The problem with stress is that it masks as a winner. Anxious workers compete for workplace favors, while killer toxins hide danger signs before sudden, deadly strikes.
Stress masks as savior but strikes as killer
Stress kills …
Financial opportunities tank into lost revenue and increased sickness spikes alarming numbers. Harvard researchers show stress as gaining ground for increasing numbers of workers and organizations. Depression increases as a result.
Health and relationships suffer most from stress. Research shows that a partner’s toxic personality drags deadly challenges into your health. Stressors that can even stunt recovery after illness.
Your ability to spot good plummets with the cortisol chemicals’ effects from stress. While you’ll be typically hit with about 22 stressors on any ordinary day, it takes an awareness of stress to use serotonin strategies for well being in response to daily stress strikes.
Sleep problems increase for those who fail to run from stress – just as you’d dash away from any serial killer. It often starts with an inability to remain calm under pressure. Reasons for sleeplessness differ, yet stressed people report remarkable similarities to sleepless nights.
Since stress has recently been proven to lock you into its rigid ruts just this side of adventures winners crave, you’ll want to deliberately step out to reach another side. How so?
10 Brainpowered Pathways Away from Stress:
- Laugh – yes, especially when the chips are down, and you’ll build neuron pathways in directions away from stress.
- Golf as a way to relax in nature’s best– even as you capitalize on improving your swing with each new shot.
- Embrace a novel adventure, a playful distraction to rejuvenate your brain from ruts that imprison you in stress.
- Risk replacing one idol that holds you back – with an innovative alternative that could sprint you forward.
- Encourage another brainy bloke, rather than find flaws or name faults as stressed-out critics tend to nitpick.
- Recognize and flee from 10 tragic toxins in minds of bullies and cynics.
- Ask two-footed questions that shut off stressor spigots, and open your day into what if … possibilities.
- Act on even just one life-changing brainpowered dream.
- Check out the wonders and woes of change – then flee from any fear that stunts new growth.
- Rewire your brain to act courageously by choosing ethics – even when good seems to lose against the odds.
How do you stack up against stress’ serial killers, especially those that masks as savior? How will you prevent literally shrinking your brain with stress that robs humanity?
