Are you overwhelmed, anxious, burnt out or do you worry a lot? Would you like to easily relieve stress and keep calm? Is stress exhausting you?

Do you know that everyone has stress— it’s a fact of life. Some stress is actually good for us, to charge our body to produce some wonderful outcomes but there is also a stress that stops us in our tracks and messes with our sleep, our happy relationship, our good work and our health where we must take action before our situation gets worse.

Experts all agreed that our body is an instrument of the mind and it is controlled by thoughts, feelings and vibrations wherein negative thoughts short circuit the immune system and the body experiences dis-ease or uncontrolled stress which is connected to negative thoughts and when you invite stress to take charge in your life, by doing so, your body chemistry changes and your immune system becomes vulnerable to many disease processes.

Teaching, just like any other professions, is vulnerable of experiencing this uncontrolled stress because every day, teachers are communicating with different people from the community aside from their day to day interaction with their pupils which really test their patience and self-control.

But come to think of it, why do we really need to experience this unhealthy stress? Are we gaining something good from it? What is this stress for?

 

If we will deal with stress and come to indulge with it and try to examine the real purpose of stress in our lives, we will find out the following;

1. Stress gets our attention— When we are being stressed and experienced the pain that it causes, our attention is being caught and we are about to do something to remedy  or even stop the feeling of being stressed.
2. Stress redefines our priorities— When we are in the situation where we are being tested, there is a tendency for us to reorient ourselves to what do we really want to happen in our lives. This analysis may help us reconsider our priorities and choose the one that will not cause us stress.
3. Stress draws us near to God— When we are in the middle of these problems and it seems that there is no way out, it shows us that there is only one God whom we could run to and we will realize that no matter how hard those challenges are, still God is there to reach out and uplift us in this misery.
4. Stress disciplines us— When we will analyze the different circumstances that brought us stress, we will find out that there is a purpose and that purpose is to discipline us and make us realize that along the way, we are committing mistakes that give us stress which will lead us to redirect the route that we’re passing on and change our attitude towards life.
5. Stress strengthens our Faith— some say that God’s promises excite our faith so as stress strengthens our faith. It proves that we are only human and we can do nothing to control the events in our lives to make it a stress-free life but we can boostour faith unto the Lord to have a stress-proof life.

With these benefits that we can gain from stress, one can be braver enough to face and accept stress in a positive attitude and he can prove to himself that it is possible to change stress to strength if he knows where his strength is coming from and learn how to live happy and contented in a stressful world.

 

By: ANGELITA D.ALARCON