Ways to Best Deal With Stressful Situations

| Saturday, November 12, 2011
By Clair R. Fosters


Getting rid of stress is sometimes a horrifying effort that many people have a hard time with on a daily basis. Pressure from peers, the pressures of everyday living and other things we encounter can contribute to some of the reasons people experience stress. Sometimes, there is little time to finish a task, and we feel on the spot. This is a feeling that needs to be overcome. On the other hand, you can find people who find stressful situations as a way to grow and push themselves further. It seems that the more stress these individuals come in contact with, the stronger they become.

Can we achieve this type of reaction through particular methods that can be learned from these individuals? There are some situations which many people keep away from due to stress, while others go through the same situations like it was never a problem to begin with and because of this reaction, shows that there is a secret we can follow to do the same.

Further, many of us have figured out tactics to deal with day-to-day stress, but what about knowing what to do in the actual moment of stress? Taking time to think about a stressful decision can sometimes be the difference between making the correct or wrong decisions and many people do the latter because they don't see any other options. Taking each second to determine an appropriate course of action is something that should be thought about in a calm manner.

As I considered what to do when these events popped up, I actually stumbled upon something that I believe could help those affected. Sara Bronfman from the World Ethical Foundations Consortium hosted an interview from the Dalai Lama in New York. Compassionate ethics in difficult times was the subject of this particular meeting. In moments of stress, how does compassion and ethics play a part?

Well, when I began to think about it, the relation I found between compassion, ethics, and difficult times, is that when you put the three together, you are more likely to make good decisions. Why would this make sense to some people? Being compassionate to others that surround us or are involved in the difficult scenario means that we are thinking about them and their well-being throughout the whole decision-making process. Making the right decisions is a blunt effect of having solid instilled ethics that are good for decision making. By pondering the best possible solution to a problem that is affecting you, you are using your good ethics and judgments to come to this overall conclusion. If you are wary of this concept, try it out the next time you come across a tough situation and evaluate the way in which compassion and ethics help you. In fact, if we are grounded in compassion and ethics, it's possible that stressful situations can take on something of a more effortless quality, the next time we need it.




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