Breaking the Cycle of Stress

There are several paths to dealing with the stress cycle. The first one may be that it is used by a minority for its own personal benefit, letting most people succumb to the cycle of stress and fall into ignorance of its effect on them.

Obviation
Do not go to stressful places; also avoid doing stressful tasks if at all possible. Do not propagate stress because it would only return.

Amelioration
Whatever happens, stressful situations can be reframed as useful challenges thus reducing the harmful health impacts of stress. Always honouring the struggle as something useful is also a good tactic to maintain a growth mindset. Planning for critical situations and thinking for solutions prior to the actual event or catastrophy can let us keep calm when the stress does occur so that the cognitive deficits that occur are supplemented by preplanned and prepared courses of action. However any experience of stress may keep the background stress elevated and is therefore harmful for our cognitive capacities and problem solving skills.

Destressing
This topic has its own page.