Stress: Good or Bad Depending on the Context
2 September 2008
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All the changes you experience in your daily life increase your stress level. How can we explain this phenomenon?
Stress occurs when a person is internally divided between a desire and a fear. It can also be the result of a defensive reaction to a situation perceived as negative, threatening, or dangerous.
We have identified two types of stress for you. "Positive stress" based on excitement, enthusiasm, laughter, and the passion to accomplish. This stress is linked to positive emotions; it is the stress of healthy people. And "negative stress" produced by your fears, worries, uncertainties, and insecurities.
Eustress or Positive Stress
Stress remains positive when it pushes you to surpass yourself, to develop talents or skills. How many times under pressure have you accomplished things you never thought you would otherwise be capable of?
Positive stress is linked to everything you agree to do with pleasure, in harmony with yourself. It is a stimulant, a source of success and joy. It improves concentration at the opportune moment and is healthy. It also allows you to adapt to new situations or take on a challenge.
Stress is inherently positive because it protects you and helps you react in an emergency. Being stressed during a job interview, for example, is beneficial and makes you more effective. Despite the unpleasant reactions associated with stress such as a faster heartbeat, sweaty hands, accelerated breathing...; the level of concentration and reactivity in general is much better!
In short, stress is a positive value when channeled correctly but always becomes a negative value when excessive. This type of stress can also lead to a feeling of powerlessness and a loss of control over your life.
Distress or Negative Stress
Negative stress is linked to what is unpleasant, represents a constraint, or is done in opposition to oneself. It is a source of psychic and physical imbalance, sadness, and suffering. Tedious or demanding work, difficult and conflictual professional relationships fall into this category.
Some stresses are necessarily negative for everyone and cannot be avoided: stress related to rapid changes in your environment; changes in tasks at work; money worries…
The results of prolonged negative stress are well known: loss of motivation, decreased concentration, memory failure, increased irritability, and frustration.
In conclusion, it is everyone's perception that determines whether a situation is negative or not. For example, some people perceive the judgments of others as threatening while for others it is only information. Thus, the same situation can be a source of pleasure or create stress depending on how you perceive and interpret things; how you adapt to the situation… In other words, there is always good and bad, whatever the stress. What varies is the interpretation that each of you makes of it!
Posted on September 2, 2008
The ReKrute.com Team
Stress occurs when a person is internally divided between a desire and a fear. It can also be the result of a defensive reaction to a situation perceived as negative, threatening, or dangerous.
We have identified two types of stress for you. "Positive stress" based on excitement, enthusiasm, laughter, and the passion to accomplish. This stress is linked to positive emotions; it is the stress of healthy people. And "negative stress" produced by your fears, worries, uncertainties, and insecurities.
Eustress or Positive Stress
Stress remains positive when it pushes you to surpass yourself, to develop talents or skills. How many times under pressure have you accomplished things you never thought you would otherwise be capable of?
Positive stress is linked to everything you agree to do with pleasure, in harmony with yourself. It is a stimulant, a source of success and joy. It improves concentration at the opportune moment and is healthy. It also allows you to adapt to new situations or take on a challenge.
Stress is inherently positive because it protects you and helps you react in an emergency. Being stressed during a job interview, for example, is beneficial and makes you more effective. Despite the unpleasant reactions associated with stress such as a faster heartbeat, sweaty hands, accelerated breathing...; the level of concentration and reactivity in general is much better!
In short, stress is a positive value when channeled correctly but always becomes a negative value when excessive. This type of stress can also lead to a feeling of powerlessness and a loss of control over your life.
Distress or Negative Stress
Negative stress is linked to what is unpleasant, represents a constraint, or is done in opposition to oneself. It is a source of psychic and physical imbalance, sadness, and suffering. Tedious or demanding work, difficult and conflictual professional relationships fall into this category.
Some stresses are necessarily negative for everyone and cannot be avoided: stress related to rapid changes in your environment; changes in tasks at work; money worries…
The results of prolonged negative stress are well known: loss of motivation, decreased concentration, memory failure, increased irritability, and frustration.
In conclusion, it is everyone's perception that determines whether a situation is negative or not. For example, some people perceive the judgments of others as threatening while for others it is only information. Thus, the same situation can be a source of pleasure or create stress depending on how you perceive and interpret things; how you adapt to the situation… In other words, there is always good and bad, whatever the stress. What varies is the interpretation that each of you makes of it!
Posted on September 2, 2008
The ReKrute.com Team
