According to studies* stress does cause long term or chronic effects on the body. For example. Did you know that chronic stress may result in high blood pressure, unnatural heartbeat and heart failure? People with lots of stress also oftentimes have muscle pain, neck an shoulder pain and increased pain from rheumatoid arthritis. American businesses loose and approximated $200 – $300 billion dollars a year to stress related productivity loss and other costs and each week when it comes to 95 million Americans suffer galore kind of stress affiliated symptom that they take medication for.

But what is Stress exactly?

According to Lesa Burnha in her article ‘Stress your worst enemy’ 2004, Stress is not only a fact of life but a necessary one in little doses. Stress provides the energy boost we need to tackle life’s little hurdles each day. It may be caused by both good and bad experiences. Stress is a signal to the body to release chemicals that give you more energy and strength, which may be a good thing if you are in danger. But neverending release of these chemicals over prolonged periods without an outlet may be bad for your health, even deadly.

Essentially there are four types of stress.

1. Survival stress – this s the fight or flight response to physical danger. It is found in all people and animals. The body provides a burst of energy so you may survive a dangerous situation, fight, or escape, flight.
2. Internal stress – is the stress most many times caused by worry. Worry in regards to things you have no control over is one of the most important types of stress to understand and control. Some humans even get addicted to the hurried and tense lifestyle that results in chronic internal stress. These are the persons that always seem to have something going on in their lives that induces stress.
3. Environmental stress – is a reaction to things around you like ceaseless noise, crowding and pressure at work or from family. You know how you have to have the TV or radio on when you are working. You may not realize it but that continuous noise may add to your stress.
4. Stress from overwork and tiredness - builds up over time. If you have difficultness managing your time this is a type of stress you may experience. It is also the stress that comes from an disability to relax and let go.

While a little stress is normal and necessary, ceaseless or chronic stress, of periods of high stress from things like a foreclosure, loosing a occupation and looking for work these days, or the loss of a loved one may cause physical and mental sensations or changes that in the end compound the problem as well as adding new ones.

Common Physical Symptoms of Stress include

• Rapid heartbeat
• Stiff neck
• Tight shoulders
• Rapid Breathing
• Sweating
• Sweaty Palms
• Upset Stomach
• GERD or Gastriesophageal Reflux Disease
• COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Nausea
• Diarrhea
• Back Pain
• Muscle Tension
• Constipation
• Burping
• Shortness of Breath
• Chest Pain
• Feeling Faint or Dizzy
• Ringing in the ears
• Loss of appetite
• Hives or rashes

And this is the short list.

Stress may likewise affect your mind and your capacity to think.

Some of the effects of stress on the mind include

• Nervousness
• Anxiousness
• Irritability
• Moodiness
• Frustration
• Impatience
• Forgetfulness
• Insomnia
• Trouble focusing or thinking distinctly
• Harder to learn new things
• Negative thoughts
• Accident Prone
• Nail biting

Just to name a few.

Have I gotten your attention now?

It is no wonder persons are flocking to the doctors these days to get medication to treat a great deal of of these stress related issues. Scientists know that when you are experiencing more stress than usual the Serotonin, Noradrenalin, and dopamine in the brain get started to malfunction. Serotonin helps you sleep and sets your body clock. Noradrenalin gives you energy and dopamine gives pleasure and relieves pain. Doctors will give you medications that aid your body regulate these and other chemical processes, but what are the side effects.

With the current climate of foreclosures and occupation scarcity it is no wonder more people are turning to the doctors for help. And, while there is little you may do to control the outside world, you may learn to control how you react to it and you may learn methods that will support you control your stress so you don’t become one of the statistics.

Please REMEMBER, However, the suggestions I offer here are only a few of the things you may do. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES must you stop any medications you may be presently taking without talking about it with your physician first. Use of any of these methods is strictly voluntary and at your own risk. If you experience sensations or changes that may be life threatening like diabetes, chest pain or even hives for example seek medical aid immediately. Now, with that said let’s try to reduce a lot of of your stress shall we.

Laughter is the Best Medicine – the capacity to laugh is in all probability the best holistic remedy available to beat stress. Did you recognise that when you laugh your body releases toxins and laughter activates your immune system?

Research results**indicate that there is a usual increase in the action of the immune system after exposure to humor. Some of these include

• Increased number of natural killer cells that attack and kill infected cells and a great deal of types of CANCER and tumor cells.
• Increase in activated T lymphocytes (T cells)
• Increase in IgA or immunoglobulin A which fights contagions of the upper respiratory tract
• Increase in gamma interferon which ‘turns on’ respective constituents of the immune scheme
• A decrease in Stress hormones such as epinephrine that constrict blood vessels and suppress immune action
• Decreased levels of dopamine which involves the ‘fight or flight’ response

Laughter is aerobic and provides a workout for the diaphragm and increments your body’s capacity to utilise oxygen more effectively. Laughter is a powerful distraction from pain when used in conjunction to congenital pain management. It is also responsible for bringing on positive emotions that may heighten conventional treatments for disease.

