Stress: How Do You Know When You Feel Stressed

How do you know when you are under stress? What signs do you watch for so you can remedy the situation and stay healthy?

Stress affects every living creature – yes, even plants. On the surface it appears to affect each person differently.

Yes, remedy the situation and stay healthy. There is no such thing as good stress. Like criticism – none of it serves you in any way, shape or form.

What?

You think stress motivates you to get work done or succeed at some goal you set that you really wonder whether or not you can achieve it?

Stress steals energy from your daily functioning. It usurps energy that your organ systems need.

What do you think happens if your organs fail to get the energy they need to function normally? What do you think happens when your brain takes all the water from those systems to meet the hydration need that stress creates in running your entire body?

Stress dehydrates you. It sucks the water right out of your cells. That is why you feel fatigued when under stress. Your cells, and therefore your organs, cannot function naturally when they suffer a water shortage.

When organs fail to function optimally they shut down – little by little they perform less and less of their daily tasks.

Where does impaired functioning leave you?

What do you think?

How long do you think you can live a healthy life without fully operating organ systems?

Most people today suffer from adrenal fatigue. When you experience stress your adrenals kick in to “save the day” by releasing cortisol into your system. That hormone prepares your body for the flight or fight ancient man experienced in daily life.

What do you suppose happens when you interpret much of your daily events as stressful? The adrenals push to provide that cortisol repeatedly. Finally your adrenals shut down.

Many people walk around today without properly functioning adrenals.

When the adrenals cannot function the next major organ to suffer is the thyroid Without adrenal support the thyroid cannot keep up with its demand and it too will slow down and even stop.

For that reason so may people today walk around with low thyroid – and may not even know it until their thyroid shuts off completely and symptoms cause them to see the doctor. The thing is, some thyroid symptoms become irreversible – or at least they do in the paradigm of modern medicine.

The only way to maintain your health is to recognize when you feel stress and stop it immediately. Analyze the situation and come up with a solution that relieves the stress.

Your stress comes from how you interpret events. Change your interpretation and the stress disappears instantly.

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Stress: Why Do Some People Feel More Stress Than Others?

Stress seems to be a subjective experience. The same stimulus that causes an array of physical symptoms in one person fails to bother a different person in any way.

For example, for me even the thought of riding a roller coaster, especially one that runs upside-down or backwards, makes my heart jump.  I think if I went on such a ride I would get so stressed so fast it would cause a heart attack.

Yet millions of people love to ride roller coasters. They enjoy that adrenalin rush. What they experience as exhilaration I experience as intense fear and super high stress.

What makes that difference? Why do some people live every moment in crisis or high drama constantly in stressful situations – or so they perceive them that way.

Therein lies the answer. Stress results from interpreting life events in ways that feel bad, negative, sad, angry, etc.

Stressed people see the glass as half empty. Their focus always goes to the worst possible scenario regardless of the situation.

You always see what you look for – always. When you look for the bad you will find it. Ah, and when you look for the good you will find the good!

People actually become addicted to their emotional state. Witness how people who live in drama and stress behave while on vacation. For them their stress level often increases when they don’t have to go to work.

They find themselves anxious about what may be happening back at the office – or not happening that needs to get done. They worry about how much work is piling up for them to tend to after their vacation.

Those people attract bad things because all they feel is worry and fear. People always and only attract who they are and how they feel. Then they seem surprised their lives continue to look and feel crummy.

They only expect bad things and sure enough – they get only bad things.

Their stress levels would actually rise even higher if they failed to get their worry-fix. And, as with any addiction, they need each fix to be more and more potent as their body acclimates to the current levels of bodily chemicals released by their emotions.

On the other side of the coin are the people who either hide their heads in the sand and pretend nothing bad, and therefore nothing stress inducing, exists. Hiding is less than optimal. Eventually untended-to emotions increase in severity until they explode n your face manifesting as illness or injury.

Where is the happy middle? Right in the middle.

People who look for the good in life find it. They live at higher frequencies of vibration where all that is happy and good exists. When you look for the good and focus on solutions you simply do not experience stress too often.

People can only feel stressed if they feel unable to act to change the situation. When they know they create their reality they know they create it as they want to live it.

