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Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 21 2007 at 1:09 AM sophie (Login sophie9)
Hi...
I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread where people can give tips about dietary tips, exercise tips, supplements, and ways of thinking to managing stress. Stress seems to interfere with NBE quite a bit and has interfered with mine for sure!
So I'll start out: because I have anxiety probelsm, I have had to learn to be conscious of my breathing. There are certain breathing techniques that really help deal with anxiety and stress. If you try putting your hands on your stomach and breathing with your diaphragm and not your chest, you start to relax. Then I take in a breath for 8 long counts and release it for 10 long counts. You do this for about a minute, and your whole system calms down. There is also another breathing technique that calms you down even more. I do it before sleeping: hold your right index and middle fingers between your eyebrows with your thumb and ring finger on each nostril. Take a deep breath in while holding your thumb closed against your right nostril. Then let go of your thumb and switch to closing your left nostil with your ring finger and exhale. Then breathe in again. You are basically taking a deep inhalation and a deep exhalation through only one nostril and then you switch. It is really insane how relazed you feel after you do this. So try it if you haven't before! What does everyone else do? Perhaps we could all learn from each other and be less stressed out and grow more! Am interested to hear how other people manage stress...Thanks!
Alcest
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Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 21 2007, 1:22 AM
I take every day or every other day a B-Stress Complex (I am using Nature's Way version) and I don't know if this is applicable to anyone else, but I huge source of stress for me is my commute into work every day because of traffic and **** (it's an hour+ drive).
The way I keep myself from getting really stressed now is I bring Cd's every day and blast the music, singing along the entire way there----You can't be quite as mad or stressed when you're singing. =)
sophie
(Login sophie9)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 21 2007, 10:40 AM
hahaha! when i had a super-long commute i did the same thing. i live in the d.c. area, and people here are up there with nyc and l.a. drivers as the worst in the u.s! so i just stay in the slower lane, blast my music, sing - sometimes even dance! as long as i have music and i leave 20 minutes early just in case, the traffic doesn't bother me. since moving into the city though, i hardly ever drive, and what a difference that makes!
Lost Sheep
(Login curves123)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 4:09 AM
Why does stress affect growth for NBE? What does stress matter? Does it stop body from responding to the ingredients?
sophie
(Login sophie9)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 5:33 AM
i mean...this is a non-scientic answer of sorts, and someone else, feel free to offer a more substantial one, but stress affects your adrenal gland functioning. When you are experiencing stress, your adrenal glands secrete certain hormones, which are steroids. Androgens are one of the hormones released. When you are trying to grow, excess testosterone just becomes another problem. Also, stress effects your immune system a great deal, how your brain functions - basically it can screw up how your entire system functions. and what you are trying to do with nbe is get your body into a good place hormonally to grow. stress sort of makes this either very difficult or impossible.
now, i didn't really know this before (even though i've had an anxiety disorder since age 7) but anxiety is usually a precursor to stress. a lot of anxeity can lead to that feeling of stress, which results in a general feeling of fatigue, tiredness, anxiety as well, and a whole lot of other mental and physical symptoms. So I think most of us experience anxiety, which is perfectly natural and biologically important for our survival. But with anxiety on a day to day basis, we don't experience stress necessarily, even though we may mistake it as such. But anxiety from life circumstances can build up to a stress response, which can be mild or severe. either way, it affects nbe. i personally can attest to the changes in my body due to an extreme stress response i experienced this summer and to nbe not working during that time. here are a couple links i found that are pretty helpful. the first briefly explains how the adrenal glands work and how they are related to stress, and the seoond talks more about stres, and symptoms of stress. it also has good suggestions of how to combat stress. hope this helps.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/Adrenals.html
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_signs.htm
Henri
(Login henriettahippo)
SENIOR MEMBER
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 1:23 PM
For me, I find very helpful working in my garden, and just walking. I think it has alot to do with being in the air and sunshine, plus they are both activities that help get your mind off of things. At night I have found that just curling up in my favorite chair with my journal and "venting" into it, is all I really need. By the time I am done writing, I have actually worked myself through whatever I am stressed about and gotten it out of my system.
pinklemoncake
(Login pinklemoncake)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 6:30 PM
It all depends on what kind of stress you have! I was stressed for few years after losing someone close to me. Stress goes by itself naturally when you deal with the issues that are bothering you. Councelling was the only thing that worked for me. You have to retrain yourself to be different in your approach to things, especially things you have no control over. But have to admit I still have a rather short fuse!
