Stress Resistance

Stress Resistance

We are all passengers in a train called the Stress Express. Where this train is heading to, nobody knows. Yet, stress has a possible negative impact on almost any kind of illness, especially chronic stress and stress together with feelings of helplessness and loss of control. Stress is part of many self-enhancing patterns that lead to disease.

Stress is very familiar, yet at the same time very indefinable. Stress is in the head. It is a perceived unbalance between perceived possibilities and perceived demands. Therefore nothing provokes stress but what is thought to be stressful. Beliefs and expectations are very important elements.

While attention has to go to the circumstances that provoke stress, the person experiencing stress can do much to alleviate it with the use of his own mind, a ‘cure’ that has the special characteristic of being always available. Apart from relaxation exercises, he can learn special cognitive techniques. An example: drawing an imaginary ‘special circle’ around oneself. This circle protects against the outside and keeps the inside totally calm.

Stress resistant managers use stress resistance techniques that they have frequently stumbled into by chance. These techniques are not taught at universities, or anywhere else for that matter.

A motor for stress resistance is having strong and clear goals. If one immerges into the pursuit of his goals, a kind of flow arises that is described as true happiness.

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