Possibly the best thing in regards to Laughter is that it is FREE! And it may be one of the best medicines out there.

Exercise your Stress Away – we all recognise exercise is good for us. It improves blood flow and tones our muscles but did you know exercise may also fight stress. Exercise increments the blood flow through the brain and helps flush away the chemicals that result from stress. It may be responsible for freeing endorphins into your blood that give you a sentiment of well-being. According to the Mayo Clinic any form of exercise may act as a stress reliever.

Exercise often times is a means to escape from the each and everyday stress that plague us. After a good exercise session you will ofttimes find that the annoyances of the day have vanished because you were concentrating on the motion of the exercise rather than the issues.

Regular exercise may improve mood and lessen depression as well as bettering your sleep according to the Mayo Clinic. But that regular exercise doesn’t have to be a chore. Some things you may do that may not seem like exercise but have great gains for reducing stress are

• Ride a bike with your kids
• Dance, alone, with friends, or at the club. Dance is a great aerobic exercise and the added gain to scaled down stress is weight loss
• Walking is a low affect way to exercise and the gains are widely known. I love to walk, personally, but find it hard to just go walk. One of the things I do is undertake to find a place to walk to. A nearby but not next door friend, the store, or I employed to walk to the school or bus stop to pick up the kids. Walking the dog is likewise a good habit. It will also heighten your bond with the family pet.

Speaking of Pets – get a dog or cat. Did you recognise that humans who own pets tend to live longer. It’s true. I don’t think any person genuinely knows why, but a pet cat or dog seems to be capable to calm you. Blood pressure drops and tension is relieved when you hold and pet your dog or cat. It is as if you instinctively know that you need to be calm for them, so you are. And they know when you are trouble so you may often times find that your pet seems to be closer to you more often when you are beneath a lot of stress, so take vantage of it. Take a few minutes to hold and play with Fido or Fluffy. Sorry though, fish, birds, reptiles and other pets have not been shown to have the same affects, at least not yet.

Faith and or Religion

Turn to your religion, your faith if it applies to you. A strong faith scheme may help you let go of the difficulties that seem to follow you. There is a lot of truth in the prayer, God grant me the serenity to receive the things I can not change, alter the things I may and the wisdom to know the difference. It is not my intention to advertize any single religion or belief, only to suggest that if you have one, turning to it in times of stress may help.

Eliminate the Killer – Stress

By now you may see how stress may be a killer. It affects your mind and body. It causes you to seek out medications that have untold side effects. Personally I believe that medications may occasionally cause more hurt than good. This is because I watched my grandmother go from calling for one or two pills to calling for a hand full to manage the side effects of the one or two she needed.

You see dozens of advertisements every day talking regarding a heap of of the sensations or changes I brought up above. Any one of these may reduce your time on this world and I for one want each minute the good lord sees fit to give me.

We all face stress each day, but there are things we may do to help alleviate it. I am not a doctor but I have had my reasonable share of stress and then some. My doctor told me once that I must already be dead due to the levels of stress I was living with. (This was shortly after my husband died). I begun to look at what I did that kept me from suffering the effect of stress that my doctor admonished me with regards to back then and I realizes that I had already instinctively learned to utilize the methods above.

I laugh loudly, once in a while too loudly, and long whenever the mood strikes me. I likewise undertake to laugh at myself as oftentimes as I can. I have always gotten my exercise through dancing and walking. At times the walking being a requirement as I was struggling in my youth with ‘clunkers’ that were perpetually breaking down and leaving me with no transportation. I have always had dogs and cats around, even as a child and I try to live by the Serenity prayer each day.

If we may learn ways to relieve the day to day stress, as well as minimize chronic stress, we may reduce our tendency to suffer from a heap of of the sensations or changes and impairment of normal physiological functions affiliated with stress like the ones I brought up above.

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Resources: *Web Md health Guide:Dr. Black, 2002 ‘Stress in indispensable care patients’. FV DeGruy et al, eds., 20 Common Problems in Behavioral Health. Pp. 65-87. New York: McGraw-Hill

** Holistic Hotline.com / Humor: Thrapeutic Benefits of Laughter by Dr. Lee Berk and Dr. Stanley Tan of Loma Linda University, CA. Sept./Oct. 1996 Issue of Humor and Health Journal.

Also – Mayo Clinic Health Manager 2010

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1. A widely known and esteemed poetical and novelist as well as chair of poetry at the University of Cambridge, this academy award-winning actor’s father wrote mysteries under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake.

A. Jack Nicholson

B. Charlie Sheen

C. Daniel Day Lewis

D. Rob Schneider

C. Daniel Day Lewis

QQ: Sure it seemed like a hard question, but genuinely you had a fifty-fifty shot, didn’t you? After all, we all know what Charlie Sheen’s dad does and last time I checked Rob Schneider wasn’t winning any academy awards.

2. Social scientists believe that the progressed Western family developed largely from that of the ancient Hebrews for what reason?

