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Stress Is Your Best Friend
“…stress is often caused by our own reluctance to do what we must.”
Stress Is My friend?
As you journey through life, along the way, you will cross paths often with worry and anxiety. Both of these conditions contribute to stress in the body and mind, subject us to various levels of depression, and ironically, prepare us to deal with adversity.
Yes. Worry and anxiety, while potentially harmful harbingers of sickness, can be beneficial for us. This idea is based on the concept of biological adaptation.
The active principle here is that whenever the body is presented with physical or mental stress, it stores the experience so that you are better prepared to handle your next encounter with the stressor.
Consider as an example what happens to us when we workout. Whether we lift weights, perform HIIT, train for endurance, or some combination of all of these, our bodies learn to adapt better overtime as a result of our training. The outcome is that we can perform longer, faster, and stronger with less fatigue. In a word, we learn to become durable.
In every stress-inducing scenario you chance upon, physical or mental, you are to learn a lesson that will fortify you for more taxing experiences. If you learn the lesson…
