No one is immune to this threat. Some of us deal with it better than others. If we look back, we may see a point in our life where stress was so overwhelming that it affected our sleep, our mood, and our appetite.

There are many ways to handle this better. Education is certainly one of them. If we have some understanding of what stress is and how our body automatically responds to it, we may be able to recognize when we are in distress and learn to channel stress in a positive way before it becomes hazardous to our health.

What is stress?

Stress can be defined as a state we experience when there is a mismatch between perceived demands and perceived ability to cope. It is the balance between how we view demands and how we thing we can cope with those demands and determine whether we fell no stress, distressed or eustressed.

Terry Looker & Olga Gregson

Stress is relative. A situation that is distressful for one individual may be a good stress or eustressful for another person. A seasoned public speaker may find speaking in front of a large audience enjoyable or eustressful whereas a beginner public speaker may find it overwhelmingly stressful or distressful.

It is very helpful to know the signs of stress that your body makes in order to respond to situations you perceived as stressful in order to understand your stress response system. We are blessed to have a fantastic capability to adapt to different situations. It is this awesome capability to adapt that also makes us take ourselves for granted and overlook signs that our body is telling us.

We need to learn from the way we take care of our machineries. We use ultrasound, vibration analysis, oil analysis, motor testing, and infrared thermography on a regular basis to hear and understand what our machines are telling us before it says, "I have enough." Don't we deserve the same attention?

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