How stressed is your life?

Going about your daily life you might not realize that you are under stress but you do know that you are hurried, harried and not really feeling at ease with your life. Looking back at your day how much stress, do you think that you are under in your daily life? What do you feel is the cause of your stress?

There are major stress events in our lives which includes events that are life altering or life changing such as death, birth, illness or disease, loss of income or lay off, divorce, marriage, relationship problems, accidents, injury and many more. These are only a small fraction of the contributing factors to stress in our daily life, but when stress is bothersome, it can snowball and affect every other portion of your life outside of that event.

How can you tell if you are under stress? 

Here is what to think about:

• Do you feel rushed all the time?
• Have you ever been told or felt like you are a workaholic?
• Do you feel that you don’t have time for anything else in your day?
• Do you wish you had more time to yourself?
• Are you overly compulsive about everything? 
• Must everything be in order and in its place before you can relax?
• Do you have too much time to yourself?
• Are you always tired, feeling that you never sleep enough?
• Does everything take effort to complete, mentally and physically?
• Are you always finding yourself complaining about something?
• Ever feel you are not in control of your time, your day or your life?
• Are you finding yourself crying or easily upset at nothing often?
• When is the last time you remember dreaming when you sleep?
• Have you found yourself, forcing yourself to feel excited or happy about something?

Thinking about the questions listed above, you most likely have answered yes to one or more of these questions, which means that you have stress in your life on some level. The more yes answers that you have, the more stress you have in your life that you might not have even realized! 

What you might find surprising is that 
WE ALL have some level of stress in our lives.

If you don’t admit that you do have stress in your life, you can’t over come this problem, to live a healthier life. Now that you understand that we all have some level of stress in our lives, you can easily understand that stress does take a toll on every one’s life, physically and mentally. We all have stress in our lives, and handling this stress betters your entire life.

Stress levels affect you in various levels for diverse stages in the game of life. Depending on your life stage, you might have persistent levels of stress, high levels of stress or even low levels of stress, but one thing is for sure, all of these different levels of stress do change your basic biological life process.

Over the years, stress has become the center of many scientific studies. These studies have involved how stress is a factor in our life when it contributes to our physical well being such as with: depression, diseases, heart problems, cancer, strokes, arthritis, diabetes and even hormone imbalances, or psychological problems or illness. Many scientific studies are relating the amount and affects of stress in your life to health and physical problems that you endure.

As you think about the stress in your life, the changes in your life, and your physical and mental conditions, you might also find it highly interesting to know that stress has been recognized as a contributing factor to physical changes in your life, and to the aging of your mind and body itself.