A. Their families were patriarchal in structure

B. It was a matriarchal society

C. It was an oligarchy

D. The Hebrews called their god “Father”

A. Their families were patriarchal in structure

QQ: There, now you must feel better after The QuizQueen gave you an easy one…

3. Which “father” figure does NOT exist?

A. Father Cats

B. Father Dogs

C. Father Christmas

D. Father Divine

B. Father Dogs

QQ: Father Cats was a Dutch writer, Father Christmas is the English Santa Claus, and Father Divine was an American religious leader.

4. Who was firstborn named “Father of His Country”?

A. George Washington

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Emperor Augustus

D. Napoleon Bonaparte

C. Emperor Augustus

QQ: In 2 BC, the Roman emperor Augustus is made Pater Patriae (“Father of his Country”).

5. Which ancient Greek god was least likely to celebrate Father’s Day?

A. Zeus, father of the gods

B. Iapetus, the father of Prometheus

C. Hyperion, the father of the sun, the moon, and the dawn

D. Cronos, god of fertility

D. Cronos, god of fertility

QQ: That’s because Cronos (Kronus) castrated his father and protected himself from a similar fate by eating his children. Some fertility god, eh?

6. If you are a first-born son, is it a good thing or a bad thing for your father to exercise primogeniture?

A. Good

B. Bad

C. It depends

D. Who cares

A. Good

QQ: That’s because your inheritance is guaranteed beneath this system. He can’t cut you out of the will no matter what!

7. American actor Robert Young starred in what 1950′s TV show devoted to fathers?

A. Father Knows Best

B. Leave it to Daddy

C. My Three Fathers

D. I Dream Of Papa

A. Father Knows Best

QQ: This was a gimmee, wasn’t it?

8. Which “Make Room For Daddy” star fathered “That Girl”?

A. Danny Thomas

B. Carl Reiner

C. Monty Gleason

D. Jon Voight

A. Danny Thomas

QQ: Everyone knows that Marlo was “That Girl,” right?

9. Which “father” figure does NOT exist?

A. Father Flanagan

B. Father Coughlin

C. Father Damien

D. Father Clinton

D. Father Clinton

QQ: Well, OK, perhaps Bill is a father, but that is surely not what he’s known for! Father Flanagan (of course) founded Boys Town, Father Coughlin was a Canadian-American priest and activist, and Father Damien was a Belgian missionary.

10. The ancient Egyptian deity Amon was represented by what animal?

A. Ram

B. Lion

C. Dog

D. Rat

A. Ram

QQ: He was the father of the moon, according to the mythology.

11. Which was NOT one of Spencer Tracy’s “father”-ly roles?

A. Father of the Bride

B. Father’s Little Dividend

C. Boys Town (Father Flanagan)

D. Father Knows Best

D. Father Knows Best

QQ: That’s right, Spencer Tracy was the “Father of the Bride” long before Steve Martin!

12. Which society is NOT patrilineal?

A. Bedouin

B. Ewe

C. Shawnee

D. Tuareg

D. Tuareg

QQ: How a heap of persons guessed Ewe? That was finelooking tricky of The QuizQueen wasn’t it!

13. According to Greek mythology, the god of sleep was the father of Morpheus. What was his name?

A. Hypnos

B. Doseus

C. Napinus

D. Snoozola

A. Hypnos

QQ: Hypnos god of sleep, many times depicted carrying a poppy; son of Nyx, brother of Thanatos, and father of Morpheus

14. What blue-eyed crooner fathered a singer whose boots were made for walking?

A. Elvis Presley

B. Bing Crosby

C. Frank Sinatra

D. Ricky Nelson

C. Frank Sinatra

QQ: Nancy Sinatra recorded “These Boots Are Made For Walking” for those who don’t remember!

15. What happens when a father exercises the habit of couvade?

A. He takes to his bed and complains of labor pains

B. He circumcises his son

C. He demands a DNA test to make sure paternity

D. The male penguin helps the female by sitting on the nest

A. He takes to his bed and complains of labor pains

QQ: Documented by Marco Polo and innovative anthropologists, it is taken to be an assertion of his rights and responsibilities as father in some cultures.

16. According to Greek mythology, who was the father of the gods and mortals?

A. Cronus

B. Hades

C. Poseidon

D. Zeus

D. Zeus

QQ: If Homer said it then it ought to be true! However, it was more an honorary title than a practical one.

17. The country singer Tex _____ fathered a star who among other things played a role on Three’s Company. What is Tex’s last name?

A. Ritter

B. Somers

C. Knotts

D. Williams

A. Ritter

QQ: And he was John Ritter’s Dad of course!

18. Can you name the father-son acting duo where the father was Spartacus and the son became president (on screen)?

A. Kirk and Michael

B. Donald and Kieffer

C. Martin and Charlie

D. James and Josh

A. Kirk and Michael

QQ: This would of course be the Douglases! Did you know that if Kirk hadn’t changed his name they would be the Danielovitchs?

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