One of my favorite concepts is eustress psychology. When we think of stress, we generally think of something that is bad for human wellbeing. But stress is actually a normal part of daily life and can happen in a good or a bad shape. The negative type of stress is called “distress”.

If we have are in “distress” for us may be a number of negative consequences. Distress or too much stress can negatively affect all aspects of our lives. Distress can lead to many diseases, such as high blood pressure and heart problems. Much stress can lead to sleep problems, which in turn lead to constant fatigue and concentration of defects. Much stress is often also ensures that the immune system is vulnerable.

In our time, a clinician could actually write without further investigation into the medical records: less stress! There are many ways to reduce stress – diet, exercise, yoga. But let’s talk about poker and not on the daily lives and we are talking about and not about eustress distress. Eustress is the “positive” form of stress and therefore the good type of stress. We need motivation to get our best performance. Medically speaking, stress eustress optimal dosage, which helps us stay healthy, develop further and to bring optimal performance.

Think about it briefly on the following times: you can get as part of their employment is a major task, which is for you and the company extremely important. What do you feel when you the task is entrusted with the following instructions.

1) “The deadline was brought forward, everything should be ready on Tuesday!”.

2) “This task is important for the budget of the next quarter, we need all the results in three weeks.”

3) “Give me the results, whenever you want.”
All statements, provide a certain stress level.

But if we start from the thing with the eustress, one can assume that the second statement is optimal.

It’s like the beginning of a major poker tournament. How do you feel? Do you have butterflies in your stomach? This is a 4-day big buy-in tournament. Which of the following statements is for you a good basis in order to get all the way forward to?

A) My game is good enough, I’ll just concentrate to win this tournament.

B) These tournaments are never decided on day 1, so tomorrow I can go golfing a round.

C) I’ve been working on my game, I’m well prepared. I’m ready to focus entirely on them and will do my best.

Can I win a 4-day event on Day 1, really? Casualness is the way by which you want to continue to make a poker game? Or is a little nervous helpful?

Many actors are always nervous before going on stage. No matter how many times these actors had played the part corresponding times, they are always excited. Performance anxiety is the result of distress, but a really good performance should always begin with eustress.

Be always prepared to play. Ask yourself out, always play their best game to. Concentrate from the first hand and get ready for a challenge on every hand. Someone tried to show you every time you are involved in a pot, remove their chips. If you are not prepared to fight each time, these chips to their opponents have it all here. Eustress is positive, he makes sure that we do something and give us an edge. You can cultivate the matter with the eustress for himself by mentally prepare themselves to it before you sit down at a poker table.

One should you know about eustress. If you are in a situation with a positive stress, it is less likely that something negative, such as will make you a bad beat in Distress decay. If you are in a neutral atmosphere or in a controlled atmosphere, it is much more likely that you could then fall into distress. Eustress has a preventive effect against tilt.