Why do you need to know your stress level?

We need to know our stress levels, because that would tell us whether we needed to act.


We do such a pathetic job in the United States of teaching people to care about their own mental and emotional health. There is often a hyper focus on physical health with little understanding that optimal physical health depends on a healthy mind.
When we recognize that the demand in our lives overwhelms us, we’re given an opportunity to change things for the better. Adopting a practice of reviewing the demand we face, seeing how it effects us emotionally, then taking steps to make different choices, empowers us to live our best life.

This was first posted in the Mind-Body & Chronic Pain space on Quora.