"I can't list the nights that, all trembling, I gave myself to the knowledge of the unknowable." Saadi

The Sustainable amount of developmental stress motivates in research. but at times in between at various stages of research we do get demotivated , but it is researchers duty to realign and keep focus on outcome of reseach.

Dr.Ekta Sharma ,

thank you for adding a significant point to the question.

Sandeep research is such an exciting yet potentially stressful activity. It’s excitement may come from investigating an interesting problem or issue whose findings may change people‘s lives and the course of history for the better. However the messiness involved in data collection, data interpretation and such like partly explains and accounts for some of the stress. Some may even ta the latter aspects as an excitement in its own right. Interesting.

"I can't list the nights that, all trembling, I gave myself to the knowledge of the unknowable." Saadi

Am in line with the citation from Eugene Veniaminovich Lutsenko

Its a two-edged sword. At times its frustrating to have so much to do with deadlines catching up. Yet, the research activity is just refreshing and thus, motivating.

Some level of stress is necessary for motivation called eustress or positive stress. Being a researcher we come across various ups and downs which demotivate us to carry on the research but eustress that arises from the worry to complete the task helps us alot. Stress is nit always negative.

For me personally, the main stress in doing research comes from the lack of financial support. This holds especially true for young researchers, which often forces them to work on unpaid projects. This is extremely stressful because of the time pressure it puts on them. In this case, the proverb "time is money" becomes a reality.

Corona or not, the depressing thing is that you do research without any money.

No stress means no life. We aim for eustress, not distress.

Curiosity sparks research, and it is driven along by achievement-orientation, joy of success and and many other forces.

Determination makes us persevere in the face of adversity. Mental flexibility helps us cope when nature laughs at our plans and our research outcomes diverge widely from our naive assumptions. Sometimes frustrations mount and our resilience gives in...then distress and sadness might grow, persist and even lead to depression.

But that is rare. Mostly it is the thrill of being immersed deeply in unlocking a problem, the joy of intense concentration when time passes by and one doesn't even notice and the occasional triumph of having solved an intricate problem, a savouring of success...

"Human progress is inextricably linked to invention. This is the most important product of his creative thought. Its ultimate goal is the complete conquest of the material world by reason, the use of the forces of nature for the benefit of man. This is a difficult task for an inventor who is often misunderstood and underestimated. But all these troubles he more than compensates for the pleasure of realizing his power and belonging to that privileged stratum, without which humanity would have long ago fallen in a fruitless struggle with the merciless element. As for me, I have already fully experienced this greatest pleasure, so that for many years my life has been full of endless delight" Nikola Tesla

Hello,

1. Energy point of view for a better world

it depends. Many times researchers are doing hard work which is like a transformation from negative energy to positive called also eustress. The worsest distress for a researcher is being without ideas. A researcher must proove his intellectual abilities. It is a psychological direction mainstream which causes a lot of distress so the researchers must make a move - to solve the problem and make at least one decision. In case of a positive scenario a researcher create a lot of positive energy, the other black scenario is of cause an enourmus struggle.

2. Social-economic point of view

Being less paid can cause some frustrations (psychological and also social distress). Being isolated can also cause a lot of distress.

3. Excessive fatigue

many times underestimated but a very serious problem in our legally technological societies. A researcher can fall into an extreme workaholic string, so he even in his dreams produces scientific work ...

Eugene it is a very interesting question. I would prefer the energy point of view for self-prooving and for a better world. The positive energy is motivating, the negative depressing. But finally all researchers must believe in something (in God and/or theories, models, great scientists, good people, ethical/values). I could say believing in something positive and useful is the central engine of motivation. So in short my opinion.

Stress is just one of three non-specific adaptive responses out of three. There is a little information about this below. 27.1. FUNDAMENTALS OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF NON-SPECIFIC ADAPTIVE REACTIONS

It is necessary to say a few words about the history of studying non-specific adaptive responses (NAR). Of all the types of NAR, stress was the first to be discovered and studied. The concept of stress was introduced by the canadian physiologist Hans Selye in 1925. In English, stress means "tension". According to G. Selye, this reaction serves to overcome the emerging difficulties and adapt to the increased requirements of the environment. They are allocated three phases of this response. The first is the reaction of anxiety with the mobilization of all the body's resources, an increase in the release of hormones, in particular adrenaline, the endocrine glands, and an increase in the consumption of oxygen and sugar by cells and tissues. The second phase is resistance, when due to the previous mobilization of protective forces, the body manages to successfully cope with the stress–induced effects (initially without any visible damage to health). And the third phase – exhaustion, when too long or intense struggle with the problems that arise leads to a decrease in the adaptive (adaptive) capabilities of the body, opening the way for the development of a wide variety of diseases. G. Selye believes that any factors, both physical and emotional, cause the same biochemical changes in the body.

Further development of the theory of non-specific adaptive reactions is closely connected with the names of Russian scientists Garkavi L. H., Kvakina E. B., Ukolova M. A. the Fundamental work of these authors "Adaptive reactions and resistance of the body" is published in Rostov (Rostov Publishing house. UN-TA) in 1979. In this work, the author uses the results of these authors widely and without special references.

