The Affects of Stress

The affects of stress in a wilderness survival situation can be tremendous and life threatening. The fact that people do not know how to deal with it makes it the main reason that people do not make it out alive.

Stress is not a disease that has a cure or is something that you can get rid of. It is something that you have do deal with in every day life. You just have to know how to deal with it. Stress is how you deal with difficult situations and what you take away from it. The more you know how to deal with stress, the better you will understand your limitations.

As stated in the previous article, stress is something that you need. The positive effects of stress in your life may very well keep you alive. Learning the boundaries of what you are capable of, through the effects of stress, will make you a survivor.

Look at some of the most successful people in the world. The president of the United States, imagine the stress level he deals with every day. All he did was learn how to manage the affects of stress. Bill Gates, again, it is how you manage it. They learned their limitations and then moved on to a higher level, adding more and more stress because they knew they could handle it. That is what the positive effects of stress will do for you.

That is what it takes to survive. Not only in the wilderness but in everyday life as well. The more you deal with in your daily lives the more you will be prepared for a survival situation. Remember, stress can either build you up or tear you down to nothing. It is your choice.

Wilderness survival tip:
Take care of the minimal tasks first and then move up to the more difficult things as they come along.

Taking on too much stress will in turn create distress. Distress is what you need to avoid at all costs. Distress causes a feeling that we try to avoid or escape. Some of the signs of Distress are:

One of the affects of stress is the ability to learn how to deal with emotional stress. Dealing with emotional stress can be done by removing the things that trigger the emotion. Although you can't totally remove them in a survival circumstance, you can get away from it temporarily. Take a break from what you are dealing with, if even for five minutes, take a deep breath, sit down and think about something nice for a while. Your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, a nice vacation, anything to get your mind off of it for a little bit.

Once you break the chain of negative thinking it is easier to figure out a plan on how to actually deal with the problem. Staying in that negative thought process will only lead to more stress and it will just keep accumulating. So get away from it for a little while and take a break.

Actually the best method to deal with any problems that come up is not to look at it as a problem at all, but rather as a challenge. Handling a challenge is something that you can look forward to, rather than a problem which is something that you don't want to face.

As you can see the affects of stress can vary depending on how you to handle it. It can have some very positive effects or it can have tremendous negative effects. It is all up to you. The mental fortitude it takes to deal with it is really just the way you look at things. Looking at things in a positive light will make it much easier to handle things, looking at things in a negative light will only darken the future for things that follow.

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