Assessing Your General Actual Stress Level

Does your body fail you whenever there is a stressful event?

Do you experience a mental or emotional or physical breakdown?

Maybe it is time to do a diagnosis of these whole year stressful events that led to your actual situation.

We will evaluate together the level of stress caused by all these major events experienced during the previous year.

This will allow you to connect any actual breakdown symptoms to the events and to anticipate your probability to fall ill due to this stress.

Stress is simply a reaction to a stimulus that disturbs a person's physical or emotional equilibrium.

It is your body's way of reacting to a challenge.

Stress describes a condition that can have an impact,

Usually negatively,

On your mental and physical well-being.

First of all,

It is very important to recognize stress to realize that you are stressed.

Our bodies are sometimes so accustomed to evolving in this permanent state of tension that they are incapable of detecting warning signals.

However,

It is essential to understand that very often stress sneaks in and gradually grows.

Until the day it explodes everything in its path and is then too late to react.

Over the preceding 12 months,

Note all the stress factors that affected you.

The sources of stress are numerous and varied.

As a general rule,

They are classified into several categories according to the area of life concerned,

Family,

Like couple,

Children,

Etc.

,

Work,

Pressure,

Overload,

Unemployment,

Etc.

,

Living condition,

Pollution,

Transport,

House,

Etc.

,

Health,

Etc.

On all these points,

Our modern way of life is certainly more stressful than in the past.

As we all have our own way of reacting to stress,

This exercise will be done in two steps.

We will first list what stressful events you have had these 12 months and you'll rate them over 100.

In general,

Stress is divided into a positive and negative impact on you.

A positive stress can be a long-awaited stress,

A marriage for instance,

Or a long-awaited moving homes.

It has a positive effect on your body.

A negative stress,

On the contrary,

Has a negative effect on your body,

Causing emotional,

Mental,

And body breakdown,

Depression,

Etc.

And this is what we are going to tackle in this audio.

I am Jianna Raishi and I am an energy coach.

So during this exercise,

We will focus on the negative stress that you have faced these 12 months and for each situation identified,

You'll evaluate how the stress was experienced by indicating minus or double minus for negative or very negative stress.

If you want,

You can even add a triple negative stress,

Triple minus.

Put each event in a line because you will do a calculation next to it.

You will rate next to each line a stress level scale,

The maximum of which is 100,

100 being very stressful and zero,

No stress field.

There is positive stress and negative stress and you will only focus on the negative stress.

If you don't know how to calculate on a scale of zero to 100,

Just feel this stress.

You can hear it from your ears,

Maybe a number will appear or you can feel the sensations of your body rising or you can feel the number from your heart area.

Just let your body speak for you.

And this evaluation will depend on the following parameters.

So it will depend on the number of times these stressful events occurred over these 12 months.

If it was one-off,

If it was permanent,

Single or repetitive,

For instance,

If you had five huge fights impacting the whole family and it generated a whole conflict or it generated a new illness,

It doesn't have the same negative stress as having just two small fights.

It will depend on the duration of the stressful events.

For instance,

To take last example,

A chronic disease that lasted few months doesn't have the same impact as two small flus.

It will depend on the perceived severity or intensity of the stress caused by the event,

Which can be minor or on the contrary very intense.

And you should take under account the accumulative effect,

The more your body doesn't bear anymore that event.

No matter if it is a small event,

You'll perceive it very intense.

This rating will depend on the power that you have over the stressful events.

If you feel powerless,

If you feel powerful.

For instance,

The more you feel powerless,

The more you can feel stressed.

A disease that lasted few months for which you can't find a solution no matter the doctors you go to or the medicine you take,

Doesn't have the same stress level as a disease for which you can feel improvements over time.

So the less control you have over the situation,

The more stress is a source of discomfort.

This rating will depend on the predictability of the stress.

The more predictable the stress is,

Because you have prepared for it,

The smoother the adaptation.

