The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.
Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.
I am an over-thinker and tend to stress a lot.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.
Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.