In Acupuncture4TheMind we have a solution that unlike medication, addresses the root cause of stress.

Fundamentally, your reaction to the stress-inducing situation is the root of the symptoms that you experience rather than the situations themselves.

Learn to control your reactions to avoid the raising of stress levels and …

Take a moment to think about the week that just passed.

Do your first thoughts contain any of the following: driving your kids to every kind of practice imaginable, hurrying to make dinner, cleaning the house, doing laundry, vacuuming and washing dishes?

Maybe your mother’s just called for the fourth time this month to ask if you’re pregnant yet, or your son’s teacher called you in to discuss his new habit of peeing on walls.

Or maybe its long stressful hours at the office, followed by the endless drudge of sitting in endless queues of traffic, waiting to get home.

All that after a massive row with your boss over staff cut backs and the doom and gloom merchants have convinced you things ‘ain’t gonna get any better’.

And then when you get home you just know that you’re going to be arguing about stretching the budget just a little bit more to cover some new bill waiting to be paid.

Is it any wonder that in today’s busy world, more and more people suffer from stress-induced anxiety than ever before?

For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life.

There are many kinds of stress including physical stress, emotional stress and psychological stress. Often the causes are different things for different people. When you’re stressed, even the smallest annoyance can be the trigger that tips you over the edge.

Whatever the cause, your body reacts in the same manner as if you were facing a life-or-death situation. The proverbial fight or flight reaction. Pulse races, heart pounds and you can feel the tension winding up your body like a tightly coiled spring.

A life full of responsibilities and concerns, means that your body’s emergency stress response may be active nearly all of the time. The more often you are in a state of stress, the easier it becomes to switch on and the more difficult it is to switch off.

Long-term exposure to stress leads to serious health problems as chronic stress affects nearly every system in your body. It raises blood pressure, suppresses the immune system, increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, contributes to infertility and can speed up the aging process.

Long-term stress can even rewire the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.

Unfortunately, millions currently suffer from the debilitating effects of stress, anxiety and depression. The stressful situations that we encounter every day are simply too much for many of us to cope with, and understandably so.

Nowadays, taking an anti-anxiety pill or anti-depressant has become as accepted as taking a vitamin supplement. In the pharmaceutical industry, anti-anxiety medications and anti-depressants are among the best-selling medications on the market.

But Is Reliance On Drugs The Only Answer?

Next week we will look at how Acupuncture4TheMind can offer a better and more effective solution.