The Impact of Stress on Today's Family

Stress is the emotional impact of surrounding events to a person's mind. It is the response of both physical and psychological sensation to the outside world.

In today's family life, stress has become the major source of tension and frustration which leads to conflict in many cases. The traditional extended family structure in eastern society imposes many situations where a family member feels stressed. Parents may get stressed as they have to manage the costs and living of the elders. A child may get stressed due to the limitation of resources in the huge family. A mother may get stressed due to the work load she has to complete. Grandparents may get stressed due to their security problems (financial, health, future). Traditional norms, values and beliefs also cause stress in the family. Its results might be tension, irritation, anger, aggressive feelings, reduced work efficiency, frustration, headache and other health problems.

As the emergence of nuclear family in the society, many new causes and cases of stress have been identified. Misunderstanding between the spouse, growing rate of divorce, little care to children, financial problems, job security, teens problems, unfulfilled sex desire are some of the sources of stress in a nuclear family. Its impact on family members might be health disorders, drug abuse, degrade on performance at school,depression, loss of appetite etc.

Stress in today's family has various adverse effects on its members. It degrades the mental and social development of children along with affecting them physically (health problems). Feeling of loneliness and helplessness may get into a child's mind. It also reduces concentration and memory power of a child. Negative thoughts and attitudes may arise on teens. Parent may get health problems such as sleeping disorder, agitation, tiredness, cardio-vascular problems, hormonal disorders, social isolation, sexual behaviour etc. Besides it, members have decreased efficiency, punctuality, interest and co-operation at their work. A stressed person can't make prompt decision, may involved in bad habits such as gambling, smoking, drinking etc.

How can we manage stress?

Stress is one of the major component that should be taken in to account in a family. A proper management of stress is a must for a good family.

Some of the steps that can be taken to manage stress in today's family are as follows:

1. Parents should show a warm and cordial relationship between them in ront of their children.They should not argue in front of them.

2. All emotional, mental and physical demand (that does not harm children) of a children should be fulfilled by their parents.

3. All elder members of the family should be aware of the family problems such as financial, mutual understanding etc.

4. All members of the family should gather together around same table each day, for eg: at the time of dinner, at discussing problems etc.

5. Regular exercise and meditation would definitely reduce the stress.

6. Watching funny movie, books and other humorous behaviour which facilitate laughing would lessen stress.

Thus the impact of stress on today's family should be reduced to make a healthier and better society.

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Stewart Taps Away Money Blocks - Part 1

This is part of a series of articles detailing the work of one man releasing his money blocks. Stewart is working on his money abundance blocks with EFT. To give you some background, he has two avenues for making money. One is supplements MLM and the other is Forex trading.

I am pleased to say that after some sessions, he is now making more trades on the Forex front. Amongst other things, he worked on the flowing common blocks to success: The last time he had financial success and lost it all; a present potential financial threat; ex-wife financial issues; debts from something that went horribly wrong in the past; childhood events where Stewart felt incompetent.

These blocks were so bad that Stewart had a cheque for $20000 that he had not cashed, sitting in his home, part of his inheritance from his late mother. But he has now cashed it!

The nice thing about EFT is that it can release emotional blocks completely. Stewart had been seeing psychologists for years and getting insights but insights are pretty useless if you still feel incompetent and that any money you make will be taken away from you. With these feelings gradually releasing, Stewart finally is making more trades and has a plan for dealing with past debts.

