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Stress is an Energy Drain

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Most people recognize stress is an energy drain. But not all people realize that means, in their body, they are taking energy away from normal internal organ body functions and redirecting their energy to fight or flight defence activity. That is THE number one detrimental impact on their long-term health.

The problem we all face is that the longer the stress remains the longer your digestion, elimination, and immune system and other functions are running on emergency rations of energy.

This is being validated by science today as finally the medical field is acknowledging the role of energy in overall health, and most especially in degenerative diseases.

So what can you do when stress is such a big part of daily life for many people? Teaching Touch For Health Kinesiology workshops since 1982 I draw attention to the fact that energy to specific cells and organs will be low over a long time before tissue actually breaks down and becomes a health issue. This is exactly why regular TFH balancing of meridian energy is so valuable as this supports and maintains cell efficiency and thus prevents health breakdown.

Questions to Consider
Why is energy always low for some people?
What keeps their energy down and prevents it building up?
Why do some people have high energy most of the time?
What keeps their energy high?

The answers come out of two general considerations:
– genetically inherited health predispositions
– and self-created energy drain.

Statistics show that only about 5 percent of people actually have a genetically inherited health defect. That points to 95 percent of health issues really being self created problems. Predispositions may be inherited but they are not activated as a problem until we create the internal environment that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the cells in the weakest organs to do their job effectively.

Cells Demonstrate The Body’s Truth
Dr Bruce Lipton clearly demonstrated with his research that internal cell environment is the key to cell health and cell energy production. He wrote about his research experiments in his book The Biology of Belief.

Dr Lipton put cells in petri dishes and recorded his observations of what cells did in the environment he provided. When the dish environment became polluted with the cell’s waste material, the cell became less and less able to function effectively. The cell became sluggish and progressively more sick. It was suffocating in toxic waste.
Bruce Lipton writes that no amount of medication could get the cell well. When he transferred the sick cell to a clean petri dish, the cell was able to clear out the build up of toxicity within, become well, and function normally again.

It did what cells are designed to do. The cell healed itself. Where medication failed to heal the ailing cell, simply providing a clean environment and necessary nutrition, created the miracle we all take for granted. This is the miracle of self-healing, naturally programmed within each cell in each of us.

We Are Walking Miracles
The cells, organs and tissues of our body are designed to self-heal. What we are required to do is provide the nutrition, including oxygen and water, and eliminate the waste daily to keep the cell environment clean. Then the cell can generate the energy it needs for efficient and effective function. It can stay healthy and productive.

Why has this been ignored or kept a secret by medical professionals for so long? Why is every symptom prescribed a medication instead of prescribing a cleansing process for the specific organ and body in general as a first step for health solutions?

Medication does not make internal or external cell environment healthy. It does not address the cause creating the problem, cell pollution, and it is this pollution that is the breeding ground for health problems.

First Things First
For a healthy cell environment we need oxygen, water and movement.

Every time you breathe in fully and breathe out fully you are eliminating waste gases and particles. This is how you clean the cells and tissues of your lungs and also support the elimination of waste via the lymphatic system. Every cell in your body relies on oxygen for energy production. Polluted cells with low oxygen produce low energy, function poorly and become unhealthy. We all need optimum oxygen supply for optimum health.
Amazingly we are actually mostly water. Your body consists of 70% water. That’s important for you to remember for your vitality. When dehydrated the functions that happen in this fluid medium are hampered and you will feel sluggish.

Your brain is 80% water. When you can’t think straight, have a drink of water. This dilutes the waste and the action of drinking water will create some movement somewhere. Nod your head a few times, turn it side to side and you are contributing to activating the lymphatic clearance of your brain, face and neck.

We are designed to be physically active and when you sit for hours in front of a desk, or a wheel, or a computer screen, or cell phone, you are stressing cells in your body by letting waste accumulate and choke the energy production capacity of your cells. This is self-created cellular stress. And stress is an energy drain.

Movement of your muscles provides the pumping action to gather the cellular waste into the waste collection system, your lymphatic system, and process it through lymph nodes. The lymphatic fluids with disintegrated wastes is added to your venous blood, taken to your liver for filtering, cleansing and elimination.

Continuous waste disposal requires continuous movement. Limited movement creates a stagnant pile up of your cell wastes leaving cells struggling to produce energy and stay healthy. Movement is essential for health.

