{"id":1966,"date":"2018-10-09T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:27:15","slug":"stress-is-a-perception-of-an-imbalance-of-perceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/stress\/stress-is-a-perception-of-an-imbalance-of-perceptions","title":{"rendered":"Stress is a Perception of an Imbalance of Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stress is played out at the level of perceptions. That doesn\u2019t make it less real or bodily or worthy of many people\u2019s attention or less capable to deeply influence the bottom line of any company.<\/h3>\n

Responsibility, no guilt<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s always important to note: the fact that stress is a perception, doesn\u2019t make you guilty. It doesn\u2019t make you a weak person. It also shouldn\u2019t diminish responsibility of others.<\/p>\n

We are all responsible for ourselves and each other.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blaming others makes a world of increasing guilt and diminished caring.<\/p>\n

Shared responsibility makes a world of diminishing guilt and increased caring.<\/p>\n

So, without guilt, you might be ready for the following.<\/p>\n

Stress is a feeling.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As any<\/em> feeling, one can approach it from a psychological viewpoint and from a somatic (bodily) viewpoint. What<\/em> you approach, is the same thing: a body-mind happening.<\/p>\n

The focus of AURELIS is the psychological viewpoint.<\/p>\n

Feelings and thoughts<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

are generally seen as quite distinct from one another. This has been the case for many centuries in the past. Yet brain science shows that cognitions (thoughts) and emotions (or feelings) are inseparable in many ways.<\/p>\n

Psychologically, w can differentiate them in more abstract ways, yet in our concrete human mental processing, thinking and feeling are much closer together than is generally thought and has been thought.<\/p>\n

In this sense, one may converge the thinking and feeling side concerning stress into:<\/p>\n

\u2018Stress is a perception\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

of \u2018stressors\u2019 (= stress inducing circumstances).<\/p>\n

Not the concrete stressors provoke the stress. By themselves, they are meaningless. They are pure \u2018forms\u2019. Deep meaning only comes to being through a meaning-giver. [see: \u2018Meaning<\/a>\u2019]<\/p>\n

Or: one can widen the term \u2018stresor\u2019 towards encompassing the intra-personal reaction to it. In such case, the \u2018stressing\u2019 part within these stressors is about an (im)balance of \u2013 again \u2013 perceptions:<\/p>\n