Blog 5: Stress

    Everyone suffers from stress at some point in their life. It's part of the natural suffering of life. I probably get stressed at some point of the day almost every day and each time I find myself annoyed for getting stressed. Sometimes I get stressed for very meniscal reasons, such as when I'm not doing well in my video games or when we get busy at work or when the Steelers get blown out by the Bengals. Luckily, I understand shortly after these events happen that it's not that important to truly stress over and then I accept the situation for what it is and move on. On other occasions, however, I stress about important things to me such as school, money, my future and so forth. These more serious topics are not just things that I can move on from, but rather they sort of fester and grow and grow until it becomes insurmountable at times. I will say I've come a long way in handling stress, but still at times there are moments in which it becomes too much and I truly believe that's normal for everybody. The big question that comes from all of this is what can one do to help resolve their stress? There probably isn't just one universal way to solve stress, for stress is almost personalized for each person suffering and can vary greatly per person. That's why it is important to know yourself and what you like, because knowing yourself goes a tremendous distance in operating at your full capacity. It's not healthy to always be stressed, so perhaps this chart below may help someone in relieving their own stress!

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    Just remember next time when you are stressing about something that it's okay to take a break and step away from what you are doing to take a minute and just breathe. Not all things in life are worth stressing over, especially when it's things that you can't really control or are far into the future. With a little research and common sense, we can all agree that stress isn't too healthy nor should it be something that controls our lives. Life isn't always great, but try not to add on to an endeavor with stress because it will only make that endeavor much more challenging to overcome.