Health Issues Running in the Family
Dr Bruce Lipton also discovered we are not at the mercy of our inherited genetic programs. We deteriorate only when we set up the internal environment that will switch on the genetic weakness in our DNA assembly. Keeping the cell environment at optimum means our cells stay healthy in spite of any programs that could predispose you to specific health issues.

More evidence is coming forward that it is not the genetic programs themselves that make us sick. It is what we do or don’t do, based on our beliefs and behaviours that result. This includes the food we choose to eat, the physical activity in our day, the thoughts that increase or decrease our energy, and the attitudes and stress that creates in our nervous system.

If we duplicate and live out the beliefs and attitudes of our parents we will create the same internal environment that triggers the same health problems that they have. It is up to us to decide the environment, physical, mental, emotional, nutritional, that we choose to provide out body with that will determine the health we have.

The Bottom Line
Stress is an energy drain. Reducing the stress and lifting your energy is the solution. Identifying and clearing the blocks to creating energy puts you in the powerful position of choosing the level of energy you want in your life. The more energy you have the easier it is to tackle any task and move towards the outcomes you want in your life, solving any problems that come up as we go.

When your energy is high then the need for healthy exercise is easy to honour and can be enjoyable to boot. Cooking healthy meals can be creative and fun. Interacting with optimistic, solution oriented people buoys you up too. Reviewing beliefs to weed out those that no longer serve and being open to new options can take you a long way to creating the health and the life you really want.

How To Know the Best for Your Body
So, how to identify and clear the blocks to creating more energy? Breathe, drink water, move – and learn to identify what is best for your unique body.

Gather some tools to assist you. Touch For Health muscle response testing is a valuable tool to:
– Discover how to identify which foods drop your energy, which foods maintain or support and which foods increase your energy
– Learn how to activate organ cellular waste collection through moving specific muscles so your cells can do their best unhampered and be healthy
– Learn which muscles to move to pump lymph waste from your feet all the way up the body
– learn the life and energy enhancing basics
– learn how to communicate with left and right brain for reliable feedback.

Stress is an energy drain. Discover how kinesiology muscle response testing and corrections can reduce your stress and lift your energy, and learn how to do that for your family and those you care about too.

Register now for Touch For Health workshops or make an appointment to experience effective Kinesiology muscle testing and corrections.

Kinesiology to Reduce Muscle Pain and Tension

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Recently during a Touch For Health level 3 workshop I had the opportunity to demonstrate how to use Kinesiology to reduce muscle pain and tension in a way that brought immediate change, right before our eyes.

A whole new segment of knowledge and skill opened up for the participants. Students now had enough muscle knowledge to consider, not just activating individual muscles, but at teamwork, and how the muscles interacted.

Whenever muscles are habitually over tight and hard to your touch, they are overworking, often doing the work for several other muscles as well as their own load. These muscles become stuck in the habit of taking over and not letting other muscles in the team do their share.

As we unraveled the patterns of use and reprogrammed the team interaction we saw some amazing postural changes before our eyes. It was truly exciting. The body is so willing to co-operate if we just know how to go about creating change through understanding what the body is communicating and co-operating with it.

Pain and tension and posture imbalances are all part of body communication that can lead you to do the right thing to bring relief and ease through Kinesiology muscle response testing and corrections.

Shoulder Tension
One student had a shoulder sitting higher than the other. This is common for many people as we are generally one hand dominant, left or right, and use the dominant arm more often and more powerfully than the non-dominant arm.

Applying a TFH release signal to the over-worker and maintaining it, we reset the under-working muscles we had identified. TFH provides a number of techniques for this to happen. The result was that the hard tight muscle softened and the shoulders became more aligned immediately. It’s always a relief to feel the relaxation happen and the extra mobility when the tension has normalized. This is a muscle program reset, not just a relaxation, so the results last.

Neck Tension
Another common problem is tension in the back of the neck causing headaches or stiffness and a limited range of movement. This easily happens if sitting in front of a computer for hours a day.

As you get tired the blood sugars drop and the muscles in the back that are sensitive to that specific biochemical drop lose their tone. We learn to test this muscle in TFH 1. Your back is no longer supported effectively and rounds out. Your shoulders roll forward and as a result you tip your chin up to see the screen. This scrunches the muscles in the back of your neck and the tension here becomes a pattern activated each time you are in front of a computer screen. This is all too common.

