Chronic Stress and Radiant Health

Stress is a natural physical, mental, or emotional response to threatening or upsetting events. Basically, stress refers to a feeling physical, mental or emotional tension created by our reaction to some particular events in life; like loosing sleep worrying about tests, examinations, and school work, or pressures to meet deadlines and improve our performance at work. The daily pressures of being a wife or husband, parenting, employment, underemployment, unemployment, and finances can be overwhelming and increase the feeling of stress. Other factors such as health disorders, feelings of anxiety and insecurity, very demanding routine, interpersonal conflicts, especially in the work place and traumatic events can lead to chronic stress. Failure to respond adequately to these physical, mental, and emotional demands of life, whether actual or imagined, has health consequences. Chronic stress is a major risk factor for many medical disorders, including nervous breakdown and suicides. Constant and prolonged stress Relaxation counters the effects of stress on the health and well-being of humans. In this fast, wireless, and high-tech age that lacks moderation; life is full of challenges, demands, deadlines, hassles, pressures, frustrations, and stress. In both developed and developing nations, the desire and rush to climb the economic social ladder imposes a lot of stress on most people. However, experiencing stress in life is not always bad or harmful. Stress can good in some instances. In normal or small doses, stress can motivate us to do our very best or help us perform exceedingly well under pressure. However, stress becomes harmful and destructive to our mind, body, and spirit when we are constantly going on emergency mode to meet the demands of our high-paced modern life. Today, stress has become the scourge of modern society. It is the predominant health problem now faced by most human beings. Stress now is experienced by the rich and the poor, the civilized and the uncivilized, the educated and the non-educated, the highly educated and the less educated. It is an irony that the healthcare systems of all nations in this world, both developed and developing nations, spend trillions of dollars on healthcare delivery and treatment of diseases, without adequate care or concern to the root cause of ill-heath suffered by the modern man and woman in this wireless high tech age, which is stress. The primary cause of diseases inflicting humanity today can be traced to the impact of chronic stress on the all men and women living in this planet called Earth. Men and women of all ages now contend with increasing psychological and physical stresses that arise from internal and external forces from man-made technological environment that we live in. In the short-term, stress prepares the body to rise up to a challenge to meet a tough situations we encounter in life with stamina, strength, and focus. However, long-term stress can sap our strength and energy and render us frustrated, overwhelmed, depressed, bedridden, and inactive. Either way, a short-term long-term stress leads to biological changes throughout the body. Stresses in life whether acute or chronic, can cause tension, anxiety, and worry. Some types of insidious and chronic stress may be due to poverty, depression, loneliness, bereavement, and frustration due to lack of dating relationships, or discrimination due to race, ethnicity, body weight and sexual orientation. The react and then recover natural stress response of your body can be disrupted by chronic stress. One prominent obstacle to radiant health is chronic stress. It has a huge impact on your health and general well-being in this fast-paced, multi-tasking, high-tech age that we are living in. Chronic stress facilitates the development of chronic and infectious diseases as well as mental disorders including high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, and kidney failure, malaria, AIDS, depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorders. It also triggers negative emotions including fear, doubt, anger, worry, and anxiety. Constant and prolonged stress can kill you if not managed properly. But why are so many people so stressed out? The answer is simple. Too many people live a stressful life because of insatiable desires coupled with the rat race to succeed in a very competitive world. Nations are competing against nations, corporations against corporations, athletes against athletes, students against students, politicians against politicians, lawyers against lawyers, doctors against doctors, pastors against pastors and siblings against siblings. Everyone wants to capture the gold and none is satisfied or thankful with the silver or the bronze. The competition out there is becoming very unhealthy. Modern life is now the survival of the fittest. There lies the cause of the stressful life that we are all living. There is no life without stress. All that matters is how you choose to handle your daily stress throughout life. It is an irony that the healthcare systems of all nations in this world, both developed and developing nations, spend trillions of dollars on healthcare delivery and treatment of diseases, without adequate care or concern to the root cause of ill-heath suffered by the modern man and woman in this wireless high tech age, which is stress. The primary cause of diseases inflicting humanity today can be traced to the impact of chronic stress on the all men and women living in this planet called Earth.