Life may not change but your ATTITUDE will!

• Stress is a term used to define the body's automatic physiologic reaction to circumstances that require behavioral adjustments.



• When confronted by a threat - physical or emotional, real or even imagined - the hypothalamus gland that is situated in the center of your brain, causes the sympathetic nervous system to release epinephrine and norepinephrine (also known as adrenaline and noradrenaline) and other related hormones.



• When released into the body, these messengers send you into a state of arousal (your metabolism, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate and muscle tension all increase).



• This is known as the fight-or-flight response as named by Walter B. Cannon, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School at the turn of the last century.

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