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Do you experience stress? If so, you are among millions of people worldwide who do so. Your body is actually designed to feel stress and react to it, so that you are alert and ready to avoid danger. However, when stress persists, the body begins to break down and illnesses, such as headaches and migraines, can occur. The most effective way to cope with stress is to identify the stressors in your life. After you’ve identified your specific stressors, then you need to learn ways to reduce and manage your stress. In doing this, you will find great benefit with migraine and headache relief.
What Is Stress?
Simply put, stress is your reaction to any change that requires you to either respond or adjust. Basically, stress is the result of how you respond to stressful events.So, it’s important to know that you can control stress.
What Causes Stress?
Causes of stress are different for each person, just as the way our body responds to that stress is unique to each individual. It can be caused by anything requiring you to adjust to a change in your environment and life. Your body reacts to these changes and circumstances with physical, mental, and emotional responses.
Here is a list of some of the common causes of stress, which is by no means a comprehensive list:
Sometimes it is hard to be sure of the exact cause of your stress. Keeping a journal of what’s going on in your life can be helpful. It also helps to know the warning signs of stress. These are important steps because when you can identify the warning signs, you can learn how your body responds to stress, so you can then take steps to reduce it.
What Are the Warning Signs of Stress?
Your body is so miraculously fine-tuned to you and your stressors that it sends out physical, behavioral, and emotional warning signs of stress.
Emotional warning signs of stress include:
Behavioral warning signs of stress include:
Physical warning signs of stress include:
How to Cope With Stress.
Be realistic in your expectations, and accept that there are events and circumstances you can’t control. A few coping mechanisms include:
Seek Help for Managing Stress.
If you feel you just are getting nowhere managing your own stress, and you feel you are going down the same downward spiral over and over again, seek help.
Working with me in one of my programs, you will:
Learn to live free from stress and pain, and minimize and reduce your migraines.
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