Did you know that the first response of the body to stress is a shrinkage of the thymus gland? Now, if you consider that the thymus gland has a lot to do with immunity Whatever Arises Love That system and with your vitality, it is obvious that stress can have a direct impact on your health. The typical example is when people are under stress --which causes their natural body defenses go down-- and then they end up catching a cold. Long-term stress is harmful because it obstructs the body's natural processes of regeneration and detoxification.
People's usual reaction to stress is to either "flight" (willing to run away from it) or "fight" (deciding to confront it, as in a struggle where you hope to win). This is because when people are in a state of stress, they use predominantly only one brain hemisphere in trying to find stress relief. If they use the left hemisphere, they apply all of their logical, analytic and even mathematical powers to the problem, but fail to apply their intuition as well to solve it. Reason alone is not enough to solve the problem.
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