You Choose What You Stress About!

Stress is a fear based response to a situation.

A situation on its own is never a problem but how that situation affects an individual is - 
thought, emotions and the behaviours you respond with are the true stressors.

We know that it's the individual's mental, emotional and physical response to a situation that causes stress as different people respond differently to different situations. 

For example, a rollercoaster ride for one person may cause a huge stress response as they may think "it's dangerous", feel scared of heights and their body may tremble, whereas, someone else may think "this will be fun", feel happy and smile. These 2 differing responses cause 2 very different reactions in the body - emotionally, chemically and physically. 

One = stress, the other = joy

So even though it may not feel like it we really do choose what we stress about - perhaps not consciously and usually so quickly that we are not even aware of it. 

Our perceptions created from past experience, family laws, cultural conditioning and religious/spiritual beliefs all create the responses we choose to different situations.