Stress, relaxation & philosophers

STRESS, RELAXATION &
PHILOSOPHERS
ARGUMENTS

WHAT IS STRESS?
 Stress is the backlash of the body to some transition
involving adaptation or response. The body responds
with physiological, behavioral, and psychological
reactions to those adjustments.
 Stress is a matter of everyday existence. You may feel
discomfort from the surroundings, body and emotions.
Also significant developments in life, like advancement,
mortgage or a baby's conception, cause tension.
 Hans Selye introduced the word "stress" as it is
commonly known in 1936, describing it as the body's
indifferent reaction to some call for improvement. But
Selye was sadly ignorant that stress was used in science
to describe the term elasticity for decades (Spielberger
et al., 2014).

WHAT IS STRESS RELAXATION?
 With all of us relaxing involves flopping on the sofa
at the end of a long day and tuning out in front of
the Television. Yet this does nothing to rising
stress's harmful impact.
 Instead, one has to trigger the body's normal
reaction to relaxation, a condition of intense
relaxation that places the brakes on tension,
reduces breathing and cardiac pace, decreases blood
pressure, and integrates body and mind.
 Someone may achieve so by performing methods of
calming such as deep breathing, reflection, melodic
training, yoga, or tai chi. Daily practice may greatly
relieve frequent stress (Castile et al., 2016).

ZENO – THE PHILOSOPHER
 Zeno of Citium (c. 336–265 BCE) was the father
of the Stoic School of Philosophy in Athens who
believed that the Logos (Universal Reason) was
the supreme value of existence, and the object of
human existence was to live according to it.
 His father was a trader who frequently traveled
to Athens and Zeno of course picked up the career
of his father. If Zeno learned philosophy in his
teens is unknown, but about the time of 22, when
lost following a ship debris in Athens, he took up
a replica of Xenophon's Memorabilia (Ehrlich,
2014).