Sounds too good to be true? Just give me a second to explain. This quarter, at Stanford, I’m taking a class called The Pursuit of Happiness. As you can imagine, it’s been a pretty interesting class. We’re looking at psychological studies of happiness to try and figure out how people can become happier. Good stuff.
I want to share a definition of stress that I learned the other day…
Stress is our appraisal of whether or not we can handle what we think we have to with what we have available to us.
Okay so you’re stressed, right? Stop for a second, think about why you’re stressed. It’s probably because you think you have too much to do and not enough time, right? Just the thought of it is raising your blood pressure (note: this is very bad for you, stress also lowers your immune system, makes you fat, and does lots other fun stuff. Expect me to post more on this at a later date). Take a deep breath, and realize, that, you actually can handle it. Come on, you’ve made it this far, and not for nothing I’m sure. So relax, there’s nothing in your day that you can’t handle. I’m pretty sure of this because you have to handle it every day and have survived as of yet. So stop stressing and get working!
I found this definition helped me mentally talk myself down from stress really easily. I’d love to hear your opinon though. What do you do to combat stress? Does this help you?
