They Don’t Teach You Stress Management in School!

What do kids, husbands, mother in laws, getting the kids to school on time and a poop mural on the wall all have in common? Stress!!!

When I was a new mom, new wife, new resident, I got sick because of stress, and everyone told me that, but did you know what they didn’t tell me? How to manage it! Isn’t that crazy, doctors don’t know how to manage stress, and now living in stress is now the common norm.

Did you know that stress causes more than 80% of complaints that patients present to their doctors, as it can exacerbate almost any chronic illness? – Tweet this

But what is crazier, just by teaching you stress management techniques, we can decrease 80% of the doctor’s visits! Oh, wait, now I know why we were never taught stress management.

Managing stress is essential in any healing and disease-prevention program. – Tweet this

Having a regular practice of mind body techniques—such as breathing techniques, guided relaxation, and guided imagery—can have a powerful positive effect on health. Such a routine helps to maintain a balanced inner world, developing a more measured response to stressful situations and helps to keep damaging hormones at bay. Optimal stress management to teach our bodies to be a little calmer plays a large role in preventing and/or reversing chronic illnesses.

Kids running to catch school buss , husbands, mother in laws, getting the kids to school on time and a poop mural on the wall all have in common? Stress!!!

4 Everyday Stressful Situations.

Short-term stress, leads to:

Fatigue
Weight gain
Constant illnesses
Hair loss
Skin, mood, digestive, hormonal, and sleep issues.

With chronic stress, that can be external, like personal life challenges, or internal, like emotional issues, unrealistic expectations, low self-esteem, fears, guilt, and mood issues or even something that happened in childhood, our body feels like it is constantly under attack, with limited downtime between stressors, and this disrupts the healthy state of equilibrium, can double our chance of:

: A simple stress management technique into your daily routine can prevent disease in you and your family.

Stress management techniques prevent disease.

Obesity
Diabetes
Heart disease
Cancer
Suppression of the immune system
High cortisol levels

Raises blood sugar levels, triggering leptin and insulin resistance, negatively affecting good bacteria, lowering our levels of probiotics, promoting overgrowth of bad bacteria, that interfere with the production of neurotransmitters increasing leaky gut
Stress suppresses immune molecules, leading to inflammation, and chronic illnesses.

So a simple stress management technique into your daily routine can prevent disease in you and your family. So we gotta learn this, how? Well you aren’t going to learn from your doctor…but you are going to learn from me…when? Next time we talk, because this conversation is stressing me out…now I gotta meditate…see you later!