“Over time, stress leads to serious health problems. Don’t wait until then to combat stress. Start learning stress management techniques now.”
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so common place that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best. But when you’re constantly running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price.
Beyond a certain point, stress stops being helpful and starts causing major damage to your health, your mood, your productivity, your relationships, and your quality of life. It is estimated that stress is the cause of 90 to 95 percent of disease.
The body doesn’t distinguish between physical and psychological threats. When you’re stressed over a busy schedule, an argument with a friend, a traffic jam, or a mountain of bills, your body reacts just as strongly as if you were facing a life-or-death situation. If you have a lot of responsibilities and worries, your emergency stress response may be “on” most of the time.
Long-term exposure to stress can lead to serious health problems. Chronic stress disrupts nearly every system in your body. It can raise blood pressure, suppress the immune system, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, contribute to infertility, and speed up the aging process. Long-term stress can even rewire the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.
The effects of stress are wide-reaching.
While unchecked stress is undeniably damaging, there are many things you can do to reduce its impact and cope with symptoms.
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Biofeedback measures various physiological parameters of the body. The INDIGO biofeedback system helps manage and retrain stress patterns, educates clients on crucial information about stress and empowers them to make lifestyle changes to support overall health and well being.
Medical research shows that the benefits of biofeedback may include the following:
- Ability to relax more quickly and easily.
- Improved sleep.
- Reduction of stress, tenseness and nervousness.
- Improved general health and sense of wellbeing.
- Reduction of anger, fear, apprehension and gloominess.
- Heightened muscle mobility, flexibility and sport performance.
- Enhanced mental clarity, memory and improved attention.
- Decreased pain, fatigue and headaches.
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- Dr. Deepak Chopra