analyze strateges to cope with stress as part of the urban rat race

Nowadays, people live in a stressful life. Not only adult have to duel with stress in their career and their social relationship but also children (student) have to duel with their stress in study and friend relationship. Among of them, there is 37% get insomnia because of stress. However, most of doctors recommend his patient to sleep more when they are having stress. This essay will focus on how sleep affects stress as part of urban rat race.

Sleeping is the first and most effective way of reducing stress. The suggestion is that people should get as much as rest. Mary I. O’Sullivan states that “deep sleep plays a major role in maintaining general health, and REM sleep affects our moods, performance and behavior by processing learning and memory and resolving emotional distress.” If people do not get enough sleep, people found very hard to balance their life. They cannot finish the work effectively.

For most of us, sleep is the easiest and most natural form of relaxation around. People need do sleep 8 hours per day. If people work very hard on weekdays they will not have enough sleep. Hence, they sure will take longer sleep in weekend in order to get back their balance in life. In addition, when people feel tired and headache, the first thing they think of is sleep. Some people can fall in sleep without their consciousness because of tiredness. In addition, there are 70% worker can fall to sleep after a few minus of lying on the bed.

However, stress also affect to the sleep badly. Scientist has proved that a little anxious can make your muscles tense, prompt your body to release the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, and elevate your heart rate. It makes the sleep become difficult to start off. Once people do not have enough sleep, the bran does not function well and the work is ineffective. People can feel these effects when you're worried during the day. But at night, they have a stronger impact, overriding your ability to sleep or preventing you from staying asleep so you wake in the middle of the night, says Thomas Roth, PhD, director of the sleep center at the Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit.

There are several ways to get sleep fast without distraction from stress. Never oversleep is the important step in order to have a good sleep. 8 of 10 people said that they are hard to get sleep early at night because they have sleep 3 hours in afternoon. It is not good for the bran to rest so long. It becomes inactive. Sleeping late for just a couple of days can reset your body clock to a different cycle -- you'll be getting sleepy later and waking up later. Secondly, exercise will be the good ideal for having a good sleep at night. It can help to relax tense muscles and the increased blood flow round the body. In this way, the body will be relax and the bran should not tire due to the tens body. Hence, the bran becomes easy to get off.

In conclusion, sleep help to reduce stress effectively but somehow sleep also make people feel more stress. Chinese people said that “know about opponent, know about us, hundred race will win hundred times. Therefore, knowing the relationship between sleep and stress will help you manage your life wisely and decrease the chance your get trap in stress.

1. How does an individual’s definition of “need” and “want” influence his/her notion of success?

In my opinion, my leader of country, Ho Chi Minh, had achieved success of releasing Viet Nam from American’s colony because of his need and want to his country. Ho Chi Minh is a contributor. During the war, he had seen people suffer with starvation, poor and diseases. Their basic need was not met since all their property had been forced to contribute to the war by American soldier. Facing all these real drama stories, Ho Chi Minh had feed his wish of releasing Viet Nam from colony and create a fulfill life for his people since he was young. He said that “helping people is my happiness, your smile is purpose of my life”. At the age of 18, he asked for the jobs on the America biggest luxury board at that time. Being a chief on this board, he was able to move around in the world. Hence, he had the chance to study new things, new language and even the way of how the others colonies become independent country. It took him 10 year for travelling around. Of course, there would be a lot of difficulties on the way of success, Ho Chi Minh had to do a lot jobs beside his main carrier such as teacher, toilet learner, worker in mine. However, all these difficulties did not collapse him because of his high “need” and “want” to his country. He wanted his country become independent and he need to meet the basic need to his own family and his people as well.

2.Explain how people’s difference in their definitions of success influence the way they lead their lives?

1. Generally, there are six types of people on the way to success. They are puritan, materialistic, power, spiritual, contributor and escapist. These definitions of success influence the way people lead their lives. For example, puritan people always think they never satisfy with what they have. Hence, they have to work as hard as possible to obtain what they expect in their life. So this life seems very stressful and tired because there is no relax time. However, materialistic people think in the different way. They think that the most important in the world is money and products. As long as people try very hard to work, they end up with earning money and buying products. In the other hand, spiritual people think that the most important thing in the world is not money, it should be the love. Money cannot buy the love and people cannot live without it. So that this type of people live in a romantic way and receive many intangible value the life. Another intangible thing in the world many people are chasing is power. They want to feel that everyone respect them and always give them support. In my opinion, this type of people seems very lonely but they are talent people. Contributor and escapist are almost the same. They both doing the only things they feel fun and useful. . Our time on earth is meant to lived to the fullest and we are meant to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,” as Thoreaux famously espoused. Contributor get the other happiness be their own happiness.