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Tips of Overcoming Stress

  • Posted on May 12, 2010 at 5:31 am

Anyone can experience stress. Including you, your friends, your boss, your parents, just about everyone experienced it. The cause can vary. Starting from the work that piled up, the pressure from superiors, school work or college, pressures from parents, the economic crush, or uncollectible debts.

The symptoms is that we feel uneasy, the hearts and minds well. When this stress response occurs, then the neurotic elements in our brain are not stable.

If we often stress it will be a bad influence on our brain, causing a chemical imbalance. And it will also affect the memory, focus, and concentration. And they usually tend to make

we can not relax.

Well, the problem is how to control this stress if the symptoms of this nature hit us. How to manage it?

Here are some things you can do:

1. Control your thoughts

The average person has 60 000 thoughts a day, and nearly 80% of negative thoughts. Imagine, how the influence of these thoughts to your body! This negative thought patterns and behaviors affect those under your conscious mind, and this has an unhealthy impact on your body.

The fix is to change those negative thoughts with positive thoughts and try to convince yourself that you are what you think positively. If you need to say

on yourself: I’m strong, I’m okay, I can get through all this.

Repeat these positive affirmations throughout the day until it affects your negative pressure. There would be the effect of a change in attitude.

2. Reduce stress stimulants

Stress, anxiety, insomnia, and thoughts that difficult to control is usually a side effect of  caffeine. Central nervous system stimulator that was contradictory to the caffeine affected body relaxation and peace of mind.

How to cope: try a little turned into the week we’ve been through, what causes the stress we experience today. Reduce caffeine and try to replace it with herbal tea. Also avoid carbonated drinks or beverages or other sources that can stimulate our brains to create stress.

3. Breathe deeply

If you are really stressed, then you tend to breath shallow, maybe only until the esophagus. Unfortunately, adults tend to breathe like this. how to breathe like this can affect the body and trigger stress, and also affect self insecurity (anxiety).

If you can learn to breathe more deeply throughout the day – by breathing from the diaphragm – you will reduce anxiety and will get many benefits, such as blood pressure will not increase, and a stable heart. In addition, an estimated 70% toxins in our bodies are removed through breathing.

Well, maybe you can try these three things. It takes only a belief that stress is a universal phenomenon which is not impossible to overcome in private. So, do not let the negative things that will actually make us more sick.

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Stress-decreasing Food

  • Posted on March 4, 2010 at 5:23 am

Stress, who is not familiar with this word? Almost every individual experience this. Especially to those who often chased by time constraints. Stressful conditions often make the immune system and result in decreased easily become sick, from colds to heart disease.

Foods that can actually reduce your stress like a warm oatmeal can increase serotonin levels in the body that issued feeling calm and comfortable. Other foods can reduce levels of cortisol and adrenaline, where they are stress hormones that exist in the body over time. Let’s learn so you can feel more comfortable and reduce your stress level.

1. Foods containing complex carbohydrates
Carbohydrates encourage the brain to make serotonin, causing a sense of comfort, very good to eat complex carbohydrates that can be digested properly. Good choice as a producer of complex carbohydrates are cereals, bread, pasta, and oatmeal. Complex carbohydrates also can make blood sugar levels stabilized.

2. Foods containing simple carbohydrates
Foods that contain simple carbohydrates include candy and a soda can reduce stress for a short time. Simple sugars contained in it if ingested will result in high serotonin levels.

3. Orange
Oranges contain vitamin C that much, the content of vitamin C can reduce stress. A study suggested that consuming 3000 mg of vitamin C before doing tasks that stress can make blood pressure and cortisol levels returned to normal.

4. Spinach
Maybe you still remember the story that Popeye ate spinach? Apparently he was not wrong to make spinach as his favorite food. The content of magnesium in spinach regulate cortisol levels. Magnesium tends to waste from the body when we eat the spinach adds stress and magnesium levels in the body. In addition to spinach, if you are not a spinach lover, magnesium is also found in salmon and soybeans.

