Symptoms of Stress

Look over the symptoms and 'Check' those that occur frequently or regularly.

Physical Emotional
headache   anxiety
fatigue   the “blues”
insomnia   mood swings
weight change   bad temper
colds   crying spells
digestive upsets   irritability
pounding heart   depression
accident prone   nervous laugh
teeth grinding   worrying
restlessness   easily discouraged
increased alcohol    
increased alcohol, drug, tobacco use
neck and shoulders tighten up/ache
     
Social   Mental
isolation   forgetfulness
resentment   dull senses
loneliness   boredom
lashing out   low productivity
clamming up   negative attitude
lowered sex drive   confusion
nagging   lethargy
using people   no new ideas
fewer contacts with friends   poor concentration
 
   
     

Study your list.

Which symptoms cause you the most concern?

Are you always aware when they are happening to you?

Can you stop them from happening?

Do you see a pattern in your symptoms?

Are they mostly physical or do they usually involve other people?

This might give you a clue in directing your stress management program, so spend some time thinking about personal causes of stress and ways to manage them.

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Photo: Warwick Jones, teacher of Vedic Meditation

When we are under stress our bodies are functioning in survival mode (fight, flight or freeze responce).

Our immune system weakens, we tend to be more reative (rather than responsive), more gaurded, defensive (crying over spilt milk), and most importantly - our quality of life, our life satisfaction is lowered.

Vedic Meditation is one of the most powerful techniques available for reducing stress and anxiety. That means that you no longer store as much stress and tension in your body and start responding to life with a positive attitude - relaxed, resliient and care free. It is also one of the easiest to learn and simplest to practice.

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