PRESSURE life these days cannot be ignored because it feels the more pressing human life and directly affect the balance of individual bio psycho social factors. The pressure of life is more popularly known by the term stress.
Stress is a very unpleasant situation because it is not in line with expectations, needs and objectives of an individual or just a very fun and come as a surprise suddenly and usually include a specific psycho physic reaction.
Type of stress
Stress is divided into:
- Eustres: a fun event and often unexpected, but still make people give specific responses, such as loss of appetite, excessive enthusiasm, cannot sleep, but after a relatively short time back in the initial conditions.
- Distress: events / situations are not fun because the situation is far from expectations, desires, and needs.
Stress of life can be grouped into three major groups:
- Stress catastrophic, natural disasters, such as flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes that cause profound psychological trauma.Stress faced when a person’s spiritual growth is in transition mental development, such as the transition to retirement, which often opens opportunities for the emergence of symptoms of degenerative diseases such as diabetes mellitus, high or low blood pressure, and stroke.
- Stress continues faced every time, like facing a boss that rigid, dominant and authoritarian, and traffic congestion.
Reactions to stress
Stress of life that are unable to properly address will affect the balance of individual mental functioning.
Individuals experiencing emotional stress, feel unsafe, uncomfortable, disturbed the balance physic that appears in various physical complaints without organic basis of relevant interference or even difficult to adjust in a social environment.
Impaired balance of mental function that will affect the lives of intra psychic and social individual.
Reactions to stress conditions that cause a person to be in a state of frustration were:
- Aggression: anger, rage, revenge hatred, resentment continues, attack others (extra aggression), or injure themselves (intra-aggression).
- Depression: sad, depressed, withdrawing from society, locked away, suddenly became quiet.
- Apathy: indifferent, no matter the environment, do not shower, do not follow the rules and regulations.
- Regression: acting like a kid again, whining in terms of their level of development as in the previous retreat.
Deal with stress
How to deal with stress when we want to achieve a purpose in our lives is to integrate aspects of emotion with an optimal ratio by asking a few questions below to yourself.
- Should we react emotionally out of control like that?
- Assess again if we had realistic expectations?
- Can we find another attempt to finally get what we really expect?
- Should we pause for a moment we finally get what we expect?
- Can we compensate with something else?
For that, it seems we should also reassess our goals by asking a few questions if we are not too ambitious? The extent to which personal potential, intellectual, social and we have the opportunity to achieve these expectations?
The extent to which morale, commitment and perseverance we achieve these expectations? The extent to which we plan to use time and use time well to achieve what we want?
If the ambition is more than potential, lower goals and adjust to our potential. Also accommodate the potential and optimize the utilization of the potential.
If ambition balanced with the potential, then we must increase the power struggle in a more persistent attempt to achieve goals, like get up early and start work earlier and finish work more soluble appropriate physical force possessed.
We must also commit to concentrate with what we do and do not quit before the intention is achieved.
We also used the time to be disciplined by not wasting time and planned in the utilization of the remaining time, perseverance and concentration on the goals to be achieved, and not easily distracted.
Now living we ask ourselves, how far we’ve been through the suggestions above. Good luck.