Stress surrounds us on a daily basis. which of the following statements best describes ways to reduce or handle stress?   a. handling stress effectively involves ignoring stressors and remaining silent about stressful issues. b. handling stress effectively involves recognizing what your stressors are, developing healthy behaviors to minimize stress, and adopting positive coping skills. c. handling stress effectively involves recognizing what stressors are and visiting a psychologist weekly to discuss stressful issues. d. handling stress  effectivley  involves doing whatever it takes to erase the stressful issue from your mind.

Stress is the body’s reaction when we feel threatened, unsafe, confused and otherwise unhappy. But for such a commonly experienced and well-understood problem, we are doing a pretty bad job at dealing with it. Usual advice for reducing stress includes exercise, meditation, breathing exercises, etc. But the problem with this advice is that it doesn’t really address the problem of stress (you can exercise in the morning and still feel stressed at work), or that it means taking up a habit which usually takes a long time, and even then it’s not sure it will stick.

A much more efficient way of handling stress is reevaluating our whole relationship with it.

The answer is B

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