The
New Paradigm of Stress.
According
to Hanse Selye the father of stress theory, stress is
defined as:
"Our body’s response to any demand
upon it."
Most
experts if not all in this field are recognizing this theory
as true, and they see the stress as our reaction to any
stimuli coming from the environment. Nobody at least that I
know of, ever started to challenge this theory, to see if it
still stands to any present tests.
The main reason that I decide to
challenge this theory is, that I could just not believe that
stress is our response to any demand. Didn’t make any sense
to me. If any demand produces stress it means that we were
designed to be continuously affected negative by our
interaction with the environment. And I could not accept
this kind of idea. The
confusion I think is made by
the specialists in stress is
between the word
Stress
and the word Awareness,
or Emotion.
The idea that stress is the response
to any demand might be true when it is applied to things.
The reason is that, if you keep
stressing
a piece of material, this becomes weaker and weaker and
eventually will break down. But, when we talk about humans
with the ability to consciously understand the environment,
when we go through a process
of change, the level of
emotional awareness
changes because we perceive
and understand the change.
If the change is toward something
that produces us pleasure, we accept the change and feel
good about it. On the other hand, when the change produces
pain we tend to reject it, due to the fact that we are built
with a protective mechanism that keeps us away from anything
that might cause us harm. Also, we were equipped with the
ability to choose
what meaning
we give to our environment
or situations we might go through.
When we do it properly our life
develops normal. But, when unconsciously we give a wrong
meaning to the environment or to the situations we go
through, we have to pay the consequences of our mistakes. In
other words this might result in us getting stressed.
If
we take a closer look around us, we can see that in our
environment we are surrounded by a large variety of forms of
life, objects and things. We can safely say that we perceive
their existence in different forms such as simple energy
forms, in gases forms, liquids forms and finally solids
forms. When it comes to live forms of life, their
basic living unit is the cell.
Aggregates of many different cells held together by
intracellular supporting structures form molecules.
Aggregates of molecules form an organ. Aggregates of organs
form a body. All the live forms are made of a combination of
different energy forms, gases, liquids and solids. Each form
has its unique characteristics that differ from one form to
another.
For example: We take a
plant,
an animal
and a human
being. What do you think is going to happen or would be
their reactions if lets say for a period of 3 months
continuously we “stress” each of them? In other words we
continuously create a “stressful environment” by
subjecting them to, let's say high winds, rain and lower
temperatures. What are we going to find out at the end of
our experiment? Well, all depends on their abilities to cope
with the stressful environment.
The
plant for example, not being
able to move, but stays in one place, will resist the
stressful environment based on
its strength.
Once overstressed, most probably will die, not being able to
protect itself or to get away from it.
The
animal on the other hand,
being a life form that is able to move from one place to
another, under stress, right the way will be looking to find
a way out, by instinctively
trying to protect himself. Still, its protective reactions
will limited to the abilities that the animal posses.
Now, when it comes to the
human
being, the same environment will present much less
difficulties, because being equipped with
superior abilities,
he can understand the reasons for the stressful environment,
and not only that, but he also can find a way to protect
himself by being creative
in finding a corresponding refuge for the stressful
situation. But also, by using a
wrong reasoning
and focusing on the negativity of the situation, he could
make his situation worst
than it actually really is.
As
human beings we are designed to be able to understand and
define our environment, and even more then that, through our
free will we could give them a specific meaning, positive or
negative. So, in other words we have the saying when it
comes to evaluate the environment. What we are not aware of,
is we have the ability to
change the meaning we give to our
environment,
and what we feel about it is based on our own
interpretation,
not of the reality itself.
When we perceive it as negative, our
body is going to feel the results of our interpretation as
negative emotions. On the other hand, when we perceive it as
positive, our body is
going to
feel the results of our
interpretation as positive
emotions.
Becoming aware of these important
facts, we cannot afford any longer to accept the idea that
stress is our body reaction to any demand upon it. This is
still true when it comes to unconscious things and objects,
or even inferior life forms, but not to us as human beings
equipped with free will to identify,
accept
or reject
and define
negative or positive any demand upon us.
Imagine that you have a car, and you learned to drive from
some friends or some of your relatives. Because of that, you
formed some driving habits by following what you saw them
doing. One of the habits is that anytime you go through a
kind of negative or difficult situation, you pull a little
bit the emergency brake.
In the beginning, nothing happens with the car. But after a
while because little by little you keep pulling the
emergency brake, you start realizing that
the engine
has less power
than before. The transmission
seems like it might be slipping and
hardly shifting.
The brakes
are getting hotter
than normal. The
grease
on the wheel bearings starts
melting down because of
excessive heat. In other words
the
health
of the car starts to
deteriorate
little by little.
Becoming aware of this, you start to
do what you saw others doing. You learn how to manage better
your car. You start using oil
treatment for the engine,
special transmission oil
for better friction. Then you keep
replacing the brake
pads that are getting worn out faster than normal. Also you
pay attention to grease
many times the wheel bearing because the grease keep melting
and the bearings are in danger of breaking down.
Even though you do your best on
managing your car, its health
is still of your concern. There should be a
better solution
to deal with this kind of problem. But where a better
solution might be found? Everybody does the same thing.
Now,
what’s the real problem here? Is the special oil treatment
not efficient enough? Or you don’t change the brake pads
often enough? Or maybe you should use higher-grade grease
for the wheel bearings? Well, you could improve all these,
but the problem still remains. Why? Because looking to
manage the situation, the best you can do is to improve the
management of it. Then what’s the solution?
Well, the best and lasting way to
deal with this is to find out what’s the source of all these
problems. Eliminate
the source
and all the symptoms
will disappear
by themselves. But to do that,
we need to focus our attention into a totally different
area. From the area of
many and sophisticated products used for
stress management,
to the area of
personal behavior.
We need to learn and understand the difference between good
driving habits and not so good or even bad driving habits.
To understand
the side effects
some driving behaviors
have on the health
of the car.
By doing that we realize that we become responsible for its
health.
It’s not the quality of the oil, or
the brake pads or the grease, but it’s the quality of
our driving habits
that really could solve
the health
problems of our car.
I think that this example could bring a little light to our
subject of dealing with stress. We can focus all our
attention on how to better manage stress, but still we would
live a stressful life.
We need to change our focus into a different area: that of
our personal behavior. Why? Because as we are going to find
out from this book, through
our unhealthy
habits,
we are the creators
of our stressful environment.
That being the case, we are also the ones capable of solving
this impossible
task. You may have heard the definition of insanity:
"Doing
the same old thing and
expecting different results."
Well if it didn’t work in other areas of life, it won’t work
when it comes to solving the problem of stress either.
Therefore, in order to get different results we are going to
do something different then stress management.
We are going to learn how to eliminate this problem, not
just manage it, hoping that eventually will go away. Now by
understanding what the roots of the problems
of stress are, we become able to solve
the so called impossible.
So, as we mentioned already, we get stressed only when we
give a negative or wrong meaning to the
environment.
That being the case, we can safely
say that:
"Stress is our body reaction to any demand that we perceive
as negative or stressful"
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done by the author clearly
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solution
for eliminating stress,
not only managing it. By finding a permanent solution
for the stress that is the root of all these symptoms, then
with one product we can solve all the problems caused by
them.
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in area of stress, which soon will be accepted and followed
by others.
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