Why It Is Important to Keep Low Amounts of Stress (Health)

Did you know that having high amounts of stress leads to overdosing of eating unhealthily, making bad decisions, increase of laziness, decrease and sleep and much more pitiful, and alarming harms towards your human health?

Well, in return there are factors to play around that type of stress life. throughout this blog post I will be covering the three ways of thinking terms that I used to develop a stress free life. The three terms are simply think positive of yourself, gain self-confidence and keep yourself around people that make you happy. 

In addition, if you think positive of yourself, you are on step one of the road to a stress free life. From the book Change Your Brain Change Your Body by Daniel Amen, he states, “How Stress plays tricks with your mental health is by draining your emotional well-being and associating anxiety and depression. Stress activates the limbic system of the brain, which is your emotional center.” (Amen 221). Here Amen is reconsidering that stress also builds up depression of mental health. This can come into play in relationships, with friends and family, etc. One of the biggest ways that I built up mental stress was when my mom died of breast cancer 4 years ago. With my mom being dead and not being here for me I had to build up a mindset of thinking positive and being able to do things for myself from now on. I’ve noticed that most teenagers my age have a mom to do most things for them and they’re spoiled. But I have to overcome these issues myself. For example, cooking dinner at night for myself. If you think positive of yourself and set yourself up for success you will feel a decrease of stress throughout your life.

Furthermore, if you gain self-confidence, you will eventually think positive of yourself and not develop any internal stress. Amen brings up the topic of “how chronic stress harms the brain.” He states, “Stress is a normal part of every day life. Don’t give me wrong I little stress can be a good thing. But, there is more negatives than positives between stress. The stress hormones are the primary chemicals of the fight or flight response in there especially useful when you face on immediate threat. The stress hormones majorly come into play around mental states like death of a loved one” (Amen 215). Amen Is corresponding the differences between positive stress and negative stress. I too agree that there is more negative stress than positive stress. An example way that I developed positive stress was when I lost a soccer game against a rival team that we usually beat every year. Though losing in competitive sports games leads to stress, me losing to that rival team motivated me for next time to work harder. That’s developed me to gain self-confidence prepare myself for my next journey without stress. So yes stress can be good to motivate yourself but on the Flip side majority of stress falls under the negative categories.

 

Lastly, if you surround yourself around people that make you happy and are good influences you will positively generate yourself closer towards a physical stress free life. Amen brings up the topic of stress by stating, “You can literally scare your body into a stress response the brain is a very powerful organ. Brief surges of stress hormones are normally beneficial. The motivate you to do a good job that work, Study before a test, how Your mood is with your friends or paying your bills on time. The problem with stress in our modern world is not these short bursts of aline and cortisol. Chronic stress constricts blood flow to the brain, which lowers overall brain function and prematurely age is your brain. Researchers found that stress flip-flops your mood swings when you are with friends or family and create temporary effects on young adults thinking and memory skills” (Amen 211). Overall, having stress in your life develops your body to response in positive ways by motivating yourself. But, also, in negative ways by mentally and physically constricting your body. I have surrounded myself with positive friends and family members that make me happy. I also surround myself with people that think positive of me and support me through my times, and I do the same back to them.

Though stress is a normal part of every day life, You can indeed decrease the amount of stress by the three topics of thinking positive of yourself, gaining self-confidence and keeping yourself around people that make you happy and a positive influences. If you succeed in doing that, I will promise that you will see a decrease in stress, because it worked for me in multiple ways, for example, mental stress and physical stress.

One statement that I could leave you off with is why set yourself up for failure by gaining stress on your shoulders, if you could set yourself up for success by living in a positive happy life around people you like?

If you had the chance to get one thing back in your life that you regret doing, wanting or having what would that be?

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.