Understanding Stress

Stress can be defined as: Excess demand on our system = we don't have the resources to deal with the situation in hand.

Stress can be physical, emotional or mental.

Regardless by what the stress is caused, the stress response is in its main elements the same.

How does stress affect our body?

The body is healing itself all the time. Just think about what happens when you cut yourself. Your body has an awareness that you have cut yourself (internal scanning), it makes resources available to stop the bleeding, prevents infection and heals the cut, without you doing anything (self healing). Self-healing is happening on all levels of the body-mind complex: physical, emotional and mental.

We have an innate wisdom that will preserve life to the best.

When we are under stress (= excess demand) our body goes into survival mode, the fight and flight response is triggered. Internal maintenance work is reduced or comes to a complete halt to divert the resources to more vital areas. Certain areas, mainly digestive, immune & reproductive system, classed as less important short term, will be temporarily given less resources, which leads to reduction in internal communication and function. More vital areas, such as cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine system are given high priority (to fight and flight).
After the stressful situation is over, the body is meant to reset itself to rest & healing (maintenance) mode and be attentive to all internal maintenance, re-establish full communication and function.

Lifestyle in the 21^stCentury is rather demanding (= stress full) and our body-mind has not adjusted to this pace of life. The resetting to maintenance mode is often not fully happening or is severely delayed.

Spending a lot of time in survival mode leads to a decline in physical, emotional and/or mental well-being and health, as the regular maintenance of the body is neglected.

Common areas directly affected by stress are: cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, immune, reproductive, respiratory,  system and in children growth. 
Secondary impact often manifests in a clients emotional, mental health and their social functioning, as well as in stress related symptoms, such as headaches, frequent infections, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, allergies, anxiety, phobias...

Once people have experienced frequent or severe stress, their threshold to
switch into the survival mode is often much lower and it becomes a vicious circle.

STRESS = HEALING CAN WAIT!

Consciousness based health care can help address the underlying issues, so that your body-mind can heal and function as nature intended.

To help the body to reset to a healthy stress response; BodyTalk Cortices is the best tool I have found to aid the body in it's recovery. I recommend to use this self apply technique 4 times a day for a minimum of 4 weeks. To learn this technique, please log onto

http://www.bodytalksystem.com/videos/category.cfm?id=4

and watch the video: 'Cortices - How to'.

BodyTalk Access (a 1 day seminar teaching 5 basic BodyTalk Techniques for selfappliccation) is a valuable tool to help clients to recover from stress.