Imagine you have a day off, it's a beautiful warm day and you're meeting a friend for a lunch and shopping date. You probably feel great, excited. Now imagine your friend cancels at the last minute, your purse is empty and you realize you left your credit cards at home. How is your breathing? How do your muscles feel? Is your back crouched over or your shoulders up to your ears? Some of us constantly experience these stress symptoms. If this is you, your body will spend an unhealthy length of time with elevated heart beat, shallow breathing, constricted blood flow and a posture or movement which tightens or shortens the muscles.
Some believe that the root cause of many health challenges is stress or a stressful event. Meta-medicinesay "there is a deep connection between the body mind spirit … and that our emotions are intimately tied to our health issues." They go further to say that specific types of emotional stress affect different areas of the body, which is why you might get eczema or inflammation occurring only on certain parts of the body.
There are many ways in which you can help ease your stress. Counselling therapy used to be considered a trend that only Americans did. However, it's been taken more seriously in this country, and rightly so. Have you ever had an issue that was bothering you and you needed to get it off your chest? Was it a relief when you managed to share it with someone? That relief would also have had positive repercussions in your body, whether you were aware of it or not. Your mind would have been clearer, your breathing deeper and your body less tight.
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