If stress is not han­dled prop­erly, more seri­ous ill­nesses may result.

How Seri­ous a Threat to Your Health is Stress?

Many believe that prac­ti­cally every ill­ness has stress reac­tion as a con­tribut­ing fac­tor. Some­one who han­dles stress well just sim­ply doesn’t get sick.

How often are the times you have caught a cold or flu also been times when you were wor­ried or stressed about some­thing more than nor­mal, or even deal­ing with some kind of trauma?

This is why it is wise to remem­ber what­ever reme­dies you choose for tem­po­rary relief, there must in addi­tion be con­scious work toward releas­ing stress pat­terns and habits that keep the worry mode, or anx­i­ety in place.

Here’s some­thing to think about. Is stress dif­fer­ent today than it was a few decades ago? Con­tem­po­rary stress tends to be more per­va­sive, per­sis­tent and insid­i­ous because it stems pri­mar­ily from psy­cho­log­i­cal rather than phys­i­cal threats. It is asso­ci­ated with ingrained and imme­di­ate reac­tions over which we have no con­trol and were orig­i­nally designed to be ben­e­fi­cial such as:

* The heart rate and blood pres­sure soar to increase the flow of blood to the brain to improve deci­sion mak­ing.
* The blood sugar rises to fur­nish more fuel for energy as the result of the break­down of glyco­gen, fat and pro­tein stores.
* The blood is shunted away from the gut, where its not imme­di­ately needed for pur­poses of diges­tion. It goes to the large mus­cles of the arms and legs to pro­vide more strength in com­bat, or greater speed in get­ting away from a scene of poten­tial peril.
* Also clot­ting occurs more quickly to pre­vent blood loss from lac­er­a­tions or inter­nal hemorrhage.

These and myr­iad of other imme­di­ate and auto­matic responses have been exquis­itely honed over the lengthy course of human evo­lu­tion as life sav­ing mea­sures to facil­i­tate prim­i­tive man’s abil­ity to deal with phys­i­cal challenges.

How­ever, the nature of stress for mod­ern man is not an occa­sional con­fronta­tion with a saber-toothed tiger or a hos­tile war­rior but rather a host of emo­tional threats like get­ting stuck in traf­fic and fights or mis­un­der­stand­ings with cus­tomers, co-workers, or fam­ily mem­bers, that often occur sev­eral times a day.

Unfor­tu­nately, our bod­ies still react with these same, archaic fight or flight responses that are not only use­ful­ness but poten­tially dam­ag­ing and deadly. Repeat­edly invoked, it is not hard to see how they can con­tribute to hyper­ten­sion, strokes, heart attacks, dia­betes, ulcers, neck or low back pain and other “Dis­eases of Civ­i­liza­tion.“

Feel­ing a Bit Stressed These Days?

You’re not alone! Traf­fic jams, dead­lines, bills to pay, job changes, end­less chores and errands, rela­tion­ships, fam­ily prob­lems, it’s always some­thing and of course we are on the brink of war.

Stress is expe­ri­enced by every­one at one time or another. It requires the body to make phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal adjust­ments in order to main­tain the nec­es­sary phys­i­o­log­i­cal bal­ance for sur­vival. A rac­ing heart, a burst of energy, and mus­cle ten­sion are the body’s phys­i­cal responses to stress. When faced with dan­ger, some of the first stress reac­tions are a rise in blood pres­sure, quicker breath­ing and heart beat, and dilated pupils. Sight and hear­ing become more alert.

This reac­tion is an instinc­tive response that pro­tects us from threats to our sur­vival. Phys­i­o­log­i­cal changes are part of the “fight or flight” response, which pre­pares and ener­gizes a per­son to con­front or flee from dan­ger. After the threat has passed or a change takes place, the “alarm” signs dis­ap­pear. The body is still aroused but is adapt­ing to the change.

When you “gear up” under stress, your body begins to do more of some things and less of oth­ers. For exam­ple, blood cir­cu­la­tion increases, but diges­tion slows down or even stops. First symp­toms of these diges­tive orders may be Per­sis­tent Indi­ges­tion or Colitis.

Once the stress ends, your body goes to work to restore the bal­ance. How­ever, if stress returns too soon, your body will never have time to get back on an even keel. Even­tu­ally, this can lead to major health prob­lems. Exhaus­tion occurs, caus­ing dam­age to the person’s phys­i­cal and emo­tional well-being. If the stress is short-term, chances are good that it can be dealt with. It is long-term stress that causes the body to break down and has many real phys­i­cal effects.

Some of the dis­or­ders asso­ci­ated with stress are:

* Anx­i­ety
* High blood pres­sure
* Headaches
* Depres­sion
* Weak­ened Immune Sys­tem
* Higher Cho­les­terol Lev­els
* Sleep­less­ness
* Impo­tence
* Migraine Headaches
* Diar­rhea
* Loss of Appetite
* Increased Appetite

If stress is not han­dled prop­erly, then more seri­ous ill­nesses will result.

There is no escape from stress. You must learn how to han­dle it.

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