Stress Linking Emotions
Stress often links to emotions. Learn to take control
of our emotions to minimize the potential stress.
Emotions are what we feel, including rage, sadness, happiness,
and fear. When we allow emotions to lead, stress will fall
on us, and it how we handle the emotions will determine if
stress is going to take control of our life.
If we allow the emotions to rule us, then we are heading
for problems in addition to the problems that we are already
struggling with. You should always be in control for a steadfast
stress management scheme. When emotions take control of our
head, we are only heading down a road that leads us to more
confusion. To cope with stress efficiently, we need to learn
the right way of stress management. There is a series of events
when our emotions are triggered, following by intense feelings
and a physiological change occurs preparing the body to counter
accordingly to the stressor in question.
The emotions are intense feelings that take place in accordance
to the thoughts if we let them to. For example, when a person
becomes angry, the emotions take control rather than rationality,
they will lose their head and do something negatively and
regret later. Very often, when we act on emotions, bad choices
are followed with succeeding consequences. Therefore, we should
learn how to control the emotions and reduce stress with stress
management techniques.
Looking at a couple of examples can help us to value thinking,
rather than allowing emotions to rule us. When the emotions
get too intense, we will face stress symptoms, such as both
physical and mental symptoms. Here is a very good example
of emotional reaction.
A man comes home from work and feeling agitated as he had
a hard day at work. His wife has prepared dinner but the man
ignores her offer to dine together. Now, she is feeling emotional,
since she has spent the effort to prepare the meal to please
her husband. Instead of acknowledging that her husband had
a hard day, she approaches him and aggressively tells him
that she is with unhappy to make effort for a man that does
not appreciate her. Now, both of them are emotional. Instead
of settling it in peace, they both scream at each other and
argue for about 15 mins and both storm out of the room. Now
we see the stress here, since the couple is upset and emotions
are soaring.
Now if the woman had acknowledged that her husband was frustrated,
she might have approached him in a different tone. Now we
can turn this around and use our head in the situation. When
the husband arrives home from work, his wife sees that he
is frustrated, so instead of asking him to have a meal with
her, she approaches her husband lovingly enquiring about the
work.
He snaps at his wife and instead of the wife feeling threatened
she caringly tells him that she would be there for him if
he needs her. She goes to the kitchen and in a while, the
husband comes in and apologizes for his impoliteness. The
wife pats him caringly. So, the both of them enjoy a well-cooked
meal.
Do you see the difference in the two scenes? The couple can
now relax and enjoy an evening together and listen to the
frustration at work to help him to relieve stress. The stress
was reduced and the couple acted on rational, instead of allowing
emotions to overrule them.
This is how simple we can minimize stress by utilizing our
thoughts instead of the emotions. As you can see, stress is
linked to emotions as it keeps anger, fear, joy and sadness.
This is proven in the second scene where the couple had solved
their problem in a wise way.
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