Stress is a double edged sword, whether you realize this or not. One end, helps you cut through obstacles and makes it easier for you to move forward. However, if you’re not careful, that same double-edged sword can end up hurting you, especially if you experience stress more than the average person does.

Sadly, this is the case more often than not, when the stress hormone cortisol shows its ugly side and starts to adversely affect your health.

Regardless, stress is here to stay. It does have its utility, and can make you an efficient working individual. Remember it is not stress or what is causing stress itself but our perception of it that makes a difference. And we have the power to gauge our response to it.

Meditations 8.28 states Pain is either an evil to the body- then let the body say what it thinks of it- or to the soul; but it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility, and not to think that pain is an evil. For every judgement and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

This is why it’s important to tell the difference between good and bad stress, and make it work for you. The reasoning mind helps to discern this and what type of action to take.