Don’t Let it be your Boss, Control it.

“Any strain that disturbs the functioning of the body is considered a stress, or even just the general wear and tear in the body caused by life at any one time”.

Signs & Symptoms of Stress

· Depression

· Anxiety

· Irritability

· Chronic fatigue

· Low – stress tolerance

· Nervous exhaustion

· Unable to cope

· Insomnia

· Panic attack

· Unable to relax

There are many factors that play a part in the contribution of experiencing stress. Our lives are surrounded by stressful environments. The method that we employ to handle these varies difficult situations will give us the end result in how we will experience the level of stress.

The Bible’s advise to us.

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and yea shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matt 11: 28 – 30

Stress has become a common problem in today’s society, and much disease has followed it roots.

Dr Agatha Thrash say “ “Many things cause stress including overweight, overeating, overwork, noise, and being burdened by any kind of emotional or mental problems”

http://www.ucheepines.org/index.php?p=counseling.stress

- Overweight -

Experiencing the problem of overweight can cause a great amount of stress on the body, physically, mentally and emotionally. Struggling to fight against your own body weight (trying to loose weight), and the weight your body needs to carry, puts a lot of stress on the body.

For being overweight it causes the muscles to work harder and even over working the whole body. When a body part moves it needs to carry the extra weight with it.

Positive Self – Image always bring a positive attitude, and being stable emotionally. Having weight problems is discouraging which can turn you to be negative and experience a low self – image which cause emotional stress.

- Chemical Stress -

Over eating can disturb the digestive system by over working it and cause it to work under great amounts of stress. When eating to much, the body must make more digestive juice than normal to be able to digest the work load. .

The food that we eat contains vitamins and minerals. Eating to much will cause the blood to be over whelmed with these Vit & Min, that it will make it more difficult to pump the blood from the arteries to the small blood vessels.  This will cause all the organs to work under stress.

- Mental Stress -

Worrying, deadlines, pressure at work, long hours of concentration can over work the mind and causes it to be in distress. To make the case even more troublesome, lacking of sleep will affect the mind and body.

How Can a Good & Healthy Lifestyle help you to manage your stressful lifestyle better?

Here is some Health Tips – Presented by New Start Lifestyle Program

“Please Note this is only a summary vision of the program”

Nutrition

Eat more raw foods ( Don’t mix your  vegetables & fruit)

-           Raw foods will boost your immune  system, and will be less taxation on  the digestive system

-           With raw foods you will gain all the  Vitamins and Minerals your body  need for restoration

Eat only at meal times. (Leave a 5-6 hours between meal)

-           Giving a 5-6 hours rest will give your body time to regain strength for the next     meal. Your digestive system will not be loaded with work.

Eating and drinking together cause fermentation in the stomach which poisons the whole body system and causes it to stress. (You can drink something an hour after you had a meal)

Exercise & Fresh Air

Take a nice fast walk every day for min 30

-           Exercise will also be good after having a nice meal. (It will make the load of work lighter on the digestive  system, because it stimulates the metabolism)

Doing exercise in the open fresh relaxes you mind & combat physical stress.

Fresh air has charge negative ions, which helps the body to create a hormone call endorphs “Happy Hormones”

Water

Stress makes the body toxic and drink 8 glasses water every day will help detoxify your system form  all toxic elements

Enjoying a nice neutral bath will also help one to relax from the daily stress.

Sunlight

About 30min of sunlight will help to lower high blood pressure.

Can also help to control cholesterol, by decreasing it.

Temperance

Don’t overdo things, take time and relax in nature.

Manage your time well.

Don’t set to many goals.

Rest

Need at least 8 hours of sleep (Between 10pm & 4am)

Your body needs rest for restoration, and  to rebuild strength for the next day.

The brain needs R.E.M sleep to recover  from the day’s activities.

Trust in God

1 Peter 5:7   Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Matt 6:25 – 30

Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor     yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:  And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Heb 11:6

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.