marketplace when something is not clear to us then we are strapping our self with armor that stress will not defeat. Education provides us the knowledge to learn facts that will gear us up when someone attempts to bring us down. Stress is a limiting force that influences when fear presents itself. We all have to deal with fear and fear is the leading cause of all of our problems, since emotions are triggered by fear. This is where education comes in since it can help us to determine right and wrong and help us to avoid encounters that can lead us to fear and danger. Stress can benefit us if we view stress as a challenge rather than a fear. When we are educated, we are aware of the potential roadblocks ahead and the dangers lurking around the corners. A wise man with consistent stress management strategies will not walk into a dark area where known gangsters hang. Rather a wise man will take all precautions to avoid such dangers because his stress management scheme is focusing on current, potential, and life in general. A young mother with a tight fitting stress management scheme will investigate before leaving her children in the hands of strangers. She will weigh out the consequences, potentials, and analyze the person in question carefully before making a decision. Education helps us to stay focus and us our head in all situations, including each decision we make. Danger exposes us to harm, injury, death, pain and loss. Therefore, a stress management plan backed with education can reduce the exposure of danger involved, minimize fear and control stress. On the other hand, stress can hurt us. If we are not educated, lacking coping skills, and have difficulty making good decisions then danger is lurking around the corner. We can look at many examples to see how decisions can increase stress levels. We can see how overwhelming stress can affect one or more life when decisions are made impulsively. One man came home from work to find his wife gone. He suspected that the wife was having an affair so he went to the location where he thought she might be since he found her there before. When he reached the location, he observed his wife and her ex-husband getting in his sports car. Instead of confronting the problem logically, he drove off on his motorcycle, went to the bar, drove off in an outrage and hit a pole. The man was in a coma for several months and when he became alert in the hospital he had no memory and to date he limps. The man had children, so we can see his illogical decision caused stress for several lives. He has difficulty managing his stress level more than ten years later simply because the nervous system was affected reducing his ability to cope with stress and stressors. Now how did he affect everyone? The healthcare system was touched by his decision, the children suffered from his decision, the doctors were stressed trying to keep him alive, and he lost everything he owned due to his illogical decision. This is fear, danger, stress, emotions, decisions, and logic all tied into one bad decision. As we can see, decision plays a large part in stress management. When we have education, our decision process is easier since we have knowledge and knowledge contributes to our behaviors. A well-educated individual makes bad decisions, since we are all humans, but for the most part education presents us from walking in harms way. There are other techniques available that help us limit stress, including breathing techniques, visual, self-talk and so forth. If you are feeling frustrating take a few deep breaths can help release your anxiety and reduce your stress. You may want to learn more about the symptoms of stress, since this will help you to understand when you are overwhelmed. Getting the facts is the only GREATEST stress management tool that will lead us to the road to success.

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