ASSESSMENT

STRESS: What is it?
Stress is usually regarded as a negative term, something associated with experiencing unpleasant levels of tension and discomfort which persists and detracts from our quality of living. We commonly regard stress as something that “happens to us”. But we were not born stressed. The world doesn’t “do” stress to us. We succumb to it.
As long as we continue to think of stress as something that just “happens to us”, we will never consider prevention. But stress prevention is something that we can “learn” just by shifting our perceptions and responses to what is happening. An understanding of what causes stress and using it as a tool to shift our perceptions can lead to our ability to prevent stress from happening. This article is about these tools of prevention.


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