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Communication and self-management to reduce stress.
Joshua Uebergang considers 'how to get stress working for you'.
How we interact with others and ourselves controls our stress. A simple problem or disagreement with another person grows in our mind. What once was a minor problem is now a major one due to poor communication and self.
It shouldn't be like this. There are ways to manage your stress so you have complete control of your feelings. You can control your stress around people though it is a near impossible task to not become stressed. Learn these ways to manage your stress.
Not enough time, boss pushing for work to be completed, children are annoying you, bills to pay, shopping to be done, housework to do, partner asking for your help…
Does this sound like a familiar scenario in your life? Stress is always with us controlling what we do and how we feel. If you're stressed you do things faster and in an unhappier way. You either become aggressive towards other people as a form of releasing the stress or you become submissive by hiding the stress.
By becoming aggressive towards another person, it temporarily feels okay, but then reality kicks in as you feel even more stressed from hurting the other person. When you are submissive and hide your stress, it internally eats at you hurting your emotions and your relationships.
When under stress, your communication style will change in response to the situation. You can go from a cool and collected person one moment when not under stress, yet when a stressful situation impinges your tolerable threshold your calm style will shift into the aggressive or submissive behavioral states.
What behavior you fall back on in the stressful situation will be the one you have been comfortable with using in the past that will most likely have 'protected' you. It's a natural human extinct built within us that we use to block out external factors and listen to internal ones.
You probably now are able to realize that when you are stressed you begin to block out external factors—such as how other people are feeling—as your interpersonal skills begin to lessen. You begin to only show concern for what your internal factors are telling you.
When someone has surpassed their tolerable stress level, telling them to get their 'act together' or how ineffective their current communication is, often does not work.
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