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STRESS AS HEALING FACTOR

  CAN we overcome stress? If we can, should we? Today psych physiologists are beginning to formulate models showing that stress, anxiety, and depression influence the body to create or aggravate mental and physical disorders. Greater stress and anxiety tend to degenerate the physical body and depress one’s mental outlook on the world. Are there ways to reverse this process of physic al degeneration while maximizing the condition under which positive attitudes, beliefs, and life-style changes can heal the afflicted body and mind? The basic assum p tion at the root of current research is that there is both a psychological and a physical component to all disease. Another common assumption is that individual is able to exercise a marked degree of will power in the development, aggravation, and alleviation of these disorders. From these assumptions one might conclude that a personal psychology or philosophy may have a pronounced effect upon whether a person maintains a positive attitude reg

UNDERSTANDING STRESS

In contrast to this condition, a person who regularly practices relaxation, meditation and psychic energization exercises tends to respond differently. Such an individual appears to react more quickly to a stressful condition than does an average person, but he just as quickly relaxes. Thus, during the course of the day, such an individual can handle more stress than the average person, and without adversely influencing his health. In other words, he has more resiliency. Resiliency to life’s many challenges is of obvious benefit. After all, we need the tension and release of stress for growing and for creating new realities. In other words, we need stress in order to be creative! Therefore, we need to develop our ability to be resilient. During the course of metaphysical healing, additional indicators of autonomic function, such as skin temperature, can inform us of healing progress. The body has a narrow temperature range in which it normally functions. The setting of this range is co