The MLM challenge remains. Stewart has an excellent plan how to increase his down-line with 9 more legs - superpersons selling for him. And although he has perfected the study of excellent sales training and bought leads to call, there were sizeable emotional blocks stopping him from making the calls. He identified a fear of rejection. This was an 8 out of 10 in relation to making the calls. As he tapped on this subject, specifics came up for tapping, including past relationships with two women in particular. As he tapped on this, Stewart said the Freudian slip of "I need rejection". This led to much tapping on relationships where he confused not-rejection and not-anger with nurturing. And of course, if he was always seeking not-rejection, then that was what he would attract, rejection. He kept tapping and releasing, sounding calmer as he continued. The fear of rejection went down to a 4 out of 10. There was much more work to do, and other aspects would come up. In terms of aspects, the most successful strategy can be to treat each major event or incident as a separate aspect. Do not worry about having to tap on every single event. Once you have worked on about 10, you will have also collapsed about 100 related ones. This is because the effect generalizes over other related incidents.

Stewart then agreed to EFT on his previous disastrous telemarketing experience working for a particular company. This is important, as he had said that he had ended up "depressed, homeless and broke" as a result. At some point, Stewart questioned why we should go to an adult trauma rather than only childhood events, and that is a very good question. This is common with clients who have been through psychotherapy or counselling. However, EFT is neither, you see. EFT releases energy disruptions, and if the best way to access an energy disruption is to go beyond childhood, so be it. And if the best way to access that particular energy disruption is to go to a childhood event, that is what is best on that occasion. But we should not make the mistake of totally ignoring adulthood trauma, as any serious trauma will leave its energy imprint in us and has to be released if we want to feel better. So, even though he was led to the disastrous telemarketing experience due to his childhood trauma, the telemarketing experience in of itself is also a big trauma. Certainly, any experience which led to being broke, depressed, and homeless is a major trauma not to be ignored, regardless of when it occurred.

Stewart had forced himself to do the telemarketing job in order to help him get over social anxiety (not recommended, by the way). This experience was a 9 out of 10. We reduced it to a 6. After this tapping, Stewart reported that the calls seemed less daunting. They were not yet being made, but they were less daunting. For the next session, Stewart made notes on what it felt like to try and make those MLM calls, and he worked on them in the following session, weaving in and out through to the disastrous telemarketing experience, childhood aspects, and using inner child parts EFT.

The big telemarketing experience is not done yet, and the related childhood energy disruptions are by no means gone yet. However, Stewart has now gone ahead and built two websites for the MLM side of his business, and that is a step in the right direction there. And of course, he is making more Forex trades and has cashed the cheque. He is gradually and surely going in the right direction.

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Stress Management - Hypertension and Stress, Is It A Virus?

Are you one of the millions of people worldwide trying to manage stress and / or stress related high blood pressure? If so, you may find this study interesting!

A recent study indicates that high blood pressure due to stress may actually be caused by your immune system reacting to the stress as if the stress were a virus. It is well known that stress can raise the heart rate and blood pressure, which may further leave a person predisposed to stroke and heart disease. But exactly how stress increases the blood pressure has not been well understood.

In a new study from Emery University, scientists showed that hypertension from stress does NOT occur in mice who have no T cells. T cells are a major part of the disease-fighting immune system. Mice who lack these special disease fighting cells were placed in stressful situations alongside mice who had T cells. The mice without T cells showed no increase in blood pressure while the normal mice did.

The scientists went one step further and introduced T cells to the previously T cell free mice. When the mice, with their newly completed immune system, were stressed again, their BP showed the same increase as the normal mice. So when the mice with no T cells were stressed, they did not have an elevated BP. When those same mice were given T cells and stressed again, they DID develop an increase in blood pressure. These results demonstrate the profound effects the immune system and stress can have on blood pressure.

Recent studies on stress-induced blood pressure rise has hinted to an inflammatory reaction by the immune system as the reason behind the phenomenon, but this is one of the first studies to actually show a direct link between the two. It is suspected that the body's T cells interpret the psychological stress as an assault by a pathogen. The T cells then mount an inflammatory attack which elevates blood pressure.

Based off of this study, and others, scientists are developing new approaches to hypertension management. One emerging treatment taken from this research uses stress management to improve blood pressure as well as other indicators of overall health.

