Emotions have become an important part of our lives. People often say that they can’t live without emotions and that emotions are natural. Do we need stress to be emotional? In such a case, what happens when we are happy? Are we stressed even then? How do animals react emotionally? …

Distress is an all-encompassing state where the individual is geared up to perform at an optimum level. The objective of experiencing distress is to ensure survival. More about the nature and characteristics of distress can be found here: What is Distress? How are Emotions connected to Stress? and Managing everyday…

Are our Goals and Stress interconnected? When asked to choose 20 goals for the day, people are shocked. One participant in a training program commented, “We can’t even reach one goal in a lifetime, but how can we have 20 goals in a day?” This is when we realize that there is a clear misunderstanding about…

Let’s look at a person, Raju, who has fixed everything in his life. Think for yourself and decide whether Raju will have stress doing the following chores or not? Raju gets up every day at exactly He always takes half an hour to complete his daily chores. He follows a…

Almost everyone talks about stress but very few people know why we have stress! Distress is aroused in us to take charge of the demands made on us either from within or from outside us. Whenever we are in difficulty, we need extra energy. …

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Why can’t we always be happy? Happiness, joy, merriment, contentment, satisfaction, pleasure — all these words represent a type of stress called Eustress. As pointed out earlier, there are three types of stress — Eustress, Neustress, and Distress. …

How long will the baby elephant sleep? Does it know when to wake up? Or should we disturb it from its blissful sleep? How do we wake up the baby elephant? The baby appears so peaceful, relaxed, and unmindful of the surroundings. Does it mean that the baby is happy? We don’t know because we can’t see…

How much can we continue to suffer? Whenever we use the word stress, we mean Distress. As mentioned earlier, Distress is negative stress that becomes painful for the individual. It is associated with negative emotions like fear, anger, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, depression, frustration, guilt, helplessness, loneliness, hopelessness, etc. The person…