Originally published July 26 2005
Alternative medicine can help knock out stress, expert says
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
As Bella Online's alternative medicine editor, Victoria Abreo knows stress can put the brakes on day-to-day life and work, so she offers some drug-free coping tips for the average reader in a recent article.
The suggestions of writing about things you like about your life, least like, and want to accomplish, often is the incentive to make change to a more positive way of living.
You will learn to know yourself, identify the major stresses in your life, learn the effects of a situation, and develop a strategy for dealing with the situation.
Stress can be the result of many things: Jobs, relationships, loneliness, even being in a traffic jam.
There are many different ways to relieve stress.
Any type of exercise will do the trick.
Yoga and Ayurvedic practitioners believe shallow breathing keeps a person in a kind of panic mode-hardly conducive to rest and relaxation.
In minutes, your heart rate will slow down, your blood will become more fully oxygenated and you will achieve a sense of calm.
During office therapy and later at home, patients learn how to slow down their breathing and respiratory system.
By practicing these breathing and relaxation techniques, patients can slow down the release of adrenaline and other hormones that intensify stress.
Try to control your thoughts during this time so you do not think about whatever problems are causing the stress.
Diet: Stay away from foods that create stress on the bodies system, such as soda, fatty food, junk food, sugar, and white flour products.
Raw fruits and vegetable are a good source of vitamin C, which can fight infection, repairs tissue and maintain healthy adrenal glands.
When the body is under stress, this hormone speeds up the rate of metabolism in order to help the body cope with a stressful situation.
Borage oil and licorice root, have been linked with noticeable effect to help ease encountering of stressful event.
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