Creating our own Stress
We try to hard, we strive for unachievable goals and most importantly we often fail to relate to or understand our own feelings.

This failure is a primary reason for much of our stress and yet it is also the gateway to understanding why certain situations, environments or particular people seem to make us feel anxious, stressed and all those other sore feelings we hate so much.

Trying to hard for too much
Personal stress is often driven by our desire to do better, go faster, to be better people. We find ourselves labelled according to our occupation, model of car or size of house and the pressure is always there to maintain our position within society.

Unfortunately as we strive to reach these goals it is often at the expense of ourselves. We no longer have the time to stop and talk, to listen or to take an interest and slowly those around us become strangers as we sink into our own shell.

Our Intelligance
Though some manage to cope with their stress, for many of us, increased levels of stress lead to an inability to communicate and relate to those around us. We become cognitively exhausted and feel locked into a world which has no appeal. We can't negotiate or reason our way out the mess. Yet it's at this time that our sore feelings are our intelligance. Only when we can identify our emotions, our feelings, can we know our own mind and develop the potential to ease our stress before it begins to effect those around us.

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