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3. Climatic stress. Yes environmental changes in temperature and humidity have an effect as well. Just read the headlines during a long hot spell or a cold spell and you’ll find an increase in the number of deaths during these periods. Dehydration in summer time is the biggest threat to health and exposure to the cold in winter time can be life threatening. For instance, shoveling snow can be life threatening if the person breathes through his mouth instead of through his nose which warms the air. Breathing through one’s mouth can admit cold air into the bronchial system essentially freezing critical arteries causing death.

4. Emotional Stress: Add social, work, and financial pressures and we have frustration, upset, anger, confusion, and uncertainty to deal with. It’s actually nothing wrong with these emotions, what is more of a problem is that we make the emotion itself a stressor and instead of simply embracing emotion we resist and fight many of these emotions or get upset with ourselves for being human. This only serves to activate the fight or flight further stressing the body.

Managing these stressors simply is to become aware of the bodily responses to stress and manage them. Deep breathing is the first defense against stress followed by learning to recognize muscle tension and letting it go. Stress management CDs which teach deep breathing and muscular awareness techniques go a long way to recognizing the body’s activation and letting it go. Obviously a shift in diet away from a high sugar refined diet goes a long way to minimize one’s reactivity to stress.

Dressing appropriately, taking breaks, drinking water, minimizing exercise in cold temperatures can minimize one’s responses to climatic stressors.

Reduce the emotional load by learning how to embrace emotions and use them as a “call to action” as Tony Robbins would suggest. Even though emotions have been around for thousands of years, it’s only recently that programs to effectively deal with them are surfacing.

Strangely enough it’s our beliefs and attitudes about emotions that keep us from embracing them which actually makes them more stressful than what they really are.

Managing stress is to on an ongoing basis be aware of the physical factors, eat nutritionally, take care of your body with climatic changes and handle emotions effectively.

About the Author:

Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified is a prominent figure in the field of self help. He aims to raise awareness for the use of basic stress management skills promote health. To find out more please visit http://www.dstressdoc.com/stressSeries.htm

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April 30, 2008 | Category: Stress Management 

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