5. Omega-3 fish
To make cortisol and adrenaline in the body remains stable, Eat fish containing omega-3, such as tuna and salmon. Thus, in addition to reducing stress, also good for protecting the heart. For maximum results, consume 3 ounces of omega-3 fish twice a week.


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Stress Accelerates Aging

  • Posted on February 26, 2010 at 5:25 am

Recent research is trying to open a new insight into how someone who is experiencing mental stress will accelerate the aging.
Women who experience mental stress will result in a chromosome, a part of the cell, in this case, immune cells, will be more rapid aging and death, compared with women who were not stressed in his life.
This was seen in 58 women aged between 20-50 years, who examined the chromosomes of immune cells. 19 of them have healthy children as controls, while the other 39 children who have chronic pain (chronic).
This chromosome can be measured from the age of these cells. The result, women who live in stress, immune cells have an older, equal to an additional 9-17 years of age, compared with women with normal life. The longer a child is sick, the shorter the age of immune cells.
Apparently the old stress will shorten the life span of cells, at least immune cells. And currently being investigated, whether the other body cells are also affected will be the existence of this stress, and how the actual mechanism of the mind (stress) the body’s cells and how far its effects on health. Aging cells had previously been linked to premature deaths from heart disease and infection.

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Cause of Stress

  • Posted on February 8, 2010 at 5:53 am

Stress in certain levels can have a positive impact for ourselves, but if too much would be harmful to our mental health.
Feeling anxious before we do presentations can spur us to be more serious in preparing the presentation, but if anxiety becomes excessive, we would likely be more difficult to concentrate.
Having a heavy pressure in life or a complex problem to be solved alone can cause excessive stress we feel. The causes can vary from mild to severe, for example:
- Work is piling
- Traffic jams
- Unexpected events such as the dead lights, TV broken, broken air conditioning, etc.
- Change of habit (how to dress, how to speak, and others)
- Bad news
- Failure
- Left or lost a loved one
- Economic issues such as credit card bills that continue to increase, the costs of an increasingly suffocating, and others
- Bosses who are never satisfied with the results of our work
- Did not have a spouse or partner who does not fit our dreams
- Natural disasters
- Criminal
- And others
So the stress caused by factors that exist around us. Therefore, stress can not be categorized as a disease. And because stress can come from anywhere, then we can not avoid stress, but we have discovered how to cope with it.

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Stress Causes Breast Cancer

  • Posted on February 4, 2010 at 5:16 am


Women who have always felt lonely and sad is at risk of getting breast cancer, according to a recent study researchers from the Chicago University. How come? What to do?

Although this fact was discovered in guinea pigs, rats, but experts say it may also occur in humans. The existence of this study may be an alternative to get a new type of drug in the prevention of breast cancer which attacks the most beautiful parts of a woman.

The researchers assume that the sense of loneliness and sorrow will make a person stress and depression. Sense of stress and depression that comes later will change some existing gene in breast tissue and the meat will trigger abnormal growth (tumor).

Actually, the relationship between loneliness and breast cancer have been around 100 years ago, but it was still a lot of controversy. There are many conflicts among the investigators about it.

Dr. Suzanne Conzen and colleagues who ran the study examined two groups of rats raised in different environments. One group placed in a social environment and the other was in seclusion.

Both rats were given food with the same quantity and quality. They are also given access to the same exercise. But the fact that rats living in a quiet and isolated environment has a growing tumor in her breast.

Researchers found that the more isolated rat nervous and release of stress hormones more in line with increasing age. Stress causes mammary glands (breasts) are located on the female breasts to grow abnormally.

The stress of loneliness turns out not only boost the growth of meat is not normal in the brain (brain tumor) but also in parts of the body including the breast.

Published study in the journal Cancer Prevention Research indicates that the environment is not only an effect on mental health, but also physical health such as breast cancer. Several other studies also noted that loneliness also cause diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure.

“Moral support and companionship can reduce those risks. So women should not be too much grief, and seek an environment that can make you socialize. Do not isolate yourself from outside world, and do not forget to do a screening to anticipate every possible bad on your breasts, “said Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK as reported by Dailymail, Friday (02/10/2009). 

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