The Yale Stress Center is leading the way in stress management. Knowing that we have stress is a given and that it costs us 600 billion every year in health care is only part of the story. What about the emotional toll expended on the individual, particularly the brain and its function over a lifetime. This is worth knowing. But most studies are for shorter durations.
Dr. Rajita Sinha is the director of the Yale Stress Center. She’s a professor of psychiatry and neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine. Her new studies have shown an important distinction when it comes to understanding the long-term effects of various forms of stress. She and her team have found that the chronic un-emotion stress of paying the bills, getting to work and managing the home is one type of stress is of course harmful. But there is another that is even more important.
She calls the second group of stress, Life Trauma; losing a loved one, serious disease and other emotional types of stress play a major role in brain deterioration especially when added to the ordinary daily stresses that tend to weaken the brain in certain areas. Once the emotional stress/trauma hits these areas a lot of damage can occur and brain matter and function is lost in these emotional areas and causing one to lose touch with feelings.
But the good news is that the brain is “elastic” and can bounce back. Regular exercise is highly recommended, as is meditation and various other relaxation techniques.
So, when a major emotional stress hits; be sure to use a relaxation technique to de-stress yourself. Dust off the walking shoes, meditate or use one of the other de-stressing techniques for at least 20 minutes.
Read more:
http://yalestress.org/
http://www.naturalhealth-solutions.net/healthy-eating/coping-stress-down-with-stressful-events-up-with-healthy-brain
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/09/study-stress-shrinks-the-brain-and-lowers-our-ability-to-cope-with-adversity/#ixzz1je99pEP9
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