Monday, July 13, 2009

How to Deal with Stress

In Bernard Seal's article "Cope With Stress", he states attitude is the most important part when someone deals with stress. It means a positive person can cover stress more easily than a negative person, psychologically and physically. Controlling what is happening has good effects on people, and animals. And even though people can't control everything; it will be less stressful if they are forewarned. Some positive people are stronger at coping with stress than others.

How to deal with stress is one of the most popular issues in all over the world. I agree with some of the author's points, in my opinion; exercise is the best way to cope stress, be a positive person, I have a different opinion on how to deal with stress; it's talk with best friends.

Exercise is the best way to reduce stress. People don't exercise as much as usual in modern society because of many reasons. Such as adults have to working hard to make more money and students have to work hard to keep a high grade. For that reason people have headaches and stomachaches and feel pain in daily life. I have a friend who really likes exercise, and she always spends time from her busy schedule to exercise. But I am so lazy, I have time to sleep but not exercise. The effect is she becomes very healthy and slim, but I become sick, I always feel bad and catch cold often. So exercise is really good for modern people to reduce stress.

Positive people can more easily cope stress than negative people. There is a proverb in China that stress is the root of billions of disease. I have seen many cases in which a positive person cope with disease. There is a woman who has cancer in Japan, and the doctor said she will die in a few months. She crazy loves a Korean movie star named Bue Young Joon; she waits for his new album and she gets power to fight the cancer with her idol in her heart. she prays and she always gets hope in her heart, which is that she really wants to see that star one day before she dies. A miracle happens several months later; the doctor says her cancer is much better than before, and she won''t die from cancer. This is the power of human mind; maybe this kind of miracle is not everywhere, but it shows us that a positive person is much better than a negative person; I think it's the same in stress.

What is good to reduce stress for people is to talk to their best friends when they got a lot of pressure, especially women. It is not a big issue that many women like to talk and talk when they get stress, and their best therapist is their best friend, not excepting me. I always talk to my friend when I have trouble; even she cannot fix my problem, it's much  better after I talked with her.

In conclusion, people in society have a lot of stress, and we have many methods to cope with stress as the author mentioned, and I think exercise, being a positive person and talking to your best friends are good methods for reducing stress.

Seal, B.  (1998).  Coping with Stress.  In Academic Encounters: Human Behavior.  [pp. 15-16].  New York: Cambridge University Press.

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