The thought behind this new approach is that by reducing stress and burnout, we can suppress the inflammatory response our immune system has to stress. The benefits of stress management and avoiding the ever-dangerous 'burnout' (which significantly elevates BP), go far beyond lowering blood pressure too: stress management also helps reduce the buildup of plaque in arteries and improves the health of the heart and brain.

If you are an individual who has hypertension and feel stress may be causing it, then the Burnout Breakthrough! program may be just what you need! The comprehensive Burnout Breakthrough! program will not try to change your daily routine or ask you to quit your job. It will instead focus on teaching you how to let go of unhealthy behaviors, and how to change your emotional response to stressors; situations which cause you stress.

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The Stress Connection

So, you say, "I have heard that stress is bad for me and even causes disease, and when the doctors can't find a reason for why I am feeling ill, they say, 'It's probably stress'."

But do you actually know what is behind all the claims that stress is bad for you and causes disease? Some stress, stress that is motivating, can even be good for you. Well, I've believed in the stress connection for many years, but I never really got the physical reasons. The fact that stress is now being accepted as the basis for many illnesses, told me I might look into what's physically behind it all. I did, and here's what I've found.

Simply put, stress comes from perception. Stress only exists because we perceive something to be more than we can handle.

What is perceived as stress to one person can actually be considered joyful or exciting to another. How about giving a speech at a political convention? --Some people thrive on this, while others would feel sick for a month if they had to even contemplate the idea. It is not the event. It's not the situation. It's not the environment. It's not even the traffic---or your neighbor---that cause your stresses. It's simply how you see 'it'. Even in major disasters, there are those who can allow the energy to flow and see the event from a higher perspective, not letting themselves be caught up or affected, even if they are in great hardship themselves.

So, does this look like stress may indeed be within our immediate control? It appears so, but there's a little more to it. I'll take you through that now.

Let's take a look at the brain, starting with that part called the amygdala. The amygdala decides where our experiences should be sent for processing. Its big job is to keep us safe. It actually searches out items that are similar to past experiences so they can be avoided or dealt with as we did in the past. If it perceives danger, it alerts the hypothalamus, and this is where we arrive at an elegant cascading effect in the body called the "HPA Axis" or the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis. This is where the body receives the effects of our perceptions---where it gets hit by our stresses. The HPA axis is necessary for our survival, but evolution has not yet caught up to our present day lifestyle. Instead of acting, saving ourselves and releasing that stored up energy, as the brain is programmed to do, we remain in a state of tension, with worries and emotions stuck inside and no outlet for release.

So, when a threat is perceived, (Here we are talking about anything from major assault, to the boss being in a bad mood, to someone just giving us a 'look.') the amygdala needs to initiate protective action. It sends a signal to the Hypothalamus which alerts the Pituitary that something needs to be done -now- for personal safety. The pituitary then sends a signal to the Adrenals which release their hormones to constrict blood vessels to the internal organs and to the front of the brain which enables the extremities to be ready to fight or run and allows the back of the brain to act on instinct. With these hormones circulating throughout the body, the blood pressure and heart rate rise. Digestion shuts down. Immune function, hunger, thirst, reproductive ability and ability to sleep decrease. Cortisol and sugar are released into the blood. We hold onto weight. (Yes, holding onto stress does cause weight gain.)

As Dr. Bruce Lipton states in his book, The Biology of Belief, we can be in either growth-and-repair-mode or we can be in protection-mode---not both. As you see above, stress puts us in protection mode. If we have to run or fight, we can't spend time repairing, sleeping or enjoying and digesting our dinner and, for that matter, reproduction and sexual function aren't top priority either. So, what else happens when we are under stress? Along with not sleeping, our muscles don't relax. Thyroid function decreases. The cells, being in protect-what-we-have mode hold onto toxins and don't take in nutrients. We don't need to think, we need instinct so the back of the brain--sometimes called the reptilian brain--is activated, while the front of the brain is turned down. Our thought processes get muddled. We function in a fog.

