1. RUNNING
Regular aerobic exercise for 30 minutes three to five times a week-jogging, brisk walking, biking, swimming, dancing, or anything , - releases endorphins, the mind-body's natural pain killer and mood calmer. And what is endorphin, endorphin is any of a group of substances in the nervous system of human beings and animals. Endorphins and closely related chemicals called enkephalins are part of a larger group of morphinelike compounds called opioids. Opioids help releive pain and promote a feeling of well-being. Endorphins and enkephalins control the brain's perception of, and response to, pain and stress and many form part of the body's pain relieving system.
2. READING
Lose yourself in a book, magazine, or any reading materials that can make your brain think, especially one that can help you laugh at yourself and at the absurdities of your "on the edge" and "learn-and-mean" world. Reading is the act of interpreting printed and written words. It is a basic tool of education and one of the most important skills in everyday life. We live in a world of printed words. Through reading we acquire new ideas, obtain needed information, seek support for our ideas, add to our personal pleasure, and broaden our interests. The ability to read helps distinguish human beings from other animals. People in civilized country read hundreds or even thousands of words every day. They may not look at a book, newspaper, or magazine to do this. For example, they read their mail, street signs, traffic direstions, advertisements on billboards, package labels, the wording in television and karaoke, and many other things with words. The ease and skill with which they read all these words help them develop pride and self-confidence.
3. RETREATING
Take time to reflect on these gnawing stressors: what they are, how they manifest themselves, and your negative and positive coping patterns. Can you let go of one or two of these stress gremlins or at least retreat from " all or none" and rigidly idealistic expectations? Remember this basic law of " safe stress " . Do know your limits and don't limit your "No" s.
4. "RITING" ( WRITING )
Research shows that writing about your problematic scenario can reduce stress. You can start writing a diary about the thing that memorable on your daily life. Collect pictures and put a caption that will remind your mind. And capturing ideas and images that both cognitively analyze issues and release emotions produces the greatest benefit. Write on.
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Unpleasant Sensation
Pain is an unpleasant sensation. People generally associate pain with physical injuries or illnesses. But feelings and emotions can also produce pain. For example, an noyance can produce painful tension in the neck muscles. Pain is highly personal sensation. An injury that causes severe pain is one person might produce only moderate pain in another. Physicians find it difficult to measure pain and must rely largely on the patient's description of the sensation. Headache pain, for instance, provides little measurable evidence, yet headache sufferers often report extremely severe pain.
Nerves carry pain signal to the brain in the form of electric impulses. The brain responds to these signals in different ways, depending on the situation. In some cases, the brain does not react immediately to the signals. For example, an athlete injured during a game may not notice any pain until the contest is over. In such cases, the brain ignores the pain signals because it is concentrating on other tasks.
Severe pain can serve as a useful warning that something is physically wrong with the body. In most such cases, the pain disappears after the fault is corrected. Physicians refer to such short-lived, severe pain as a acute pain. It differs from chronic pain, which last a longtime. Some chronic pain results from disorders that cannot be completely cured, such as certain types of cancer and arthitis. But in other cases, pain persists even though its physical cause has been corrected. This type of chronic pain resists treatment and can lead to mental breakdowns and drug abuse. Some persons undergo many unsuccessful surgical operations in effort to control such incurable pain.
People instinctively recoil from pain and often react to it with fear and tension, which in themselves may increase the discomfort. Yet the mind and body have an innate capacity for mastering the perception of pain to some degree. Soldiers at the battle front with terrible wounds have often reported far lesser degrees of pain and required fewer analgesics than civilians with comparable injuries.
It is also possible to summon up the body's pain-regulating mechanism through training and effort. Religious ascetics purposely inflict injury on themselves to pursue a spiritual goal, yet they experience no pain when they practice such extreme forms of self-mortification as walking through fire. Women trained in psychoprophylaxis, a relaxation technique for natural childbirth, can endure labor pains with little or no medication.
In such instances, the brain has probably mobilized the body's endorphins-morphine-like substances in the nervous system and gut that suppress pain. One experiment showed that when people believe pain will be lessened, it is. A group of patients who were told they had received a painkiller but were in fact given a placebo- a pill without analgesic effect- actually increased the levels of endorphins in their systems and experienced a decline in discomfort.
Nerves carry pain signal to the brain in the form of electric impulses. The brain responds to these signals in different ways, depending on the situation. In some cases, the brain does not react immediately to the signals. For example, an athlete injured during a game may not notice any pain until the contest is over. In such cases, the brain ignores the pain signals because it is concentrating on other tasks.
Severe pain can serve as a useful warning that something is physically wrong with the body. In most such cases, the pain disappears after the fault is corrected. Physicians refer to such short-lived, severe pain as a acute pain. It differs from chronic pain, which last a longtime. Some chronic pain results from disorders that cannot be completely cured, such as certain types of cancer and arthitis. But in other cases, pain persists even though its physical cause has been corrected. This type of chronic pain resists treatment and can lead to mental breakdowns and drug abuse. Some persons undergo many unsuccessful surgical operations in effort to control such incurable pain.
People instinctively recoil from pain and often react to it with fear and tension, which in themselves may increase the discomfort. Yet the mind and body have an innate capacity for mastering the perception of pain to some degree. Soldiers at the battle front with terrible wounds have often reported far lesser degrees of pain and required fewer analgesics than civilians with comparable injuries.
It is also possible to summon up the body's pain-regulating mechanism through training and effort. Religious ascetics purposely inflict injury on themselves to pursue a spiritual goal, yet they experience no pain when they practice such extreme forms of self-mortification as walking through fire. Women trained in psychoprophylaxis, a relaxation technique for natural childbirth, can endure labor pains with little or no medication.
In such instances, the brain has probably mobilized the body's endorphins-morphine-like substances in the nervous system and gut that suppress pain. One experiment showed that when people believe pain will be lessened, it is. A group of patients who were told they had received a painkiller but were in fact given a placebo- a pill without analgesic effect- actually increased the levels of endorphins in their systems and experienced a decline in discomfort.
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