Strengthen Your Immune System

Strengthen Your Immune System

One of the best ways to STRENGTHEN YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM is by learning to relax totally. Total relaxation means relaxing completely both mentally and physically. When you relax totally you get in tune with the Universe or to what some refer as cosmic energy.

When you relax mentally your brain frequency slows down and you can tune in to the energy in space that vibrates primarily around 10 cycles per second. This energy exists between planet earth and the ionosphere. However, the source or the generator of this energy is not known. Many believe that the source is some where in the center of the universe. Many also believe that this energy is necessary for life to exist.

The importance of total relaxation is that it neutralizes stress. Prolonged stress weakens the body=s immune system. It is then that health problems begin. When the mind is relaxed, it frees the immune system to do its job, and that is to keep the body healthy by normalizing the abnormal.

Stress is a result of the FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE, which was very essential for the survival of mankind when it was necessary to hunt or fight to survive.

When you experience a stressful situation your body's defense mechanism prepares your body to fight or run. This results in many changes within your body to prepare your outer skeletal system to react. Your blood thickens so that you won't bleed to death in case of a laceration. The blood activity is increased in your outer skeletal system and decreased in many of your organs and glands that are not needed to fight or run. When your body sends its defenses to the outer skeletal body it weakens it's defenses to the inner organs and glands and makes your internal systems vulnerable.

This is a natural and necessary response to help you survive a fight or flight situation. As long as the stress is not prolonged for extended periods of time the body goes back to normal and no harm is done. However, these changes in the body will create problems when stress is prolonged.

Handled poorly, ignored or allowed to get out of hand, stress can show up in many forms. Stress, for example, can affect the heart, the heart beat, blood pressure, and the digestive system. Stress can cause insomnia, headaches, peptic ulcers, mental and physical fatigue, nervous breakdowns, high blood pressure, nervousness in general, anxiety, and other very undesirable conditions. Stress may interfere with and slow down the body's natural healing processes, causing many problems. Just last year it was reported in the news that stress hormones are associated with breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Stress is necessary to help us react under certain situations, however, the causes of stress have changed since the dawn of mankind. For many of us stress is hard to define. Yet we find ourselves in the midst of stressful situations nearly every day. The argument with a spouse, the deadlines and pressures of a career, the demands of hectic schedules all of these can produce responses of anxiety, uncertainty, frustration or anger. These situations cause the stress levels to multiply, and, along with them, the physical reactions of rapid heartbeat, pounding headaches or soaring blood pressure.

Below are what we have found to be the three most significant stressors:

Feeling guilty of doing something that you know is wrong and you continue to do it.

Losing someone or something of great value to you and you perceive it as irreplaceable.

Living or working under conditions that you hate and feeling that there is nothing you can do about it.

You can survive stress by learning to manage it rather than letting it get the better of you. Understanding stress is one of the best ways to free yourself from its negative aspects. Learning to relax counter acts the effects of stress and allows the body to recover from the wear and tear of living.

You can learn to relax mentally and physically with the all of the Silva Method courses. Complete mental and physical relaxation is a big part of all the Silva courses including some that you can learn at home from homestudy programs. It is recommended that you practice total relaxation at least fifteen minutes once a day to help normalize stress.

Mental relaxation techniques help to eliminate the need for drugs (i.e. tranquilizers), remedies which are frequently taken for the alleviation of tension, stress, headaches, fatigue and insomnia. Learning how to manage the mind and body naturally can do away with the need for drugs and their undesirable side effects. You can overcome the negative aspects of stress in a constructive and healthful way. Learning how to manage stress constructively will help you to cope with the common pressures of everyday living, recoup energies rapidly, and enhance your health and well being.

There is so much more information on stress and stress management, however, this should provide you an idea about the importance of stress management in order to strengthen your immune system.

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In the next column we will cover the first of several columns concerning the MIND, BRAIN, BODY CONNECTION in relation to our health.

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