Stress and your body symptoms: Effects on your body and behavior Good stress is our best friend, spurring us into action and saving our lives in acute fight-or-flight situations. But our body doesn't differentiate between good and bad stress: it can only respond in one way. The physical effects of stress and your body are well documented, but there are a variety of other issues to consider as well. Vineet Singla, M.D., explains the psychological impact of chronic stress and how it often leads to behaviors that make other risk factors worse. He also discusses the importance of getting to the source of the problem and treating the root … [Read more...]
Fight or Flight Response
Paul Andersen explains how epinephrine is responsible for changes in chemistry of our body associated with the fight or flight response. Epinephrine released by the adrenal medulla are received by a number of organs associated with the sympathetic nervous system.https://www.youtube.com/embed/m2GywoS77qc Knowing how to manage the fight or flight response is one of the most important steps in rebuilding your relationship. When you’re trying to fix your relationship but your emotions are out of control, you will always end up fighting. It’s time to get some professional help.You can change this today.I can help you to:Grow your emotional skills – emotional skills are far more important … [Read more...]
10 Tips for Stress Management
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOpZU320v5E10 proven tips to manage stress. Knowing how to manage stress is one of the most important steps in rebuilding your relationship. When you’re trying to fix your relationship but your emotions are out of control, you will always end up fighting. It’s time to get some professional help.You can change this today.I can help you to:Grow your emotional skills – emotional skills are far more important than any functional skill in achieving a high level of peace and calm within oneself.Know your emotional style – your emotional style effects how you react in emotional situations.Understand your emotional brain – learn how your brain effects your … [Read more...]
Highly Sensitive People – HSP
Sensitive people really do exist! They make up about 20% of the population! That question, "Whatever is the matter with you?" can finally be answered. That trait you have, of feeling hurt so easily, and of often feeling "different" to everyone else, can finally be explained. You may be a Highly Sensitive Person, like me.I have felt different all my life. For a starter I have always been tall, and so felt like a big clumsy oaf in class activities. I did not enjoy sport, because I did not like being hot and sweaty, but playing at least one sport was always encouraged, and so I chose netball. I was not good at running, nor ball passing, and so due to my height, was usually placed at … [Read more...]
Putting Up Fences – Putting Out Fires
5 Days later and fed up with the silence, Mike asked me, "So when are we going to start speaking again?" I said, "You know very well what you've done. I'm wounded because you yelled at me." I had dwelt on it so many times since last Sunday. Thirty years ago, Mike and I owned a 76 acre (30 hectare) rolling hills sheep property in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. It was a beautiful place with two dams and stocked with around 100 Border Leicester ewes, which lambed every spring. When we bought the property it had no internal fencing, so Mike drew up a design for the various paddocks and we set about putting up the fences - putting out fires. One Sunday, the two of us worked all day … [Read more...]
Depression and Low Mood
Do you find that your mood is low for large periods of the day and you generally feel 'down in the dumps'? We can all feel down from time to time. Feeling depressed is a bit different in that it tends to last longer than a couple of weeks, and is marked by low mood, significant decrease in enjoyment or interest in activities. Treatment for depression and low mood depends on several factors: the severity of your illness, what types of symptoms you have, and for how long you have had them. For some, counseling and learning cognitive techniques to alter negative thinking is sufficient for them to begin to recover. Others need to engage in activities and do … [Read more...]