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Is Stress Part of your Life?
Stress may affect you on a physical, mental or emotional level. The area that is your weakest link where you will notice the overload effects first, depending on your personal disposition.
When unforeseen events or overload situations arise that put a strain on your ability to cope. You can start feeling out of control. It is this feeling of not being in charge of a particular situation that creates what we perceive as stress.
It now becomes very important to know how to deal with this stress so that you can handle the situation constructively and feel back in control. If you end up feeling that; you were unable to successfully deal with the situation, you will begin to become nervous about the same or similar situation arising again in the future. In this respect, it does not matter what the situation was – it may have been something simple as a casual remark that hurt you, but as long as it made you feel physically or emotionally out of control, a vicious circle will have been set up.
Once You start to get afraid of the4 same situation occurring again, you tense up, you think about what happened and go over it again and again in your mind. The stress has now extended into the non-stress areas of your lifer, simple because you can’t stop thinking about it, even though the situation has passed. By way of self-protection, you now begin to fear or avoid similar situation. And when you find yourself in a similar place, when you experience similar body sensations or when similar events occur you will feel stressed. This can sometimes happen, even if you have not thought about the original stressful event for a long time. The moment your subconscious mind perceives an upcoming event as potentially threatening, it
Switches you in stress-mode. There are many symptoms of stress some of them being mood swings, overly aggressive, angry or weepy, feel anxious or suffering from feeling of panic. Losing your sense of humour, feeling down or depressed, withdrawing from social life, blaming yourself, assuming others will let you down, blaming life in general, drinking excessively, smoking excessively, change of personality and many more.
Does anything sound familiar?
Your doctor can give you tablets and advise but there are also ways of dealing with stress.
Yoga will help you relax physically and to counteract stress by helping limber up the spine. By carrying out the movements gently, slowly and as smoothly as possible, you create a healing stretch through the entire length of the back, which encourages the circulation of blood from the base of the spine to the head. At the same time, it has a calming influence on the mind.
There are Anti-Stress recipes to restore your well being and your good humour.
Meditation is good for stilling the mind and calming your energies.
Amino Acids
L-Carnitine supplements help regulate heart arrhythmias, increases resistance to stress and supplies greater physical stamina.
Flower Remedies
There are a great number of different flower essences on the market place; one of these is the Bach Flower remedy.
Cherry Plum is for those fearful of losing control of their body, mind or emotions and expressing uncontrollable anger and other impulses, which may cause them to harm themselves or others, including suicidal tendencies.
Aromatherapy oils are particularly beneficial for treating stress-related problems as they don’t just exert their beneficial effect on the body, but also reach the brain and the nervous system as you inhale them. When we breathe in the aroma of the oils, we stimulate nerve endings in the upper part of the nose, which in turn carry nerve impulses to the brain. As the oils are inhaled, tiny molecules are also taken into the lungs and absorbed into the bloodstream. Similarly, when an aromatherapy oil is rubbed into the skin this relays messages to the underlying tissues and muscles, which in turn has an effect on the nervous system and especially the pituitary gland which regulates the action of all other endocrine glands. This is why aromatherapy oils can substantially help hormonal problems as well as relieving stress and furthering relaxation. There are many alternatives including, Reiki, Reflexology etc.
Although stress is not something we usually welcome into our life, it can nevertheless have a very positive function in that it helps us grow as a person.
Hearing how to deal with lifes ups and downs in a constructive way is an ongoing process.
Successful stress management is not handed down to you by a benign celestial force – it is a result of taking positive action.
In the end it is your responsibility whether you get your stress sorted out or not.
No one else can do it for you.
Taking that responsibility can be one of the best things you have ever done in your life.
Patricia Milner
International Psychic Medium, Reiki Master, Spiritual Teacher, Trainer and Author.
www.yourspiritualworld.com
