How to get along with stress?
How to face stress is a problem that every progressive modern people must face.
A more comprehensive understanding of stress, facing stress and managing stress, this may be required for each of us to learn.
There are two types of stress reaction.
The mechanism of human aging is that the telomeres of chromosomes become shorter.
Stress can make telomeres shorter, but the key is not in the stress itself, but in how you feel about stress.
Telomere shortening is not a reaction to stress, it is a reaction to "your reaction to stress."
People react to stress in two ways: threats and challenges.
If you walk in the jungle unarmed, and suddenly a tiger appeared out of nowhere, you feel very frightened. Your response is a reaction to the threat.
Your heart rate is accelerating, your blood pressure is rising, your face is stiff, your hands and feet are cold and you can't move. The more you prone to this "threat" reaction, the shorter the telomeres.
The second reaction is called "challenge."
The same situation when facing the tiger, but you not only not afraid, and also think this as a chance to become famous by defeating the tiger.
Your heart rate will still increase, but your blood has increased oxygen levels, more blood flows to your brain and limbs, and you have mobilized all your resources to prepare for the battle.
You feel very excited.
Threats turn into challenges, turning stress into power.
If you can keep this in mind, your telomeres will be long.
How fast a person's telomeres shorten, depends on how strong your "threat" and "challenge" feel.
The way to reduce is to think a little wider and a little farther.
You can call yourself in a third person and think about what it is after ten years.
Hazards caused by stress
The biggest problem with stress is that it induces inflammation in the body, not only acute inflammation but also chronic inflammation that is often overlooked.
It is dangerous because it is hard for you to perceive it.
Scientists have not found how stress can induce inflammation in the body, but through a lot of experiments, it is true that stress is the biggest cause of inflammation in the body.
If a group of people under pressure, whether long or short-term, regardless of the size of the pressure, inflammatory factors in the body will be more than others, like heart disease, and even depression.
The researchers speculate that if depression is caused by inflammation in the body, it can explain why many antidepressants are less effective because they do not have an anti-inflammatory effect.
One way to resist stress caused by chronic inflammation preferred to weight control.
Because fat can store a large number of inflammatory factors, the more fat you have, the more the number of inflammatory factors stored.
Another way is to eat fish oil three times a week and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.
Finally, exercise. Even walking for 20 minutes a day can be great to the body.
Especially stretching exercise.
Stress from poverty can be inherited
Stress from poverty is not the material level that one enjoys, but the stress and uncertainty of his life.
But the life pressure and the uncertainty brings to the poor not only the backward thinking pattern but also is the physiological problem. And it's a very serious physical problem.
Poverty reduces the surface area of the human brain, shortens human mitochondrial telomeres (which means shorter lifespan), increases the likelihood of obesity, and makes people more willing to take unnecessary risks.
Poverty can lead to increased human pressure.
If a person sustained high pressure from poverty since young, when he grows up, even if the economic situation has changed greatly, he will continue to feel the high pressure.
To be blunt, that is, he got "poor disease."
This disease is not able to be cure from the outside, this is a physiological problem.
This person is inherently prone to overreact to life's difficulties, which is "stress genetics".
He could not think of any long-term plans, and easily focus on short-term tasks.
So the key to getting the next generation out of poverty is not just the material supply, but the availability of a stable and warm family environment.
Men and women will have a different reaction when under pressure
It is not the stress that hurts people's health and psychology, but the different attitudes and perceptions of stress that damage people's health and psychology.
You may have seen that stress can cause damage to people, make people cranky and aggressive.
Men will choose to hide when facing stress and undertakes the stress alone.
And women will choose to find friends and talk about it when facing stress.
When it comes to stress, they become more extroverted, more willing to help others, and more gregarious. Work together in a gregarious way to reduce stress.
If you can handle stress like a woman, for the sake of others, not only the stress will be dissolved, and you will live healthier.
The characteristics of women coping with stress give us an important revelation:
The future is a woman's era because women are more willing to socialize.
If the pressure is too high, the performance will be reduced, if the pressure is too low is also bad, the best performance is the "pressure-challenge" to achieve a balanced flow of state.
At this time, what people experience is the "play" mentality, and relaxation doesn't mean letting go of expectations.
There are at least two kinds of games in the world:
One is limited game, another one is unlimited game.
Limited game has "winning" as the purpose, and unlimited game is to continue the game as the purpose.
Limited games are included in the unlimited game.
Many people simply do not realize that there are unlimited games outside the limited game, so they are always overly anxious.
An employee who was scolded in the office, when he realized that it was only a limited game in his career development, the unlimited game, he won’t be depressed for too long.
And if a person can realize that work is a "limited game", and "career" and "family" is an unlimited game, they are able to stand up and reassess the plight of the present.
Face pressure with positive emotions, people can not be separated from the emotional, to carry out the so-called rational decision-making, all the decisions of the people are the result of emotional participation.
Secondly, emotion is the first productive force, when facing team pressure, managers should be good at controlling emotions, using emotions and conveying emotions, which is the value of management.
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