Research Links Stress To Health Problems– And Solutions
Using the power of the mind to affect bodily symptoms (illness) is the underlying premise of mind-body medicine. Reducing stress is a primary concern for therapists and all health care professionals, and has been found to be a viable means of improving health. The physical and emotional damage that stress causes has been written about voluminously and researched extensively over the last few decades. Yet, stress remains a killer! Your quality of life is in jeopardy, if you do not heed the mind-body findings.
The mind-body connection is explained in Dr.Claire Wheeler’s recent blog www.psychologytoday.com. Even before the last century, Socrates led us in the quest to find happiness, and he progressed to link happiness to a “life well-lived,” essential understandings to maximize quality of life.
The overall picture is to control damaging emotional symptoms and behaviors by applying techniques that encourage you to live a healthy lifestyle. The basic premise is that changing your lifestyle, learning to respond, (rather than allowing a gut level reaction to take over), and living your values will enhance your reducing stress skills, thereby lessening the health ravages of stress running wild.
The Research Is Available For The Taking
Living a healthy lifestyle greatly diminishes the effects of stress. For example, if your diet, exercise and life style choices are moving in a healthy direction, you are able to manage upsets in your life more effectively. You have your wits about you more readily and can make appropriate choices. You are less likely to get wrapped up in temptations when you already are committed to health. As you limit stress in your life, live a healthy lifestyle, and do not fall prey to making poor choices, your physical health will be enhanced.
It is always good to research for yourself views of other people. A cornucopia of knowledge is available on the internet, local libraries and bookstores detailing the research that unequivocally proves that stress is linked to poor physical health. Many talented researchers in psychology and medicine have paved the way for developing strategies that improve physical health through reducing stress. Google: mind/body research.
It Is Never Too Late–Change Now
Even if your health is suffering due to genetic health problems or poor choices, like addiction in the past, pay attention now to healthy decisions; you will be rewarded exponentially. Long term consequences of chronic stress can be mediated by making healthy choices now.
With your doctor’s permission, exercise is an easy way to begin. Simply walking for 20 minutes a day can start to turn around many health problems. If you are having difficulties with motivation, use a simple technique that you have probably tried with your kids, tie your walk to a particularly pleasant event that you want, e. g. allowing yourself to watch a favorite tv program. No walkie, no watchie.
Every person who struggles with depression will likely get the “exercise” cure from health professionals. Depression, which is often tied to stress, responds positively to getting the body moving. More suggestions to come.
The least you need to Know:
1. The answers are in–stress is negatively related to health and emotional issues.
2. See for yourself by doing a little research.
This mission, should you decide to accept, requires:
1. You taking responsibility for your health by changing lifestyle choices.
2. An acceptable path to start is some-any-exercise. You will be doing a great service to yourself. No one can help without you changing.
