Why do we have so much stress in life,?

Question

Why can't all things be so easy.

Answer 1

stress is a product of the way we live in these times. People rarely take enough time out to just sit back and relax. Even when they try to relax they have to be doing something. Every once in a while, depart yourself from outside influences and just take some time to BE. We are humans BEing after all. Concentrate and control your breating and listen to everything that you can hear. It feels good.

Answer 2

As the Police sang: "Too much information, running through my brain/driving me insane"! And that was in the '80's. Now, people don't just leave work; they take it with them via laptops, cell-phones, Blackberries, video phones, constant TV & radio. They try to "multi-task", which is really impossible, in cognitive terms, so they stress out!

Nobody just STOPS, shuts off all the electronics and unplugs the phone. If you do that even for an hour a day, your brain gets to process all this info, though I'd recommend doing it for longer and practicing a form of relaxation. Also, people get too little exercise and though they're connected to more people by the Internet & phone, they're really DISconnected physically. Humans need that, just like other social animals.

Answer 3

We create our own stress, but also, America has become a nation with a self-destructive, consumerist economy.

Still, how you respond to things comes from within you. You can control how you react to stressful situations by not getting stressed. If you can change you attitude and control your feelings, then lifes daily worries become less of a problem.

Answer 4

We worry to much about other people feel about us. Learn to be happy, enjoy life, see all of the wonderful things we have. We are here for such a time on this Earth Do you remember what you were worrying about last year? Most likely not, so be happy with you have, strive for more, you should make it, just forget about what others may think, all you really have to please is your self.

Answer 5

I have asked that question many many times. I have no answer except the standard one:

What do we learn from times that are easy? We learn the most from hard times.

Ok, that is true. But does it have to be one challenge quickly followed by another?

Answer 6

We stress over things that are not even worth our time to stress over

Answer 7

Well, you see, within us all, there is something that just wants to be different..........something that wants to deviate from the norm and surpass the boundaries of social rules. In society, we are pressured into conforming to norms (expected standards of behaviour)......and if we don't conform to those norms we are "punished" in various ways, such as rejection, which reduces our ability to enjoy life. I think that stress in life is largely a product of the ongoing conflict conflict between that liberal part of us that wants to deviate from these norms of society, and the part of us that wants to conform, for fear of rejection and discrimination. The multiplied effect of this internal struggle gives us a lot of stress!

Answer 8

its a human thing... animals for example only stress when their lives are in danger or some serious **** is about to happen... Its just one of those things everyone has to put up with somtimes, try one of them health websites for some more info eg. www.bbc.co.uk/health

Answer 9

if life had no challenges it would get dull quick......look at paris hilton....given everything she wants and now expects a pardon after breaking the law.

Answer 10

because then life would be boring, we need to stress to give us new challenges