What is Eustress? Why is this type of stress viewed as Positive Stress? In many ways. It is a necessary type of stress that helps motivate us to take action and try new things. In many ways, eustress helps make life interesting.
What is Eustress?
Eustress is a type of short-term stress that takes us out of our comfort zone just enough to challenge us healthily. One example is being asked to reach a certain goal or target at work in a certain amount of time. You know it can be done, but it requires you to really utilise your personal resources and skills, perhaps even learn new skills
Why Eustress Is Positive And Motivating
Eustress is usually motivating and exciting; it helps us mentally, emotionally, and physiologically create change, adapt, and become
more resilient and strong.
Mentally, eustress is positive stress that helps us become more mentally resilient. It helps us focus on the present task at hand with confidence and can help develops personal autonomy.
Emotionally, eustress is inspiring and motivating; it can help us really get into a state of flow.
Physiologically, eustress supports the body in building better health and physical resilience, for example during a workout or a run.
Why Distress Is Disabling And Exhausting
Distress is the type of stress that leaves you debilitated, exhausted, and overwhelmed. Distress is negative stress that is mentally, emotionally, and physically unhealthy. When someone is in a state of distress, they are often highly anxious and/or in a chronic fight-or-flight state
Long-term distress is well-documented to lead to chronic states of dis-ease and disease and a variety of emotional and mental health challenges.
3 Ways To Reduce And Manage Distress And Long-term Stress
One of the biggest challenges with distress is that we are not just caught up in the stress cycle but in the anxiety cycle. This is common with long-term chronic stress, PTSD, and CPTSD.
Better Mental Resilience:
Developing better mental and emotional resilience to different types of stress is key to managing stress. It is not what happens to us, but how we view it and deal with it.
Move Off The Stress Cycle:
The key thing to managing and eliminating distress is being able to move the individual off the anxiety and stress cycle. Unfortunately, most people today are suffering from chronic low-level stress or chronic anxiety and don’t even realise it. One of the biggest ways to help anyone become more stress-resilient is to teach them how to cut the stress cycle. Stop eustress become negative stress.
The ability to relax deeply is undervalued, but deep relaxation is the secret key to short-term and long-term stress management and resilience. It is our biggest psychological and physiological buffer to stress and distress. The right relaxation techniques and relaxation therapy provide a mental, emotional, and physical reset. A relaxation therapist can teach you how to move off the stress response into the relaxation response quickly and effectively.
Stopping Eustress From Becoming Chronic Stress
Teaching people the right stress management and relaxation techniques is basically providing them with a powerful life skill. Providing the best stress management tools for their circumstances helps them access more eustress in everyday life; it can help prevent everyday challenges from turning into negative chronic stress. Especially today, when most people have forgotten how to switch off and don’t know how to relax properly.
That is one of the biggest reasons Relaxation Therapy techniques were one of the main things I was asked to teach and train people in for 2 decades.
And why I started offering Accredited Relaxation Therapist Training and now my Stress Management Practitioner Training.
Stress can be healthy when it is short-term, motivating, and inspiring, but when stress starts impacting our well-being, it can be destructive and disabling.
Like everything in life, it is about balance; teaching clients and students how to achieve that balance, how to reset themself mentally, physically, emotionally, even spiritually, is extremely powerful. That is why we teach extensive tools and techniques in our Accredited Stress Management Training.
