Stress: It's a Domino Effect

Subconsciously, you may bring on the stress to enjoy the responses and so forth. It can become a vicious cycle or pattern that in turn becomes almost routine. We may not even need to have a reason for feeling stressed but there we are again – stressed out! I’m sure every one of us has previously even enjoyed sharing at some point just how stressed we are. When you have validated your stress, the reward then becomes the trigger. Be it an extra night at the pub this week; a visit to the shop to buy that ‘last’ packet of cigarettes; a bar of chocolate justified as it’s a crap day. You get the gist. 

 

At work, it can almost become a default part of the day, a domino effect. One person is stressed, then the next, before the day is out the whole office is stressed. Numerous trips to the shop, planned pub visits for the evening. You may only hear the word ‘work’ and already the stress is there! Do we really want stress as part of our routine? I think the answer is no. 

 

We can choose where to focus our attention and once we master this the stress will be less present. Of course, we will always experience stress at times, but we don’t need to experience the constant levels of stress we put ourselves under. We don’t need to become it. We shouldn’t be finding gaps within a stressful day. 

 

Instead, the day may only have stressful moments which we can observe, and from which we can manage. Part of the problem with stress is that we are always thinking about what’s to come. To cut the stress in half immediately we need to stop and focus just on what we can control in today, rather than take yourself off into past or future events that are not in our control. 

 

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