Now, as you know, survival is #1 on anyone's life list. We may just not be all that effective on the planet if functioning from the outer realms. But because our subconscious brain perceives threat or no threat with no in betweens, all of these survival processes are activated each time we have that fear of the boss's moods or get into a traffic jam, or our computer breaks down just when we need it most. The fight/flight reactions come up but with no immediate outlet. We no longer live in a run-to-safety or fight-our-way-out world. So we hold ourselves in a state of tension, always waiting to leap off the starting mark. These hormones keep circulating in our bodies. In the long run, waiting at that start signal, we exhaust ourselves.

In a constant state of fight or flight, our adrenals become exhausted, our tolerance is lowered, past traumas surface, anxiety, panic attacks and headaches are exacerbated, leading to low self esteem and to depression. Feeling down, we reinforce this with negative self talk, we perceive more things negatively, so anxiety goes up, stress goes up, which can lead to poor diet, poor self care, substance abuse, more lowering of immune function, cutting down gut flora, inhibition of white blood cell production, a depletion of minerals and nutrients, causing the body to become acidotic. With that, minerals are taken from the bones to reakalize the blood. Along with this, the immune system can become confused. Autoimmune diseases and allergies can develop because the immune system no longer knows what it is protecting.

So, folks, is all this in your immediate control? I won't go that far, but I will say that your best choice may be to clear as much stress as you can from your mind and body. Allow life to carry you as if on a soft cloud. EFT/Matrix Reimprinting energy work is one direction which has been scientifically proven to make a difference.

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Think, Are You Lying To Yourself?

-Quote of The Week-

"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie."

-Agnes Landers

The most common thing my clients say is, "This Body Just Isn't Me!" So I ask you the question are you lying to yourself? You say this body isn't you, yet you are making decisions from the place of where you are (in the body that you claim isn't you). Trust me, I get it... I did the same thing and it's a common mistake. The truth is (and you know how much I LOVE the truth) that body isn't you, neither are your limiting or negative thoughts, beliefs and patterns. So the question becomes who's are they?

Your Mom

Your Dad

Your Spouse

Your Teacher

Your Priest

Your Childhood "Frenemy"

It could be anyone's, but they certainly aren't yours. Let's define a false versus true identity:

Your Current "False" Identity: It is that voice in your head that says you can't do it. The feelings of being lost, scared, and unsure of what do next. The constant obsession over pounds, inches, calories and everything that is weight related. It is that nagging feeling that something has got to change and the realization that this body your in just isn't the real you.

Your "True" Identity: That little voice that tells you to do something and you chicken out. The voice that says you are worth it. The voice that says it's time to move and you ignore it. The voice that says it's time to feel and you stifle it. It is the voice that expresses the deepest, most authentic version of you that is dying to come out and help you create an incredible life of health, wealth and transformation.

Which identity are you currently living in and why do you keep saying, "I know what I should be doing I just don't do it?"

Usually when you are struggling with weight you will say that you know what you need to know but you just don't do it. There are one of two things happening here:

1. You are not listening to your true identity that knows how to live naturally thin
2. You are holding yourself to unrealistic expectations to live your life and lose weight. In other words, the "things that you know you should be doing" really aren't in service to your true identity and they just frankly suck

So you have to look inside and figure out which one you are operating from.

If you are simply not listening to your inner guidance, then it's time to figure out why. Your goal is to lose weight right? So why are you ignoring the one person that actually knows how to do it... the highest, most authentic version of yourself.

If you are holding yourself to forceful, punishing, down right crappy expectations to be thin.... STOP IT! Really, who is that serving and no wonder you don't want to do it!

Your assignment for the next couple of weeks is to turn up your true identity voice to max volume and mute your false identity voice to find out what the heck you truly want and desire. If you need help, that's exactly why I created my group program!

See you on the other side (the true side!)