In this article:
- What is stress?
- What type of problems can stress cause?
- How to Neutralize Stress
- Breath Exercise to Reduce Stress
- Biogenics self-regulation to Neutralize Stress
Have you ever been stressed out?
Haven’t we all. ** Insert Eye Roll**
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Maybe you’ve been dealing with one of the most stressful life events, which includes the death of a loved one, separation or divorce, starting a new job, moving, financial issues….
Or maybe you lived through 2020. It’s safe to say that 2020 alone was a stressful year for everyone across the globe and for various reasons.
With sickness running rampant, people losing their family members, jobs lost, and the financial burdens that came along with it, many were dealing with stress coming from every aspect of their life. Hard times fell upon the majority and stress typically follows behind hard times.
You might not have the ability to control the outside forces affecting your life, but you can learn to control how you respond to stress.
When finding the right approach to cope, stress management techniques can make a huge difference in your life.
Even better, you can train your brain to proactively combat stress, rather than deal with it in the moment. Read on to learn how!
What is stress?
Stress can be summed up as your body’s reaction to any change in your life. It be physical or emotional. These changes can be to your physical wellbeing, your mental wellbeing, or your relationships.
Anything that happens in life and makes you feel overwhelmed can be considered stress or a stressful situation.
For example, if you have bills to pay and a family to take care of, you likely have stressors throughout each & every day.
Now, if you have a savings account that you can live off or you can easily get a new job quickly, you’d be dealing with acute stress. This is short-term stress that doesn’t last long. You might be stressed at the time but having a backup plan or quick fix could ease it.
Using that same scenario, if you were living paycheck to paycheck when you lost the job, bills are piling up, and you can’t find a job as quickly, that can turn into chronic stress. This type of stress can last for weeks or months. Your body becomes accustomed to living in a stressed-out state, and that is not good for you mentally or physically. It causes your relaxation response, your body’s natural way of calming down, to not function as it should.
Your body can naturally handle acute stress, but chronic stress throws everything out of order. When in this state, you are always on high alert and the chemicals being produced keep you in “fight-or-flight” mode. You can NOT be healthy when in this continuous state of chronic stress.
What type of problems can stress cause?
When you think of stress at the surface level, you might not think of it as a big deal. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Your body is made to naturally handle acute stress, but chronic stress throws everything out of order. When in this state, you are always on high alert and the chemicals being produced keep you in “fight-or-flight” mode.
There are stages of stress, and they are: initial adaptation, wear and tear on the body, exhaustion and debilitation, and the final stage is disease and dysfunction.
Some symptoms of a body living under chronic stress are:
- Depression and anxiety
- Aches & pains
- Autoimmune diseases
- Weakened immune system
- Trouble sleeping or relaxing
- Skin issues
- Weight gain or loss
- Headaches
- High blood pressure
- Gastrointestinal problems
Did you know that stress is the primary cause of over 95% of all diseases?
These are only a few of the issues that chronic stress can cause. Unfortunately, there are many more, and some are more severe than others.
Even though stress starts in the mind, as you can see, it can trickle into every aspect of your life. Our Biogenics Online Course is the ultimate stress management tool!
Unhealthy coping responses to stress
If you’ve been living under chronic stress, you might not know it. This can keep you from handling it properly.
Some people turn to smoking or drinking to ease their pain. Others turn to prescription or illegal drugs to numb themselves. Maybe they drown their stress by staring at the TV for hours and hours at a time, not even paying attention to what they are watching. They are all looking for something, anything to take their mind away from what is stressing them out.
Stress is inevitable. Whether you’re dealing with the negative stress of a work-related issue or the positive stress of packing everything you own and moving into your dream home, your body needs to have a system in place for when stress hits. Enter stress management techniques & self-regulation!
How to Neutralize Stress
We live in world where stress in constant. You need to have easy easy to use options to deal with the constant stresses of life. It is unhealthy to keep “putting it in the back drawer and never dealing with it.”
It is absolutely asinine that stress management techniques & self-regulation is NOT taught in schools grades k-12! So many people go through life thinking they are doomed to a life with constant and unrelenting stress.
