Share Your Top Relaxing Activities for Stress Management
Relaxing is important for balance,stress management and for physical and emotional health.
Whenever you perceive stress, an inbuilt alarm-system in your brain triggers the adrenal glands to release complex hormonal cascade of over 30 stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol. Those stress hormones give you the extra strength and speed you need to deal with the threatening stressful situation. This reaction is known as the "fight-or-flight" reaction, or the stress response.
The bodies balance is destroyed, which leads to multiple health related problems and premature aging to name just few.
Just as your body has an inbuilt fight-or-flight response mechanism, it also has an inbuilt mechanism for triggering relaxation.
This is called "the relaxation response". It turns off the fight-or-flight response returning the body and its biochemistry back to pre-stress levels. In other words - back to the state of balance and wellbeing; back to the health.
Unfortunately nowadays when you live in a constant tension, in a state of chronic stress, your stress response never turns off and this doesn't let the relaxation response to turned on.
Therefore the relaxation response is supposed to be consciously stimulated by applying of any relaxation technique by your choice.
You can get more info about relaxation techniques here:
There are many activities that people find relaxing--and what relaxes one person may not feel relaxing to another.
What activities do you find relaxing? Share your experiences here in the comment box.
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