Manage Stress To Avoid Diseases

If you can learn to manage your stress you can avoid many diseases.  Stress is a common term in our fast paced society.  The demands from jobs, family and financial pressures accumulate to a point where it is difficult to cope.

When stress is very extreme or long lasting, it can be quite harmful to your health.  Prolonged stress can place a tremendous burden on our organs – the heart, adrenals, blood vessels and the immune system.

These medical conditions are strongly linked to stress:  Angina, Asthma, Autoimmune Diseases, Cancer, Colds, Diabetes, Depression, Headaches, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Immune Suppression, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Menstrual Irregularities, Rheumatiod Arthritis, Ulcerative Colitis and Ulcers.

Stress management is essential to counteract the effects of stress before it damages your health.  It involves using exercise and different relaxation techniques such as meditation and self hypnosis.

In addition, the effects of stress can also be reduced by providing the body with the necessary nutritional support it needs.  In particular, potassium levels should be maintained along with the B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, zinc and magnesium.

Daily exercise increases your ability to cope with stress.  It also reduces the risk of many stress related diseases.   Exercise improves your heart functions, lowers your blood pressure and cholesterol levels.  It also improves your mood and your self esteem. 

You should exercise at least 30 minutes a day.  Brisk walking is the recommended exercise.  If you don’t have to do it all at one time,  you can break it up into shorter sessions.

Relaxation techniques counteract stress responses by creating the opposite reaction, which is relaxation.   You can relax by sleeping, watching television or reading, but relaxation techniques are specifically designed to produce a “relaxation response” which is the opposite of "stress response".  The relaxation response reduces your heart rate, blood pressure, and rate of breathing.   It can even improve your digestion, because the production of digestive secretions increases during this process.

You should set aside at least 15 to 30 minutes every day to perform a relaxation technique.  There are many guided audios, both meditation and hypnosis, available which make it easy. 

You simply put on your headphones and listen to an audio as it guides you to relaxation. As you can see, it is important to manage your stress in order to avoid disease and have a better quality of life.


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