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The body manages well with an optimal level of stress. Adrenalin generated to the optimal level of stress is needed for alertness and clarity and for being on guard – fight or flight. For example, when your thoughts focus on pain perceived in the future, the resulting negative emotions of fear and anxiety could increase stress beyond the optimal level. This causes the body to produce adrenalin in excess of what the body needs. Similarly, thoughts focused on memory of pain in the past will increase stress beyond the optimal level. Higher levels of adrenalin in the body from increased stress – that is, accumulated negative emotion or emotional constipation – will begin to affect the body. The chemicals adrenalin and noradrenalin are released by the body’s involuntary (sympathetic) nervous system and will take time to be eliminated from the body.

Physiological effects on the body from accumulated stress include:

1. A breakdown in the immune system. Making a person more susceptible to colds and flu, skin conditions, and
   other ailments.
2. An interruption to the autonomic nervous system that copes with digestion, bowel irritation and evacuation,
   reproduction, and recovery from stress.
3. A decrease in the level of serotonin – the chemical in the brain that is responsible for mood and thinking.
   Lowered serotonin leaves one feeling flat, despondent, depressed – a loss of “joie-de-vivre”. This depressed
   mood state often manifests as lethargy and “I can’t be bothered”. Thinking also becomes impaired and
   irrational.
4. Lowered personal esteem – caused by a loud inner voice – which can lead to depression and/or nervous
   suffering.

Balancing emotion

In the course of a day, if you experience a balance of good and bad feelings, it is unlikely that you will accumulate stress. People with an avoidant emotional style are more prone to stress as they feel each emotion with a greater intensity. But because a sensitive person similarly feels positive emotion with more intensity, if there is a balance of good feelings (feeling secure and loved, nurtured and understood) on a “bad” day, then the balance is restored readily. And the person copes with their stress. Excessive adrenalin produced may cause physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms of a stress or trauma reaction in some people (see table). The amount of additional adrenalin experienced in the body will depend upon whether you have an avoidant or reactive emotional style – and the nature of the trauma.

Karen Gosling is an expert emotional wealth counselor. Have you had enough of being overwhelmed with life dramas and wish you could get back a feeling of being in control? Do you know that when you’re stressed it’s hard to focus on reading books? Order my complete set of 12 one-hour audio CDs on surviving life dramas for you to listen to as you release your pain and create a life without drama.

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Every winner relies on a PROVEN SYSTEM to manage personal stress. In this article expert emotional wealth counselor Karen Gosling clarifies the need for a system to beat stress and introduces two emotion laws.

Who else wants to discover how to manage their stress … take control of their emotional health once and forever … and know that it was worth it? If you are ready to learn how to survive stressful times … then this is going to be the greatest message you ever seen and read. Why? Because what I’m about to show you will literally turn your personal stress around … so you take control and manage your emotions!!

Every successful person relies on a PROVEN SYSTEM to manage personal stress. Look around you and you’ll notice a proven system in action. From understanding your emotional brain to how it works to what actually happens to you, what you undergo when you experience stress.

It’s no wonder successful people can achieve and get so much done… Because they have a PROVEN SYSTEM! But unfortunately, not everyone in the world uses a PROVEN SYSTEM to survive personal stress. And now you can understand why people are suffering in their life dramas.

For a system to be PROVEN, it must generate results that are:

1) Predictable 2) Repeatable

1) Predictable 2) Repeatable

Before we end today’s lesson, I want to share with you two very important psychological concepts.

I call them the TWO IMMUTABLE LAWS OF EMOTION.

1st Immutable Law of Emotion – EXPRESS YOUR EMOTION.

In order to succeed emotionally, always remember that you need to EXPRESS YOUR EMOTION.

There are four ways you can express emotion.

1. Understand and effectively express how you feel about various issues; that is, in the right way, to the right degree and at the right time.

2. Effectively utilize and be confident in using non-verbal emotional cues, for example, body language and tone of voice, to communicate how you feel.

3. Create a better understanding about yourself amongst your family, friends, and colleagues.

4. Be genuine and trustworthy.

In other words, before you start applying your system to survive personal stress ask yourself how you can express yourself in one or more ways above.

2nd Immutable Law of Emotion – RECOGNIZE EMOTION.

There are many ways you can recognize emotion, but here are four.

1. In today’s stressful environment, your must be able to recognize emotion in yourself and in others.

2. Be open to emotions; be attentive to whether words, voice tone, and body language matches.

3. Become adept at picking up when people are saying something that differs from reality.

4. Use focal attention and pick up on the mood of a room or your environment.

The truth is, people BEHAVE, both passively and aggressively. They want to deal with their pain and joy – and will often blame out. So make sure you develop a unique ability to express and recognize emotion if you want to BEAT your life drama.

In my next article, I’ll share with you the primary step in my PROVEN Stress-Busting Success System that has helped thousands to survive personal stress.

All material in this article is provided for information only and may not be construed as medical advice or instruction. No action or inaction should be taken based solely on the contents of this article. Instead readers should consult their physician or other qualified health professionals on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Readers who fail to consult with appropriate health authorities assume the risk of any injuries. The author and publisher will not be held responsible for omissions or errors.

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