Article Directory :: Self-Improvement/Motivation Articles The Secret Ways Stress Manifests By Julia Austin Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 17Jan2012 Word count: 493 Viewed: 192 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site I don't consider myself a "stressed out" person. You know who they are when you come across them. They tap their feet a lot. They look at their watches obsessively. They get very impatient in line at Starbucks and are rude to the barista. All in all, they are unpleasant to be around. I know I am not this way. And, since I'm not this way, I pegged myself as someone who just wasn't stressed. That was, until I went to get a massage. The second the masseuse put her hands on me she said "oh my gaaawwd." Well, she tried to say it in between my "ooh! Ouch!" Little did I know, she was barely touching me… Turns out that people who do not communicate stress with words, their body finds another way to communicate it. I'm not the first one to discover this. Just go line up at a chiropractor's office. Most of the patients haven't undergone any serious "trauma." They are just stressed! I even came across the concept in a video about singing. A professional classical singer found that she was struggling to sing because of stress. Her voice wasn't working properly because of it. I had never heard of that before, but it proved that stress can manifest itself in so many ways. There is a reason many people will tell you to just "let it out." Cry, scream, say a few choice words. Stress is a force. It is an energy. And if you know anything about energy, you know that it cannot be destroyed. If you try to play nice, if you try to be pleasant for the sake of others, you might be the one to pay the toll. My masseuse told me she had not felt tension in muscles like she felt in mine in all of her career. And, I believed her. I get emails and phone calls all day. I'm a freelancer so, I have lots of "bosses" (editors) who change the direction they want my articles to take—articles I'm already half way through—multiple times a day. And there you have stress. But I cannot say something. So I don't. My body ends up saying something to my masseuse instead. Stress needs to go somewhere. And while we don't like the people who get mad at the barista at Starbucks, and we don't want to be mean or yell at those we love, if we don't externalize stress, we internalize it. And that could mean hours spent at a chiropractor or masseuse--hours that take us out of the office and that stress us over missing work. Not to mention the bills that will also stress us out. So, find some way to externalize your stress, without hurting others. Julia Austin is a dating columnist who also covers luxury lifestyle and healthy living topics for various publications. Her subject matter ranges from eco-friendly hotels to first date tips and even methods on how to improve one's singing and voice techniques. EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Julia Austin

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