Stresses of Country Living

I moved out to the country to live in peace and beauty away from the stresses of the suburbs. It is pretty quiet out here. Unfortunately I discovered country living is not stress-free by any means.

Country living is quite different form living in the suburbs or in a subdivision with houses in your back yard! I get to look out at farmland, hear the cows mooing, all kinds of beautiful song birds singing and the honking sound that gorgeous pheasants make and occasionally coyotes howling. Thankfully I don’t hear that sound too often.

I never knew how stressful living in the country can be.

Every now and then I hear a loud thump against the front picture window. Dang! Another bird that didn’t see the pane and killed itself Not only does that death leave me feeling sad but the awful part is I have to dispose of the dead body. Yikes. That still gets to me! Freaks me out, actually.

Then there are the mice. When the neighborhood cats leave me gifts (dead mice on my patio or near the front door) that too freaks me out.

Of course it is way worse when the dead mouse is in the house! Thankfully I manage to turn on lights to see them rather than find them underfoot. Usually the lights surprise the living mice as much as their presence surprises me. Scream time!

So I also had to learn to dispose of dead mice and to be able to get to sleep when I know I saw the mouse scamper across the room but cannot find it. (I miss my cat who used to catch them—except then he would bring them to me!)

At first I did lose sleep. The sleep deficit built up my stress level. How would you feel about sleeping when you know a mouse is running around your house?

And then there are the spiders everywhere. I pulled back my bedcovers and there was another spider. I moved a rock in my garden and there was a huge black widow spider sitting on that rock.

I never used to kill anything. I still do not like to. But after being bitten multiple times by spiders last year and having been sick from the after effects of those bites for eight months I now kill any living thing in my house that is not human. Note: I did talk with all of them about being in my house. I did warn them.

Remarkably, what freaked me out when I first moved here making me wonder if I wanted to stay, now just bothers me. I can deal with all the animals (oh yes, the raccoons and squirrels too) both alive and dead.

I may not enjoy it but I can do it. And I still jump when I see a mouse zip by—especially because they are so fast I not only cannot catch them I cannot even determine where they went to hide!

My stress level is considerably lower now that I decided I would rather live out here in farm country than closer in to town. I also see how clearly I alone control whether or not some experience is a stressor or not for me.

Stress and Trust in the Invisible

When you trust that everything happens perfectly and for a beautiful and Divine reason you magically eliminate the stress in your life.

Earlier today I was out in the country, so far out I had no clue how to get home. A friend plugged my home address into her Garmin mapping system device and gave me directions to my house.

I felt confident as my friends and I parted ways until…

After driving a short distance I discovered the directions took me to a dead end. The road I needed was nowhere to be seen. And I had no idea where I was.

I knew I needed to head east and north so I turned in the direction that took me where I knew I would some how find my home.

Ah ha! I saw the name of a street I recognized so I turned there. But somehow that street disappeared after two blocks. Even though I had not made any turns I was on a different street.

Hmm.

I rode around for a while knowing I had been down some of those streets before. I did find a route that would take me home but I also knew that road would take me so far out of my way it would be an hour-long trip rather than a twenty-minute trip.

After trying to find my way (notice the word trying you never succeed when you try to do anything) I decided to just let go and trust the Universe and my Higher Self to guide me home.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? The thing is, I learned that when I try to make something happen I rarely succeed. Life is meant to be easy. All I had to do was ask, let go and stay clear and open to receive the answer.

Which is exactly what I did.

While my hands were on the steering wheel and my foot on the gas pedal and brake, I did not make any turns by a conscious decision. I just drove.

Sure enough I found my way home – even after the very last road I recognized as going into my neighborhood, was closed. Again I let go and followed a new road, one I had not been down before, that ran right into my neighborhood.

What a metaphor of how life works. We can make a request for what we desire. Then we let go of the request and leave it to the Universe to provide the how part. We do the what. We accept the how.

The bottom line is, we have no idea what is in our highest and best interest. Thankfully the Universe (Creator, God – whatever term you use) does. If we ask for something in detail we limit what the Universe can deliver. We always come out ahead when the Universe does the how its way.