Can you eliminate stress from your life? 4 options for any situation
Is it possible to live a life free from stress? Or is that a utopia reserved for dreamers? The question came up last week at The Leaders in Wellbeing Summit in Jersey where we explored and celebrated what it means to have a healthy work culture. I spoke on the importance of boundaries in preserving your energy (your true capital). The first thing to know about stress is that there’s no real scientific consensus on its definition, other than a general agreement that it’s something to do with an organism’s need to adapt to its environment but the meaning of all the terms in that sentence are debatable. So can you reduce or perhaps even eliminate stress in life? The Buddha and various deep thinkers from Greece to India 2,500 years ago seemed to think so… What is stress exactly? One reason stress is difficult to pin down is that there’s no perfect correlation between how you feel and what your body is going through – the subjective experience and bi...