The trick to rebalancing is identifying the under-working muscles to take the load off the over-working muscle. Observing the posture is the beginning of rebalancing the team. You can verify your observations with a TFH procedure.

Releasing the tight back of neck muscles and maintaining the release creates the opportunity to activate and reset the under working upper back, shoulder and front of neck muscles. The result is the back is supported and not rounder, and the head now sits balanced above the shoulders and no longer forward with the chin up. It’s always fun to see how quickly muscles adjust to their new, better balanced role.

Tightly Curled Toes
Another student had toes on one foot tightly curled so they never touched the ground when he walked. This was a longstanding issue that meant he had to compensate for not contacting the ground fully and not pushing off with this foot when walking. He limited his gait to accommodate the curled toes.

By repeatedly releasing the muscles that curled the toes under and activating the opposite muscles he was able in minutes get a signal through to the toes to start moving. It was amazing to see first one toe, then next and next progressively become responsive and able to extend and be in contact with the floor.

This was a childhood pattern and considered something he would just have to live with. Now he has made a change that will have an impact on how he walks and stands on his feet. As there is no need to compensate for curled toes he can relax other muscles he was not aware he was engaging.

When you have unhappy feet you will pay the price in forcing other muscles from your feet all the way to your neck to work in a compensating way. Releasing feet muscles changes the team work required for smooth and efficient momentum when walking or running, saving energy, extending the range for movement, easily aligning the balance over your feet, and avoiding accidents.

Low Back Too Tight
Another common postural pattern is tight low back muscles, front of hip bones rolled forward, and belly hanging out, even when well exercised.

We released the low back muscles for one of the students by de-activating the muscle fibres, and while released reset the abdominal muscles. We did this a number of times till the low back became a gentle curve, the hips in place and the abdominals effectively holding their tone in the front.

The result was immediately visible and can be sustained readily. Now any exercise to strengthen the abdominal muscles will be effective. The spine will be balanced between front and back muscles evenly instead of the back muscles doing double duty.

These were just some of the experiences of students as they learned how to use Touch For Health Kinesiology to effectively reduce muscle pain and tension. The body is remarkable and when you know how to communicate with your body through muscle response testing you will be delighted with the results that happen under your hands.
Kinesiology is a very effective way to reduce muscle pain and tension.

Register now for Touch For Health Kinesiology workshop and discover just how amazing we truly are and how readily the body responds given the opportunity to communicate its needs through muscle response testing.
Anna McRobert

Don’t Sit Around, Move

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When was the last time you heard that exercise was important for a healthy heart? It’s not new news by any means. We have been encouraged by experts to exercise regularly, to at least go for a walk 20 to 30 minutes 5 days a week. The clear and consistent message is don’t sit around, move.

The Turnaround – Now there’s another bit of information to adjust to as well. We’re now told exercise done only as half to a one-hour time block doesn’t protect you from degenerative heart disease after all. Neither does it prevent diabetes as you age. It seems too much sitting increases heart disease, and that specifically prolonged periods of sitting are not counterbalanced by a daily block of time devoted to exercise.

So if you go to the gym before work, or after work, but spend 8.30am to 12.30pm sitting in front of a computer, go to lunch, and resume sitting 1.30pm to 5.30pm, you are in potential trouble. With prolonged time blocks sitting with minimal movement you increase your heart disease risk by 50 to 80 per cent, in spite of the hour at the gym or walking the streets, according to the latest reports.

The Research – US Professor Marc Hamilton, a biomedical sciences expert from Pennington Biomedical Research Centre said “Tests showed signs of pre-diabetes in people who exercised moderately and weren’t obese, after just one day of sitting. They tested healthy on another day, when pottering around or standing for 75 percent of the day.”

So it looks like the secret is to keep moving, just pottering about, reaching, sitting, standing, leaning against the wall at the water cooler, dithering in the kitchen making a cup of tea, even rummaging in the filing cabinet, or standing up to answer the phone and read the paper.

Being on your feet for 75 per cent of your day goes a lot further towards health benefits than just one hour at the gym followed by seven or eight hours sitting at work and then another three or four hours sitting in front of the TV at home. Big blocks of time being sedentary increases health dangers, especially those relating to heart and blood sugar issues, even in lean people.

Good Idea – Ages back I came across a bit of good advice. Put your computer up on a shelf or on a bench top and stand to do your computer work. For a start, standing makes you more alert than sitting does. You can also do a bit of pacing as you plan and plot your next campaign and while talking on your mobile.

