Understanding Stress & Distress
In This Lab...
Orientation to Understanding Stress & Distress
Listen
Introduction: Eustress, Distress & Hormesis
Stress & Our Ability to Adapt
You: The Stress Adjudicator
Physical Eustress & Distress
Chemical Eustress & Distress
Psychological Eustress & Distress
Key Takeaways
Are You Meeting Your Requirements to Function Optimally?
Putting Hormesis to Work for You
Letting Go
Resetting Your Mindset
Exercising Your Freedom To Choose
Deep Reflection for Troubling Circumstances
Clarifying Your Intention in Adverse Circumstances
Key Habits
Understanding Stress & Distress Checklist
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AT A GLANCE
Stress is one of the more misused and misunderstood words in the English language. Most commonly, it is used to imply a negative influence on our health and well-being. However, stress in general is much better understood as a change or stimulus that provokes a response of variable intensity and duration. Stress is a catalyst for adaptation and growth. If a stress is too intense or lingers too long, we are unable to adapt in healthy ways and it can become distress. Distress leads to dysfunction and if not resolved, inflammation and disease.
How we respond to a given stress depends on a great many variables. Few areas of study and mastery empower us to improve our lives in ways that rival learning how to optimize beneficial stress in our life while preventing and resolving distress.
To understand the role of various stressors in one’s life, we must first understand their more specific nature, and the context they are being encountered in. Many stressors that have been commonly viewed as bad, or counter to our well-being, are in fact beneficial to us when we are suitably informed as to their appropriate intensity, duration, frequency, timing, and role. Sunlight, cold exposure, heat exposure, exercise, fasting, cognitive challenges, and certain microorganism exposures, are all great examples here.
This Lab dives into the common sources of hormesis, eustress and distress, and focuses on those that are modifiable, for our betterment. We also address the role which our perceptions play in determining how we respond to the real-world stimuli, or stressors, we encounter day-to-day.
How we respond to a given stress depends on a great many variables. Few areas of study and mastery empower us to improve our lives in ways that rival learning how to optimize beneficial stress in our life while preventing and resolving distress.
To understand the role of various stressors in one’s life, we must first understand their more specific nature, and the context they are being encountered in. Many stressors that have been commonly viewed as bad, or counter to our well-being, are in fact beneficial to us when we are suitably informed as to their appropriate intensity, duration, frequency, timing, and role. Sunlight, cold exposure, heat exposure, exercise, fasting, cognitive challenges, and certain microorganism exposures, are all great examples here.
This Lab dives into the common sources of hormesis, eustress and distress, and focuses on those that are modifiable, for our betterment. We also address the role which our perceptions play in determining how we respond to the real-world stimuli, or stressors, we encounter day-to-day.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- What’s your level of knowledge and expertise in regard to hormesis, eustress and distress?
- Have you studied the differences and actively pursued the skills you require to master your response to the stressors you have faced, are facing, and are likely to face in your life?
- How might improving your knowledge and skills in this area improve your life? How might it improve your relationships, home life and work life? What lingering ailments might improve or resolve altogether?
HYPOTHESIS
Your vitality, well-being and quality of life will suffer without an adequate understanding of hormesis, eustress and distress. Your ability to navigate life successfully will be seriously hampered without understanding the distinctions and mastering the skillsets highlighted in this Lab. Failing to do so will undoubtedly accelerate your aging and predispose you to illness. Engaging this Lab and the partner Labs it refers you to will lead you to new awareness and new decisions that improve how you think, feel and function. It guides you on how to take control of areas that you have likely believed to be beyond you. The changes you can effect as a result can transform your life in powerful, positive ways.