When you think of stress, does your mind go to all the evils of how stress creates damage to your body? Although stress over time can wear us down and create physical ailments, let’s examine how stress is good for us.
When building muscle strength and size, it’s required we exert added pressure on them, actually tearing the tissues with the result of rebuilding, larger stronger tissue than the original. Although we might love to look like Charles Atlas without lifting more than a spoon, it will never happen without stressing those muscles to the point of forcing them increase in size.
To be accomplished in any area, it takes applied pressure and work. I have a violin at home, and it’s still not played itself. When I was a kid, my violin teacher said I was the best student she had that didn’t practice. I really hated the stress of practicing, so never really came anywhere close to my potential. I had the resting part down pat, but didn’t apply the stress of practicing. When it came time for me to apply the stress of practicing, the stress wasn’t on just me, if you ask my eight siblings. They were thankful at the time that I didn’t pursue the practicing.
My big brother works with CEO’s as a growth coach. I love how he’s able to cast a vision for these heads of companies, then help them make that vision come to pass. He’s mentioned to me that in working with CEO’s in health care organizations, there’s a great deal of stress and turmoil among their doctors due to an uncertainty about the national health care system. There’s a great amount of fear surrounding their potential future.
They’re seeing a dramatic rise in stress related illness among their patients as well while they also focus on an uncertain future. Whether they will have access to affordable and available health care weighs heavily on the minds of many of our population.
Even though many of those he deals with are men and women of faith, they too are struggling with these fears. Many who are older, are seriously considering early retirement as the stress seems too hard to bear. Many physicians are calling it quits due to the stress.
If stress is something which indeed makes us stronger, where do we draw the line between building and tearing down? Just as there’s the rebuilding of muscle after the work out, there must be a time of refreshing after the stresses of living. If we don’t give the muscles the nourishment required for rebuilding along with a time of rest, all you end up with is damaged tissues. So it is with the everyday stresses of life and our ability to let go of our concerns.
It’s not surprising that many of the same nutrients required to rebuild a stressed out muscle are the same ones required for restoring the entire body after mental and emotional stressors encountered in everyday life take their toll. Specific B vitamins and alkaline minerals are required to calm and repair a frayed nervous system.
We may not be able to calm the storm, but how we function in the midst of that storm has a lot to do with our daily nutrition and how we’ve weathered previous storms. Those who’ve endured great hardships and come through them stronger have less anxiety over many issues which are present today. There’s something to be said about those who’ve endured hardships being stronger in battle.
I served under three commanding officers during my time in the military, and the one who made the greatest impact on me was the one who’d initially been an enlisted man and came up through the ranks. I was thankful he was in command when we engaged in the heaviest battle. Previous hardships made him more stable under the greatest stress.
Recovering from stress, regardless of being a good work-out at the gym, or the stress of running a major company requires a time of rest and repair. The term recreation means simply re-creation. Your body needs time to repair itself on all levels. This means spiritual, mental, emotional, and lastly, physical. In today’s world, we’ve gotten too busy trying to accumulate things, have failed to yield to trust, and forgot to stop and smell the roses.
When building muscle strength and size, it’s required we exert added pressure on them, actually tearing the tissues with the result of rebuilding, larger stronger tissue than the original. Although we might love to look like Charles Atlas without lifting more than a spoon, it will never happen without stressing those muscles to the point of forcing them increase in size.
To be accomplished in any area, it takes applied pressure and work. I have a violin at home, and it’s still not played itself. When I was a kid, my violin teacher said I was the best student she had that didn’t practice. I really hated the stress of practicing, so never really came anywhere close to my potential. I had the resting part down pat, but didn’t apply the stress of practicing. When it came time for me to apply the stress of practicing, the stress wasn’t on just me, if you ask my eight siblings. They were thankful at the time that I didn’t pursue the practicing.
My big brother works with CEO’s as a growth coach. I love how he’s able to cast a vision for these heads of companies, then help them make that vision come to pass. He’s mentioned to me that in working with CEO’s in health care organizations, there’s a great deal of stress and turmoil among their doctors due to an uncertainty about the national health care system. There’s a great amount of fear surrounding their potential future.
They’re seeing a dramatic rise in stress related illness among their patients as well while they also focus on an uncertain future. Whether they will have access to affordable and available health care weighs heavily on the minds of many of our population.
Even though many of those he deals with are men and women of faith, they too are struggling with these fears. Many who are older, are seriously considering early retirement as the stress seems too hard to bear. Many physicians are calling it quits due to the stress.
If stress is something which indeed makes us stronger, where do we draw the line between building and tearing down? Just as there’s the rebuilding of muscle after the work out, there must be a time of refreshing after the stresses of living. If we don’t give the muscles the nourishment required for rebuilding along with a time of rest, all you end up with is damaged tissues. So it is with the everyday stresses of life and our ability to let go of our concerns.
It’s not surprising that many of the same nutrients required to rebuild a stressed out muscle are the same ones required for restoring the entire body after mental and emotional stressors encountered in everyday life take their toll. Specific B vitamins and alkaline minerals are required to calm and repair a frayed nervous system.
We may not be able to calm the storm, but how we function in the midst of that storm has a lot to do with our daily nutrition and how we’ve weathered previous storms. Those who’ve endured great hardships and come through them stronger have less anxiety over many issues which are present today. There’s something to be said about those who’ve endured hardships being stronger in battle.
I served under three commanding officers during my time in the military, and the one who made the greatest impact on me was the one who’d initially been an enlisted man and came up through the ranks. I was thankful he was in command when we engaged in the heaviest battle. Previous hardships made him more stable under the greatest stress.
Recovering from stress, regardless of being a good work-out at the gym, or the stress of running a major company requires a time of rest and repair. The term recreation means simply re-creation. Your body needs time to repair itself on all levels. This means spiritual, mental, emotional, and lastly, physical. In today’s world, we’ve gotten too busy trying to accumulate things, have failed to yield to trust, and forgot to stop and smell the roses.
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