Stress is our body’s response to pressure. Often experienced when we feel out of control or under threat in a situation or event.
When we encounter such threats or demands our body produces stress hormones that trigger a fight or flight response and activate our immune system.
Sometimes this stress response can work in our favour, it can help us to push through pain or fear so that we can get through a stressful situation such as running in a marathon or delivering a speech. After a situation like this is complete the hormones will go back to normal and the body will no longer be operating in fight or flight.
However, too much stress can cause detrimental effects to our overall health and well-being. It can leave us in a permanent state of fight or flight leaving us overwhelmed and unable to cope.
Exposure to every day stress continually and over the course of our lives has chronic effects both physiologically and psychologically. The spider chart highlights some of the manifestations of stress in the body.
— World Health Organisation
Stress is our body’s response to pressure. Often experienced when we feel out of control or under threat in a situation or event.
When we encounter such threats or demands our body produces stress hormones that trigger a fight or flight response and activate our immune system.
Sometimes this stress response can work in our favour, it can help us to push through pain or fear so that we can get through a stressful situation such as running in a marathon or delivering a speech. After a situation like this is complete the hormones will go back to normal and the body will no longer be operating in fight or flight.
However, too much stress can cause detrimental effects to our overall health and well-being. It can leave us in a permanent state of fight or flight leaving us overwhelmed and unable to cope.
Exposure to every day stress continually and over the course of our lives has chronic effects both physiologically and psychologically. The spider chart highlights some of the manifestations of stress in the body.
— World Health Organisation
Craniosacral Therapy is hugely effective for people who are suffering from the debilitating effects of both accumulative and daily stress due to its ability to encourage balance and restore equilibrium.
Stress, whatever the stressors and however it manifests itself, forces the body into the adrenal state of fight or flight, shutting down the systems in the body and their optimal functionality. Craniosacral Therapy stimulates the rest and recovery systems of the body by slowing it down, therefore allowing the body to shift out of the reactive state of chronic stress and into a space where further stimulation is lessened, and homeostatic rebalancing is enabled.
An integrated body/mind system like this then allows us to be more able to cope with stress, resist depression or disease, and more able to attend to and repair itself in times of need.
How Craniosacral Therapy reduces stress in the body:
Stress Therapy will look to tackle both physical and psychological stress and its many manifestations in the body by considering each individual within the context of their own life. Home life, work life and beyond.
Whilst Craniosacral Therapy can greatly improve stress in the body there are many other lifestyle choices that need to be evaluated and also adjusted in order for stress to be understood and therefore alleviated.
I offer support and guidance and suggest coping strategies which will include making small life adjustments and achievable goals, all of which can be implemented each day.
I advise taking a holistic lifestyle approach. This will mean evaluating all aspects of your health and overall lifestyle, including diet, nutrition, work life, home life, fitness and overall health. The changes that you will have to make to these aspects of your life in order to gain optimal results will require commitment, dedication and patience from your side and won’t happen overnight.
Stress becomes a negative, destructive factor in life when it exceeds our ability to adapt to it”
These adjustments along with the course of craniosacral therapy treatments will in time, help you to connect to your body, be present and will help your nervous system to settle down and stay balanced.
Stress therapy will offer an insight into how you can resource yourself, look after yourself before stress takes over and becomes a habitual state.
Stress Therapy will look to tackle both physical and psychological stress and its many manifestations in the body by considering each individual within the context of their own life. Home life, work life and beyond.
Whilst Craniosacral Therapy can greatly improve stress in the body there are many other lifestyle choices that need to be evaluated and also adjusted in order for stress to be understood and therefore alleviated.
I offer support and guidance and suggest coping strategies which will include making small life adjustments and achievable goals, all of which can be implemented each day.
I advise taking a holistic lifestyle approach. This will mean evaluating all aspects of your health and overall lifestyle, including diet, nutrition, work life, home life, fitness and overall health. The changes that you will have to make to these aspects of your life in order to gain optimal results will require commitment, dedication and patience from your side and won’t happen overnight.
These adjustments along with the course of craniosacral therapy treatments will in time, help you to connect to your body, be present and will help your nervous system to settle down and stay balanced.
Stress therapy will offer an insight into how you can resource yourself, look after yourself before stress takes over and becomes a habitual state.
Stress becomes a negative, destructive factor in life when it exceeds our ability to adapt to it”
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