The definition of stress is the internal resistance of an object to an external force. In other words, how your body and psyche react to forces outside you. There’s “good” stress – like how do you spend the huge lottery jackpot? But for most people, there is only bad stress. The stress that keeps you up at night, gives you high blood pressure, has you gaining weight and being snappy and surly to your friends and family. So should you “manage” this stress? Or reduce it? Or both?
Stress management is the overall term applied to how you consciously handle stress. But too many stress management programs are one-trick ponies. Use meditation, which makes you feel good inside, but does not attack the stressor. Use stress reduction techniques like problem solving may get rid of the stressor, but your body is suffering the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress.
The proper answer to how to deal with stress is to both manage and reduce it. By managing stress, we mean how you recognize the signs of stress and the effects of stress on the body. You control how your body and emotions react to the stressor. The purpose is to reduce the symptoms of stress, so that your body and mind are in a strengthened state, capable of fighting against stress. By stress reduction, we mean the techniques and tactics to attack and destroy the stressor. The purpose is to eliminate the stress, so that the effects of stress on the body stop being compounded by unrelenting stress.
To get maximum stress relief, your stress management system should be managing the stress and at the same time, reducing it. You actually do not need to choose. You can have a system that analyzes the stressor, strengthens your body and will to fight stress, and kicks your creative thinking and gime mangement skills into high gear, to eliminate the stress. The bad health effects of stress on the body are minimized. The effect on your emotions is elation and confidence.
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