And last parameter,

Obviously a major event such as the death of a spouse,

A divorce,

An accident,

Huge accident,

A change in health,

Serious illness,

Will have a much greater level of stress than for example a change of hobbies.

And for example,

If you live with a chronic illness or if you had repetitive illnesses,

Your stress level will be closer to 100 than if you've had a minor cold.

So now let's dive in the exercise.

Begin by writing the stressful events that happened to you this year and that impacted you.

And you'll add to it all the potential stressful events that you might have not recalled for each category and just stop the recording and rate each one of them on 0 to 100.

And after that,

I'll add to you all the potential stressful events that you might have not recalled.

I just give you a last tip.

If you rate an event double minus and it happened five times,

Then its stress level is higher than the one which is just one minus and it happened one time.

So you can stop the recording till you have put each negative stressful event and its rating on a scale of 0 to 100.

100 being very stressful and 0 being not stressful at all.

And now let's add additional events that you might have not thought of.

You just add the ones that have an impact on you.

Head of a spouse,

Divorce,

Separation from a spouse,

Imprisonment,

Death of a close family member,

Injury,

Illness,

Marriage,

Dismissal from work,

Reconciliation with a spouse,

Retirement,

Alteration in the health of a family member,

Pregnancy,

Sexual problems,

Arrival of a new member in the family,

Professional rehabilitation,

Changing financial situation,

Changing the number of quarrels with the spouse or a family member,

Housing loan,

Inability to repay a loan,

Changing professional responsibilities,

Son or daughter leaving home,

Problems with in-laws,

Extraordinary personal achievement,

Spouse stopping or returning to work,

Beginning or ending school,

Changing living conditions,

Review of personal habits,

Problems with the boss,

Changing hours or working conditions,

Change of residence,

Change of school,

Change of hobbies,

Changing religious activities,

Changing social activities,

Small loan,

Changing sleeping habits,

Changing number of family gatherings,

Changing eating habits,

Holidays,

Christmas,

Minor infraction of the law.

You can add to it any other event that you might have forgotten in the first batch of events.

You can stop the recording till you have rated everything on a scale of 0 to 100.

And now calculate the total stress found in all events.

How many lines did you have in total?

For instance,

If it was 41 in total,

And your total stress is 2,

500,

Then your level of stress is 61%.

The higher your stress level,

The higher the likelihood that your health,

Mental or physical,

Will be affected.

How do you consider 61%?

Do you consider it too much or acceptable?

It's all depending on you,

On your resilience,

On your age,

Your tolerance to stress,

Etc.

Now,

These old illnesses you have had this year,

This could be a physical or mental illness.

Relate them to the time where you had the stressful event.

How long after did it occur?

Connect the triggering events of your illnesses.

For instance,

If just after a divorce you've had a mental breakdown and you've had a chronic disease,

Then it might be related.

If after a major fight with your in-laws,

Each time you have a persistent cough for which any medicine doesn't have any effect,

It is totally related.

How recurrent are the stressful events in your life?

You can this way anticipate all the possible future events that will cause this reaction to stress of your body.

This exercise allows you to check how your body is resilient to the negative events.

If each time that you have a fight,

Your body develops a mental breakdown or a disease,

Maybe it's time to work on avoiding the stressful future events or to work on your future reactions to stress through healing,

Therapy,

Coaching,

Etc.

Just take the time to really create the relationship between your body reactions to all the stressful events that happened to you,

Because they are the key to all your future possible body reactions and how you can avoid them.

Here are some tips that will help you.

The more stressed you are,

The more important it is to release this stress.

For this,

You have several possibilities.

You can put the events into perspective or make them positive.

Accept them.

You can too remove the stress energetically from your body by cleansing your solar plexus chakra and the heart chakra.

We have reached the end of this audio.

I hope that you have done the exercises and I am really happy to share with you any insight of your experience if you take the time to write them in comments.

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Have an amazing day!