Stress: The Prime Cause of Anxiety
May 9, 2010 by Ultra Fitness Dynamics
Filed under Psychology, Stress, Wellness
Living with stress is a fact of life, one that everyone must cope with. Each day, individuals must make decisions under varying degrees of stress. While stress itself can be helpful, exposure to chronic levels can change bodily functions and, unless it is relieved, can create long term anxiety problems in individuals, including Generalized Anxiety [...]
Is Stress Healthy?
January 17, 2010 by Ultra Fitness Dynamics
Filed under Psychology, Stress
In 1975, Canadian endocrinologist Dr. Hans Hugo Bruno Selye began a minor revolution in the world of stress study by formally publishing a new model of stress that divided it into two categories: eustress and distress. The prefix “eu-” comes from the root Greek term for “good” or “well”, and Selye used it to put [...]
Cognitive Dissonance
January 8, 2010 by Ultra Fitness Dynamics
Filed under Psychology, Stress
Cognitive dissonance is the state of discomfort and unease that follows upon simultaneously holding two ideas or beliefs that are opposed to, or incongruent with each, other; it also involves the tendency of that condition to resolve itself by changing the ideas or beliefs, and/or by rationalizing them. The beliefs and ideas need not be [...]
