How Stress Threatens Us

Studies Reveal Consequences of Stress

Unrelieved Stress Is The Cause of All Disease

Stress is the non-specific response of the body to any demands made on it. Stress is change; it's perceived danger; it's situations with high emotional content or pain; it's living life; it is not a disease. Stress is any influence that lateralizes brain hemispheres and distorts the body. Stress in itself is often neither good nor bad. It's how we respond to each stressful event. Stress elicits a fight, flight, and/or freeze response. Stress can be simple, complex, and unrelieved. Stressors can be mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, and chemical. Stress switches can turn on and not fully turn off. The negative effects of stress can accumulate in the body and wreak havoc in one's life.

Hans Selye, Nobel Prize Laureate

Dr. Hans Selye, the father of modern stress research, listed some of the deadening consequences of stress

How Stress Threatens Us

How Stress Threatens Us

"Stress is the greatest health challenge in the world today"

Studies Reveal Consequences of Stress

Studies Reveal Consequences of Stress

University Of Colorado Study
Researchers, in the biomechanical department, proved that a hip imbalance of one half inch, if sustained for over twenty minutes, caused at least three major stress areas in the spine. In these stress areas nerve activity was altered and the organs and parts those nerves supplied were also negatively altered.

University of Pennsylvania Study
Fifty autopsies of elderly persons revealed a total of 139 diseased organs. Nerves were traced from those organs back to the spine where major stress areas were found. This aberrant interrelationship proved to be the primary factor in the malfunction and degeneration of 138 of the 139 diseased organs.

Roger Sperry, Nobel Laureate
Dr. Roger Sperry, a world-famous brain scientist, demonstrated that 90 percent of the brain's energy output is used in relating the physical body to gravity, while 10 percent of brain energy output is utilized in thinking, metabolism and healing. The more biomechanically out-of-balance a person is, the less energy he or she has for healing, metabolism and thinking.

Kenneth Pellitier, Contemporary Stress Researcher
Dr. Kenneth Pellitier states, "Stress appears to be the biggest factor in the development of physical disorders. When we extend resources to fight the threats of modern life, fewer reserves remain to resist infection, replenish cells and maintain health."

GenevaRowe, Prominent Psychologist
Dr. Geneva Rowe, as reported in Newsweek, stated that "twenty-five years ago we had intermittent stress and a chance to bounce back before another crisis. Today, we have chronic, unremitting stress with no chance to recover."

Walter Russell, Universal Genius
"What is it then, that makes us say we are tired? Only one thing:  an unbalanced body, nothing more.  If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the body conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it. So long as any machine, organic or inorganic, holds to the balanced tempo of its own normalcy of measured rhythm, just so long as it obeys the periodic law which gives it a normalcy of work and rest in the inorganic machine, or wakefulness and sleep in the organic one, and just so long as it replaces its worn-out organic and inorganic parts, that machine is as certain to go through its normal balanced life period without fatigue or illness as the sun is sure to reappear on the morrow."

"Unrelieved stress is the underlying cause of all of our life challenges."

"Stress is the non-specific response of the body to any demands made on it."
-Dr. Hans Selye, father of stress research

Stress Release and Stress Recovery Are Necessary for Real Fulfillment, Health, Wealth, and Happiness!

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