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Healthy Stress Management Tips

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Stress, stress, and more stress. Stress is everywhere and a daily part of our lives. We are all exposed to constant stressors such as emotional stress, chemical stress, dietary stress, environmental stress, physical stress, electromagnetic stress, or financial stress. Our bodies are designed to deal with brief amounts of stressful events each day, to adapt to it and to rebalance once the stress has subsided. Health issues and illness arise only when our bodies can no longer adapt because the stress has become chronic and the bodies resiliency has broken down. The body is not designed for constant stress. The stress response is a primitive biological response to protect us from harm. Modern day life provokes a repetitive stress reaction that is unnatural. The cumulative nature of stress is the culprit in the causation of a majority of disease that can take hold after years or even decades of the body having to adapt. The combination of varying stressors bombard our nervous system