Impact of stress on your health, part 2 *

Stress deserves much more attention that it receives. Most of us never question it's impact, choosing to "shut up and put up" and accept it as a part of life. But this makes no sense as we all cover up when cold, eat when hungry... why don't we respond to stress?

Popular culture plays a role, our school systems work to normalize stress at young age, some intentionally cramming all exams into a week or a two week window!... we grow up thinking that stress is an inevitable part of life.

We haven't have enough information about stress from the western science side but common sense tells us that we were not designed to live in as much stress as we do.

Stress as tension limits the flow of blood and energy in the body but just like different people carry their tension in different parts of their backs, stress is showing up differently for everyone. However, just like it tenses muscles of the back, stress must be also tensing inner muscles, including the "hollow muscles": sumach, Intestine, the heart.

Try squeezing your fist for a minute and you will feel the pain caused by lack of blood and oxygen flow. The same thing happens to your inner organs when exposed to tension over hours or days. The consequence is lower efficiency of your body as a hole, lowered immunity, lower repair and probably lower metabolic rate overall.