Stress
Stress is perhaps one of the great health challenges of our time. You are far from alone in being stressed. Are you eaten up by your everyday life, by all the demands and must-haves? Do you feel like you're running into a wall? It's time to stop and take back control of your life.
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A strengthening mechanism
Basically, stress is a strengthening survival response that is activated when you need to fight to survive. Stress hormones are released in your body that give you strength and make you extra sharp. This so that you can perform at your very best. A distinction is made between physical and psychological stress. The psychological arises when you feel that the demands of those around you are too high. The physical is about physical load, such as during exercise.
Positive and negative stress
When stress is balanced with recovery, it is positive and empowering. If you are in balance, you will, for example, become stronger and more persistent by exercising. Perhaps you are also one of those who feel that you work more efficiently under time pressure. As long as you get enough recovery, a certain amount of stress is a positive force. A force that makes you get ahead in life.
Stress tolerance and recovery
Too much stress and stress not balanced with recovery can produce all sorts of symptoms. For example, difficulty sleeping, skin rashes, headaches, restlessness, anxiety, difficulty making decisions, mood swings, forgetfulness, stomach problems and more and more. The list goes on. The fact is that stress can both induce and imitate many different symptoms and disease states. When you deal with your stress, your body stops signaling that something is wrong and your symptoms go away. This means that you give yourself sufficient and regular recovery and that you build up your stress tolerance. This ensures that stress in the right amount has a positive effect instead of a negative one.
Take control and create balance
So it is not stress in itself that is dangerous, but the lack of recovery. Recovery also includes resting from your thoughts. If you lie down and rest for an hour every day, it will not count as recovery if you try to solve problems or structure the evening's driving schedule during that hour.
Using meditation, conscious presence and other techniques you can find your inner peace. You become more resistant to stress. Understanding yourself and your needs is at least as important. It allows you to take control and create balance in life. On our courses in self-awareness and inner leadership don't you just get a week's much-needed break. We give you the opportunity to look inside and meet yourself for real. After the course, you will have both insights and tools with you that will help you create a life where you are most comfortable.
