Stress In The Bible

Kelly McGonigal discusses the importance of viewing stress as positive, as opposed to negative, by detailing three specific studies and findings about stress. In the first study, it was discovered that people with a significant amount of stress had a higher mortality rate; however, this was only statistically significant if the subject viewed stress as harmful. If the overly-stressed subject didn’t view stress as harmful, they were actually at the lowest risk of dying, even compared to those with a minimal amount. Therefore, it is important to change a person’s perspective of stress. In particular, McGonigal emphasizes that stress is important for a person’s body: it energizes and prepares them to meet whatever challenge they are facing. Furthermore, it helps the blood vessels remain relaxed, thereby allowing the heart to remain healthy.

Our book describes stress as “any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and tax one’s coping ability” (Weiten, 2014). Stress is not necessarily a traumatic, life destroying event. It can be as simple a small change in one’s daily schedule. People will have multiple stresses throughout their lifetime. Some will be little and daily, but overtime these add up and can affect you in many ways. Stress can be positive or negative and can take many forms; a few being frustration, internal conflict, change, and pressure. All of which make almost a daily appearance in my life (Weiten, 2014).

Stress is simply a fact of nature—forces from the outside world affecting the individual. These forces are related to both internal and external factors. External factors include the physical environment, such as one’s job, school, or home, relationships with others and all the situations and challenges one confronts on a daily basis. Internal factors include one’s overall health and fitness levels, diet, emotional well-being and the amount of sleep one gets. How an individual responds to these factors vary, as well as the symptoms associated with it.

Stress is a huge factor in everyday life; something that most people experience on a daily basis, and indeed, suffer from without ever really giving it much thought at all. It is defined as “the process by which we [human beings] appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges” (Myers, 2014, p. 2.9), and the National Institute of Mental Health states that stress is “the brain’s response to any demand” (National Institute of Mental Health, n.d.). It has the ability to affect the human body in both positive and negative ways, and according to David Myers, it is all in how we face these challenges (2014, p. 2.9) whether we will succeed or end up feeling even more stressed out than before. It is for this reason that the concept of

Speaker: Lisa Drzewiecki Date: March 8, 2014 Speech Topic: Stress Specific Purpose: To inform my audience what stress is, the effects of stress, what the causes may be, and things that can be done to cope with stress. Introduction I. Attention Getter: My grandmother used to say” I don’t stress about anything I can’t control. “She made it sound simple but when you turn the TV on it’s a whole different story.

She was very upset with Joseph that she lied to him and Potiphar had Joseph put in jail. While being in jail for several years, God was still with Joseph. During this time he was having dream interpretations. When Egyptian Pharaoh began to become troubled by a reoccurring dream it was then remembered that Joseph could interpret

Stress is a quantity that every human is afforded. It is how the body and mind interact in response to a stressor. Each stressor whether in the form of a major life experiences, traumatic events, work, school, and even exercise can be stressful. Stress of any amount makes an impact on a persons’ health and behaviors. Therefore, it is important to take notice of how you manage stressful events in your life however great or small an effect. Though everyone experiences stress in one way or another, no two people cope with stress in the same manner. Some individuals are more effective and recover from demanding situations quicker than others do. Consequently, the quality of health is contingent upon the type of stress and duration of

Exodus 1:20 states that “God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.” The next verse reveals that God even gave the women their own families for being God-fearing people. God rewarded the midwives for their reaction to the evil acts that was being asked of them, but Pharaoh still continued to command that every newborn boy be killed by being thrown into the Nile. One might question why Pharaoh ordered this murderous act to be carried out and why it fell on the shoulders of Shiphrah and Puah.

      Stress is an ongoing dilemma that occurs in each and everyone’s life. It is a factor that is undoubtedly a part of daily living. Due to the trivial problems that occur in people’s daily lives massive amounts of stress can arise. People perceive and manage stress in many different ways. The causes and effects of stress are numerous and one’s ability to manage stress is vital in maintaining healthy living.

Every day people describe their lives as intense and stressful. There are many causes of stress such as job related, family, and financial. However, there exist multiple types of stress. Nonetheless, stress levels can vary from one individual to the next and remains to be a challenge definitively. According to Colella, Hitt, and Miller (2006) "stress can be defined as a feeling of tension that occurs when a person assesses that a given situation is about to exceed his or her ability to cope and consequently will endanger his or her well-being." Stress is more common today than it ever has been before in our society (Wallace, 2007). Stress is more common to discuss and people are complaining more and

According to HeartMath LLC,“Stress is the basic cause of 60% of all human illness and disease”. Stress is a huge problem in the world today and affects many people. Everyone has different stress triggers. For example, work, school, and children are all parts of life that many people struggle with and cause them to go into overload. Stress can take a toll on many people's bodies and can cause serious problems. In opposition to the people who think that stress is a negative, some people say that it is a positive. They claim that it motivates them, boosts their adrenaline, and makes them smarter.

Why do people get stressed? The word ‘stress’ which means bending a piece of metal until it breaks is actually used in the physics. However, in 1920’s one of the fathers in stress research, Hans Selye started using the word ‘stress’. He realized that no matter what his patients were suffering from, they all looked sick. In his view, they were under stress. After using the word ‘stress’, stress is always considered as a bad thing for humans’ health. Moreover, a lot of studies discovered that stress could be a factor to cause lots of diseases. People get stress in a variety way such as work, study, family, economic problem, and relationship with others. They are always trying to avoid getting stress. In fact, it is impossible to escape from stress. People should change their mind instead of eluding. What most people believe about consequences of stress need to be changed because recent study found 3 realities : positive body reaction, oxytocin, and makes you be more social.

It happens everyday to everyone. Different things make people irritated and cause stress. Stress causes many problems in everyday life. It could cause everything from a headache to a heart attack. Eventually a person could be so stressed out and lose all hope to actually commit suicide. There are also many ways to relieve stress. A person could do anything from going to the doctor to yoga. In the dictionary the word that is used most as the definition is pressure. Pressure from a job, family, and life all cause stress. Stress is also related to panic, anxiety, and depression. Some people work better under stress and pressure instead of a relaxed atmosphere. Others can't even function with stress put on them. Everybody is going to have stress. A person may have a high stress or low stress personality. They are not born with this; it is developed throughout their

      Stress can be caused from numerous things for example, a death in the family, divorce, or loss of a job.  But stress is also attributed to

Stress is also linked low fertility in one’s reproductive organs, and can cause problems during pregnancy or one’s menstrual cycle (www.everydayhealth.com). This happens when one is overwhelmed with the stress he or she is going through in their lives. No one person is the same, meaning stressors as well as stress levels differ for each individual. This is why it is hard for scientists to reach the core because it is a subjective sensation related with a variety of symptoms that differ for each of us. Because of this, stress is not always a synonym for distress. Situations like a steep roller coaster ride that cause fear and anxiety for some can prove highly pleasurable for others (www.stress.org). Each person also responds to stress differently. There are numerous physical as well as emotional responses to stress. Stress can cause an ocean of different emotions that are often times unpredictable. It can have wide ranging effects on people’s emotions, mood and behavior (www.stress.org). Stress has said to have been America’s number one leading health problem. It has been shown that stress levels have escalated in children, teenagers, college students and the elderly for reasons that of which have lead to: increased crime, violence, and other threats to personal safety; pernicious peer pressures that lead to substance abuse and other unhealthy life style habits; social isolation and loneliness; the erosion of family and religious