July 21 2007 at 1:09 AM sophie (Login sophie9)
Hi...
I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread where people can give tips about dietary tips, exercise tips, supplements, and ways of thinking to managing stress. Stress seems to interfere with NBE quite a bit and has interfered with mine for sure!
So I'll start out: because I have anxiety probelsm, I have had to learn to be conscious of my breathing. There are certain breathing techniques that really help deal with anxiety and stress. If you try putting your hands on your stomach and breathing with your diaphragm and not your chest, you start to relax. Then I take in a breath for 8 long counts and release it for 10 long counts. You do this for about a minute, and your whole system calms down. There is also another breathing technique that calms you down even more. I do it before sleeping: hold your right index and middle fingers between your eyebrows with your thumb and ring finger on each nostril. Take a deep breath in while holding your thumb closed against your right nostril. Then let go of your thumb and switch to closing your left nostil with your ring finger and exhale. Then breathe in again. You are basically taking a deep inhalation and a deep exhalation through only one nostril and then you switch. It is really insane how relazed you feel after you do this. So try it if you haven't before! What does everyone else do? Perhaps we could all learn from each other and be less stressed out and grow more! Am interested to hear how other people manage stress...Thanks!
Alcest
(Login Alcest)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 21 2007, 1:22 AM
I take every day or every other day a B-Stress Complex (I am using Nature's Way version) and I don't know if this is applicable to anyone else, but I huge source of stress for me is my commute into work every day because of traffic and **** (it's an hour+ drive).
The way I keep myself from getting really stressed now is I bring Cd's every day and blast the music, singing along the entire way there----You can't be quite as mad or stressed when you're singing. =)
sophie
(Login sophie9)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 21 2007, 10:40 AM
hahaha! when i had a super-long commute i did the same thing. i live in the d.c. area, and people here are up there with nyc and l.a. drivers as the worst in the u.s! so i just stay in the slower lane, blast my music, sing - sometimes even dance! as long as i have music and i leave 20 minutes early just in case, the traffic doesn't bother me. since moving into the city though, i hardly ever drive, and what a difference that makes!
Lost Sheep
(Login curves123)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 4:09 AM
Why does stress affect growth for NBE? What does stress matter? Does it stop body from responding to the ingredients?
sophie
(Login sophie9)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 5:33 AM
i mean...this is a non-scientic answer of sorts, and someone else, feel free to offer a more substantial one, but stress affects your adrenal gland functioning. When you are experiencing stress, your adrenal glands secrete certain hormones, which are steroids. Androgens are one of the hormones released. When you are trying to grow, excess testosterone just becomes another problem. Also, stress effects your immune system a great deal, how your brain functions - basically it can screw up how your entire system functions. and what you are trying to do with nbe is get your body into a good place hormonally to grow. stress sort of makes this either very difficult or impossible.
now, i didn't really know this before (even though i've had an anxiety disorder since age 7) but anxiety is usually a precursor to stress. a lot of anxeity can lead to that feeling of stress, which results in a general feeling of fatigue, tiredness, anxiety as well, and a whole lot of other mental and physical symptoms. So I think most of us experience anxiety, which is perfectly natural and biologically important for our survival. But with anxiety on a day to day basis, we don't experience stress necessarily, even though we may mistake it as such. But anxiety from life circumstances can build up to a stress response, which can be mild or severe. either way, it affects nbe. i personally can attest to the changes in my body due to an extreme stress response i experienced this summer and to nbe not working during that time. here are a couple links i found that are pretty helpful. the first briefly explains how the adrenal glands work and how they are related to stress, and the seoond talks more about stres, and symptoms of stress. it also has good suggestions of how to combat stress. hope this helps.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/Adrenals.html
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_signs.htm
Henri
(Login henriettahippo)
SENIOR MEMBER
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 1:23 PM
For me, I find very helpful working in my garden, and just walking. I think it has alot to do with being in the air and sunshine, plus they are both activities that help get your mind off of things. At night I have found that just curling up in my favorite chair with my journal and "venting" into it, is all I really need. By the time I am done writing, I have actually worked myself through whatever I am stressed about and gotten it out of my system.
pinklemoncake
(Login pinklemoncake)
Re: Tips for Managing Stress for NBE?
July 24 2007, 6:30 PM
It all depends on what kind of stress you have! I was stressed for few years after losing someone close to me. Stress goes by itself naturally when you deal with the issues that are bothering you. Councelling was the only thing that worked for me. You have to retrain yourself to be different in your approach to things, especially things you have no control over. But have to admit I still have a rather short fuse!