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February
27, 2006
Stress
Relief In Five Minutes (Or Less) A while ago my husband came home shaking and shivering uncontrollably, claiming he had the stomach flu. Although it was a warm evening, he was very cold. He put on fleece gloves and thick socks and buried himself under layers of blankets and comforters, still shivering intensely and breathing shallowly. I tried not to let my own fear show, but was ready to call 911 or visit the emergency room — it almost seemed like he was having convulsions. Then I remembered a simple technique that quickly re-programs the body's autonomic nervous system and reduces stress. I laid next to my husband and placed the palm of my hand on his forehead. And just kept it there. Within a minute or two, his shivering and shaking became less intense. His breathing pattern slowed and began to deepen. Within five minutes, he had stopped shivering completely and his breathing returned to normal. He was calmed and relaxed, and so was I! Although stress is often caused by our emotional or mental state, it is a physical response. Falling apart or "losing it" is more physiological than psychological. Stress believes that everything is an emergency, and the body responds by sending 80% of the blood from the forebrain to the chest or legs, flooding the blood with stress chemicals, and creating an instant "fight or flight" condition. Millenniums ago this was extremely important for the survival of our race. Today, however, this response is often overkill — a driver cutting us off on I–95 or a child screaming "I don't wanna" is not the same as a dinosaur stalking our family. And as these daily stress responses accumulate, every system in our body is affected and we end up feeling more fearful or anxious or angry or aggressive than the situation warrants. Learning
how to recondition the body's response to these everyday stresses that
are NOT life threatening can be one of the most important steps we can
take to maintain and even improve our health. Either interrupting the
stressful behavior in the moment or changing from an emergency to composed
reaction when remembering a previous stress resets the nervous system,
brings peace of mind and keeps the body from unnecessarily triggering
the fight or flight response. The next time you feel stressed, overwhelmed, or highly emotional, try the following exercise: 1. Lightly
place the fingertips of each hand or the palm of one hand on the bumps
on your forehead directly above your eyes. If you can't find these slight
lumps simply place your hands about an inch above the eyebrows. This action is sometimes instinctual: how often has your child or loved one complained of feeling upset or ill and you find yourself placing your palm on their forehead? Or when hearing shocking news, do you automatically find your hand on your own forehead? Touching these neurovascular points called the frontal eminences impacts blood circulation. Holding these points not only stops the blood from leaving the forebrain, it also draws blood back into the forebrain and retrains the body's automatic stress response. This simple but valuable tool can be used to systematically remove accumulated stresses from the past and to control reactions in the present. Practice on yourself, experimenting with a single memory until you no longer feel a stress response in your body. The next time you automatically place your hand on someone's forehead, leave it there for a few minutes and watch their response — this is especially useful when a child wakens from a nightmare. The more often this technique is practiced, the quicker the body reconditions its response to stress, creating a healthier and more tranquil life! PUBLISHED
Quality Life Magazine, March 2002 Need MORE TOOLS to transform your health, wealth and well being? Finally! Stop sabotaging your life and begin living the life you really want! Click Here. The information in this article is for educational purposes only. This technique is not intended as a substitute for the medical recommendations of physicians or other healthcare providers. Rather, it is intended to offer information to help the reader cooperate with physicians and health professionals in a mutual quest for optimum well-being.
Because it’s new, EFT is not yet familiar to most doctors and patients, but word is slowly spreading. Over 200,000 have downloaded the free training manual published by EFT founder Gary Craig at his emofree.com website, and another 5,000 to 10,000 download it each month. Anyone can download this manual (it gives you all the basics) as part of Craig's free EFT Get Started Package. Craig’s weekly online newsletter (you will get it with the Get Started Package) started with 20 subscribers in 1997 and has spread by word of mouth to 165,000. There are EFT practitioners in most countries, especially the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South America. Many are health care practitioners. At least 35 books featuring EFT have been published in the last 10 years, and Craig’s instruction manual has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine languages. The website has gone from obscurity to what is now the sixth most actively visited natural health site in the world.
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