"Life requires polarity: high degree of tension and fighting for the reality on the one hand, deep relaxation, flowing from the other" (JH Schultz). Stress (which means effort in English), the term now used, abused and "marketed" (Ramp remedies and treatments of various kinds, called "stress") is actually a word used originally in engineering to indicate the tension and stress being put in a hard material conditions of stress and was used for the first Once, in the sense in 1936 by Hungarian physiologist Hans Selye when I look at 'the organic reaction by some animals following administration of certain substances stressful.
It 's always the same Selye to have made a distinction between two types of stress: eustress and distress. The eustress, or good stress, and 'what is essential to life, which manifests itself in the form of stimulation environmental constructive and interesting. The distress and 'instead of the bad stress, what causes big emotional and physical disorders difficult to resolve. Each of us responds differently to stressful events, this is because 'every person experiences different and reacts differently, we also learn to behave in a certain way when faced with certain stimuli, and these learning mechanisms operate in automatic mode, the outside of our awareness. In practice, the stress response and 'influenced by at least two sets of factors are: the type of event to cope with the meaning and assume that the stimulus for each subject along the way he has learned to react (the same event, eg a trip, can 'be a positive if stress associated with a good opportunity for work or pleasure, can' be a negative stress where instead is linked to negative circumstances or, for example, if you are afraid to travel, in addition the way of can react 'to be different also depending on the culture you belong to). Basically, the stress response and 'a positive response, since' prepares us for "fight or flight" (speaking in evolutionary terms) in the face of danger, and that is' a way to alert and respond to the situation we face. During ALARM defined this body is to be subjected to a stimulus and an active state alert with increased heart rate, blood circulation, respiration rate, hormone production to cope with the stimulus itself. If the stress continues to go to the second phase, the resistance, in which the body operates at a faster rate 'high. If even at this stage and the event is not 'faced was to go to the third stage is called exhaustion, this phase is very harmful for the body because the body produces chronic damage of the responses from both the pathophysiological point of view that psychological and behavioral. Our autonomic nervous system, which governs the functioning of all organs outside the control of will 'and of conscience, it carries out its function through the synergistic work of the sympathetic nervous system that controls reactions of fight and flight and the parasympathetic system that governs the rest, to calm the digestion and other processes employed. To better address the stressful situations you must rely on the activation of both systems that are activated offset against one another in case of need ', when the friendly and' switched on alarm comes into the parasympathetic blockade until the danger not 'the past, back in the quiet' and 'parasympathetic to take the lead. The optimistic attitude seems to play a very important role in the management and stress regulation as fostering a sense of control over stressful events, reduces the feeling of being victims of the events and their emotional reactions. It also contributes significantly to overcome the so-called anesthesia stress (ie, the fact that stress by activating and increasing the various nervous systems response to the demands of the environment, which numbs the body is no longer 'able to capture the warning signs for the depletion of resources and underestimates the warning signs that indicate an excess of commitment and performance). In practice there 'who resorts to cocaine to not feel the fatigue and stress, but we are already' designed to achieve a certain level of anesthesia, stress, wasted money then, and for more ', in both cases, our bodies and our psyche can be affected, very seriously. We are human, we are limited in front of stress, emotional fatigue, cognitive or physical too, we have to stop us, recognize us and give us a limit. So 'as before very long periods of weak, relaxation and rest, but we must not stop and lock us in our shell, but active! Perhaps, in these virtual pages, followed by other details on the physiology, the consequences and ways' of stress management. For now I stop. Stress is part of life, the effort is part of life, sometimes we must strive to accelerate their own pace, we must give the power to react to and deal with them, sometimes you have to let go, being rocked by the events and know how to wait, or less pleasant events that are happening, it's up to us to live them better and respecting the limits and quality 'with which nature has endowed us with. A healthy life, in terms of physical, cognitive, emotional, and even interpersonal (proximity-distance), takes place within the bipolarity 'of tension and relaxation.
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