Stress is something that the body perceives as fear and manifests in the form of a stressful reaction. Stress is a result of insecurities within and the feel of facing the unknown. Academic performance is related greatly to stress and there have been innumerable studies which link the academic challenges to the resultant stress levels in students. Schools in the United States have been paying lesser attention to any programs that involve great stress levels. In fact in a recent study it was found amongst 600 students most of them had tackling challenges. So any area like delinquency, violence and substance use is what gave a lot of stress to children and this is what created great stress levels. If the child is more attached to school and is emotionally and socially developed then the stress  [...]

What is work life balance and how does is it related to stress? This and many other questions would bog the mind of an individual who wants to know more about the stress and how it affects our daily life. How do you manage the work life balance and stress and what exactly it is? Suppose you come back from work and you open the refrigerator and find a set of keys that you had thought you had lost, inside the fridge then it is a case of having lost control of the work life balance. Work life balance often leads to the individual getting greatly stressed out and thus stress is directly related to work life balance. This work life balance and stress statistics differs from person to person. So how many of us actually are living a truly balanced life> How far we are able to live a stress  [...]

What is stress? It is just a total and involuntary manifestation of our innermost fears and is completely based on our reactions to situations. Stress is related entirely to what we face in life and what we are scared of. Stress is thus totally under our control and can be easily handled only we need to know the way it has to be dealt with. There are many ways we can avoid stress and yoga is one way of dealing with it. Yoga the oldest method of developing oneself is as old as around 5000 years ago and has the best ways of healing ones stressed mind. The methods of classical yoga are those which discipline one ethically and make it an easy way to handle a stressed soul. Yoga teaches one the physical postures, meditating poses and breathing control methods which would totally relax ones mind  [...]

Stress can be caused by a lot of factors. Stress is related to the events that take place in our life, from taking an interview, to writing a test, from wanting to run a race to trying to catch a bus. Everyday life can cause stress and this is just life's way of showing the vagaries that it can exhibit. Stress could be short term or long term. Short term stress is very normal and regular while long term stress is chronic. Long term stress is a result of many stressful conditions and tough situations and is caused due to events that happen over a long period of time. Sometimes these could be family conflicts, or a health problems, it could be something that has been on your mind for a long time or a situation that you have not been able to handle. Whatever the case be, stress is something  [...]