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English (stress )

The most common thing in everyone's routine is feeling of stress. Each one of us is dealing with different problems that causes anxiety and make us feel frazzled. Will all the problems go away one day or we will stay in a prison of everyday's issues? Many solutions can help us not to get out of that prison, but to live in it with less stress than before.
Looking at stress diffrently will help to get rid of it. The first thing everyone needs to do is to understand what stress is ? In "Stress management," Robinson, Smith and Segal (2019) claim that "Stress is an automatic response from your nervous system". This is why we need to change the way we think and react towards it. For example, if we are stressed during an exam, we don't have to panic and make it affect our knowledge and memory. We have to deal with it as if it is totally normal to feel stress under exam conditions. We also have to think that it will go away once we finish.
Another mistake that people tend to do whenever they feel stressed is to get isolated. Connection between people can play a major rule in the way we feel. This is why, speaking with a friend or a family member can decrease anxiety. Instead of staying in a closed room whenever we face a problem that caused stress and anxiety, we have to stay close to someone and talk to them. They may not find a solution; but people's arms and tenderness represent a good shelter. In "Stress management," Rodinson,Smith and Segal (2019) explain more this point by saying that "There is nothing more calming than spending quality time with another human being who makes you feel safe and understood".
It is also not right to believe that stress can be harmful for someone's health. Because, as McGonigal (2013) states in "How to make stress your friend", the belief that stress is bad for for us can be more harmful than stress itself. It is our choice to make stress bring us down or raise us up. This means we need to make changes whithin ourselves. As McGonigal said "When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's response to stress". The best way to change our thinking is to not fear stress. When we react towards stress with fear we feed it and make it bigger. We have to see it as a normal feeling. Why don't we fear feeling of love? or feeling of satisfaction? Stress is also just a feeling.
All the points may be concluded by saying that it is not possible to get rid of problems completely; but we can learn how to cope with stress and make it a source of empowerment. The most vital tip is to change the way we think about it and many good effects will follow.

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