Eustress has many benefits, especially for ambitious people who enjoy an exciting challenge.
Flow. When in flow, our attention is fully engaged, enjoying the absorption.
Resilience. Eustress is based on perception and helps you to react more positively to challenging situations.
Self-efficacy. Your judgment of how you carry out a required task is a measure of your level of self-efficacy. People with high self-efficacy may set higher goals and be motivated to achieve them.
Eustress, or good stress, includes feeling happy, accomplished, and excited. It's the opposite of distress. Here's what to know about eustress, including examples and ways to make it a part of your every day.
Eustress makes us grow emotionally (inspiration), psychologically (resilience) and physically (body-building challenge).
Eustress creates excitement, satisfaction, fulfilment, meaning, well-being and the satisfaction of a challenge. It is something positive that is taking us out of our comfort zone. Example: Relocating due to getting a new job in a different city.
At work, eustress is the fine balance when tackling a challenging project, which is not unrealistic. Distress is what comes from impossible projects, impositions and toxic work culture.
Our hobbies and personal interests have to be moderately challenging and provide us with fulfilment and satisfaction. One has to be in the learning zone, which leads to growth.
Travel is stressful yet thrilling and is always a great learning experience.
Exercise is basically stressing out your body to improve strength, muscle growth and stamina.
Stress is unavoidable in modern life, but it doesn't have to get you down. Here are ways to deal with stress, reduce its harm and even use your daily stress to make you stronger.
With stress, the mind and the body are intrinsically linked. You can view stress as something that is wreaking havoc on your body (and it can) or as something that is giving you the strength and energy to overcome adversity.
Regular exposure to stress in small quantities can prepare us to handle a big stressful event in our lives. Prepare yourself for stress by self-education about the stressful event, by doing some physically stressful activities like completing a marathon, or something you dread, like giving a speech.
Repeated exposure to mildly stressful conditions can alter your body’s biological response to stress, making you manage stress in a better way.
When facing potential stressors, the way we view what we're experiencing can exacerbate our stress - or minimize it. Cognitive reframing is a time-honored, psychologist-recommended method of looking at things in ways that create less stress and promote a greater sense of peace and control.