Stress

Did you know the body perceives mental and physical stress in exactly the same way? It reacts with exactly the same hormone response. Do you know that the body perceives training and any other physical stress also in exactly the same way?

In having this knowledge you need to understand your body’s response. I’ll give you a personal example from my life. I have matured a great deal. I used to be kind of a Wildman – I don’t know if you heard that – a little bit quick tempered, very emotional. I’m still a little emotional, very passionate, but most of these days I’m much calmer. Recently I had a situation with some people close to me that caused me lose my temper. Most people don’t tell you that especially if they’re attempting to achieve teacher status. They don’t want to give you any talk about their own personal flaws. Do you know what? I’m a real person – it happens.

But here’s something I noticed. It had been a long time since I’d been angry in that way and don’t worry – I didn’t snap anybody in half. However I noticed an incredible dump of adrenalin and physiological response to that emotional movement. It wasn’t anything I did physically it was purely a mental stress and a mental reaction that created an extreme amount of physical stress.

While this is unavoidable occasionally at times except through extreme practice of self control every day little stresses add up. Build the ability over your life to use training as catharsis. Now I did this a lot when I was younger. I got angry and went out and trained until the energy felt better and you can do this occasionally, but at the same time you need to over a period of time mature and not take everything out through training. You do not need to absorb stress and then blow it away. You need to literally build the ability to be immune to stress to focus your mind and create an attitude that deals with life in a stress-free way, because no matter where you go things are tough. Mental pressures, family pressures, lots of those things create stress in life. Worrying about them literally will not help. That’s in every major religion of the world – the bible being one of the foremost of which that says, “Worry will not add a hair to your head.”

It literally cannot help anything only active action against a situation will help. Only an attitude that recognizes the important things of life and allows the other things to get away can help you even out your emotional responses and not succumb to the plague of stress. Be careful how you manage the stress in your life because it has huge effects on your physical as well as your mental well-being. Keep the mind right and the body follows. Keep the stress under control, muscle grows better, health is better, fat loss is better and your whole world is better all around. Everyone likes you better when you’re not ticked off all the time. Be sure you tell your loved ones that you love them and find a way to calm your mind.

God bless,
Bud Jeffries

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