Sentences with word «eustress»

Some kinds of stress (called eustress) can be motivating.

The birth process presents specific eustress challenges to the mother, who can benefit from these challenges when she remains an active participant in the birthing process.

The birth process presents specific eustress challenges to the infant, who can benefit from these challenges when he or she remains an active participant in the birthing process.

We've been learning about eustress and distress since the third grade, and sadly, stress is something kids are feeling earlier and earlier in life.

The same task — for instance, giving an oral presentation in front of a large audience as part of a class project — may spark eustress in some kids and distress in others.

Importantly, eustress tends to be short term, within a child's perceived capacity to handle, and often leads to growth.

Here are the key steps and advanced strategies to adapt to stress more effectively and take your distress and turn it into eustress.

An example of eustress would be high - intensity exercise where the body is aggressively challenged but later adapts and becomes stronger and more resilient through that stress (1).

There are also positive forms of stress, which I refer to as eustress, and negative forms of stress, which we most commonly think about when we hear the word «stress.»

Most kids have experienced eustress.

Dogs that are eustressed by guests often jump to greet them, lick or mouth them as they enter, weave about their feet, and beg for attention in sometimes obnoxious ways.

This «good stress» is what eustress can be identified as and some people enjoy it.

It's called eustress and it's the good kind of stress.

The flipside of distress, eustress is a form of positive stress, associated with achieving gains in life.

As Hans Selye, pioneer researcher on stress, makes clear, it is our attitudes toward events in our lives that turn them into «distress» or «eustress» (good stress), not the events per se.

The tricky part for adults is how to determine which tasks and situations lead to eustress versus distress, and particularly, chronic distress.

Managing your stress — eustress (a beneficial reaction that galvanizes you to perform, achieve, or overcome; feeling positive and fulfilled) versus distress (feeling overwhelmed, often temporary acute mental and physical suffering) is up to you.

By contrast, positive stress («eustress»), of the kind that can occur in emotionally exciting social situations can actually cause the hippocampus to increase in size.

Nonetheless, some varieties of stress from negative life events (distress) and from positive life events (eustress) can clearly have a serious physical impact distinct from the troubles of what psychotherapists call the «worried well.»

Gelotologists — that is, people who conduct research on the physical and psychological components of laughter (seriously)-- call it eustress, or positive stress, that decreases hormones like cortisol and epinephrine and can produce physical effects similar to light exercise.

Everyone in modern society has some degree of adrenal gland stress — it just depends if it is eustress (beneficial — glad to wake up out of bed type of stress) or distress.

The healthy type of tension called «eustress» or otherwise known as good stress, can be a real motivator.

Dr. Nelson breaks all stressors into either eustress or distress.

A eustress workout for me may kill you.

A eustress workout for Ethan Grossman would likely leave me dead.

There are two main types of stress: positive and negative, also known as distress and eustress.

Any stress is eustress.

But doorways often create stress, whether it is happy stress (eustress) or unhappy stress (distress).

The difficulty of training will be eustress, and your dog will be able to grow and improve from each session.

These axes are also responsible for other behavioral manifestations of «stress,» whether that stress be distress or eustress (moderate or normal psychological stress that can be beneficial for the experiencer).

In the term of stress we can attribute a negative (distress) and a positive dimension (eustress).

For example, if thinking of your partner reminds you of your most recent argument, it may negate the eustress effect.

Stress can be good (eustress) or bad (distress)-- both kinds have an impact on us physically and emotionally.