Everything in life creates some stress.<\/strong>\u00a0 Even good things happening in your life create stress.\u00a0 Problems with stress occur when too much stress has gathered in your life.<\/strong>\u00a0 How much is too much?\u00a0 This depends entirely upon you.\u00a0 Each of us has an Optimum Stress Level.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is the level where you have enough to do to be excited about life.\u00a0 At your Optimum Stress level you are neither bored nor overwhelmed.\u00a0 You function at a level of efficiency, accomplishing realistic goals.\u00a0 You feel satisfied with your life and your work.<\/p>\n When you exceed your Optimum Stress Level you begin to feel stressed-out, overwhelmed and probably notice that your efficiency drops<\/strong>, just at the time you need it to increase because you have a lot more to handle.\u00a0\u00a0 You may begin to notice that you are forgetful, missing things that would have not been a problem for you before.\u00a0 You become irritable and cope with people and situations with less patience and insight than you previously had.\u00a0 You may begin to notice that you work much harder.<\/strong>\u00a0 This becomes a self perpetuating spiral as the symptoms of stress create more stress.\u00a0 The continuation of this stressed out or dis-stressed state begins to wear on the body, reducing the immune system and creating a myriad of health problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n Likewise, when your life changes and your stress level is beneath your Optimum Stress Level, you can become stressed out.<\/strong>\u00a0 Again, your efficiency level drops, irritability, memory loss, headaches, general aches and pains begin to plague you.\u00a0 This is often seen in highly successful people when they retire.\u00a0 Amorphous feelings of discontent and dissatisfaction result in somatic disorders that are often blamed on aging or poor health.\u00a0 As you feel worse and worse you are less likely to take on task that will bring you back up to your Optimum Stress Level.<\/p>\n Learn to identify this important level and how to cope with and conquer feeling stressed out<\/strong> in my workshop Coping and Conquering Stress.\u00a0 Learn techniques that reduce stress to enable you to return to the balance and harmony of life at YOUR Optimum Stress Level.<\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2008-2018 Genevieve Gerard, All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Life Can Create Stress Everything in life creates some stress.\u00a0 Even good things happening in your life create stress.\u00a0 Problems with stress occur when too much stress has gathered in your life.\u00a0 How much is too much?\u00a0 This depends entirely upon you.\u00a0 Each of us has an Optimum Stress Level.\u00a0 This is the level where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[16,4,15,9,10,5,8,7],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystressout.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}