Table of contents:
- What is stress?
- What is positive stress (eustress)?
- What are the characteristics of good stress (eustress)?
- Bad stress can be turned into good stress
Have you ever had a challenge where it felt like you were getting your stomach beating? Like having to do a big project for a promotion, waiting for the birth of the first child, or making a presentation for the final grade in front of a lecturer ' killer '? Can you imagine how you felt at that time? Your hands are wet with sweat? Your heart beating fast? You are sure nervous . This is known as stress.
What is stress?
Stress is a process that humans feel and respond to about an event. This response can be "challenging" or "harmful".
Maybe you usually recognize stress as a bad thing; especially men, because men tend to perceive that admitting what they feel is not masculine, according to Terrence Real, author of I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression . However, stress is a normal thing that is felt by every human being and stress itself is actually divided into two, distress (negative stress) and eustress (positive stress).
What is positive stress (eustress)?
The fundamental difference from eustress and distress itself is from how you process what happens to you. If you accept it with a heavy heart, fear, a sense of wanting to run away, then chances are you are distress . The wisest thing you can do is to take the problem to the point or "run away" and look for things that can take you away from the source of the stress.
But, if you accept it without fear, and you become motivated instead, feel that your life is full of challenges that you have to solve like playing. video games , that's eustress .
What are the characteristics of good stress (eustress)?
You need to know some of the characteristics of eustress so that you can better understand it with examples of your daily conditions. Here are the characteristics of eustress :
- Motivate yourself
- Makes you feel moved
- Improve your performance at work
- Usually it only lasts for a moment
- Is a way to cope with stress itself
Eustress makes you feel like you have to take that big project seriously, eagerly raise money for the delivery of your first child, or prepare your presentation carefully.
Apart from the above, there are more examples of conditions that cause it eustress, that is:
- Starting work at a new place
- Wedding
- Buying a house
- Traveling
- Take up a new hobby
Bad stress can be turned into good stress
The key is to feel that you are a champion in video games ; You have to feel that you "can", and see that from all that you are experiencing now there will certainly be lessons that you will learn for a better future. By changing your outlook to a more positive one, it is hoped that you will also be able to combat your fear into being challenged.
How ? Now you know the difference, right? Never forget the boundaries in your life. Continue to think positively, but remain alert to the environment. Give yourself little 'gifts' that you usually ignore; enough sleep, healthy food, lots of communication with loved ones. Undoubtedly, your life will be happier too.
