Acute stress, on the other hand, can be a good thing. An ongoing low level of stress is actually quite healthy. It allows you to think more clearly, increase concentration and improve performance. If you can keep your chronic stressors acute, you can resist the wear-and-tear of this ugly stress.

Even if some damage has been done,it’s possible to reverse aging and your disease risk! The first step to this seemingly easy task is allowing yourself to learn how this is possible.

While our worries are very particular to what’s going on in our lives, there are some universal stress sources.

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If you worry about your job or paying the bills, you’re certainly not alone. Two out of the ten major stressors are related to work and finances. Visit our Work and Finances sections to help you work toward an action plan to combat these chronic stressors.

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There is yet another kind of stress, different from acute and chronic stressors: Major Life Events.

You don’t need us to tell you the things that fit into this category—divorce, moving, job changes, family death, sudden illness and bankruptcy aren’t exactly at the same level as a cell battery dying.

The stats show that three major life events in a one-year period will make your body feel and act as though it were 32 years older in the next year.

It’s especially important to develop coping strategies and support systems to sustain you in times of crisis.