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Stress Symptoms All Too Familiar Stress symptoms are widespread in western society... perhaps even more pervasive than you think. Most people have experienced a mild or severe stress headache, or know someone who has. And everyone is likely familiar with the idea of not being able to sleep or eat due to stress. Documented Effects of StressHave you heard of the fight or flight response? It is a typical biological response to stress. When confronted with stress, your body prepares to stand up and fight the circumstances, or to flee from the perceived danger.In order to best fight or flee, the body shuts down certain functions, and pours your blood into the areas that can use it for the immediate reaction. This means that under stress:
This reaction makes sense when you think you are being chased by a lion... you don't need to worry about a bacterial infection, or digesting your meal at the moment... you just need to run! You may not think of yourself as frequently confronted with lions, but everyday events in modern society are creating much the same reaction in your body. In day to day life there are many incidents big and small that are interpreted as potential lions, ie. dangers to your safety. These events, such as traffic on roadways you travel and meeting financial commitments, are often perceived to be the main causes of stress. Biologist Bruce Lipton emphasizes that our biological makeup is not intended to run a continual stress response. Yet that is exactly what is happening for many people as they interpret life as fearful and stressful on pretty much a twenty-four hour, 365 days a year basis. Researches around the world have been studying the effects of stress. They have documented eye opening connections between how we think about and react to things, and how our bodies respond and manifest stress symptoms.
Symptoms of StressSymptoms of stress can run from your head to your toes, and can be psychological in nature as well as physical. Stress symptoms reach into every system of the body:
Can you see any of the above stress symptoms in your life? If you do, can you consider yourself fortunate to be given warning of a problem? View the symptoms of stress for exactly what they are, a symptom. Often people are guided to look only at the physical illness as the sole thing that needs to be addressed. Yet science is telling us that the physical is only a hint of the problem. If you look beneath and behind these symptoms of stress to find the true causes of stress then you can learn how to relieve stress in your life once and for all. That is a very valuable bit of personal development knowledge... worth much more than your health insurance! Personal Development Articles
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As you read through the following symptoms of stress, you'll see that stress affects basically every system in the body. Realizing this, the high percentage of illness related to stress no longer seems surprising.