Stress Therapy

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Dealing with work stress can be very difficult. This is especially true during the hard economic times. The massive layoffs, give management access to a vast pool of job seekers (people how just lost their jobs). Now they can pick the cream of the crop employees which puts your job at risk.

If you want to know how to deal with work stress or how to cope with stress in general you need to understand the simple dynamics of stress (of course you will need tools like Holothink and exercising as well, but more on that later). These dynamics were first explained by Nobel Prize laureate Hans Seyle back in 1930. Stage is broken down in 3 steps:

• 1- "Alarm Stage": The body anticipates a "life threatening event" and prepares itself with bursts of energy towards organs which are essential for the fight or flight response (pupils will dialate, heart rate will go up, more blood will be rushed towards the legs and the arms) at the same time less energy will be devoted to digestion and other non "flight or flight" processes.
• 2- "Resistance Stage": Is when the body starts adapting to the stress environment. A good example is when the body produces sweat when it's hot or rushes more blood to a limb when it's exposed to extreme cold.
• 3- "Stage of Exhaustion": When the body can no longer cope with the stress and has run out of energy for physically and mentally fighting it.

So what is the magic bullet for managing the work related stress? I believe that the bullet is relaxation and exercise. It's possible that you don't have enough time to relax on a tropical island or in a spa. In that case you should download Holothink audio relaxation, which is a binaural beat brain wave music.

You don't have to completely change your life style to deal with work stress.

All you need to do is to get more energy and make your energy reserves bigger. This is achieved through exercise and healthy eating.

Exercise is good stress therapy because:

• It makes your body produce "dopamine", which is a natural pain killer and stress reliever
• Gives you more energy in the long run (at first you WILL feel more tired and snappy)
• Makes you produce new brain cells which makes you smarter

Healthy eating will help you deal with work stress by giving you more energy:

• Heavy foods such as meat, gravy and potatoes are hard to digest so your body wastes a lot of energy (ever notice how you get sleepy after eating a "good" meal like that?)
• Greens are much easier to digest and don't require as much energy
• Greens contain natural sugard which will GIVE you more energy

Now you know how stress works and why people feel so tired when they're stressed for a long time. You now see that stress therapy does not have to cost thousands of dollars and hopefully you can now deal with work stress more effectively than before.

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