I know, most of you might think what is good about stress? It is always bad. People made millions of dollars by publishing books, training, videos and of course medicines to teach you how to avoid stress or manage stress, so what is good about it?
Well, hang in there. Did you ever faced any scenario where you got hurt but you really didn't felt the pain? Have you ever been in an accident (of course minor one, that's why you are still reading this blog) where you got injured, when you got hurt, you really didn't felt the pain and the pain came much later?
There is a theory which I personally believe, that all the living creatures (including us and animals) have an emergency system. People do heroic task when it comes to survival, I had a fare share of small incident on the same line. During one of the festive season, one of the neighbouring house was on fire. The house on fire was closed, somehow I picked up a LPG cylinder, went upstairs and broke the door of the house, we pored water all around the fire and got it under control. Then someone asked my, why did you thought of taking the LPG cylinder and break the door, I had no idea :-o
One of my father close friend was working in a bank (Mr. Kaba), there was bank robbery. My dad's friend ran behind the robbers and got hold of them and got a award at National level for his bravery. Unfortunately during his chase, he got hit by a bullet on his chest but he had no idea about it, during the chase. He realized it much later that he got hit by a bullet.
The theory is, when you are under stress the body's emergency system kicks in. It re-distributes the energy to the vital parts which will help for survial and hence there is a transfer of energy. Parts like digestion system and few othere automatically shuts down (that's why your mouth gets dry at times when you are in stress). This transfer of energy kicks in automatically under stress which is inbuilt system for your survival.
Fortunately this is still same in animals, but humans with a good imaginative mind are now able to simulate the stress :-)
How many times you have got stressed just by thinking about something. It might be your work, or any fight or finance or anything at all. What really happens is that we start paintaining a picture in our mind which takes us towards the scenario that "we are in trouble" which is another way of telling us that "our survival is under threat". that it.... it does the trick and the transfer of energy starts in your system. Vital elements starts operating and the energy transfer start's few people might have impace on the digestive system or the reproductive system as the energies are taken out of those units and transfered to vital parts, like your heart and mind. Suddenly heart beat increases, mind becomes more active, sleep disappers etc etc.
Guess what, we succesfully converted something which WAS GOOD for us (Stress for survival) to something which we think is BAD (in form of imaginative surivial threat).
Enjoy.......
Rahul V Shah
1 comment:
Quite right.
But yet following needs to be considered.
1)This transfer of energy can be tolerated for very limited time. If it persist for longer period of time you will paralyzed.
2)Emergencies lead to results surely but again not sure whether it is fruitful or not.
But to identify stress as emergency and work for it, is a great art. This always leads to best results. Naturally, for winners it is "Good" else it is bad. We need to identify ourselves.
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