There is really only one way to manage emotions, and that is by managing stress. Emotions are really energy in motion, and if your brain is always busy coping with stress, there’s not enough energy left for performance.
We are living in the most stressful time in human history. Our world is fast-paced and high-tech. On average, people pick up their smartphones 150 times a day; and if you’ve ever observe someone who thought they lost their smart phone, you’ve seen what stress response really looks like.
Most people think of stress in terms of external factors, instead of recognizing that stress happens in your head. Stress is caused by our reaction to the situation or event, not buy the event itself. Therefore, our thoughts and actions control the amount of stress we experience. And that’s good news, because it means we can manage stress by changing how we react.
It is absolutely essential to optimize your brains peak potential. You see, once stress grab on, it will dig debilitating claws deep into our psyche and tear down every defense. When you’re under stress, the brain goes to work coping with it. First, one side of the brain will become dominant and the other will relinquish control. Next, the rapid brainwave known as Beta will strike and the more relaxed brain waves-where we access intuition and creativity- are diminished.
Your brains system of coping with stress is a part of our survival instinct. In modern society, when stress is constant and intense, the brain sets up a habit of perpetual coping that depletes its resources and restricts our ability to think, focus, remember, be creative and inspired, or otherwise perform optimally.
When the brain is in this state, you may feel anxious, exhausted or both. You may find yourself over eating to relieve the tension. If you are a smoker, you may smoke more or find the habit nearly impossible to quit. Some people end up treating other people poorly-usually our love ones.
Unfortunately, these habits only make us feel better temporarily, and temporary fixes almost always cause more stress!
The good news is that through guided relaxation, you can learn to achieve the relaxation response -a simple method of quieting the mind and calming in the body. Once you enter the relaxation response, the brain sends out neurochemicals that virtually neutralize the effects of chronic stress.
Once the relaxation response is triggered, you immediately noticed the physical benefits such as a decrease in blood pressure, a lower respiration rate, and a slower pulse rate. An increase in Alpha brainwave activity is associated with deep relaxation and makes for great access to what we call, “the intuitive mind”, where your best thinking is most likely to take place.
Total Body Balancing, a manual therapy technique, can help you achieve the relaxation response and cope with the effects of stress.
Try this easy exercise to demonstrate the affects of stress on your body.
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