STRESS = PAIN = STRESS = PAIN AND IT NEVER ENDS...OR DOES IT?

Does this sound like you?

You get up in the dark.

You do work before duties/emails before you even leave the house.

Even though you’re up and already “working’ while it’s still dark, you still feel the need to get to work early to “get a jump on the day.”

Once at work you bounce from meetings to returning emails to conference calls to more emails to another late meeting while in between having a quick bite to eat “on the run.”

You leave work in the same way you got there (in the dark), fight your way through traffic or public transport and fall in the front door.

You organise a quick but sub-par dinner while again catching up on all the work you actually missed doing when you were at work!

Not long after midnight, and still thinking about work, you hit the sack but you’re brain won’t stop thinking about the presentation you gotta finish up tomorrow that you barely started.

After what seems like 5mins, you’re alarm goes off and it all starts again.

Every event that happens to you throughout the day induces some form of stress.

As you’ll soon read, stress can be positive or negative but make no mistake about it, it is there.

All the time.

Stress is incurred mentally (think going through a divorce) and physically (think high work load) but all the body knows is stress and how much of it there is, regardless of its form.

The implications of carrying too much stress is HUGE, as you’ll soon find out. And the trail of destruction it can leave can cause long term issues.

If you know of, or you are someone with a chronic illness or in chronic pain, then I want you to think back through your life and the amount of stress you’ve been under.

I haven’t ran the studies on this but chances are you could pin point certain times of your life that caused great stress and that stress can stay with you long after the event, or issues, has been resolved.

Long term this can decrease immunity and feed pain signals so your body stays under this high amount of stress and when it all compounds, you’ll eventually break down.

Over the next few weeks we’re going to cover the big issues at play here and their implications:
- Stress Culture
- Central Nervous System
- Diaphragmatic Breathing

We’ll also dive a little into some other aspects that can affect your quality of life as well some interventions you can implement to keep you stress free for longer.
- Be Activated
- Pain Science
- Heart Rate Variation
- Spoons Analogy

This will be a 10 - 12 part series which was I originally put together as a book but I feel everyone needs to be aware of this stuff so I'm giving it away!

Please feel free to comment if any of this resonates with you and please share around to your friends that could also be assisted by reading this.