Ask The Stress General To Retreat And Relax

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Your physiology change when you feel stressful. Why? It’s because your body is designed to protect yourself from harm. It is like a huge battalion of army that protects the castle of your body from intruders that appear to be dangerous. Thus, it will fight against the negative effect brought by the uninvited stress.

As soon as your stress level raises, the general, which is the hypothalamus gland in your brain begins to send out the command to the pituitary gland to release ACTH hormone. The ACTH hormone will then activate the adrenal gland in your kidneys to fire out both adrenalin and non-adrenalin into the blood stream where they can meet more other hormones.

All these hormones are ready to receive the sugar released by the liver to be activated. Now, your blood stream is filled with the energized and activated hormones. This causes your heart to beat faster and raise the temperature of your body.

They are all ready to charge for the war and slash the stress into pieces. The wall of your arteries tightens and your blood pressure increases.

The whole attention of your army is now focusing on the STRESS, the enemy. The entire attention of your body is now on the nasty stress. The activation of the mental alertness caused you to feel excited or frightened and you’ll become highly sensitive.

As for physical changes, you sweat more, your muscle tightened, your face turn whitish, your concentration skyrocket, your mouth dry and other body functions such as digestion, defecation and urination stop entirely.

There are times where stress can lead to diarrhea and urination. Your body feels cold as all the energy and attention is focused to fight against the stress level.

It’s a very vulnerable experience when your body suffers from the immune system breakdown. In another word, when the foreign body such as bacteria or virus comes to attack your body, your immune system is not ready for it and thus it caused you to lose in the battle easily.

It is like when you have every single soldier standing by guarding the main gate preparing to attack the “Stress” enemy, another group of “Fever” enemy attacks you from behind when the whole castle is in the lowest level of security. Since all the attention of your body defense system is focusing on the Stress army and not aware of the existence of the Fever army, the Fever army will have a sure win battle.

That’s how easily for you to fall sick when you are under stressed.

The only way to defend both armies is absolute relaxation of your body as a whole. This will not only erase your stress but also alert of the intrusion of other foreign body (the Fever army, in this case)

By relaxing yourself, the soldiers and guards in your body would go back to their original position and able to guard your body from every direction. Once the balance is restored, you will regain your physical and emotional strength.