That is why we have every one of our our private patients who want to master their own health with Holistic Healthcare, begin by learning and implementing stress management techniques & self-regulation through our BIOGENICS program. Your brain is a muscle & you have the power to exercise & grow it positively or negatively. Biogenics gives you the power to train your brain in a positive manner to begin working for you and not against you.
Breath Exercise to Reduce Stress
Now this one may sound a bit self explanatory, but we find that most folks are “shallow breathers.”
Most of the day you are unaware of your breath. Your body automatically controls your breathing through the subconscious mind. The breath is shallow, barely filling the lungs full and never fully expelling.
When was the last time you thought about your breath today?
Taking a moment to focus on your breath is an incredible way to instantly begin neutralizing acute stress that comes throughout your day.
Here is a quick breath exercise to try that will take you only a minute or 2 and have you feeling amazing upon completion:
- Start by saying in your mind 3 times “My breathing is free and easy.”
- Now begin to turn your focus on your breath, just be aware of your breath. Hear it, feel it.
- Now draw in breath and expand as far as you can until your belly & chest are full.
- Once full, slowly release the breath, until you expel every last bit of the breath.
- Repeat this breathing pattern for 5 more breaths.
How do you feel now?
Relaxed?
Calm?
Peaceful?
Happy?
This breathing exercise takes less than 1-2 minutes and can be done AS MANY times a day as you like! As a doctor, this is my “prescription” for you to take time for yourself, a couple moments a day, to follow this breathing pattern and begin watching as you neutralize your daily stressors!
A few great ways to remember to breathe deep daily are:
- Place sticky notes with a little reminder around your house, office or any place you frequent during the day.
- Set timed reminders on your phone.
- Meditate daily and become aware of your breath.
Learn Self-Regulation Techniques
Self-regulation is the ability to manage your thoughts, emotions and impulses. Overall, it’s an internal process where you get to reset your brain and how it responds to stress. The best part is that is similar to all muscle in your body, where once you start training the “self-regulation muscle”, it will grow stronger & stronger. You will be able to combat stress, cope & handle it properly.
Once you learn the self regulation techniques in our Biogenics online course, you can turn them on “at the flick of a switch!”
It will make you more aware of your mental, spiritual, emotional and environmental stimulus.
The practice of self-regulation is scientifically tested and proven to be successful in over 35,000+ outcomes where conventional treatments had failed, and it can work for you. Although this may sound easier said than done, you can train yourself to properly respond and healthily handle stress if you have the right tools.
Self-regulation is how you build up your resistance to stress and know how to manage it when it occurs in your life.
Anyone CAN do it – even children! In fact, we have found in clinical research that the earlier & sooner in life you begin to learn self-regulation techniques & stress management techniques the more positive health benefits you receive over extended time.
Biogenics is self-regulation to neutralize stress & enhance your human experience…
Retraining how you view and respond to situations and your thought patterns takes work, and even though it isn’t something that happens overnight, these are tools that will last you a lifetime.
If you have a stress-related disorder, or if you want to learn how to prevent stress symptoms before they affect you, Biogenics will allow you to become the best version of you there can be.
Combining the powers of science and holistic healing, you can learn how to live a happy, healthy, stress-free life.
Here’s what you can look forward to once you sign up:
- Learn the humanistic psychology behind Biogenics
- Stress and its relation to your emotions and diseases
- How to rebalance yourself after a stressful situation
- How sounds and frequencies are used to train your brain
- Techniques and exercises to put what you learn into action
- A series of meditations and binaural beats
- Lifetime access to the course
Not only will you learn how to reduce your stress and anxiety, but you’ll get to learn more about yourself along the way. Biogenics is a complete system for your best life, and you’ll have everything you need to begin a natural, holistic approach to healing your mind, body, and spirit.
Biogenics has been developed over the last 50+ years by Dr. Norman Shealy the Father of Holistic Medicine & Dr. Sergey Sorin 2020 Holistic Physician of the Year using the latest technology in Gamma brain waves, binaural beats for brain synchronization, and self-regulation techniques and principles that date back 100’s of year.