Stress is a major contributing factor to many illnesses such as high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. Increasing your blood pressure through stress can cause your heart to work harder, possibly leading to a potential heart attack or stroke. With todays corporate culture it is no wonder that stress levels are at an all time high and that the stress management industry is growing day by day. As we stand right at the beginning of the information age, and having just left the industrial age, you would be right in thinking that stress should be obsolete, however this is not the case.
With the beginning of the information age our society begin to speed up and in actual fact wants more and wants it more quickly. And this is what has happened the world (metaphorically) has shrunk as we learn and get what we want in a fraction of the time that we did before. This leads to stress as there are many people that need to fulfil our growing needs. And in the grand scheme of things we are fulfilling others wants and needs too. Basically put the more we want, the more we have to do! But this doesnt have to be the case. We dont have to live our lives in the Rat Race we can...