It is okay to visit, but it’s a very bad place to live!
Most of us have heard of “fight or flight” syndrome. This is where we are confronted with danger and our body goes into defense against the oncoming disaster. There are changes that take place in our body when this occurs. These changes are helpful in marshalling our forces against the new threat. Our digestion changes, our heart rate speeds up, the lower part of our brain gets more blood flow, allowing us to react to the danger.
The problem is, this is meant to be a temporary situation to respond to an imminent threat. We are not designed to live our lives in this manner! Yet in our modern society, work and life stress do not let up. We live lives going from task to task, not giving our bodies a break from the adrenaline that surges with each new stressor. Our bodies take on the posture of “stress physiology”, our heads jutting forward, our postural muscles tight and ready to defend. Even when the work stress is done, we enjoy leisure activities that continue this posture- sitting at computers or hunching over cell phones and electronic games. This takes a terrible toll on our health.
It is important to get a break from the stress of life. In the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, (and it’s all small stuff)”, Carlson cautions us to lower our tolerance to stress. Rather than trying to multi-task more and more challenges, we need to reduce the time we are in stress-mode. Network care helps break the cycle of stress physiology. In combination with SRI, Network Care can help your nervous system to reset from the status of “constant alert” it experiences during stressful times. Make sure to get checked for stress physiology in your body. In nature, you are designed to remain in “fight or flight” for 10 minutes. In that time you will either escape from the lion chasing you, or you will get eaten! Either way, we were never designed to live our lives in this state! Find out how great you can feel as you break the cycle!