Learn 10 Important Steps to Rising above Chronic Stress!

Chronic Stress is Quite different to Everyday Stress and could be destroying your Quality of Life. Many times everyday Stress is not all that bad, without it you or I wouldn’t necessarily be motivated to learn new things, take action or protect ourselves.

Certain levels of stress are beneficial in helping us to adapt to our environment and fuel our motivation to succeed. The stress that is great concern is chronic stress, and if not properly understood with coping mechanisms in place will have detrimental effects on both your quality of life and your health .

If left Unaddressed without Counselling and Recognition of how these events can effect you, left hidden and not communicated about with a trusted person. These events will wreak havoc on your Emotional and Physical Health. With the help of a Counselling or Life Coaching, this will enable to release these emotions, allowing your mind and emotions to heal, finding balance so that you can move past these events to continue building your life once again with purpose, health and happiness.

Begins with understanding the Brain, Emotions and Body Connection
Your body is hard-wired to react to stress in ways meant to protect you against threats from predators and other aggressors.
Such threats are rare today, but that doesn’t mean that life is free of stress. On the contrary, you undoubtedly face multiple demands each day, such as

#Dealing with daily workloads
#Finances
#Family
#Friends
#Previous programming and events

Your body treats these so-called minor hassles as threats. As a result you may feel as if you’re constantly under pressure.
But you can take charge and learn processes to help not only deal with these stresses but help to minimize the harmful effect on your body.
You don’t have to let stress control your life.

When you encounter a perceived threat — a large dog barks at you during your morning walk, for instance — your hypothalamus, a tiny region at the base of your brain, sets off an alarm system in your body. Through a combination of nerve and hormonal signals, this system prompts your adrenal glands, located atop your kidneys, to release a surge of hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol.

Adrenaline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain’s use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues.

Cortisol also curbs functions that would be nonessential or detrimental in a fight-or-flight situation. It alters immune system responses and suppresses the digestive system, the reproductive system and growth processes. This complex natural alarm system also communicates with regions of your brain that control mood, motivation and fear.

The body’s stress-response system is usually self-limiting. Once a perceived threat has passed, hormone levels return to normal. As adrenaline and cortisol levels drop, your heart rate and blood pressure return to baseline levels, and other systems resume their regular activities.
But when stressors are always present and you constantly feel under attack, that fight-or-flight reaction stays turned on.
The long-term activation of the stress-response system — and the subsequent overexposure to cortisol and other stress hormones — can disrupt almost all your body’s processes. This puts you at increased risk of numerous health problems, including:

#Anxiety
#Depression
#Digestive problems
#Heart disease
#Sleep problems
#Weight gain
#Memory and concentration impairment

Why you react to life stressors the way you do is that your reaction to a potentially stressful event is different from anyone else’s.
How you react to stressors in your life is affected by such factors as:

#Genetics: The genes that control the stress response keep most people on a fairly even keel, only occasionally priming the body for fight or flight. Overactive or underactive stress responses may stem from slight differences in these genes.
#Life experiences: Strong stress reactions sometimes can be traced to traumatic events.
#Neglect or Abuse: People who suffered neglect or abuse as children tend to be particularly vulnerable to stress.
#Exposure to Violence & Crime: The same is true of victims of violent crime, airplane crash survivors, military personnel, police officers and fire-fighters.

You may well find that some of your friends seem laid-back about almost everything and others who react strongly at the slightest stress.
In many cases this is due to how the stressful situations experienced have been dealt with. Learning to react to life stressors in a healthy way can allow you to have a positive response to the stressor, whereas if these stressful events are handled either by the use of drugs, not paying attention to eating whole foods, instead eating a high consumption of processed, packaged or junk foods, 0r overconsumption of alcohol being reactive to an event, rather than stepping back and acting upon it when you are feeling less anxious.

Stressful events are a fact of life. And you may not be able to change your current situation. But you can take steps to manage the impact these events have on you.

As mentioned earlier in this article, these experiences need to be spoken about, shared with people who are not going to feel sorry for, but have empathy. Allowing you to work your way through these emotional events to find peace and happiness within you, in positive and constructive ways that will bring balance back into your life. Some of these experiences as mentioned are –

Childhood Traumas –

It is in your Strength of Wisdom & Character to Seek Professional Support. That will Guide and Empower you to — Live your Life in Positive and Constructive ways to bring Happiness, Health, Healing and Vitality back to your life.

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