How do we recognize stress and three options to reduce it

   After watched the video in class and read some articles, I realize that stress sometimes is not a motivation, it's harmful. If a person is under lots of stress, he has a high chance to have health issues. According to a article on HelpGuide.com:"if the stress beyond the comfort zone, stress stops being helpful and can start causing major damage to your mind and body." Also the video showed in the class has the same idea but it focus on animals. Stress causes cognitive symptoms like memory problems which is also mentioned in class and make you can't concentrate well. Overlord stress leads emotional symptoms like moodiness; physical symptoms like aches and pain; diarrhea and constipation last the behavioral symptoms like eating disorder and sleep disorder. We can know the damage is real and serious.

   If we want to find some ways to reduce stress, we must know the causes of it. There are two parts of causes: external causes like life environment changes like change a school or a job or moving to a new city. And there is internal causes like people have negative attitude or been pessimism. Obviously, change attitude about life is important to reduce internal causes of stress. Otherwise there are very less ways that people can really get rid of internal cause stress. Stay positive is they key. For the external causes, another article in the same website mentions couple ways which can help. One is to eat a healthy diet; two, reduce caffeine and sugar, these substances often end in with a crash in mood and energy number; three, avoid alcohol, cigarettes and drugs and last, get enough sleep, sleep too less or too much is not a good sign of people's health.

   Stay positive for life, eat healthy and sleep well. Three easy but crucial keys to make you a stress-free person.



                                                                                                                                                           This is an elliptical I bought last year. I sometimes got lazy when thought of going to the gym. But after having this at home, I have no reason to be lazy. And exercise everyday make me feel energetic and alive.            

                               This picture shows all the harms that stress can cause to our body, mind, emotions and behavior. Also, it warning us how important it is to learn how to reduce the stress.