STRESS!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195115/Stress-costs-working-days-lost-1970s-strikes.html

Have a read of that! Makes for an interesting distraction and the thing I find most odd about Stress and how people relate to it, is that the majority of people seem to have a very outmoded and old fashioned opinion that stress is just part of life and you've got to get on with it.

There's a hotbed of debate surrounding this and it could be argued that there is a certain naivety in suggesting that Stress can easily be avoided, but I firmly believe that stress is one of the main symptoms of poor communication between people who are brought together by a common goal, whether that is work or a relationship.

Perhaps the most dumbfounding this is the sheer weight of factual evidence supporting the notion that people feel trapped in a situation that they cannot change.

to quote the article directly;

"13.5million working days a year are lost because of stress-related illness"

Now that's alot of money going down the drain on a daily basis. An average working day must cost a company at least £60.00, so when you tot that all up the economy is losing well over £800million a year because people are stressed out about their situation - and that's just work. This 21st century phenomenon is destroying our society from the inside.

I feel there needs to be a concious shift from our current way of thinking to a more productive and relaxed outlook. We all wonder how the Europeans keep their cool so readily - perhaps we need to take a leaf out of their book, especially in this near tropical sunshine we're getting.

Take some time out to relax, and watch this stress nonsense disappear.