Understanding Stress in New Light

Stress has become an important topic in academic and professional circles. Stress is our enemy as well asfriend. Many scholarsin the field of behavioural scienceshave carried out extensive research to explore sources and effects of stress and have devised various coping strategies accordingly. In some cases, an individual’slevel of stress(i.e. eustress) can contribute asan effective motivator for the overall improvement of his behaviour. Stress affects our social, psychological, emotional, and spiritual development. In the present article, we discuss the concept of stress as acronym i.e. STRESS. It is possible to experience and observe the external differences in terms of perceiving stress as stimulus, transaction, and response because our basic natures are the same. Environmental and socialfactorsas well asspiritual distress can cause people to perceive stress. We do not need people to become stressful; the only need is to adopt positive strategies to cope with stress. Then make best use of it to solve a problemorreach a goal. We need to focuson how stress can be helpful to usand utilize stress purposefully and meaningfully. When you attach stress with a purpose it makes handling of the difficult situation easy and motivatesone to copewith it in best possibleway.