TAKING A LOOK AT STRESS & ANXIETY
Pauline's suggestions to help you with stress and anxiety
|
• |
Stress is what we know today as the effect of life’s demands, whether they are pleasant or difficult demands.
|
| • |
Stress can be motivating but if anxiety is present, it can be debilitating. Debilitating stress is the difference between what is happening in life and how we are handling it all.
|
| • |
Anxiety, which makes stress debilitating, is an evolved, intellectual expression of primitive fear and also leads to increased nervous tension.
|
| • |
Increased tension stimulates more anxiety and increases the stress reaction creating a cycle which leads to psychosomatic symptoms.
|
| • |
Symptoms of stress and anxiety are surrounded by a host of negative emotions which may include fear, loneliness, frustration, sadness, depression, confusion, irritability, apprehension and nervousness.
|
| • |
Physical symptoms may include faintness, palpitations, tension, exhaustion, insomnia, headaches, nausea, breathing difficulties, claustrophobia and dizziness.
|
| • |
Mentally, it is possible to experience bizarre thoughts, feeling edgy and wound up, unable to cope, fear of insanity, pre-occupation with health and irrational fears.
|
| • |
Attempts to manage these symptoms lead to phobic reactions and obsessive compulsive behaviour.
|
| • |
It is now widely recognised that stress and anxiety can lead to coping difficulties and precipitate illness including cancer, heart attacks and strokes.
|
| • |
Stress and anxiety reactions have never been higher than now and widespread management is essential. These reactions can be relieved naturally when suitable healing conditions are provided. Stillness Meditation Therapy is one proven way to achieve lasting relief. |