Stress is the natural, God-created, bodily response to external stimuli. Therefore, stress is, in and of itself, good and necessary. But the body was simply not made for the world in which we live. Our world can cause Perpetual Stress Response Syndrome, which is essentially the body’s inability to "turn off" because of chronic stress from such things as:
Constant noise
Traffic
Fractured family systems
Disconnection from creation
Disconnection from history
Disconnection from meaningful community
Financial pains
Electricity and the 24-hour lifestyle
Constant interruption by technology such as phones and BlackBerries
The average worker is interrupted once every 11 minutes and it takes 25 minutes to refocus on their task.
Overwork, marked by the average workweek growing from 40 to 50 hours in the U.S. in the past 25 years. We work more hours than any nation other than Japan, which works an equal number of hours.
Salaried and temp positions that provide no job security
Success, which sometimes causes even more stress than failure
Advertising (which tells you to feel good) and direct marketing of pills to fix you (which makes you aware of all that may be wrong with you)
