(Newswire.net — April 4, 2013) Potters Bar, London — Here’s a good expression to remember, “Pain Hurts, Stress Kills”.
The Western World is in the midst of many epidemics—obesity, diabetes, depression, heart disease, cancer, and the newer fears of dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The most deadly modern epidemic though is stress. Why? Because stress is the silent killer underlying many of the other epidemics.
Stress may be more commonly associated with mental/emotional issues like depression and anxiety, but it is far more reaching. According to the National Institute of Health in the USA, up to 90% of illness is related to stress.
More than 2 billion worldwide suffer from brain based health challenges brought about by stress related to:
Time management problems
Work Issues
Relationships
Money
Physical strain
Chemical stress and pollution
Whatever the original trigger for the stress, it does not have to be ‘felt’ as stress, and will attack the weakest areas of your body and it’s workings. So it could be muscle aches and pains like back pain, headaches or fibromyalgia, or bowel complaints like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) or your immune system or metabolism.
All these problems can in reality be Brain Stress.
So how can stress be responsible for so much?
Stress sets of a chain reaction of defence physiology – the fight or flight response All forms of stress, whether mental, physical or chemical, cause nervous system imbalance creating a neurological cascade of events putting us into what is now being termed Sympathetic Survival Syndrome.
When we are in survival our ability to heal grow and flourish is greatly diminished
The opposite of the ‘fight or flight’ response is known as the relaxation response, which causes pleasure, increases sense of achievement, concentration, creativity, healing, digestion, immune response.
The good thing is you can both learn to control this, and have it artificially stimulated.
Brain Based Wellness takes into account, and ‘treats’ 3 areas
- Brain waves. Stimulation of Alpha brain waves brings about a state of relaxation and creativity, and various studies show this can have a positive impact on
- Stress
- Insomnia
- Depression
- Fibromyalgia
- Pain
- Brain biochemistry. Through the use of an assessment questionnaire dietary, nutritional and lifestyle guidelines can be individually prescribed. for the individual.
- Improved neurological input. Part of the cerebellum, known as the vermis, is the master co-ordinator of movement, speech, learning, emotions, hormone and immune regulation. Stimulation of the vermis has been shown to be key to overall brain health. Improper spinal motion will interfere with full vermis stimulation so it is important to maintain correct spinal motion.
You can learn more about Brain Based Wellness and some free tools at http://socialmediabar.com/brainbasedwellness
Chris Pickard
Potters BarLondon
01707 662 704