Anti-Stress: What is Stress and How Can It Be Treated?

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One of the biggest problems resulting from the fast-paced and sometimes highly demanding modern lifestyles that we lead can also be one of the main reasons for physical and psychological disorders: stress. Stress is a negative state that causes people to react in different ways, for example with increased heart rate or feelings of fear, sometimes leading to a release of adrenaline which, when used up, can leave one feeling ‘burned-out’ and exhausted.

In some situations, stress is quite a normal reaction and the adrenaline and energy that it helps to produce can be harnessed and used, for example when working or participating in sport. In these situations the body can manage the reactions accordingly without adverse effects, but if a stressful situation continues for extended periods then a variety of uncomfortable or dangerous side-effects may be experienced such as headaches and back pain and the immune system becoming weaker. Any existing physical or mental problems may also get worse and it may become generally harder to relax or ‘switch-off’ during such periods.

Fortunately, there are many ways in which to combat and manage stress and the situations that arise from its prescence. This includes a wide range of prescription drugs, most of which should be avoided, and also a growing selection of safer remedies based on more natural extracts but first the stress has to be acknowledged, as does the cause of it and then reduced and relieved accordingly in order to avoid harmful side-effects.

Most people expect a certain amount of stress to come their way, and of course this is often quite normal and manageable, but stress levels do need to be monitored to avoid adverse conditions. For example, getting married or having children, going to a job interview or driving in heavy traffic may all be considered stressful, but how do we know when a situation is becoming overly-stressful?

Some people who have struggled with stress keep a log of certain situations that they think lead them to feel more stressed and how they felt and reacted in that situation as a means of dealing with future issues and avoiding potential situations.

Avoiding stressful situations in the first place is obviously a good habit to try and develop but of course it may be impossible to eliminate stress completely from one’s life. Imagine, for example that you get very stressed when you are running late or stuck in traffic; looking for improved ways to manage your time and schedule may help to avoid this. Anything that can be made to run more efficiently (including yourself) will ensure that fewer stressful situations arise, and obviously taking good care of your health will ensure that you are more capable of dealing with potential stressful situations when they arise. Sometimes new thinking habits need to be developed and kept in mind; the way that you react to a situation may tell you a lot about your current levels of stress and help you to identify different approaches that will benefit certain situations better.

If current stress levels feel too high, then until new habits are formed they will have to be managed accordingly. Different things work for different people, but some of the most well-known methods for reducing and relieving stress include exercising, listening to relaxing music or playing an instrument, taking up a new hobby or interest and of course, looking at different ways to try and relax, for example by focusing on breathing exercises, stretching and yoga techniques or experimenting with massage and aromatherapy.

Causes of Stress

The list of stress causers is endless and varies from person to person, depending on how they handle certain situations. ‘Standard’ stress is usually generated from fairly normal situations like job interviews, tests or even competitive sporting activity but is an accepted part of life and relatively harmless. Longer periods of stress (sometimes referred to as ‘chronic stress’) are somewhat more dangerous and may be triggered by such things as over-work, lack of sleep, maybe even your surroundings and family or work problems.

Managing Stress

Learning and implementing new habits into your lifestyle, especially coping strategies, is the best way to identify, monitor and manage stress in your life. Everyone has their own preferred coping strategies so finding the ones that work best for you is of major importance. New habits may seem hard to form at first but through practice will soon start to become normal patterns in your life. Relaxing the mind and the body are key coping strategies. A relaxed mind means a relaxed body and a relaxed body is far less susceptible to stress.

Exercise helps to rid the body of unwanted stress or built up adrenaline in the form of pent-up anger, sadness, excitement, or fear, for example and intense or prolonged periods of exercise cause the body to produce its own form of relaxing, ‘feel-good’ drug known as endorphins which instill feelings of well-being and a sense of relaxation in the participant, hence the term ‘runner’s high’. Stress can manifest itself physically in the body in the form of aches and pains and muscle tension, so exercise is a good way to flush out these unwanted symptoms and by-products of stressful situations.

Relaxing the mind is another key coping strategy. A relaxed mind will process and manage stress much more effeciently rather than reacting in ways which may trigger adrenaline or fear. Finding a hobby that is particularly relaxing for you or at least takes your mind off any potential problems or situations that are currently causing you stress is an important step to take. It could be music, writing, gardening, sport or yoga and meditation but it is most definitely worth taking the time to detach yourself from any current, perceived stressful situations and mindsets. Meditation is now widely acknowledged as an effective tool for lowering levels of stress and changing brainwaves to suit a more relaxed state of being.

There are many different types of meditation and different end-goals to be gained from certain techniques or styles but generally the emphasis is placed upon the breath as a means to develop not only deeper, better breathing habits but also to aid concentration and allow one to try and stem, or at least limit, the constant bombardment of thoughts that the consciousness is subjected to at all times.Some schools of meditation try and place emphasis on ‘mindfulness’ in conjunction with the breath. This basically means that by focusing on the breath, and only the breath, one becomes mindful of the breath; therefore, at that particular point there is no room or attention given over to any other thought, whether nagging, troublesome or otherwise. This is a practice that can then hopefully be carried over into other areas of one’s life, whereby the practitioner gradually develops the habit of paying attention to the ‘now’, using mindfulness and so eliminating any unnecessary feelings of fear or stress that are usually generated when attention is wandering between the future or the past. This is a practice that seems quite difficult at first, particularly for westerners with their logical, calculating minds that sometimes absolutely seem as if they will never be tamed or even stand still for a minute. But once one can get into the habit of just focusing on one thing at a time, as it is happening rather than before or after, it is quite possible to achieve a much more relaxed and perceptive state of mind which is obviously one of the key combatants of modern-day stress.

Meditation can be done either sitting or lying down, but obviously there is more of a tendency to sleep when lying on the floor, so sitting, either on the floor or on a chair is acceptable. Most people find that when they first try to meditate their mind wanders all over the place and it can actually be quite shocking sometimes to discover just how restless or perturbed the mind has become when first undertaking any form of meditation practice.

Focusing on the breathing will not only help one to develop mindfulness but will actually help to develop better, deeper breathing too which is another major good habit to have when trying to reduce stress. Counting the breaths and their length is one way to try and build up concentration: for example, you breathe in for a count of one, hold the breath for a count of one and then breath out for a count of one. Then the same for two, three etc., all the way up to ten and then if possible back down to one. When the practitioner can go all the way up to ten and then back to one whilst focusing only on the breath and the number, gradually eradicating more and more of those troublesome, nagging thoughts, most of which are imagined anyway, then a heightened sense of calm and mindfulness will begin to ensue. This can then hopefully be carried over into normal, everyday life, giving the practitioner a powerful tool with which to identify, manage and reduce potentially stressful situations.

Treatments

Although many current pharmaceutical drugs and medications are not recommended when it comes to stress management, there is now a much safer alternative when looking for a treatment to help with stress-related symptoms which are proving troublesome. Xanaroll is comprised primarily of medicinal ingredients derived only from plants, and has proved to be both effective when treating symptoms of stress and also non-addictive. Kratom and Blue Lotus are the two main ingredients and can help to produce feelings of relaxation and calm, without any of the dangerous side-effects related to some of the chemically comprised medications available such as Xanax which are also known to be highly addictive.