Save Your Health – How to Relieve Stress
If we learn can how to avoid stress we can avoid illness and be healthy. How many times have you heard someone say this? That statement sounds absurd, doesn't it? Who the heck can avoid stress? That's like asking you to avoid cold in the winter and heat in the summer. What an idiotic statement! In recent years stress has finally become recognized as a major immuno-suppressant and a primary cause of illness and disease. Stress is often the precursor to: Cancer, Heart Disease, Hypertention, Insomnia, Diabetes, Constipation, Diarrhea, Hypervenilation, Suicide, and so many other major health problems.
Disease and illness are just part of the picture though. Stress can cause a sane person to slip over the edge of logic. It often causes good people to go sideways in their decision making processes and can absolutely send them over the edge of reason.
The stress from financial losses can cause major desperation which can lead to murder, robbery, rape, physical abuse, verbal abuse, and general ill will toward other's. These are just a few of the after effects of just the 'right amount of stress' at 'just the right time'. It’s like this: Stress causes the adrenals to secrete adrenaline and cortisone. Cortisone is a powerful immuno-suppressant that is especially secreted in the Thymus, Lymph Nodes and Spleen. High cortisone levels impair the production of interferon, which is one of the body’s most potent immunity agents. If you have ever talked to anyone who has had an organ transplant, you know that their doctor has prescribed interferon to them to help their body accept the implanted organ. Without it, the body will automatically reject the implanted organ. Diseases associated with high cortisone levels include Cancer, Hypertension, Arthritis, Stroke, Chronic Infections, Skin Diseases, Parkinson’s Disease, and Ulcers. We all need to learn how to 'CHILL'. If you don't know how to relieve stress, then read this page thoroughly. Take control of your stress now before it takes control of your health~! Elevated cortisone is also associated with an increased tendency towards suicide. Can we really learn how to relieve stress?The role played by stress in the causation of Cancer is so great that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to state that some 80% or more cancer cases have their immediate origin in some form of mental pressure or strain. Grief, fear, distress, worry and anger are emotions that can have horrible effects on the body and it’s functions. Researchers have found that these emotions cause the release of powerful chemicals from the brain called neuropeptides.
It is important to know how to relieve stress so you don't become a victim~ So, what can be done? Can we learn how to relieve stress? Destressing needs to be a major part of our DAILY ritual. How to Relieve Stress #1 - Leave it Behind You - Take the stressors of the day and leave them behind, where ever that might be. Not so easy to do as we live thru the busiest times of our lives. (Ever wonder what's it all for and what the heck we are doing?) Don't carry your work life over to your home. It's OK to discuss daily events with our loved ones. We should. Just don't go overboard or allow the worries of the job filter into your family time and pleasure that having one can create. #2 - Relax More - Learn to meditate, relax, read a book, or play with your children in your free time. Children, old people, and animals are special. Take time to spend some time with someone special in your life that adds something special to it. #3 - Do Something for You - Do things like take a long walk, get to bed early, be quiet and hear the sounds of nature, spend time with your favorite pet, have a nice cup of hot tea or talk to an old friend. #4 - Do Unto Others - Do something nice for someone else! (My personal favorite~) If I need to explain this one to anyone, forget it~ #5 - Let Go and Let God!~ My other personal favorite and another great way to relieve stress~ If you can let go and trust your life to God, He will take care of you. Commit yourself to do what is intended for you in your life, you will be set free. (If you pray like I do, you'll know what I mean~) Free to live without the 'things' you don't need in life. Free to do His will. Free to give, free to live, and free to be you and be the best you can be. You just know that everything will work out the way its supposed to. Everything happens for a reason. If something bad happens, then maybe you needed a life lesson or maybe thats just the way life is~ If things were perfect all the time, you'd be bored to death. Life challenges us. Embrace it and move on~ (This pertains to any religion depending on your definition of 'God'.) About 2000 years ago, Jesus said a very wise thing:
"Don't be anxious about tomorrow as tomorrow will be anxious enough for itself"."Let the days own troubles be sufficient for the day".#6 - Take Something Organic - Take Omega Fatty Acids like Fish Oil, Flax Oil, or Cold Pressed Olive Oil. Daily doses of it can help with depression and can help you control stress levels. Scientific studies have shown this to be TRUE. #7 - Take a Chill Pill - Have your physician prescribe Xanax. I do not advocate or recommend many prescription drugs but as a nervous person in general, I occasionally need something myself. Sometimes even a strong confident gal like me needs something more~ (Yes, I have a 17 year old son~!#$#&*#@!) Xanax taken at the right time can really make a big difference. If you take one and you feel it by getting sleepy right away, you really didn't need it. If you take one and it just calms you down and don't feel sleepy, then you've taken the right dose at the right time. #8 - Heat Relieves - Take a hot bath or hot shower or get in a hot tub, shower, or steam bath. Talk about relaxing~! Hot anything will soothe your muscle aches and help you relax a more natural way. Heat soothes in this instance and should be used. Even a cup of hot tea, milk, or coffee works well. How to relieve stress? Two words. HOT TUB~ If you don't have a hot tub, take a HOT SHOWER~ #9 - Massage - Get a deep tissue massage~ Need I say more~ Talk about relaxing! Yes, you do have to pay a price but what price will you ultimately pay if you don't de-stress? Massage therapy is all about learning how to relieve stress. Find someone in your local area that can help you. If you don't personally know any massage therapists, ask friends and family. I'll bet someone knows someone~ #10 - Laugh - Laugh often and don't be afraid to laugh or be happy. Remember: A pessimist forgets to laugh. An optimist laughs to forget! #11 - Breathe - Relearn how to breathe correctly. Breathing isn't done by the chest, its done from the diaphragm which is below and outside the lungs. The correct way to breathe. Inhale air into your stomach first, then fill up the lungs. Exhale air from the lungs first, then the stomach last. This is the correct way to breathe. When you start breathing correctly, you will start to relax. And relaxing is the name of the game! Properly de-stressing can literally save your life! Knowing how to relieve stress and anxiety in your daily life, can make a big difference in the way you handle it from day to day. Remember that you have control of only you! You can't control other people so don't try. Trying to change someone or something that doesn't want to change is self defeating. Controlling how you react to others is also a big step in the right direction.
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