Eustress is defined as positive stress that improves well-being rather than causing harm. Examples of eustress include exercising, engaging in suspenseful media, and childbirth. Eustress provides benefits like boosting brainpower through neurochemical production, temporarily increasing immunity through immune cell stimulation, building mental strength through repeated exposure to stressors, enhancing creativity through pushing one out of their comfort zone, and motivating success through deadline pressures. Moderate prenatal stress can also positively influence child development.

1. EUSTRESSP O S I T I V E S T R E S S
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2. EUSTRESS
• The term eustress was created by Hungarian
endocrinologist, Hans Selye.
• Eustress is positive stress that is healthy, improves
your well being, and results in satisfaction.
• It’s counterpart is distress which has all of the
negative effects of stress we hear about like physical
and mental illness.

3. SWIMIMNG
EXERCISING
WATCHING A
SUSPENCEFUL MOVIE
RIDING A ROLLERCOASTER
• R
GIVING BIRTH TO A BABY
EXAMPLES OF EUSTRESS

4. WHY IMPORTANT ?
MOTIVATION APPRECIATION

5. BENEFITS OF EUSTRESS
•It boosts brainpower.
•Increases short term immunity.
•Makes you mentally stronger.
•Makes you creative.
•Motivates you to succeed.
•Enhance child development

6. IT BOOSTS BRAINPOWER
•Low-level of stress helps in the production of
brain chemicals called neurotrophins and
strengthens the connection between neurons
in the brain.
•In fact, this can be the primary mechanism by
which exercising (a physical stressor) helps
boost productivity and concentration.
•Short-term psychological stressors can have a
similar effect, as well.

7. INCREASES SHORT TERM IMMUNITY
•When your body responds to stress, it
prepares itself for the possibility of what is
to come.
•The way our body does it is by producing
extra interleukins, a chemical that help
regulate the immune system, providing at
least a temporary defensive mechanism.

8. MAKES YOU MENTALLY STRONGER
•Dealing with manageable stressful
situations can make such situations in the
future easier to handle.
•Repeated exposure to stressful events
makes your body develop both physical
and psychological sense of control.

9. MAKES YOU CREATIVE
• We feel stressed when we move onto a new path
because we are afraid of the unknown.
• Stress pushes you to change, to fight, to grow and
to adapt. All life events, even good ones, cause a
certain degree of stress.
• For example, getting a new job is a positive
change, much like getting married, falling in love,
getting a raise, winning a tennis match and so on.
• Stress often accompanies a breakthrough in
creativity.

10. MOTIVATES YOU TO SUCCEED
•Eustress can be the thing you need to get your
job done at work.
•Think about a deadline staring you in the face.
It’s going to encourage your behavior to
manage the situation effectively and more
productively.
•Success can be achieved in the workplace, in
sports, or in a creative endeavor if it's driven
by pressure

11. ENHANCES CHILD DEVELOPMENT
• Pregnant women often worry that their anxiety will negatively
affect their unborn babies. And it sure can if it's constant. But
if the stress levels are moderate, they can in fact be good for
the child.
• A study found that children of most women who reported mild
to moderate stress levels during pregnancy actually showed
greater motor and developmental skills by age two than those
of mothers who were unstressed.

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