Paraphrasing Diane Sawyer, here is an insightful definition, separating healthy from unhealthy stress:
(Harpers Bazzar, Prl 2013, p 170-172)
It is common for stress to arise while pushing past limits with hope and possibility; this stress, though adrenalyynizing and addictive, is healthy, whereas stress from being trapped or despairing has negative affects on the body.
This suggests to me that two emotional reactions may appear the same and feel the same but be so different from one another as to produce differing results.
For example, planning one's wedding can create a head splitting sense of stress while the day itself may find you every bit as excitable, but pleasurably so.
On the other end of the spectrum, in the absence of self trust, exhaustion, due to over work, may be mistaken for depression ...
As opposites may be mistakenly viewed as one and the same ...
That's where hindsight clears confusion from the air ... but not just any hindsight.
The hindsight to which I refer offers an expanded scope of a situation, meaning that a narrow view must grow objectively reflective before insight into the bigger picture emerges in a burst of clarity that blows all sense of confusion from the air..
Story to follow, tomorrow ... :)
BTW ... this story, which I hope to tell you, tomorrow, will weave together the inter-relatedness of values such as openness, generosity of spirit, self trust, self control and positive focus, which create mutually respecting relationships that lend support, back and forth, through thick and thin. Within the context of today's train of thought, these values may be described as inner strengths :)
(Harpers Bazzar, Prl 2013, p 170-172)
It is common for stress to arise while pushing past limits with hope and possibility; this stress, though adrenalyynizing and addictive, is healthy, whereas stress from being trapped or despairing has negative affects on the body.
This suggests to me that two emotional reactions may appear the same and feel the same but be so different from one another as to produce differing results.
For example, planning one's wedding can create a head splitting sense of stress while the day itself may find you every bit as excitable, but pleasurably so.
On the other end of the spectrum, in the absence of self trust, exhaustion, due to over work, may be mistaken for depression ...
As opposites may be mistakenly viewed as one and the same ...
That's where hindsight clears confusion from the air ... but not just any hindsight.
The hindsight to which I refer offers an expanded scope of a situation, meaning that a narrow view must grow objectively reflective before insight into the bigger picture emerges in a burst of clarity that blows all sense of confusion from the air..
Story to follow, tomorrow ... :)
BTW ... this story, which I hope to tell you, tomorrow, will weave together the inter-relatedness of values such as openness, generosity of spirit, self trust, self control and positive focus, which create mutually respecting relationships that lend support, back and forth, through thick and thin. Within the context of today's train of thought, these values may be described as inner strengths :)
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