Clearing and Cleaning Cell Waste – There are good reasons why frequent use of big muscles in your legs and butt, as well as little muscles, keeps your insides healthier.

Frequent movement of muscles keeps your internal fluids waste disposal system pumping through filtering stations scattered all through your body. These filtering stations separate out the debris out of the fluids gathered from around cells. Then special cells generated in the filtering stations go to work and disintegrate these particles so they can be flushed out of your body effectively, leaving your cellular fluid environment clean and clear.
(for more details on this process see my article Your Body’s Clever Elimination System)

Keeping your feet moving will pump cell waste products up from your feet all the way past the groin area, usually constricted while you are sitting, to your belly area to a main collection channel. Further waste is collected from cells of various organs and delivered to the main channel that continues up within your torso.

The propelling mechanism is now the rhythmic pressure of internal muscles, especially your breathing, again much easier when standing than sitting, to deliver your lymph waste fluids higher still, into your venus blood system, just under the collarbones.

This combined fluid goes through the normal blood cleansing process. The clearing and cleansing process is much easier when you are on your feet and moving, and prevents fluid building up and pooling in your feet and legs, so common on long trips by car or plane when you are stuck in a seat for some hours.

Muscles Provide Pumping Action For Cellular Waste – Your heart is the pump that propels your blood flow round your body continuously, whether you are sitting, standing or lying down. Your cellular waste disposal system, your lymphatic system, however, relies on muscles of your body contracting and releasing rhythmically to provide the pumping action to drive the waste laden lymphatic fluids, through miles of channels, via filtering stations, eventually to the liver for detoxing.

Sitting around for long periods makes it harder to perform this task and contributes to stiffness in joints and muscles and feeling sluggish and tired by the end of the day.

State Of Mind Can Reflect State Of Body – Have you noticed that people who are depressed or feeling flat will often not move much, become more and more sluggish, unable to move or unwilling to move. They are condemning their cells to operating in a polluted fluid environment, virtually suffocating in their own wastes. That person feels worse and worse, functionally and mentally and emotionally.

Encourage them to move, walk, do something physical. This will help clear lymph waste and also improve blood flow, deliver nutrition to cells, bring fresh oxygen to tissues and to their brain, so they will feel better. It is one of the most reliable basic ways to move out of a stuck mental state. Minimum movement for prolonged periods of time allows pollution to build up in our internal spaces including our brain, joints, muscles and organs. We become very sluggish, slowed down, depressed in fact.

All functions are depressed when the body is polluted.

Stimulate Meridian Energy Flow – As well as preventing a buildup of toxic waste in your cells and lymphatic system, every move you make, with your hands, arms, shoulders, feet, legs, hips, your torso, your breathing, engages different parts of your meridian energy system, ensuring efficient delivery of energy to all your external muscles and internal functions.

Regularly moving, even for a few minutes at a time, will help to keep your circulation moving, your lymph clearing, your lungs breathing more fully, as well as your energy meridians flowing. Focused exercise builds strength and endurance and serves to keep all muscles toned with spare capacity for emergencies. “Sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,” says Dr Marc Hamilton.
We are designed to move so don’t sit around, move.

Stay Young Longer, Even Reverse Aging

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How old do you feel? How old is your body functioning at? Is it all down hill from here? Is it possible to stay young longer and reverse aging? What is your belief about aging? Get ready to revise that belief. Science is providing evidence we can stay young longer and even reverse the aging process. Our life span is getting longer. 1000 years ago it was 30 years, 100 years ago it was 50 years, today its 80 years.

Aging is a process that goes on inside the cells of our body (and also inside our head – I’ll tell you about that another time). Some cells replicate in three days and others in months or years. Some scientists believe, based on their studies, that cells have a finite number of times they can replicate themselves in each of our organs and tissues.

That’s a bit alarming. Does that mean if I enthusiastically exfoliate my face, arms and legs often I am potentially speeding up the use of my quota of replications for skin cells? Am I speeding up creating cells that can’t replicate any more – and therefore just die when they can no longer repair the wear and tear? I think I need to know a bit more about this.

