How can we limit stress in a fast pace world? Learning is one of the best tools available for managing stress. When we have an education and research the marketplace when something is not clear to us then we are strapping our self with armor that stress will not defeat. Education provides us the knowledge to learn facts that will gear us up when someone attempts to bring us down. Stress is a limiting force that influences when fear presents itself. We all have to deal with fear and fear is the leading cause of all of our problems, since emotions are triggered by fear. This is where education comes in since it can help us to determine right and wrong and help us to avoid encounters that can lead us to fear and danger. Stress can benefit us if we view stress as a challenge rather than a fear. When we are educated, we are aware of the potential roadblocks ahead and the dangers lurking around the corners. A wise man with consistent stress management strategies will not walk into a dark area where known gangsters hang. Rather a wise man will take all precautions to avoid such dangers because his stress management scheme is focusing on current, potential, and life in general. A young mother with a tight fitting stress management scheme will investigate before leaving her children in the hands of strangers. She will weigh out the consequences, potentials, and analyze the person in question carefully before making a decision. Education helps us to stay focus and us our head in all situations, including each decision we make. Danger exposes us to harm, injury, death, pain and loss. Therefore, a stress management plan backed with education can reduce the exposure of danger involved, minimize fear and control stress. On the other hand, stress can hurt us. If we are not educated, lacking coping skills, and have difficulty making good decisions then danger is lurking around the corner. We can look at many examples to see how decisions can increase stress levels. We can see how overwhelming stress can affect one or more life when decisions are made impulsively. One man came home from work to find his wife gone. He suspected that the wife was having an affair so he went to the location where he thought she might be since he found her there before. When he reached the location, he observed his wife and her ex-husband getting in his sports car. Instead of confronting the problem logically, he drove off on his motorcycle, went to the bar, drove off in an outrage and hit a pole. The man was in a coma for several months and when he became alert in the hospital he had no memory and to date he limps. The man had children, so we can see his illogical decision caused stress for several lives. He has difficulty managing his stress level more than ten years later simply because the nervous system was affected reducing his ability to cope with stress and stressors. Now how did he affect everyone? The healthcare system was touched by his decision, the children suffered from his decision, the doctors were stressed trying to keep him alive, and he lost everything he owned due to his illogical decision. This is fear, danger, stress, emotions, decisions, and logic all tied into one bad decision. As we can see, decision plays a large part in stress management. When we have education, our decision process is easier since we have knowledge and knowledge contributes to our behaviors. A well-educated individual makes bad decisions, since we are all humans, but for the most part education presents us from walking in harms way. There are other techniques available that help us limit stress, including breathing techniques, visual, self-talk and so forth. If you are feeling frustrating take a few deep breaths can help release your anxiety and reduce your stress. You may want to learn more about the symptoms of stress, since this will help you to understand when you are overwhelmed. Getting the facts is the only GREATEST stress management tool that will lead us to the road to success.
