What is Stress?
What is Stress?
“Stress” is a small word describing a large collection of issues and conditions.
Medically (and very roughly) speaking, stress can be thought of as a physical reaction to intense emotion or physical input. There are many kinds of physical manifestations, depending on the type and severity of the stimulus in question.
Unmanaged stress is known to cause all kinds of nasty physical problems, not to mention the emotional trauma of it all.
Dealing with Stress: The Ultimate Hack?
On a more day-to-day level, stress is coming at us from all directions (both exterior and interior), in all locations (work, home, road), and of all kinds of intensity. Billion-dollar industries have sprung up dedicated to reducing or minimizing stress or its symptoms.
Of course, we are often more in control of these situations than we realize.
Whether it’s free or costs big bucks, whether it’s in the quiet of your bedroom or in a noisy club, whether it can be done in your back yard or requires traveling to other continents — we all have our ways of reducing stress.
Or rather, it behooves us to have those ways. The consequences are truly awful.
How to reduce stress
One word: exercise. A few more words: cycling and hiking are loves of mine, not to mention gym trips and long walks. Keeps me sane.