Elizabeth Blackburn, molecular biologist and researcher at University of California San Francisco, grew up in Tasmania. Her fascination as a child about how things work eventually led her, as an adult, to exploring what is at the end of DNA strands inside our cells. That’s been quite a journey. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Now the impact of this discovery is far reaching, increasing our understanding of how our cells age and how we can influence that aging process, especially in terms of degenerative diseases. And I don’t know about you, but I intend to age as gracefully and slowly and as youthfully as possible, and remain healthy and active till the end. I’m not interested in getting old fast. So if you’re with me on that, let me include you in what this all means.

Each cell has a nucleus with 23 pairs of chromosomes (strands of DNA). At the ends of these strands are caps called telomeres. Each time a cell replicates the telomeres shorten, till eventually over the years they become too short, and as a result the cell cant replicate any more. By now the person is in “old age.”

These cells with telomeres too short will eventually die without any more offspring to continue that tissue or organ. You may be aging your organs at different rates, some at old age while others still a middle age. The shortening of telomeres in various organs and tissues is a predictor of degenerative disease and is one of the known biomarkers of aging.

But guess what? It was discovered that our reproductive cells don’t follow this pattern of shortening telomeres in each successive generation of offspring. An enzyme called telomerase repairs and lengthens the telomere in your reproductive systems chromosomes, so they are always the same length. This means they do not age. They stay perpetually young. The purpose of course is to ensure as a species we survive.

All other cells shorten their telomeres each time they replicate themselves, so they are always getting closer to the day that this replication will no longer be possible. It’s just part of aging we’re told, so there’s nothing you can do about it. But many scientists agree, we can slow the rate of needing to replace cells and increase the rate of repair and replacement. That keeps us younger longer. Now we’re talking anti-aging.

Research measuring telomeres in men and women with degenerative diseases like prostate cancer, heart disease, lung insufficiency, and highly stressed carers of disabled family members, and those with perceived high stresses, had their telomeres measured before and after undertaking a supervised program of lifestyle changes.

The participants took part in guided relaxation sessions, exercised regularly, and ate antioxidant rich diets for three months. The resulting readings showed the telomeres had actually lengthened. This is not just slowing down aging but actual rejuvenation, cells reverting to a more juvenile condition, reversing aging. You can function at a younger level.

One example is a participant, a driven, ambition type male in the research group, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer. His diagnosis caused him to rethink his behaviour and relentless drive. At the end of partaking in the three-month program his telomere reading showed an increase in length of 30%. His prostate cancer had disappeared and he was feeling very fit and healthy.

Another participant, a 65 year old woman, caring for her disabled brother and her mother with dementia, was under constant stress attending to them both without any respite. This kind of stress shows as a faster shortening of telomeres and in her case indicated her cells were about 17years older than her chronological age. After attending the lifestyle-enhancing program with relaxation, exercise and diet changes, plus taking up painting, she also showed great improvement in health and wellbeing and her telomeres lengthened, in spite of still caring for her brother and mother as usual.

Scientists now know that shortening of telomeres in cells is not set in stone. This is what epigenetics is about. Lifestyle changes can and do change expressions of your genes. Your lifestyle can over-ride genetic predispositions, and even reverse the aging process. Tracking the biomarkers of aging provides the proof that cells are working as they did in more youthful times.

So we CAN get younger. How much younger can we get? 10 to 30 years seems possible. So it is entirely up to us how fast we age and decline.
The more we take care of our body with:
– life supporting diet, including high antioxidants, proteins, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, plus water
– exercise for cardiovascular and muscle fitness
– reduce stress and learn to relax or meditate,
the younger we can become in terms of telomere length and cell relication.

How old would you like your body to be by this time next year? Twelve months to reverse existing signs and biomarkers of aging by living a healthy lifestyle – sounds worthwhile and do-able to me. How about to you? Do you think it is something you can do? Do you believe it is something you can do? Can you run your own experimental program on yourself? Why not? Let me get you started.

To Reverse Markers Of Aging:
Take a note of:
– your current weight, current body measurements, current fitness level
– your present diet, breakfast, lunch, dinner, morning and afternoon tea/coffee
– how much water you drink
– aches and pains, range of movement and flexibility
– any health issues
– your current beliefs, expectations, self-image

These are your pre-checks, your starting point from which to compare monthly, and finally at the end of 12 months.
Other pre-checks:
– have a personal trainer do the fitness tests for you and advise on a program
– have your doctor do general blood and medical tests
– have someone check your diet and give some healthy suggestions

Now plan it out:
– daily walking, swimming, aerobics, weights, start slow and gradually increase
– consider adding supplements and herbs
– take up meditation, yoga, or relaxation practice
– start singing or painting or something creative and fun
– arrange monthly massage or kinesiology energy balances
– keep track of your actions and changes
– celebrate the improvements
This is your personal research on reversing the aging process.

