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We have been told stress is always detrimental to our bodies. Not so!
There is such a thing as positive stress! Let me explain.
Stress is the bodies reaction influences coming from outside or inside
the body. Stress has three stages. Stage One is positive. In this
stage we become alert and focused to the task at hand. This is normal.
It is a temporary state.
Stage Two and Three, however, are negative. In Stage Two, the Stress
Response is prolonged. Hormones like cortisol, which are only supposed
to be increased for a short time, persist at high levels in the blood
stream causing damage to our brains and bodies. If Stage Two becomes
chronic and is maintained for a longer period it becomes Stage Three.
At this point the body's resources are exhausted, leading to disease
and even death.
So what is the key to staying in positive and out of negative stress?
It is our thought life, it is how we think. Research has shown that
how we think about stress can affect whether we live or die.
The emerging fields medical specialities of psychoneuroendocrinology
and psychoneuroimmunology are shedding light on the how thinking
affects stress, the brain, the immune system and hormones and how
these things determine our psychological and physical wellbeing. See
http://drleaf.com/about/scientific-philosophy/ (under 'Thinking
Affects Health') for more on the science. Because Mind controls
Matter, therefore, thinking is the pre-eminent influence on health. In
fact 78% to 98% of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct
result of our thought life.
Watch Episode 4 of my TV Show for more details.
http://drleaf.com/blog/positive-versus-negative-stress/
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