Constant, every day stress unleashes free radicals and harmful Cortisol hormone into your body and brain.
These chemicals were useful during times of fighting off wild animals to survive, but we have evolved emotionally but our bodies still produce the chemicals none the less.
All these harmful chemicals cause us to be vulnerable so many things.
Here are a few.
First: These stress-produced hormones weakens your immune system, puts you at greater risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
For those of you who have hereditary health problems, stress is not a good thing to add to your already compromised life.
Second: Stress ages you prematurely, no matter how much cosmetics and lotions or potions you try stress makes you grow old fast.
Third: Stress contributes to sleeplessness and weight problems.
Your body feels tired all the time and you just can not get enough sleep or insomnia caused by stress keeps you awake at night.
Your weight seems to increase because you rely on comfort foods to console your stressed moods and sad feelings.
Forth: Stress makes you tense, anxious and irritable; strains your relationships; causes unreliable work performance and job dissatisfaction.
You feel unfulfilled in your personal relationships and you worry about your job.
You feel like you are not doing your best at work and your job is either compromised or you feel burned out at work.
Fifth: Stress promotes poor judgment, mistakes and accidents and robs you of happiness and peace of mind.
Stress makes you perform poorly, and decreases your self-esteem and self-confidence.
Sadly, stress has become the permissible excuse; it is too widely tolerated, even misinterpreted as symbolic of a strong work ethic.
Stress is considered as society fallout.
These ideas must be challenged and methods and solutions must be put into place that will not harm your body and mind.
You have available to you natural methods and solutions that will resolve your vulnerability to stress.
It is insanity to keep subjecting yourself to the ravages of stress, it is no longer trendy or fashionable to say you are stressed.
You have to take action to strengthen yourself and allow yourself to become powerfully calm.
You have the power to change that.
It takes effort and commitment.
However, your life is worth it.
The cost in time is minimal compared to the cost of drugs and other chemicals that will harm you even more.
You have absorbed stress all of your life it is now time to take a stand and challenge yourself to reduce your stress naturally.