Evolution of stress.

Does anyone think we’ve reached the daily stress breaking point?  Any ideas on stress reduction while working.  Is weeding the garden a form of meditation?

I feel everyone has their own level of stress.

I try to avoid stress at all costs.

Positive thinking so avoid negative thoughts.  Some folks might call this the Pollyanna Effect.

There are several books that can help folks learn how to manage stress with positive thinking.

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill

This thread might help:

https://permies.com/t/151813/Positive-thinking-health

Stress levels, and stress tolerance, seem to differ wildly based on the person. I don’t think all people are equally stressed, nor that a certain stressor would have the same effect on everyone.

I think of permaculture as reducing stress while gardening—increasing diversity and decreasing reliance on annual monocultures leads to more resilience, less worrying, better nutrition, and less work and expense than typical annual vegetable gardens or store-bought food. I don’t think of gardening as universally a stress reducer because it is possible to be stressed about the garden not doing well, as well as physically to be too hard on oneself. Having an “open hand” (seeing what happens) rather than a “closed fist” mentality (trying to control everything) always helps.

It’s different for different people but especially if your work is physical, it helps to reduce the physical stress by dressing properly for the weather, eating enough food, sleeping more, and caring for our health in ways that are simple and nourishing. Generally, it’s helpful to do things that make us feel better, whether that be talking or getting together with friends and family, reading, going out walking/biking, or not skimping on medicinal herbs or other things that help us. Our body doesn’t seem to differentiate too much between physical and mental stress so lowering one often lowers the other, too.

Weeding is absolutely stress reduction. It can be either meditative or working out hostility to clean it out of our heads.
I had a psychologist ask me once "what do you do for stress?" "I use the mattock to dig out bamboo roots"
Depending on the day, I use it either way. But it always reduces my stress to be out in the sun, listening to the birds, watching the critters, and pulling out weeds.

Is weeding the garden a form of meditation?    

Yes!
Today, I forked an old garden bed and  removed à lot of deep bermuda grass roots....one of the most satisfying and yes, meditative forms of garden work we do here....repetitive, physically exerting, hands in soil, and important for our personal food production.

On the homestead, I avoid stress. Virtually any repetitive task cab be stress reducing .  I like chopping wood.   In my work life, I was a stress junkie. I thrived on it.