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| Good Stress Uzma Mazhar Stress is not always
bad. Stress
helps people attain difficult goals and perform
their best. Some degree of stress enhances performance. However
when stress exceeds a certain limit, it
detracts from performance. Total absence of
stress would make life very boring. Everyone's tolerance for stress is different, and each person handles stress differently. It is important to recognize your limits. The ideal would be for people to adjust the amount of stress so that they receive neither too much nor too little. ;-) This, of course, is not always possible. When one cannot eliminate excessive stress, the best way to manage it is to learn to maintain a balance even during a stressful event. If people learn to recognize the warning signs of increasing stress before they reach their limit, they can cope intelligently with their stresses before it gets out of hand and creates further problems. Warning signs of stress varies, for some it may start with a headache or a stomach ache, tension in the neck, shoulders or back, exhaustion, insomnia, digestive problems, irritability, agitation, anxiety, fear and similar symptoms that one often does not pay attention to. Identify and recognize how stress starts for you. If you catch it early on and chances are it won't get out of hand. Meditation,
relaxation exercises, taking a nap or a short break, reading a book,
talking to a friend, etc. are effective ways of managing stress |