Sheila Kennedy-Robinson

Hi I live in sunny Queensland in Australia. A great grandmother x 2 and an Alternative Holistic Practitioner. I am passionate about helping people to be well, and I love working with children, I believe that if you can help a child you do not have an adult with a problem.

Roger L. Macdivitt

Hi, I’m from England. Married with two daughters and three granddaughters. I am a Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner and an advocate of the Law of Attraction. I have specialised in work with children and vulnerable adults. I run corporate and personal Goal-Setting Workshops.  

All about STRESS

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Roger Macdivitt and Sheila Kennedy-Robinson

What is stress?            An intro by Roger Macdivitt

For our own protection we have to state that the information here is not presented as an alternative to medicines or medical advice but represents our views based upon our own findings, training and experience. Whilst we may talk in terms of success or failure we accept no responsibility for the actions and consequences of such, which might be brought about by following the advice/views of ourselves or others here.

If you were to enter the word stress into a search engine you would get a huge number of pages. Why? Because it is considered to be a problem of our time. What is generally known as stress today is really more accurately described as unhealthy stress.

The UK Healthy and Safety Executive defines unhealthy stress in the following way: "the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them".

(Healthy) Stress is a necessary and normal part of human life which helps us to learn, grow and protect.

The presence of stress releases hormones and neurochemicals that are designed to help us to fight or take flight. As animals this is an essential response to danger, however, as thinking and hopefully responsible humans we have learned to control our need to fight on most occasions.  Even so, our body still attempts to give us the right tools for the job. If, hopefully most of the time, we choose not to fight, we build up an unused store of these chemicals. In other words our primeval instincts may not be appropriate in all modern situations.

If you were to ask your doctor, boss, family members, your minister, tutor, life-coach etc. what stress is in your life you would get several different answers. It is really an abbreviated version of distress. It’s dictionary description contains words such as force or influence, push, compress, twist, disease, strain, mental tension etc etc all relevant and combine with many areas of human experience and emotions.

Prevention is, as always in medical conditions, better than cure. We aim here to outline some of the ways in which you might control or avoid stress or even deal with it’s bad effects.

Our first information will thus be The Prevention and Control of Stress.

We will outline our methods and experiences here and invite comment. We hope that you enjoy the discussion and hope that sufferers gain from this forums contribution to health.

SEE POSTS HERE and THEN VISIT page 4 for THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF STRESS