If it all seems too much or you want further ideas or support, encouragement, motivation, guidance, then make an appointment and I will help you create your personal program – for reversing aging and regaining youthful health and vital energy.
Cheers
Anna
anna@annamcrobert.com.au
PS: There are other biomarkers of aging that I can tell you about another time. The good thing is that those markers also respond to the same lifestyle and attitude changes that your telomeres do.

Stress Less to Lose Weight

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Linda Drummond wrote in the Sunday Mail on 6th June, “ If your excess weight won’t budge, getting your anxiety levels under control could help.” It makes sense to me.

We were never meant to be in constant stress.  In the animal kingdom there is threat to life and limb when animals are stalked or do the stalking, or fight for mating rights.  But these threats come and go fairly quickly.  Once an animal escapes, or the threat passes, or the challenge is won or lost, there is a return to the non-stressed state.

Human beings are very clever.  It seem we have worked out how to remain in a stressed state non-stop, day in day out, for days, weeks, months or even years.  It’s either the job we don’t like or the in-laws we can’t get on with, or the promotion we missed, or the mortgage payments, or noisy neighbours, or a partner who doesn’t understand us, or teenage kids that rule the roost, or something.

We could fight the physical attackers but our stresses like worry or fear are emotional so we can’t resolve them physically.  Many of us try to keep busy or to run away from the problems, but that doesn’t resolve things either.  And some of us are just frozen, unable to fight or run, just get stuck.

Our body was not designed to withstand continuous stress.  “One of the things that stress does is release stress hormones cortisol and neuropeptide Y,” says Dr Sainsbury-Salis.  “Cortisol acts directly on your fat deposits, causing you to gain fat around the belly.” Cortisol receptors in your abdomen are ready and waiting to store fat in case of famine or another life-threatening situation.

And further, “Cortisol gives you a higher preference for addictive behaviours and makes high-fat and high-sugar foods much more attractive.” Dr Sainsbury-Salis says.  And further still, for many, stress hormones trigger the hypothalamus in the brain to increase hunger so they want to eat more.

New research at Garvan Institute found neuropeptide Y “causes the birth of new fat cells (that’s a new admission!), increases new blood vessels to the cells, and generally helps promote their growth and development,” says Dr Sainsbury-Salis.  But this happened only when animals in experiments ate high-fat, high-sugar diets.

Seems there is no way to win in the weight struggle.  Prolonged stress increases appetite for the wrong reason, for the wrong foods, expands the belly readily, and makes more fat cells, escalating threats to health even more – which adds further stress.  It’s now a cycle that loops round and round.

What’s the solution?  Is there one?

The problem started with prolonged stress so that’s where you look to find the solution.   Stress is now a habitual pattern.  Part of the problem is that we actually become addicted to stress hormones and being in a constant state of panic.   And if things get quiet we panic that it can’t last and set off stress anyway.  All that stress slows down your metabolism.

So reducing stress and increasing metabolism can reverse the problem.  How do you do that?  What are your options?  Well, inaction is also part of the problem.  Stress hormones are designed to give extra energy for life saving action.  If you don’t take action and use up the hormones you can’t relax.  Don’t sit on it.  Start moving your body.  Get walking.  Go to the gym.  Take up sport.  Do something physical, regularly, daily.   This will reverse the stress signals and produce feel good hormones instead.

Straight after physical activity it becomes much easier to relax, so consciously add deep breathing while you stretch and elongate muscles to further reverse stress signals.  Your brain is wired to recognize the cluster of stress hormones, plus tension in specific muscles, plus shallow breathing, as one unit.  Move to get energy flowing, use up the hormones with exercise, now breathe deeper and stretch muscles.  Your brain takes each as a signal to reverse the panic, to allow the body to relax more and more.

And use Emotional Stress Release, a Kinesiology technique, to reverse blood flow in the brain.  When distressed blood is redirected to survival programs and withdrawn from executive brain so you can’t think through or create a solution to your problem.  More on that to follow.

Cheers
Anna McRobert
anna@annamcrobert.com.au