Case Study: Stress
continued…
Coping Strategies
By
listening to your body you will be able to implement positive solutions to
reduce the effects of stress in your life.
Positive Coping Strategies:
- Plan ahead
- Think positive and empowering thoughts
- Eliminate toxins
- Exercise
- Eat well
- Rest,Relax and Rejuvenate
- Evaluation
These
strategies will be discussed in more detail in chapter four of the Activate
Your Weight Loss book.
Negative Coping Strategies:
All
too common in society people will deal with the effects of stress by using
either, stimulants to kick start the body, or suppressants to slow it down.
Unfortunately most of these stimulants or suppressants are toxic.
Disease
occurs when more breaking down than building up takes place in your system.
The
true source of disease arises from poisoning of the system, which comes from
many different places. Toxins can be in the form of:
Stimulants
- Caffeine
- Nicotine
- Recreational
Drugs
- Sugar
Suppressants
- Alcohol
- Prescription Drugs
- High Fat or Processed foods
Continuously
pumping your body with toxins is one of the fastest ways to inflict damage on
the body.
Behavioural
- Work addictions
- Sex addictions
- Exercise addiction
- Food addiction (Over eating / under eating)
- Television addiction
- Gambling
The
problem with these coping strategies is they do not address the root cause of
the stress. They simply mask the symptoms of the stress and thus become
detrimental to your health. They act as a band aid solution to the problem at
hand.
Exercise:An excellent relaxation technique that can be used to alleviate the effects of
stress on a short term basis is to take ten deep breaths. Attempt to make your
expiration (your out breath) twice as long as your inspiration (your in
breath).
DISEASE Example:
Summary of Dis Ease
From now on when you get any sign of dis ease you will know how to deal with it.
Rather than reaching for a pain-killer or taking some form of medication you
will just look to find the issue, underlying the symptom, that is causing the
dis ease. The discovery of the primary cause of the disease remains the only
true way that a diagnosis can be made, a disease understood and a treatment
plan developed.
