Blow the Stress and Feel the Life.

An unique and effective Stress management technique for a Stress free life

What is stress?
“A force of sufficient magnitude which when applied to a system will either deform or distort the system.” ( Physics & Engineering )
The word 'stress’ is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "a state of affair involving demand on physical or mental energy". Researchers explain Stress in Human beings as the “non specific response of the body to any demand made upon it.”
It also can be described as a condition or circumstance (not always adverse), which can disturb the normal physical and mental health of an individual. This demand on mind-body occurs when it tries to cope with incessant changes in life.
At one point or the other everybody suffers from stress. Relationship demands, physical as well as mental health problems, pressure at workplaces, traffic snarls, meeting deadlines, growing-up tensions—all of these conditions and situations are valid causes of stress. People have their own methods of stress management.

Observe & recognize the Stress
It is important to recognize whether you are under stress or out of it. Many times, even if we are under the influence of a stressful condition and our body reacts to it internally as well as externally, we fail to realize that we are reacting under stress.

We get habituated to stress
This also happens when the causes of stress are there long enough for us to get habituated to them. The body constantly tries to tell us through symptoms such as rapid palpitation, dizzy spells, tight muscles or various body aches that something is wrong. It is important to remain attentive to such symptoms and to learn to cope with the situations.In some people, stress-induced adverse feelings and anxieties tend to persist and intensify. Learning to understand and master stress management techniques can help prevent the counter effects of this urban malaise.

Observe your emotions.
Our present emotions reflect the present state of our nervous system with all its past imprints. Whenever we have an experience, these imprints enter into our response, which means that most of our reactions are echoes from the past. We do not really live in the present.

Emotions arouse two sensations-
PAIN and PLEASURE.
It is natural all of us want to avoid pain and pursue Pleasure

Researchers at Duke University showed hostility and mistrust to be key predictors of heart disease and early death. H.J. Eysenck summarized a group of European studies and found the following:

1."Individuals who tended to repress their emotions in the face of stress were far likelier than others to die of cancer."

2."Those who rated high on emotional frustration and aggression had a high rate of cardiac related deaths."

How does Stress affects us?

“The General Adaptation Syndrome”

Doctors call the body’s reaction to stress as
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
There are three stages to GAS.

1.ALARM REACTION
In the first stage of GAS called alarm reaction, the body releases adrenaline and a variety of other psychological mechanisms to combat the stress and to stay in control. This is called fight or flight response. The muscles tense, the heart beats faster, the breathing and perspiration increases, the eyes dilate, the stomach may clench. This is done by nature to protect you in case something bad happens. Once the cause of the stress is removed, the body will go back to normal.

2.RESISTANCE OR ADAPTATION
If the cause for the stress is not removed, GAS goes to its second stage called resistance or adaptation. This is the body’s response to long term protection. It secretes further hormones that increase blood sugar levels to sustain energy and raise blood pressure. The adrenal cortex (outer covering) produces hormones called corticosteroids for this resistance reaction. Overuse by the body's defense mechanism in this phase eventually leads to disease.

If this adaptation phase continues for a prolonged period of time without periods of relaxation and rest to counterbalance the stress response, sufferers become prone to fatigue, concentration lapses, irritability and lethargy as the effort to sustain arousal slides into negative stress.

3. EXHAUSTION
In this stage, the body has run out of its reserve of body energy and immunity. Mental, physical and emotional resources suffer heavily. The body experiences "adrenal exhaustion". The blood sugar levels decrease as the adrenals become depleted, leading to decreased stress tolerance, progressive mental and physical exhaustion, illness and collapse.

Excessive stress may cause-
1.Emotional problems including insomnia, fatigue,lack of concentration, or restlessnes.
2.may lead to drug use, including excessive use of
sleeping pills, vitamin pills and pain killers
3.may lead to cardio vascular problems
4.may cause gastro intestinal problems such as
ulcers, colitis or digestive problems.
5.may cause allergic reactions
6.may cause sexual disorders in males and females.

How to cope with or manage Stress (Effectively)?
Methods of coping with stress are aplenty. If we study Stress deeply, we would observe that our internal agitations are causing stress and not truly, the external disturbances.

What are these internal agitations and where it is happening?
They are in fact our thoughts which are causing stress and it is happening in our mind.

"Stress is the by-product of thoughts.
These thoughts that cause stress fit into 2 categories:
1) they are thoughts related to an event that has already taken place - better known as the past and
2) they are thoughts that relate to a situation or event that may or may not take place - also known as the future."

(Stress arises in a person when his mind overpowers his intellect- the power of the mind to think in a logical manner. When his desires and attachments override his intellect; When the intellect loses control over the minds desires, the person becomes disturbed. Stress is the mental agitations caused by unfulfilled desires.)

If we understand this truth, we can effectively address and manage Stress. (This is explained in detail, in our program with methods and processes)

Of course there are several other followed techniques like Change in lifestyle, Relaxation techniques such as meditation, physical exercises, listening to soothing music deep breathing, various natural and alternative methods, personal growth techniques, visualization and massage etc which gives some relief to Stress in normal life.

How You Can Stay Healthier?
What You Can Do?

To keep stress, especially chronic stress from damaging your health, it’s important to be sure that your body does not experience excessive states of this physiological arousal.
There are two important ways to do this:

1.Learn Tension Taming techniques like relaxation response, yoga, deep breathing, meditation etc.

2. Practice C.T.P.
We offer an unique technique called CTP “Contra Thought Process” to understand, recognize, manage and cope stress that can be learned easily and practiced when you’re under stress, helping you feel better relatively quickly.

Prevent Excess Stress:
Some acute stress is unavoidable, but much of the episodic acute stress and chronic stress -the stress that damages our health-that we experience can be avoided or minimized with the practice of the methods given above.

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