Stress for Success

Based on the book by James E. Loehr

An Overview of the Conventional Wisdom about Stress
Two kinds of Stress:

1. Distress = bad stress. Manifested physically and emotionally. Physically, people get aches and pains, colds, headaches, back-aches, ulcers, stomach problems, heart problems, etc. Emotionally, people lose it by flying off the handle, or become noncommunicative. Conventional wisdom says that if we have Distress, we need to either eliminate the source of the stress or find ways to cope with the stress.
2. Eustress = good stress. This is the kind of stress we put on ourselves or the kind that is put on us that helps us accomplish things.. We set deadlines, we set goals, we take actions that get our adrenaline going. Without this kind of stress, we really wouldn’t accomplish very much.

Coping with Distress Physically
Let’s look first at Distress:
In order to cope with Distress, we need to attack it where it lives, where it has attacked us



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