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What is Stress

Stress is an individual's response to any overwhelming or unfamiliar demands from one's environment or it may be caused by a build up of negative thoughts in the mind. Stress is an uncomfortable and undesirable state that we need to learn from and overcome. We need to understand these challenges so that we can develop positive strategies, such as strengthening our coping skills, to overcome these hardships.

With stress comes adaptations, and in life there are many times when we need to learn how to adapt to the various influences and demands which shape our lives. Therefore we need to learn how to cope with the many difficulties which we face in life, rather than run away from it. If we can learn about how the mind and our environment creates stress, then we can be on the way to finding good long-term solutions to overcoming these challenges and improving our overall health, wellbeing and quality of life.

We can also increase our levels of stress by remembering or dwelling on a negative experience or event, thereby re-living the negative emotions and any baggage associated with that past event or experience. We cannot change the past, but we can learn from our past mistakes and wrongdoings so as to not repeat them in the future.

If something in your life is creating stress (for example stress at work, raising children, and so on), evaluate the whole situation and try to see the positives, and once you have done this try to shift your thinking or perspective of the whole situation so that you are able to see the good in it and perhaps this could erase some or all of the negativity associated with the experience or event. However, if the particular experience or event is of a different nature and is too destructive to your personal wellbeing, perhaps it would be best to learn how to cope, deal with and control these negative emotions, and when the time is right it may be possible to move on. If you cant stop thinking about a negative experience or event, at least have some stress free time, perhaps at night when you can take some time out for relaxation to rest and clear your mind, while not allowing your mind to remember the negative experiences at all.

For more information on relaxation techniques please go to our meditation page, or for some strengthening positive thoughts please see our page on positive affirmations.

Some Positive Quotes from the Anger Management Team

In desperate times we rely on hope to bring us the power to stay cheerful and positive.

When we are alone in our hour of darkness we can be comforted by the hope that light is sure to come as the sun will surely rise.