Eliminate Stress Naturally

Stress can smash up your physical and mental health. It is also the seed of many diseases and disorder. Reducing stress is a must for a better living and a healthy life. A simple change in your lifestyle can produce a huge impact in your life.

Here are some simple and easy-to-follow ways to eliminate your stress naturally:

Relaxation – Our body gets fatigue when we work continuously. Relaxation helps to restore the energy back into our body. Yoga, meditation or even some simple breathing exercise can increase the ability to handle stressful situation. Relaxation not only helps to increase remedial hormone and lower your blood pressure but also increase your creativity and productivity.

Play – Yes, just one word. Play! When was the last time you play? And how it feels when you really go and play hard. This simple activity can activate the immune system of our body.

Laugh – Have you heard of the phrase, “Laughter is the best medicine”? This technique can not only cure stress but literally any disease in your body since most of the sicknesses are created by the stress in your body.

When one laughs, endorphins are released from our body. Endorphins reduce stress, boost our immune system, eliminate pains and lowered our blood pressure. I have a friend who uses laughter to cure her cancer within 3 months. That’s how powerful your laughter can be.

Get a pet – Pet is one of human’s great friends. Their company can enhanced and enriched ones life and erase the stress away.

Friendship – Being in the company with friends can help you to stay happy and forget all your worries. If you do not have any friend and shy to make friend with others, afraid not, with the power of technology, you can always go to the website such as facebook, Myspace and Friendster and begin to know new friends there.

Hobbies – Anything that you enjoy doing and it’s not a part of your daily routine is your hobby. Hobbies give you a break from your hectic life and give you the opportunity to do what you really enjoy doing. This is a fantastic stress reducer because when you do something you really love, you feel happy, calm and relax.

I recommend you to read Cure Stress Naturally, Easily and Permanently for more advance technique.

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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.

Stress is like air. It is everywhere (if you choose so see it). But here’s the good thing. You have some options here. You can choose to inhale the stress into your body or you can choose to exhale it out off your body.

Stress is mainly caused by anxiety and depression which may be brought to you through these events and condition:

1. Specific events and happening such as argument with love ones or suffer from loses.
2. Health – including mental health (e.g. loneliness) and physical health (physically disable).
3. Marriage
4. Sex
5. Financial
6. Job
7. Bad habits

There are many more things that you do in your life daily that adds more stress in your stress bucket where you may not realize that you are helping to escalate the problem.

Here are some of the ways where you can change your bad habit into a more productive and less stressful habit.

1. Spending the future money – While credit card is a great tool for us to carry our money or future money around, always remember to spend wisely. Make sure you have the ability to pay it off so that it won’t get you into bad debt which will stress you up.

2. Empty gas tank – I always drive on empty gas tank because I love challenge and I will only look for gas station when the fuel in the tank is really low and I will only get my gas from my favorite gas station (brand, not a specific location). In the end, I’ll have to do anything to reach the next gas station such as switch off the unnecessary stuffs that consume gas, drive slowly and less brakes.

However, this may not be the case for everybody, most people (based on my experience) get stressful when they begin to imagine that they’ll have to push their car or call somebody else to tow their car which causes unnecessary inconvenience and expenditure.

3. Drinking – not water but alcohol. Some people drink with the intention to wash away their stress but in the end, the opposite happens. While you drink, you have a high tendency to make mistakes that serve as stress provider.

4. Using tools or machinery with potential problem – Let’s take car for example. If you drive a problematic car, here’re the high probability questions in your head. Will the car start? Will the tire go flat? Will the smoke come out? Will it explode? This is an absolute no no. Too mush stress for you.

5. Do not know how or when to say no – Have you ever promise somebody on something and feeling stress when you can’t make it or don’t like to do it such as drive your friend’s kid to school where you can actually spend the quality time with you family. Just day “NO” (I have a whole chapter talking about this topic in my Cure Stress Naturally, Easily and Permanently ebook)

In the next article, you will discover how your body reacts to stress …

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Stress is the effect of emotional and physical pressures on your mental and physical wellness.

Different people experience stress differently.

Do you notice how much the world has changed in the past 50 years?

Human used to travel from one place to another on their feet. There’s no car, motorcycle, bus, no, nothing! It went for years of using pails to carry water from rivers. In fact, people relied much on the strength of their limbs and some animals to do most of the work.

All of the sudden, the amount of change has become shocking. One person could have gone from telegram, car, black and white bulky television, to stereo system, to ipod, to airplane, to landing on the mars to watching everything that’s going on in the world on a plasma television from the comfort of their home within their lifetime.

In this fast changing world, it is perfectly all right to admit to being stressed. There are many different method to overcome stress and different people handle it differently. What works for you may not work for others.

Understanding the stress and know how to control or even eliminate it is the key to the freedom of your life.

Why is it that some people can handle stress so effectively no matter what come to their way while some others throw themselves into the sea of depression just because of the tiny little thing such as a little changes in their routine or because of their assumption on what other people may think of them.

Can it be like some people find pasta is an excellent while others feel yucky about it?

I believe that you have heard of the expression “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.

Many people don’t know much about that most probably because they have never owned a camel or do not know very much about it.

Well, every camel has a limit of the weight which they can carry. If a camel has carried the maximum weight, an extra tiny weight of a feather can break its back. Literally.

The same thing goes to stress. It is accumulate and accumulate and accumulate until out of the blue, you blow up over a silly little thing such as a door left open by one of your family members.

You will undoubtedly look very unreasonable as you “scream” about the door.

It is not about the door, it is about the collection of stress.

When you do not feel comfortable about something, a regular nagging of anger, fear or frustration generate negative feelings and some unwanted reaction in your body, resulting in pains, aches or a temper.

A person who stresses easily tend to quarrel with their family members, friends, and co-workers more frequently and that leads to fights, arguments, aggressive attacks, over-reactions, changes of jobs, shy away from society and impulsive driving of vehicles.

Failure to identify the warning signals and the constant experience of stress may lead to ending up in a hospital or worse, in the coffin. (No joke. I have seen this many times)

In the next post, we’re going to see the causes of stress. Meanwhile, I’ll appreciate it if you can leave your comment and tell me what you think of this article. Thank you.