Are you feeling frustrated? Feeling like things just aren’t going your way? Does it all just seem like too much to handle?

Welcome to the world of Stress!

Under stress we seem to have too much on our minds. Our thoughts wander as we are pulled from one thing to another mentally. We don’t know what to do and we get overwhelmed.

Do you see a common denominator? It’s been discovered that stress seems to be most prevalent when a person doesn’t think he or she is capable of handling or dealing with the problems at hand. There is also the aspect that time plays in all of this. The less time one has to to accomplish a task the more pressure there is and so there is more stress.

There are countless articles online regarding the subject of Stress Management. And frankly most of them are weak and inaccurate. They tout false sources for stress and deliver ineffective “solutions”.

Stress is the result of unhandled pressure either from environmental factors or internal factors. “Internal” meaning inside of you: emotional or mental strain. That seems too simple but if it was handled then you wouldn’t feel the stress.

Stress management can only be achieved when one knows the source of the stress and the correct technology to handle that source.

Do you have too much stress in your life? Are you feeling anxious?

Under stress a person can begin to feel agitated and have feelings of fear. It can seem that problems are impossible to solve, it’s difficult to relax. Sometimes when it all seems like too much you may even slow down and feel depressed, rather than feeling agitated.

Not understanding stress and anxiety and their hidden sources, your reactions can turn into a vicious circle. First you become upset and fatigued, then less able to focus on the problem. So, rather than handling the probems at hand you don’t handle them and it grows larger. And then you can start to panic.

It seems that there are thousands of symptoms now being related to stress.

Here is a short list of the many symptoms related to stress:

Memory problems…Feeling tense…Procrastination…Trouble Thinking Clearly…Feeling Overwhelmed…Constant Worrying…Feeling Dispersed…Feeling Fearful…Irregular Sleeping Patterns

Having a Short Fuse…Being Easily Irritated with Others…The Inability to Relax….Feeling Agitated…Sense of Loneliness and Isolation…Feeling Depressed…Being Moody

Irregular Eating Habits …Making Mistakes…Isolating Yourself from Others… Indecisiveness…Drug and Alcohol Use…Nervous habits… Teeth Grinding or Jaw Clenching…Overreacting…Headaches or Backaches…Nausea…Dizziness…Insomnia…Rapid Heartbeat

We can see that stress causes many dangerous symptoms. In fact looking over this list it seems to me that the majority of problems we have to deal with on a day to day basis are stress related.

There are many opinions as to the long term effects of stress. One thing is for certain and that is that people who live with chronic stress are much more likely to become involved in habits such as smoking and overeating. In other words they will do things that are bad for them adding to the harmful effects of the stress.

But the question is:“What is stress?“

It has been said that stress is how the body responds to any kind of forceful demands; that when you feel stressed by something going on around you your body reacts by releasing chemicals into the blood.

The word stress is used so often in so many different circumstances it can become quite confusing to understand. The types of stress one exhibits can be narrowed down to just a few. There is physical trauma on the body, chemical trauma and emotional stress.  It is the latter of these that this article is about.

I have observed that the attempt to handle emotional stress on an individual keeps no boundaries.  It is present on every continent and with all peoples.  Although there are literally thousands of books, supposed remedies and techniques to handle this, there is only one that I have found that truly cuts to the core of this type of stress and can zero in with laser type accuracy and that is Dianetics.