Stress in the 21st century seems like it is something that is prevalent in our lives all the time, and also found in younger people too.  When you ask people about stress, most likely they will say that they have stress and that it is bad.  However, some might say that they have good stress.

Stress affects people in different ways.  Some stress is actually good for you.  The strem stress means that you are faced with a challenge and your body adapts to the change.  These are involuntary changes that enable you to “fight” or “flight” (work through the tough times, or run away from it).

Now, here is an example of stress occurring.  Imagine that you were walking in the early morning and saw a wolf right in front of you.  Your body will respond to that stress by boosting your adrenaline and most likely you would either run (faster than normal) because of your increased heart rate and breathing.  With the increased blood flow, it enables you to think clearly and either you would outrun the wolf, or you would be in the right mind to be out of harms way, or pick something up that will help you to defend yourself.  After the wolf runs away or gives up chasing you, your body returns back to normal.  Normal breathing, heart rate, etc.

This rarely happens, and this is usually not the stress that most 21st century people are used to.  The stress in our lives are chronic stresses that are constantly there and our body has no way of returning back to equilibrium.  These stresses are job stress, relationships, financial stability, family, school, the economy, etc.  Prolonged stress contributes to illnesses such as adrenal malfunction, insomnia, hear problems, emotional problems, eating disorders, and much more including autoimmune disease where the body attacks itself.

Some ways to de-stress is the following:

  1. You touch the area just outside of your eyes, like you were smoothing out your bangs if you had hair in the front, and also smoothing your hair over your ears.  Again if you had hair on your sides.  If not, you can still do it.  The benefit of this motion is that no one will know what you are doing because it just looks like you are smoothing out your hair.  You can do this at school, work, and even in public. Make sure to take some deep breaths as well
  2. This next de-stress method is where you place your palm on your forehead and the other palm on the bump on the back of the head.  Hold for a few minutes while you take deep long breaths.  This is good for helping with a headache or you have dangerous emotions such as anger or fear.  This is a good way to help you remember thing you have forgotten too.  This is great to do to reach an equilibrium before bed time and or after waking up.

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