stress
...ffers after I graduate, I am fully aware that getting my PhD will help me that much better. So instead of writing a paper on my stress, It might be a good idea for you as a teacher and a Psychologist, to analyze me as a student as I present some advice on how to manage the stresses that some people have, and see how well that I could eventually give my ears and heart out to help. Here is my input on how to take self control over stress: I like to call it U.F.A.P.W.L…yes it is a long acronym, but it has never failed in my book. It stands for Understand it, Feel it, Accept it, Put it in perspective, Write it down, and “last but not least”…LETTING IN ALL OUT! Understanding the situation at hand is almost always the first step. And the first step in understanding, is knowing how stress got to where it is. Stress is what you feel when everything that you have to deal with, comes to be too much to handle at once. I believe that nothing is given to someone, that he or she cannot handle. Knowing that can give one hope or a goal in the process of dealing with stress. While dealing with these kind of situations ,it can be hard, because it is like trying to get focused when you aren’t wearing glasses - and should be! Find the key to pushing aside all the distractions that are keeping you from being focused on the important issues in your life, and it will open the door in figuring out and understanding what you are dealing with. The second step on how to learn to take control of stress is feeling it. An adolescent psychologist by the name of D’Arcy Lyness once said and I quote, “most people get a boost from a small amount of pressure”. Think about how many people view stress as a negative reaction; that could give one some insight to propel into getting motivated and to know that stress is all a learning process which is that of adrenaline going to your brain to get focused. Accepting the stress is the hardest step to conquer, because it is a slap in the face of reality. What needs to come to realization, is that stress will always be present in one way, shape or form in life. When one situation is solved, another will arise. So basically, once stress is not considered an annoyance, and one can accept it into to his or her life, they can then start to take action to make whatever is causing the stress to go away. Putting the situation into perspective is the fourth step. It means having a complete and valid understanding or primary focus of everything that comes to be stressful. Stress is mere pressure to accomplish a goal. When stress arrives, it sometimes feels like pressure in a storm that overtakes you without any warning. The key in dealing with this is getting a grip and guide oneself to safety. By breaking down and categorizing what is going on, it helps one to calm down and have more focus on the situation at hand. Focusing on the cards that are dealt will shift ones focus to action, which will eventually solve the situation given. Writing ones thoughts and stresses down on paper is the next and fifth step in controlling stress and possibly the most simple task to manage it. To accomplish this, one must go in a private room where disturbance...