The Healthy Temple

What is stress? It is our reaction to our external environment as well as our inner thoughts and feelings. Stress in essence is our body’s natural response to dangers, the “fight or flight” mechanisms—the body’s preparedness to do battle or flee from danger.
Stress can generate many symptoms and diseases, mediated by changes in immune function, hormonal response, and biochemical reactions, which then influence body functions in our digestive tract and our cardiovascular, neurological, or musculoskeletal systems. A wide variety of problems such as headache, backache, and infection, even heart disease or cancer in the long-term, may result.
TYPES OF STRESS:
Physical stress - exercise, hard labor, birth
Chemical stress - environmental pollution such as exposure to pesticides and cleaning solvents, and the personal use of chemicals, such as drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine
Mental stress - high responsibility, long hours, perfectionism, anxiety, and worry
Emotional stress - anger, fear, frustration, sadness, betrayal, bereavement
Nutritional stress - vitamin and mineral deficiencies, protein or fat excesses or deficiencies, food allergies
Traumatic stress - infection, injury, burns, surgery, extreme temperatures
Psycho-spiritual stress - relationship, financial or career pressures; issues of life goals, spiritual alignment, and general state of happiness

Anti-Stress treatment can take many forms. Usually therapies such as acupuncture, massage, and meditation will be included after an initial health check, including blood pressure reading, has been taken. The most widely advertised and easily accessed anti-stress treatments can be booked at any one of the well-known, up-market health clinics along the Costa del Sol. A few of these clinics have been established for over 20 years and people come from all over the world to spend a week, a fortnight or longer, following and anti-stress treatment.