Good stress, Bad Stress

We can not exist without stress. Stress is the body's response to a perceived threat situation. Serves to protect us. Positive stress allow you to perform at higher levels and challenges face in life. We have all heard of situations where individuals are unimaginable feats of strength and courage to save the life of another person. It is positive stress. This type of stress gives us extra physical and emotional resources where our life or the life of someone we love is threatened. On a smaller scale, positive stress creates great athletes, proof of ace, allows us to speak in front of an audience or get a job promotion. We can confront and overcome all kinds of situations due to positive stress. Normally when the situation ends our stress levels return to normal.

However, bad or negative stress has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Research has shown that 90% of visits to the doctor's Office can be attributed to stress related symptoms. Most modern stress can be attributed to how we perceive a situation. While we may not be presented with a real physical threat, our blood pressure rises, our heartbeat speeds and our breath becomes faster. Chronic stress occurs when we are subject to a large number of constants, perceived threats shortly. Some of these can be handled in heavy traffic, debt problems in the workplace, problems at home and unrealistic expectations.

Chronic stress affects our bodies and creates a magnitude of health problems. Some of the effects of chronic stress are attacking the heart, digestive problems, asthma, or problems breathing, ulcers, headache, loss of hair, muscle tension in women. Stress also affects regulation of which can lead to type II diabetes insulin levels. Some of the symptoms of chronic stress are heart palpitations, breathlessness, back or neck pain, insomnia, skin, fatigue, weight loss or gain and high blood pressure problems. Basically, an overload of stress disturbs the balance in our bodies and our immune system weakens. It is therefore important to recognize the symptoms of chronic stress and learn what to do about them.

Constance Weygandt is a mentor speaker, author, and balance. For more information about health and fitness or subscribe to the newsletter of Constance, visit their website at [http://www.balancedwellnessonline.com]