Stress Management Experts

There are many ways to relieve stress and address the causes of stress in your life, including developing time management skills, taking assertiveness training and others. Medical research during the last several decades also has proven that simple relaxation techniques can be very effective in the treatment of many conditions and diseases, including:

And relaxation techniques shouldn’t only be used to treat illness. Every wellness and prevention program should include stress management techniques!

Such simple techniques include:

These self-care exercises enable you to take care of yourself instead of relying solely on medication or less-than-healthy activities to help ourselves avoid stress, like eating excessively, or drinking alcohol.

Unfortunately, these techniques are often overlooked by our healthcare providers. And, it’s been difficult to find out about these techniques in one place without reading a medical text. No “one stop shop” product exists.

That is, until we developed Best of Stress Management with some of the newest Altnerative Techniques on the Market!

The EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) system for Stress is one of the most powerful systems we found to handle stress.

EFT For Stress

The grinding stress that wears people down day after day and year after year is chronic stress. It can destroy bodies, minds, and lives. It’s the relentless stress of poverty, work deadlines, dysfunctional families, or despised jobs. If you are experiencing chronic stress, you can’t figure out how to alleviate a miserable situation that seems to go on for an interminable period of time. Devoid of hope, you stop searching for solutions.

Some chronic stress stems from traumatic, early childhood experiences that change the brain and become internalized, remaining forever present and painful. These experiences can affect personality profoundly. You create a belief system or view of the world that causes you constant stress.

The worst aspect of chronic stress is that you get used to it. You can forget it’s there and learn to endure it.

WHY SHOULD YOU LEARN TO COPE WITH STRESS?

In the best of all possible worlds, when a stressful situation ends, hormonal signals switch off the stress response, and the body returns to normal. Unfortunately, stress doesn’t always let up. If you tend to harbor anxiety, and you worry about daily events and relationships, your stress response never shuts down. Studies show that long-term activation of stress symptoms can have a hazardous, even lethal effect on your body. When the signs of stress persist, you are at risk for many health problems that people often do not realize are, in large part, attributable to stress, such as:

As if this weren’t enough, stress adversely affects reproduction, sexual behavior, and growth. Stress inhibits the immune system, making you more vulnerable to colds, flu, fatigue and infections. It causes digestive problems and can even lead to suicide.

For all these reasons, it is important to recognize the symptoms of stress and learn what to do about them. Fortunately, recent years have brought increased societal awareness and a greater understanding of factors that limit and relieve stress.

The stress response of the body is meant to protect and support us. To maintain stability, or “homeostasis,” the body is constantly adjusting to its surroundings. When a physical or mental event threatens this equilibrium, we react to it. This process is often referred to as the “fight or flight response.” We prepare for physical action in order to confront or flee a threat.

Our ancestors responded to stressful ordeals in this fashion. Millions of years later, when you face a situation that you perceive as challenging, your body automatically goes into overdrive, engaging the stress response. Immediately, you release the same hormones that enabled cave people to move and think faster, hit harder, see better, hear more acutely, and jump higher than they could only seconds earlier. Like theirs, your heartbeat speeds up; your blood pressure increases; your breathing quickens.

Most modern stresses, however, do not call for either fight or flight. Our experience of stress is generally related to how we respond to an event, not to the event itself.

WHEN IS STRESS A WARNING SIGNAL?*

When it is part of a natural reaction to challenge or danger, the body’s response is called positive stress. However, when you feel out of control or under intense pressure, you may experience the physical, emotional, or relational symptoms brought on by negative stress. These are the signs of stress that you need to recognize and control.

It is important to remain attentive to negative stress symptoms and to learn to identify the situations that evoke them. When these symptoms persist, you are at risk for serious health problems because stress can exhaust your immune system. Recent research demonstrates that 90% of illness is stress-related.

WHAT TRIGGERS YOUR FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT RESPONSE?

Except for major catastrophes, few events are stressful in themselves. Stress arises when you perceive a situation as threatening. For example, your morning commute may make you anxious and tense because you worry that traffic will make you late. Others, however, may find the trip relaxing because they allow more than enough time and enjoy playing music or listening to books while they drive.

Stress is often associated with situations that you find difficult to handle. How you view things also affects your stress level. If you have very high expectations, chances are you’ll experience more than your fair share of stress.

Take some time to think about the things that cause you stress. Your stress may be linked to external factors such as:

Stress can also come from your own:

• irresponsible behavior
• poor health habits
• negative attitudes and feelings
• unrealistic expectations
• perfectionism