Stress Overload:
While a certain amount of stress is necessary, to motivate us, in the ever-increasing fast pace of life sometimes our body is unable to adapt to the constant stresses we are exposed to. When the body fails to adapt successfully stress overload is reached.
As a result muscles clench up in a mechanism of protective action and over time the stresses become stored as “body stress”. As we differ in our emotional and physical makeup, we have varying degrees of susceptibility to stress overload.
This stored tension may manifests in numerous different ways, one could experience pain, stiffness, numbness and/or postural distortions, fatigue, lack of flexibility and the body’s capacity to co-ordinate daily functioning is undermined.
Types of Stress:
Stress may be physical, chemical or emotional in nature. Physical stress usually locks in as a result of a fall, heavy lifting or an accident whereas chemical stress is often found as a result of a person inhaling toxic substances, ingestion of substances creating a toxic reaction, or via absorption through beauty products, creams, cleaning products, chemicals etc.
Emotional stress is often as a result of a sudden shock or change in circumstance (such as retrenchment, divorce, death in the family etc) or is built up in layers over time, from boredom, job stress, juggling family, work and financial burdens – all of which can become debilitating as the person’s energy is slowly eroded.