Stress levels vacillate
between healthy levels
and unhealthy levels.
Recent investigations un-
veiled that sporadic stress
optimizes the mind’s
performance.
that demands teens to juggle various activities to be
a cardinal stressor (Shapiro, n.d). As a teen enters
the frontier of adulthood, the stressors transmutes
to other events. Millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers
cite money, work and housing costs to be of their
paramount concern while matures agonize over their
health problems (Stress by Generation, n.d). Can we
transcend to a future where there is no stress? Howe-
ver, that future is nothing but a chimera since we are
biologically wired to respond to stress/stressors via
fight/flight response.
produces greater proportion of chemicals which
ameliorates our heat rates and augments our “mus-
cle preparedness, sweating and alertness” – which
are consequently needed to protect ourselves from
onerous/perilous circumstances (What Is Stress?
How To Deal With Stress, 2009). Inconsequential
body functions like our “digestive or immune sys-
tems” are also waned so that all the resources can
be utilized to beget “rapid breathing, blood flow, alert-
ness and muscle use” (What Is Stress? How To Deal
With Stress, 2009). Thus, stressors and stress is
inherent in us and is preeminent for our progress and
evolution. It is not circumscribed to our survival ins-
Fight/flight response
tincts but also applies to our personal growth. For
example, external stressors like pressure and advice
When faced with an impediment, a human body retorts
from others acts as a guide and allows us to look
by emancipating biological “resources” to safeguard us:
out for better opportunities. However, the salubrious
We either take flight or we fight. For instance, if there
effects of stress can be accomplished only at healthy
is an earthquake, the agility of a person in getting out
stress levels
of a building would bolster the chances of his survival
(What Is Stress? How To Deal With Stress, 2009). Jux-
taposing with a similar situation of an earthquake- but Good stress levels and bad
this time one has to salvage another person by lifting stress levels
the weight off them - ancillary biological “resources”/
hormones is required to impel someone forward (What Stress levels vacillate between healthy levels and un-
Is Stress? How To Deal With Stress, 2009). Eventually, healthy levels. Recent investigations unveiled that
the flight/fight response is simply our body’s nervous sporadic stress optimizes the mind’s performance
system respondi