Article: Five Things You Don't (And Should!) Know About Stress
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Five Things You Don't (And Should!) Know About Stress
Whether it?s called stress management, relaxation training, or its newest incarnation, ?Resiliancy,? it seems that the question of healthy response to the stress of daily life is on everyone?s mind. But it?s important to remember a few things about stress that are rarely discussed?if known at all!
1) Stress won?t hurt you. Hans Selye, the ?father of stress? was a polylinguist, whose first language was not English. Before he died, he said that, had his command of English been more precise, he would have been known as the ?Father of Strain? rather than stress. What?s the difference? Enormous, from an engineering standpoint. Stress is pressure divided by unit area, whereas strain is measured in deformation per unit length. In other words, while strain speaks to the load you ar...
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