27.1.1. THE CONCEPT OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSE AND LEVELS OF ADAPTATION

Adaptive response is the response of the organism to external influences that ensures the fulfillment of individual and species goals: the survival of the species and the individual.

The survival of a species is determined by the success of two interrelated tasks:

1. Quantitative distribution within the already developed ecological niche;

2. Search and development of new ecological niches.

The discovery and development of new ecological niches leads to the need to solve a large number of problems with a high degree of novelty. In the biological world, this process is associated with the acquisition of both specialized and universal adaptive mechanisms that allow survival in changing conditions and new ecological niches.

One of the universal adaptation mechanisms is a system for processing information about the environment, which allows you to actively respond to both current and future (predicted) changes in the environment.

External influences are characterized by varying degrees of typicity, i.e. novelty for the species as a whole and for a specific individual as a representative of the species in particular. Depending on the degree of novelty, the body reacts to external influences at various levels of adaptability.

If the external impact is quite typical, i.e. representatives of this species have faced quite similar impacts over millions of years of evolution, then an adequate response is prepared by the entire evolution of the species and the response is almost instantaneous, instinctive, unconscious at the level of an unconditional reflex.

If the response is prepared only by individual evolution, then the response occurs at the level of a conditioned reflex or a practiced skill.

If the answer is not prepared by previous evolution, then the development of an adequate response, depending on its complexity, is a task or problem and, in the case of a person, is solved at the level of consciousness. In the case of a problem, the appropriate method is known and you only need to select and apply it. In the case of a problem, an adequate method is unknown and it is necessary to first develop it and only then apply it. A fundamentally new possibility, which was first clearly manifested in a person due to his consciousness, was the technique and technology that allowed a person to go beyond the biological limitations of the physical body in their capabilities.

It is the presence of consciousness that is the fundamental adaptive advantage of man over other known species, which allowed him to master all the climatic zones of our planet and all its environments: valleys, mountain peaks and the bowels of the earth, the surface and depths of water, the air ocean, as well as near space.

If the normal form of consciousness does not solve the problem, then it may be possible in a higher form of consciousness with fewer limitations.

Thus, consciousness is the pinnacle of the development of universal adaptation systems and the development of higher forms of consciousness is directly related to the development of new ecological niches by man.

27.1.2. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF FACTORS. SPECIFIC AND NON-SPECIFIC ADAPTIVE RESPONSES

Each phenomenon can be characterized from both quantitative and qualitative points of view. In particular, every factor that affects a person can be considered from the side of its quantity and from the side of its quality.

The quantitative characteristic reflects the intensity (power) and duration of the influence of the factor. The qualitative characteristic reflects the specific method of exposure, its nature: physical, chemical or other.

From the quantitative point of view, the factors can be divided into five major groups:

1. Superweak;

2. Weak;

3. Average;

4. Strong;

5. Superstrong.

From a qualitative point of view, we can distinguish, for example, temperature, sound, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, shock, vibration, and other factors, as well as factors associated with a lack of oxygen, water, and food intake.

The adaptive response of the body to any external impact consists of two components: specific, depending on the specific type of impact, and non – specific, determined only by its intensity, i.e. the body reacts separately to the type of impact and its intensity. Consequently, the organism has both specific and non-specific adaptive mechanisms. This means that the body's response to weak, for example, impacts has certain common features that are determined by the magnitude of these impacts and do not depend on a specific type of impact.

Thus, non-specific adaptive responses are of particular interest to us, since they follow General patterns that are independent of the specific type of impact.

27.1.3. LEVELS OF NON-SPECIFIC ADAPTIVE RESPONSE: HYPNOTIC, NORMAL, ACTIVATION, STRESS, ENLIGHTENMENT

Each level of external impact intensity corresponds to its own form of non-specific adaptive response and corresponding response mechanism (table 1)

Table 1

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACTOR STRENGTH AND REACTION TYPE

Power

factor

Type

reactions

Response mechanism

Super-weak

Hypnotic reaction

Increasing the trigger threshold, disabling factor perception, sleep

Weak

Waiting

Ready to respond to the exclusion of perception

Average

Passive response

Response using the body's functional reserves

Strong

Active response

Response with the use of functional and energy reserves of the body, the balance is positive ("second breath", "hepatic and muscular blood circulation", etc.)

Super strong

Stress

Response using functional and energy reserves of the body, the balance is negative

With the continuation of super strong effects there are two options for the development of the body's condition:

1. Protective sleep inhibition (loss of consciousness) and death;

2. Transition to a higher form of consciousness (enlightenment) and exit from a stressful situation.

It should be emphasized that the transition to the next level of adaptability occurs only if it is impossible to respond adequately at the previous level (this is the essence of the doctrine "about the revolutionary situation").

27.2. TRANSITION TO A HIGHER FORM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AS A WAY OUT OF AN EXTREME SITUATION

Statistics show that in the group of people who have been in extreme situations and received various injuries as a result, the percentage of people with superpowers is much higher than in the main group.

From this, it is sometimes concluded that superpowers are a kind of pathology, something abnormal (more precisely, supernormal), something that should not be normal.

Stress= Pressure/Resilience. Therefore, it is important to work on enhancing resilience.

Research with out proper support, financial, infrastructure and lack of reconisition after reserach completion.