Acute Stresses are common today .... prevent them now, before they get you.

Acute Stresses ...

... are you being chased by todays Lions and Tigers?

Do you believe you are suffering from acute stresses? Is stress piling up and you are feeling lost in how to deal with it? Don't worry you are with thousands of others in your confusion.

So ... what are Acute Stresses?

Acute stresses are any form of stress that happens quickly without warning and is severe. Severe doesn't necessarily mean the level of stress, but how you react to it. The fright/flight mechanism is a prime example, which in years past helped you survive.

Watch Out! ... here comes a tiger...

You are no longer chased by many tigers or lions in the central city. But your employers or employees, work stresses and home stresses still create this type of effect. The fright/flight mechanism of stress happens today regularly. You can feel it with those deadlines getting closer, exams approaching, that big interview etc.

What is that feeling? You know the one - when you feel stress piling up quickly...

This is what is happening ...

Your brain releases hormones to deal with the stress, if you perceive the stress to be bigger than it is, you release more than you need. This in turn will create various effects on you.

Your Brain

- short-term memory loss, poor concentration, rational thought decreases. You also store this memory emotionally in your long-term memory banks. In the past for survival, but what it does nowadays is create a situation where you can overact to small stresses, making them into large stresses.

Heart, Lungs and Circulation

- your hearts race and blood pressure increases, breathing speeds up and you take in more oxygen. Your muscles kick into action with the increase in blood supply, which keeps them in a higher state of readiness and activity to flee. This can create muscles to become jittery or at times collapse from their tension.

Mouth and Throat

- as the stress increases and fluids are sent to areas needing them and removed from non-essential areas. You then get a dry mouth, difficulty talking and may cause muscles to tighten in the throat preventing swallowing.

Skin

- high stress diverts blood from the skin to support the heart and muscles. This in turn creates the cold clammy sweaty skin, the scalp tightens and hair seems to stand up.

Digestion and Metabolism

- stress shuts down the digestive activity, blood to the bowel is removed and sent to the heart and muscles. Digestion slows or halts.

What about you?

... after all you want to stop this don't you

The effects of acute stress can create a shutting down of certain functions and heightening of others. This heightened state of awareness can create the irrational thoughts that lead to that explosion at work, home or on the road.

This type of stress will affect you, if it alters the function of you physically and emotionally. If the stress occurs regularly or becomes chronic then these states may become more permanent.

The best way to deal with acute stress is prevention. By the nature of stress being acute, you don't know when it will happen. Your best defense is offense. Promote high anti-stress levels in the body so that the body is prepared to deal with the stress faster, better and easier.

Stress can happen at anytime or anywhere. If you are healthier, happier and generally less stressed, you can deal with acute stresses with ease.

The truth is out, the secrets revealed ... you can now eliminate stress forever ...

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Acute stresses are best dealt with before they arrive. Prevention is the key ... if you wait you are waiting too long and possibly too late. Stress is the number one killer ... are you in its' sights already?

Return to Section One: Stress and how it affects your body and mind ...

Acute Stresses is a part of our Section One on the affects of stress. Understanding more about how stress affects you and a simple view on stress will help you make the breakthroughs you need!

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