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Beat Stress With Your Nose

Written by: H. Bernard Wechsler

Article Overview: Overactive-Stress causes Fight-or-Flight together with physical and mental residuals. Aromatherapy ameliorates dangerous stress. New scientific research.

Beat Stress With Your Nose

Beat Stress With Your Nose Speed Reading Rules

New scientific research shows that when we are under Stress-Overload,

more than 100 genes push our body and mind into overdrive. So what?

That weakens our immune system, and makes a lousy situation even worse.

The Meaning of Stress

When you suffer from stress-overload, your entire body and mind

go into Fight-or-Flight reaction. If you are in a dangerous situation like

being mugged or avoiding a car crash on the highway, your body's

reaction to stress is preparation to survive the emergency - a good thing.

But

Most of the stress (90%) we experience is not reality-based based on our

lifestyle, it is based on anxiety and panic, and how we react to life's annoyances.

You are not entitled to go crazy because you are sitting in traffic for two-hours,

or your boss is a perfectionist freak and making your life miserable.

What Happens

When you stress-out - your hypothalamus signals your adrenal glands to

produce the powerful hormones adrenaline and cortisol, and release them

into the bloodstream. Why? Produce more oxygen and glucose for energy.

The result is to speed up your heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure,

and metabolism to ready you for fight-or-flight. In other words, your mind

and body are not in your normal operating system (homeostasis). Some

doctors say stress-overload takes us 51% out-of-our-mind - makes you crazy.

Purpose

The purpose for all these changes in your mind and body are for your

survival, but we no longer live on the savannah with attacking predatory animals

who want to eat us for dinner. Today we get stressed-out because of

losing a promotion, failing to get into the college of our choice, or a bad relationship.

It is common today to send our body and mind into Stress-Overload because

we get caught in traffic and cannot get to our next appointment. A fight with

our significant other or losing our job thrusts many of us into Fight-or-Flight,

as if our lives are at stake.

We must avoid Stress-Overload thinking when we suffer minor stuff, and most of life consists of annoying, but minor incidents and people. Stop overreacting

Eustress

There is Stress-Overload, Eustress - excitement that motivates us, and the daily

stresses of life. When we have to give a presentation at work, take the SATs to

get into college, or go on a blind-date, we suffer ordinary stress. Our heart beats

faster and we getting excited - for a while. Than we settle down.

Eustress means a good form of stress that pumps us up to do our best. Remember,

we experience mild stress from every personal encounter with family, friends, and

business associates. We have adapted our personality and body to handle it without

reverting to Fight-or-Flight.

Stress-overload is common during a divorce, losing a job, or dropping-out of

college. How long it lasts is a very provate thing, based on our personality

and having strategies to release excessive stress.

Strategies to Overcome Stress

When you think every rejection, failure or snack in the face is the end of your

world, you teaching your body and mind to react with Fight-or-Flight. You can

decide to control your impulsivity, and need for immediate gratification, with

patience and relaxation.

There are no failures, just feedback information to make you better the next time.

Diaphragmatic breathing and meditation are strategies to overcome Stress-Overload. Ten-minutes of daily deep relaxation exercises act as a Cognitive-Reserve to overcome Stress-Overload. Your goal should be to control how long stress lasts.

Aromatherapy

Can you believe that a minute or two of smelling a particular scent can change your

blood chemistry and alter your gene activity, to avoid Stress-Overload?

Japanese scientists released their research on 7.23.09, published by the American

Chemistry Society journal. The scent of Lemon, Lavender, and Mango reaches directly to the brain for deep relaxation and release of stress.

Fragrants (scents) affect neutrophils (white blood cells) and lymphocytes (immune system) in the bloodstream, to under-react to Stress-Overload, said Dr. A. Nakamura.

These odors fight inflammation, induce sleep, reduce depression, and improve mood

and state-of-mind. Ask us how.

Endwords

Would you be more competitive at school and your career to be able to read-and

remember three (3) books, articles, and reports, in the time your peers can hardly

remember one? Check it out.

Speed Reading Rules.

See ya,

copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler

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