Friday 9 January 2015

Healthy Stress vs Unhealthy Stress




Stress is a natural response of the body to the various demands we place on it.  There is a distinction between healthy stress and unhealthy stress.  Healthy stress is what we use when are under pressure, whether on our jobs, during an athletic event, or needing to make a quick split decision in traffic. These stress-ors keep us alert and motivated, and support our body’s strength and vitality.  Unhealthy stress, such as negative emotions and thinking, overexertion, poor eating habits, lack of sleep, and environmental pollutants all challenge our health and can trigger physical and emotional problems, particularly if experienced over a prolonged period of time.

Chronic Stress Leads to What?

Today, we don’t have to look much farther than our window, computer screen or television to view various stress-ors ranging from prime time news, road rage, talk of terrorism to the demands of personal and business life.  Modern day stress is an unrelenting experience that undermines our mind and body.  Often anxiety, irritability, insomnia and digestive disorders are the consequence of chronic stress. Over time, these manifestations of chronic stress can progress into more serious health conditions that compels us to seek out convenient interventions like pharmaceutical medications.



Restoring Balance


Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine does not recognize any mental disorder as one particular syndrome. Instead, it aims to treat the your diagnostic Chinese medical pattern derived from the specific symptoms that are unique to each individual using a variety of techniques such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, dietary therapy, non-needle techniques, and other lifestyle recommendations to restore imbalances found in the body. An acupuncturist has the ability to detect energetic changes that occur in the body and relieve symptoms by restoring equilibrium.Your practitioner can create a treatment plan specifically tailored for you so that you can get back to feeling better!

Current Research

Current research has shown that acupuncture regulates the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.  Natural opiate chemicals released by the body, as a result of acupuncture, help relieve pain and produce a state of euphoria.  Acupuncture also helps regulate serotonin in the brain and promotes the release of endorphins but involved in mood. This is why symptoms related to anxiety and depression are often treated with acupuncture. 


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