There are three looming types of stress on the body.
The most common, the one most people think about is physical stress. Physical stress begins with gravity--it's all pressing down, all the time. Physical stress affects muscles, bones, joints, and to a degree, the internal organs. One way to combat physical stress is to #1 Avoid heavy amounts of it, or #2 Build up your body by doing the correct exercise program for your body type. These will combat the physical affects of stress.
The second type of stress on the body is chemical or nutritional stress. This comes in all forms of ingesting: food, water, air. When these become over-powering, the body has to adjust to the assaults. Tissues and systems break down and succumb to the stress of chemical/nutrition stress. Same as physical stress there are two ways to deal with it. #1 Stop ingesting the harmful food/water/air and #2 Build up the body with good food/water/air and important for our day and age...take appropriate nutrional supplementation.
The third type of stress on the body is...emotional. This comes in all shapes and sizes. It begins early in life and for a lot of people, remains. Then it is compounded by more and more types of emotional stress. After awhile we get good at burying it hoping it will go away. It doesn't. Emotional stress drives our physical engine. Again, like the other two stresses, #1 Stop the emotional onslaught and #2 Find a way to remove the unwanted/unhealthy emotional baggage.
Sounds easy...takes a lifetime.
Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Kinds of Stress
Should be kind of stressed.
An epiphany hit me the other day which had to do with the health of people and their place in the world. In America it seems that children are getting unhealthier year by year. Diabetes, obesity, autism...just add to the list. The social support of these children as #1 Children's health gets worse, and #2 More and more children are added to these unhealthy statistics, we're going to have to support more and more of them in our society.
On the other side of the world, (The world is becoming flatter because of education, technology and the third world propensity to become americanized, (pure irony)) the health will also improve. We are finding this now as the US continues to decline in health status, what is it, 37th?
So my question is: How long will it be when Americans will be over-stressed with social services and can't keep up with technical advancements?
The very sad and real issue is that these children's health problems are controlable. But who's helping do this?
Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com
An epiphany hit me the other day which had to do with the health of people and their place in the world. In America it seems that children are getting unhealthier year by year. Diabetes, obesity, autism...just add to the list. The social support of these children as #1 Children's health gets worse, and #2 More and more children are added to these unhealthy statistics, we're going to have to support more and more of them in our society.
On the other side of the world, (The world is becoming flatter because of education, technology and the third world propensity to become americanized, (pure irony)) the health will also improve. We are finding this now as the US continues to decline in health status, what is it, 37th?
So my question is: How long will it be when Americans will be over-stressed with social services and can't keep up with technical advancements?
The very sad and real issue is that these children's health problems are controlable. But who's helping do this?
Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
How long can a person live without food
Talk about stressful. Unless you are fasting or got lost in the woods (easy to do where we live) you can go for a week or two without food.
I had a pastor/patient of mine go on a 30 day fast. He did alright, not too weak, not too sick, but he was fasting and meditating. Things in the body work differently when you are going on a deliberate fast. We can't explain this other than God is working with the person.
If you are lost in the woods, that is a different story. The will to live is very powerful and other than the requirement for nourishment, a person can go several weeks without food. Mind you, this is stressful to the body. But what choice do you have?
If you're going through a normal week and missing a day or two of food (who would do that?) you're going to run into problems. Food keeps the body ticking. YOU NEED FOOD to sustain normal growth, repair, and activity.
So how long can a person live without food? A day or two without problems but don't let it become a habit because it will become an unhealthy, stressful habit. On the other hand, you can go as long as the will to live is strong enough if you are lost in the woods or until God tells you to stop fasting if you are fasting.
Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com
I had a pastor/patient of mine go on a 30 day fast. He did alright, not too weak, not too sick, but he was fasting and meditating. Things in the body work differently when you are going on a deliberate fast. We can't explain this other than God is working with the person.
If you are lost in the woods, that is a different story. The will to live is very powerful and other than the requirement for nourishment, a person can go several weeks without food. Mind you, this is stressful to the body. But what choice do you have?
If you're going through a normal week and missing a day or two of food (who would do that?) you're going to run into problems. Food keeps the body ticking. YOU NEED FOOD to sustain normal growth, repair, and activity.
So how long can a person live without food? A day or two without problems but don't let it become a habit because it will become an unhealthy, stressful habit. On the other hand, you can go as long as the will to live is strong enough if you are lost in the woods or until God tells you to stop fasting if you are fasting.
Peter Lind
www.stress-less-living.com
Monday, September 17, 2007
Types of Stress
Too many times when we think about our stress we think of only emotional stress. After all, isn't that the stress we are talking about? But when we think about the different kinds of stress or ask ourselves how does stress affect health? we come up with an entire set of questions and answers.
Stress affects the body in three broad spectrums:
Physically
Nutritionally
Emotionally
It is not only emotional stress, nutritional stress can cause emotional stress.
Physical stress can cause emotional stress. In fact, most of the time these three stresses inter-play all the time.
One of the main goals in regards to health is to reduce or limit these three stresses in our lives.
Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com
Stress affects the body in three broad spectrums:
Physically
Nutritionally
Emotionally
It is not only emotional stress, nutritional stress can cause emotional stress.
Physical stress can cause emotional stress. In fact, most of the time these three stresses inter-play all the time.
One of the main goals in regards to health is to reduce or limit these three stresses in our lives.
Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com
Thursday, September 13, 2007
How does stress affect health
You almost have to experience it yourself...the effects of stress. They can be anything that causes abnormal symptoms. Tension, indigestion, muscle aches. I've been sitting here plunking on the computer...that is stressful. I'm tired and probably cranky. These are the effects of stress.
The wisdom of body gives signs and symptoms of stress for us to do something about before these symptoms become chronic. That is just how diseases develop. Persistant symptoms develop into a conglomeration of many until we have a syndrome and the longer it persists (the syndrome) the more established the disease becomes.
Why do we wait until the symptoms get so enormous? The whole idea of reducing stress is to take care of ourselves before we have to fight for our lives.
Take time to find stress reduction to remove or reduce the stress in your life.
Peter Lind
The wisdom of body gives signs and symptoms of stress for us to do something about before these symptoms become chronic. That is just how diseases develop. Persistant symptoms develop into a conglomeration of many until we have a syndrome and the longer it persists (the syndrome) the more established the disease becomes.
Why do we wait until the symptoms get so enormous? The whole idea of reducing stress is to take care of ourselves before we have to fight for our lives.
Take time to find stress reduction to remove or reduce the stress in your life.
Peter Lind
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Nutrition Stress
There are three BIG causes of stress. Physical, nutritional (or chemical), and emotional. In order to lead a healthy, fully functional life, you need to consider all of these.
My article in onlinecooking.net speaks about the stress of soy. Yes, it is a chemical stress.
When we undo the stress of certain foods, our bodies will reduce the total load of stress. It's just a matter of doing it.
My site on stress deals with all three but mostly emotional stress and what to do tor reduce it or eliminate it from your life.
Peter Lind
My article in onlinecooking.net speaks about the stress of soy. Yes, it is a chemical stress.
When we undo the stress of certain foods, our bodies will reduce the total load of stress. It's just a matter of doing it.
My site on stress deals with all three but mostly emotional stress and what to do tor reduce it or eliminate it from your life.
Peter Lind
Monday, September 10, 2007
Kinds of Stress
There are three types of stress. Physical, dealing with the structure and maintenance of the frame of the body. Nutritional, dealing with the physiology of the systems of the body. And the biggy, Emotional, dealing with the mental state.
When you talk about stress, just what do you mean? These three are all different and take specific responses to overcome them and balance the body.
Most of us think stress is emotional. I think it is but if we're going to conquer stress we need to be specific and describe what it is we're really talking about. Sometimes we take a nutritional or chemical stimulant to deal with an emotional issue. How effective is that? This is what we're dealing with in our drug-laden medical system. It is drug dependant.
If we're ever going to gain back our health we're going to have to address each stress appropriately.
This is why we are here.
Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com
When you talk about stress, just what do you mean? These three are all different and take specific responses to overcome them and balance the body.
Most of us think stress is emotional. I think it is but if we're going to conquer stress we need to be specific and describe what it is we're really talking about. Sometimes we take a nutritional or chemical stimulant to deal with an emotional issue. How effective is that? This is what we're dealing with in our drug-laden medical system. It is drug dependant.
If we're ever going to gain back our health we're going to have to address each stress appropriately.
This is why we are here.
Peter Lind
http://www.stress-less-living.com
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Exercise Help Stress
One of the best ways to reduce stress is with exercise. What kind? There are two basic types: aerobic and anaerobic. Either one or both will increase body metabolism. But you ask: "How does exercise which causes stress also help with stress?" Great question.
Exercise does cause stress and too much can be too much. People die while they exercise. You've heard of them. So how can exercise be good for you?
You have to be in great health to be able to afford exercise. Stay away from anaerobic exercise until you build a capacity to do it. Anaerobic is the high intensity, short duration-type, like weight lifting.
Begin by walking around the block. That will help reduce stress a little. The trick is to make exercise a regular part of your life habits.
Peter Lind
Exercise does cause stress and too much can be too much. People die while they exercise. You've heard of them. So how can exercise be good for you?
You have to be in great health to be able to afford exercise. Stay away from anaerobic exercise until you build a capacity to do it. Anaerobic is the high intensity, short duration-type, like weight lifting.
Begin by walking around the block. That will help reduce stress a little. The trick is to make exercise a regular part of your life habits.
Peter Lind
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Another Relatively Stressless Motorcycle Trip
From Oregon to Mendicino, California and no stress to speak about.
This photo was along the Oregon Coast on the way back. The trip was about 1,000 miles and mostly without incident. There's always something that goes not according to plan--but isn't that what vacation is all about? You have to go with the flow.
Part of the trip was a 45 mile mountain with 10, 20 mph curves almost the entire way. Did that twice. Something like that hones your motor skills and reflexes. Does wonders to take your mind off things in life.
Peter Lind
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