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Stress can be useful

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Have you ever been in a situation when you fell that all the problems of the whole world have fallen on your shoulders? When you feel, like if you even could stop the time it wouldn’t be enough to fit in deadlines with all the tasks you’ve put aside? And as soon as you can’t stop the time all the tasks you have to complete become twice harder and you find yourself crying in absolute frustration? That what is called stress. The more we grow the more we face it and it becomes our habit, but it depends on us only what kind of habit it will be: either a good one, which can persuade us to do much more we can imagine, or a bad one, which can seal us down to the bottom. Today I would like to talk about how to make the stress work on us, how to train yourself and to face the most terrifying problems of your life.

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1. First of all, we need to understand with what kind of phenomenon we fight.

Stress had been our companion for a long time and it’s a fact that without it humankind wouldn’t probably survived. Stress is a primarily a physical response and it always used to be. When our mind is stressed our body thinks that it is under attack and switches into so called “fight or flight’’ mode releasing adrenaline and causes the number or reactions from the boost of mental and physical energy to unnecessary functions like digestion. So on the first look stress can boost us to make things we could have never done and increase our working ability a lot. Nothing bad it seems, but there is one problem. This stress has the second mode, which is called “freezing’’. And this mode is the best friend of all of us, because it doesn’t do anything useful, but causes pauses in our thinking processes and both mental and physical activity, Our brain thinks that everything is fine and there is no need to do anything, the body will be able to manage at the very last stage. But as we know, that’s not true.

The more we live the more we face the problem that we are stuck in all kind of activities. More commonly in studying and work, of course, because they require energy and efforts which our body often doesn’t want to make.

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2. By all means, there are both good and bad sides of stress. Let’s take a brief look on both of them.

The good side of the stress is of course an increased level of working productivity.

If we manage our time well enough and start making tasks or anything else as soon as possible we’ll probably even not feel that our organism is stressed, because it will only help by giving power and wish to do everything. The stress will not influence badly on our mood so we will keep the high spirit. Time-management is one of the crucial points of making stress playing on your side, you will not even notice how easy everything becomes.

Your head and mind make some free space to the new things and you become more creative and multitasking.

Your mood becomes better, you are open to the whole world, to the new people because you are not worried about the problems which are coming ahead. You have a plan and you follow it without any excesses.

Now let’s switch to the bad sides of it.

Of course, it looks like you have lost of free time if you put all your problems away, you feel free and full of energy. But wait for a while, soon you find out that it was a myth you’ve created and believed in, that it’s not true and everything is as bad as possible. Suddenly there are lots of debts in your university, you boss is furious with the deadlines which you’ve missed, you start to feel upset, useless and there is nowhere to call for a help. Your mood level is awful, you can start ruin relationships with people and the bad side of the stress you have fallen in will negatively affect all the aspects of your life. There is no way out, because even if you decide to wait for all your problems to leave you are just unable to wait forever and there will be a point when you’ll have to face the problem. So isn’t it better to be prepared and to start finding the way out before you at the point of no return?

3. Now it’s just the right time to take a look on how to avoid being in a situation when everything is awful.

To avoid the bad sides of the stress there are lost of steps, but I’d like to stop on those which I find the most important.

Time-management.

The most important and the most difficult I would say. We can make plans in our head, we can write them on the paper but we almost never start to follow those plans. And definitely in vain. Living by a plan gives us lots of free time, we spend time working without causing anything bad to our organism. We have meals as soon as we need them, not when we have time for it which is also very important.

Having a good sleep. Not a secret that people love sleeping but as soon as we’re all in debts we don’t have it enough. Some people think that 4-5 hour-sleep is enough but that is a lie. Your organism is tired, productivity is much less than It could be and you’re unable to live properly. Sleep is also tightly connected to the time-management and you must always keep your organism an opportunity to have a rest for at least 8 hours.

Do not slave to technologies.

How much time do we spent in front of the computer with no work or use to yourself? Or how often do you take phone without any proper purpose? It killes time and fill your mind with useless information. I am sure, that by reducing time using gadgets and devices can make everything better. It goes without saying that modern life is impossible without all those devices, but we use them too much.

If you manage your time you will be able to make stress your best friend, and this is the only friend which will never leave you, how good or bad it is, remember it.