Stress And Meditation

re several definitions or desriptions of stress.When stress has got it's grip on you, it will take
Sometimes the term is being used as indication ofsome time to recover from it's negative impulses
a certain situation or stimulus. But sometimeson your body and mind. One can go on a short
stress is being understand as the psychological,vacation or take a day off. In most cases people
physiological and chemical changes, that are thewith stress take tranquillizers. But the forget one
consequence of this. To prevend confusionthing: they should be aware of the beginning of
between both definitions, one makes a distinctionstress, so that they don't have to search for a
between a stressor (the condition that causessolution when it's to late.
stress), and the stressrespons (the reaction ofTo become aware of stress when it's building up,
the stressor). The word stress point to theyou should learn yourself to feel your body. It
proces as an outcome of the stressor, and at themeans that you realy should learn to feel,
same moment is a cause for the stressrespons.because you never gave your body enough
It means that we get alarming signals from ourattention, except when thing went wrong. But
body that we have denied for a long time. Orthen it's too late. You ask yourself what kind of
maybe worse: we didn't recognise those signals! Inpain is this? Or in which part of my body I do feel
fact stress can be compared, when it's levels getthe pain?
to high, with the injuries, of a boxer during orBut you can also feel your body when you have
after a fight: he's bleeding and full of blue spots,no pain at all. Like in yoga ar form of body
but he doesn't feel the pain, untill he loses hisenough attention.
consciousness (knock out).There is a little practical exercise to begin with:
In this broad definition of stress even a pleasantFeel your body with both sides at the same time.
situation can cause tensions that can be describedStart with feeling the palms of your hand. Then
as stress, like the day of a wedding or going onfeel the rest of your hands and arms. You can
holiday. Also one can speak of positive stresscontinue with feeling the rest of your body. But
when a person prepares himself mentaly oryou must take care not to stop when you arrive
physicaly for a game, a special performance onat the topmost part of your body: the head. So
the job, and so on. After sometime the tensionalso feel your head on both sides. Feel the energy
disapears and the body returns in a state ofin it in a postivie kind of way.
relaxation. When stress is not in the interest of aThe best advice I can give you is to set in a chair
person and is being experienced as a bad event,every morning. Lower your head a little bit an feel
we speak of negative stress. It's for certain thatyour body from both sides, beginning with your
especially negative tensions are a risk for thehands. After a couple of days you are aware of
health, becauze they have the biggest and morethe stress when it's building up in your body. And
prolonged effects on the central and autonomousby doing this simple excercise the stress will
nervous system.disappear.