Stress – busting!
By Damien Clements – Integrated Health Consultant at The Therapy Room,
It is my opinion that the biggest cause of ill health in the 21st century is Stress, and this often manifests itself as degenerative or fatigue related disease with associated spinal and joint pain. There are many types of stress, but our body does not distinguish the source of stress, and shares them amongst the control systems.
If the summation of all this stress is greater than our body can balance (homeostasis) then the autonomic nervous system switches the sympathetic nervous system on and parasympathetic off, adversely affecting digestion, repair, growth and breaking down our cells and we become dis-eased or chronically out of balance.
I believe the solution to this lack of balance (disease) is the pursuit of good health rather than the treatment of disease, and we can look back to the ancient greek philosophy of consulting our internal doctors to discover where we have a stress imbalance, and implement change–
Dr Diet – Food and water as building blocks and energy for life
Dr Quiet – sleep and quiet time, to manage our energy use, and allow for regeneration, repair and growth.
Dr Movement (this is a new dr, for our sedentary 21st century lifestyle) – exercise and breathing to help digestion, blood flow, and energy flow.
Dr Thought – What we think feeds us in the same way as food.
The latest research by Deepak Chopra indicates that all the cells of our body are replaced on an annual basis. We are literally recreated from the food we assimilate into our bodies, and shaped by the rest we take, the movement we make, and the thoughts we feed it with.
The pursuit of good health must always start with a consultation with our internal doctors.
Try it for yourself by taking a lifestyle diary over the next 14 days – diet, exercise, sunlight, sleep, and note down how you feel each day. Ask yourself the following questions -
-Does my diet energise me?
- Do I wake from sleep, rested and full of energy?
- Do I feel tired or sore all the time when I exercise? Do you never exercise?
- Do I know where I am going in life, and wake every day with a zest for life?
If you think you need some help to regain good health consulting with an Integrated Health consultant will help.
If you are a health professional from any discipline, I am running a 3 hour introductory course on ‘how to become an integrated health consultant’ at The Therapy Room in
For more details visit http://www.thetherapyroomcambridge.co.uk/int_health_con.html or Call 01223 315400 to reserve your place today.
Damien runs DC integrated Health from The Therapy Room in