There are subtle stressors in life. Unlike stressors that are blatant disruptions in life, these subtle stressors are somewhat invisible, yet we feel their affects in quiet ways such as headaches, sleeplessness, agitation, and/or distraction.
How can you identify and minimize subtle stressors and the resulting effects?
Keeping a daily activity/mood journal can help you to track how you're feeling and what you're doing. This track record is one way to identify subtle stressors. For example, if you have a period of really happy days, high energy, and good overall health, you may be able to connect that positivity with the kinds of events that happened during those days, and on the other hand, if you have a series of challenging days--you may be able to understand what caused that low energy, sleeplessness, or subtle stress.
A journal like this can help you to identify subtle stressors related to your children and other loved ones. Often children will demonstrate behaviors that signal that stressors exist, but similar to adults, it may be difficult to pinpoint what is causing that stress.
In the best of circumstances, we are living life with best possible energy, and to do that we have to discover and eliminate as much troubling stress as possible. Keeping a journal of daily moods and activity is one way to figure out the origin of the subtle stressors in your life.