Stress

Stress is a complicated chain of interactions that begins as a natural response to events that are perceived (often unconsciously) as being threatening. The realities of day to day living often create circumstances where an increasing variety of situations are perceived as being threatening in one way or another, and where the body moves into a chronic state of "hyper-readyness".

This hyper-readyness can act somewhat like an allergic response. With each new stimulus, the body increases its reaction strength until over-reacting to small stressors becomes a habitual state of being. This, in turn, causes physical changes in the body that make it more susceptible to illness and injury.

Like a tiny crack that weakens the structure of a material as it widens and spreads, stress undermines physical health and diminishes the strength of the immune system, opening us to greater probabilities of contracting acute illnesses.

To learn more about what stress is, how it affects the body, and how to learn to live with it more effectively, please click on this link to Stress and the Art of Letting Go - the powerpoint presentation from my one-day stress workshop.

(Note - you can resize the windows by clicking and dragging the dividing bars. It helps to make the text window larger in order to read the commentary for each slide)