Stress Management

• One of the biggest complaints people have these days is that they are stressed.
• Life is fast these days, relentlessly hectic and more demanding stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events.
• This natural reaction is known as the stress response. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness. This would be positive stress.
• Everybody however, at some time suffers from negative stress. We can feel irritable, tires and anxious, unable to cope with the pressures of everyday life.
• There must be a healthy balance for the body to work and function at its optimum level.
• Working properly, the body's stress response enhances a person's ability to perform well under pressure. But the stress response can also cause problems when it overreacts or fails to turn off and reset itself properly.
• It causes many physical and psychological symptoms and ultimately end in illness.
• We must learn to recognize the early signs of stress and combat them before they can cause any of these physical and psychological symptoms by using various stress reducing exercises and activities, massage techniques and stress reducing therapies.