Chronic Stress Hijacks Healing- But Avoiding Stress is Worse

Chronic stress interferes and actually halts the body’s healing process at the cellular level. The problem lies in how you process stress because it is your body’s reaction to it that creates an adverse chemistry. Avoiding stress is even more problematic.   Stress is your TOTAL bodily reaction to a physical or mental threat. It is not a “psychological” issue, it is physiological (how your body functions). There are three ways that stress causes damage and is well documented in many research papers. 

·       Repeated activation

·       Slow or no adaption

·       Failure to return to homeostasis

Not only does it cause many serious chronic illness and diseases, it shorten your life span. The key here is to learn the habit of stress-releasing skills to restore your mental and physical health and balance. You do have a choice to influence your physiology from threat to safety and there is help out there for you. 

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