Read about Stress management | And how to cope up with stress?
Stress is normal. Stress is fine. Stress management is key to live a happy life.
Stress is the same for everyone and coping with stress is of utmost important.
If you are not stressed, you are not working abundant enough.
How many times have you heard these and other similar comments regarding stress management and coping with stress during the course of your work week? Of course, as with all these topics, they are close to the truth, close, but without a cigarette!
Firstly, although a certain amount of stress is to be expected from time to time, it is NOT normal to be routinely stressed, and this will invariably impact both you and your work.
Stress is a coping mechanism,
- and this phrase alone should concern you: "coping with stress" is something you must do to avoid when you would otherwise break, collapse, or suffer some fundamental system failure; Better to avoid it and leave it exhausted, exhausted and dangerously close to a series of slippery slopes that must be kept at a safe distance.
- By all means, one person stress is different person’s "buzz". Or is that it? Well not exactly.
- While the happenings that give one person a "buzz" may ride another to the brink of insanity, the stress itself remains the same.
- So relieving stress becomes a simple collection of principles that simultaneously eliminate the cause of the problem, give the body what it needs to adequately cope with the effects, and ensure a proper maintenance routine to discover what the damage is, the best way to fix it and ultimately how successful the repair was.
Eliminating the cause.
- If you raise your hand in the air for an extended period of time, something predictable will happen.
- Sooner or later, depending on your age, physical condition, flexibility, etc., your arm will hurt, your shoulder will probably hurt, and you will most likely begin to lose some sensitivity in the extremities of your hand.
- At this point (or sooner, if it is somehow sensible) you may want to do something about it.
- Potentially there are many solutions, but the main ones are to eliminate the cause of the problem (ie dropping the arm in a more natural position) which (in most cases) will result in complete resolution of the "effects" in a relatively short duration of time or somehow "treat symptoms" and help us in coping with stress and effectively do the stress management.
This may mean giving support to the arm, withering by someone else holding it, adding some support mechanism (such as a brace) to relieve tension, taking pain relievers, etc. to "numb" the effects or any other measures designed to provide temporary relief (the problem will return sooner or later with such an approach).
Clearly, it is preferable and in the long run, much more effective to eliminate the cause, allowing the effect to resolve itself until the next time you decide to do something equally self-destructive.
Relief from "treatments" is temporary, restrictive (still, as a result, you have your hand in the air!) And it may well have its own negative effects, eg. blood constriction or drug side effects.
Regarding stress, there is always a cause (or several causes). Identifying and eliminating those causes can be time-consuming, difficult and damaging, but it is infinitely preferable to alternatives in exactly the same way.
Einstein said that "every action has an equal and opposite reaction." It eliminates the action and, by definition, the reaction stops causing or existing.
The law of supply and demand.
- We all know that we are using energy all the time.
- Even while sleeping, your brain is using large amounts of energy to archive your day's activities and recharge for the next day.
- Your digestive system is turning any local delicacy you have dined into the building blocks necessary for reconstruction.
- His heart continues selflessly pumping all those pleasant nutrients to each limb and his lungs, kidneys and liver are silently cleaning all the dirt from the day and preparing him to take him to another home, that is, to any place where his body can comfortably (and legally, in this day and age) deposit it!
Without constant supplies of various nutrients, these processes would fail, adjust, decay and, in extreme cases, stop.
When you stop, you no longer have to worry about them, because you are no longer here to do so, at least not in our bodily and conscious way of thinking, at least? These nutrients include over 60 minerals, 20 vitamins (depending on who you ask), 22 amino acids, and countless enzymes, fats, sugars, and other tasty morcels.
Whatever nutrients are not included in the diet (and these are the most important ones these days) the body has to try to produce itself (for example, vitamin D, which is produced in the body).
Skin in response to sunlight, and cholesterol (which is made in the liver) or to look for it elsewhere (for example, from various stores, less active cells, etc.).
Some nutrients cannot be produced in the body and MUST be in the diet for health to prosper.
These are known as essential nutrients, since their inclusion in the diet is essential for health. An example of this is Omega-3 fatty acids, also known as essential fatty acids (AGEs).
These little beauties are (among other things) the building blocks of the nervous system and are necessary for the multiplication, growth, and maintenance of ALL brain and nerve cells.
As an illustration of our cultural limitations, roughly 25% of Americans are so flawed in this "brain food" that it cannot be measured in their systems!
Relating this to stress is simple and with proper stress management | coping with stress becomes easy.
Stress causes pressure, damage, and increased energy requirements (among other things).
Consequently, in a stressed environment (i.e., a person) HIGHER amounts of nutrients are required to repair as much damage as is occurring, and the specific nutrients required in any case will depend on which systems are under what type of stress (It stands to reason, doesn't it?) For example, if your nervous system is under stress.
You may want to consider providing more specific nutrients for the nervous system and multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases, while if your bones are the most affected by the damage, mineral requirements may increase.
Undoubtedly, in most cases, the dilemma will be multi-factorial and many different systems will require help.
A certain help can come in one of two ways (or, preferably, both).
Either it increases the supply of appropriate nutrients by adding or altering the availability of nutrients in the body, or it reduces the demand for those nutrients by eliminating the causes of damage in the first place.
Clearly, if you can perform both functions at the same time, recovery is likely to take place considerably faster than either.
Once the damage has been repaired, supply and demand balanced, and stores replaced, health will return in abundance as a body, systems enjoy going back to what they do best!
Patch or repair?
- Complete cells in the body are recouped routinely.
- Some, that is, blood cells only last a few weeks before a new battalion leaves to provide reinforcements.
- Others, such as bone cells, are the sloths of the regeneration process and are replaced approximately every seven years, but are continually replaced.
- As a general rule, your body will know better what it needs and when, but, if you are like most of us, you are not very communicative (in general, and except in extreme circumstances when it is often too late) and you are not.
- Provide a daily update by fax, email or even mail, pay-per-delivery!
As a consequence, it's generally best to give the body everything it needs on an average day, every day, unless you specifically know something is wrong.
Stress management can be done easily and coping with stress is simple if we follow the basic set of rules and help our body to cope with it.
Additionally, a tune-up by a qualified mechanic, i.e., a healthcare professional, who can recognize outstanding service requirements and even major revisions, will help direct specific support where needed.
Unlike our so-called health care systems, which may be more appropriately called disease systems, natural medicine (as it encompasses the various disciplines of complementary and alternative approaches) seeks to achieve maximum balance and well-being with minimal tinkering with machinery.
It is interesting to note that in many ancient societies, "healers" (for want of a better word) were valued and rewarded for keeping the tribe healthy.
When people got sick, the healer was often punished or not paid until everyone recovered.
Correlate that to our "one drug for all" present-day medicine approach that charges enormous fees for keeping us sick permanently and we can begin to see the error in our ways.
Regardless of the route you choose, regular medical care is essential both to identify potential problems and to treat those that have arisen, ideally with methods that support the body to resolve the problem on its own.
If you run your car continuously without fuel, lubrication, or service, soon something will break.
If your body is under continuous stress, without proper nutrition, relaxation, exercise and care, it will also break down.
Is it just me, or does the answer seem obvious to you too? If your car won't start, check the gas, the battery, make sure the oil is ok, and maybe dump it into the garage, then why do we treat the body so differently? Is it not logical that if your machinery is not up to par, check your fuel, recharge your energy levels, recharge your batteries and check the systems to see what damage it might have caused?
For a simple way to permanently resolve stress, see the five steps to relieve stress.
