How Much Stress Do You Have? Take this quiz and find out.

Posted November 16, 2009

Anyone who has it knows that stress does not feel good and it is not a great platform to create your experience from.  When you are stressed, your day to day living is affected…

  • your children are affected                        calgon-300x228
  • your partner/spouse is affected
  • your work is affected
  • your health is affected
  • your ability to make empowered choices is affected
  • your sense of well-being is less that it is supposed to be.

Want a quick assessment of how much stress you have?  Take this simplified assessment.  Please note that this is not a clinical test… if you happen to score high, you need to do something about it.

1-never  2-rarely  3-sometimes  4-often  5-always

  1. I worry a lot
  2. I have a lot of problems
  3. Work interferes with my home/family life
  4. I have a hard time laughing at my humaness
  5. I think there is one right way to do things
  6. I feel I often get the short end of the stick
  7. I am easily irritated or upset
  8. I have problems in my personal life
  9. I keep things inside I have difficulty making decisions
  10. I tend to neglect my diet (eat irregularly, eat unhealthy foods etc.)
  11. I try to do everything myself
  12. I rush through the day and have little time left to relax
  13. I tend to make a big deal about everything
  14. I spend a lot of time complaining & being negative
  15. I have trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
  16. I suffer from headaches/migraines or digestive issues
  17. I feel fatigued/tired for no real reason

Scoring:

0 - 30 Low Stress

31- 50 Fairly Low

51 - 70 Moderate

71 - 90 High

How much stress do you have in your life?  Where do you feel it?  What do you do to feel better?  What works for you?

Please leave your comments and share your insights with us.

In peace and serenity,

Joyce

PS… I hope you have a copy of Louise Hay’s book “You Can Heal Your Life“ Louise can help you understand the roots of stress of all kinds and give you a bounty of powerful affirmations and insights for relief.
And… if you have trouble settling into a peaceful state and drifting off into a relaxed sleep, I highly recommend Deepak Chopra’s audio meditation CD “The Soul of Healing Meditations”.  I have listened to this cd night after night, and have gifted it to my friends as well.  Deepak’s voice is soft and the journey he takes us on is gentle… sleep follows easily.

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4 Comments so far

  1. Life Coaches on November 16th, 2009

    Great post Joyce!

    It is funny how you do not realize how stressed you are and how this affects the rest of your life until someone lays it out for you like this in black and white!

    I scored a little too high for my own personal preferences!!

    Anyway, thanks for the read!

    Cheers

    Jesse

  2. Dawn Herring on November 16th, 2009

    I feel stress the most in several areas: not enough help from my kids around the home; digestive issues (working on this and it’s getting better slowly); anxiety about issues out of my control: trying to see each issue for what it is to cut the ‘largeness’ of it down to size (from mountain to molehill).

    Thanks for such a revealing list, Joyce. Very eye opening, as usual.

    Dawn

  3. michelle on November 17th, 2009

    I scored a 51 and that is way too high i am only 28, thank you for letting me see that…

  4. Shawn Pate on November 18th, 2009

    Thanks for sharing this test with us. I scored a 54 it was higher then I expected it to be. i am 56yrs old and thought I was more relaxed these days. I guess I need to work on that..