Stress, Death And David Key…
Stress, Death And David Key…
The statistics don’t lie.
Stress, and the illnesses it contributes to, is one of the biggest killers in the world today.
Lives are cut shorter than they should be…
Families robbed of loves ones far earlier than necessary…
Grave visits more painful than if someone had died at a ripe old age…
The saddest part?
It’s avoidable.
We live a world of high pressure and high stakes.
Pressure to be the best employee or business…
…the best parent…
…the best partner…
Pressure around deadlines…
Multi tasking…
Not letting others down…
For many of us, it feels like we’re on a stress rollercoaster.
One day things are OK…
The next…
We’re dipping at a rapid pace and trying to hold things together.
And it’s this consistent, low level stress we experience in todays society that’s killing us.
Why?
Because we’re not wired to handle this kind of stress.
When you really think about it, stress is the “Fight Or Flight” response being triggered.
It is an evolutionary response from caveman times designed to get you to run away, or fight, the immediate danger before you.
Your body would release adrenalin and cortisol into your blood stream designed to make you momentarily faster and stronger in order to escape or fight the immediate danger.
And it was during this fight or flight that the adrenalin and cortisol would get used up.
Which is a very good thing, because having excess adrenalin and cortisol in your blood stream is detrimental to the human body.
It kind of cannibalises it.
Eats away at the organs and tissues and other areas important to it.
And this is where the problem is…
Stress is designed to get used up.
It’s not supposed to remain present in the body.
It should appear, because of a genuine threat to life…
…and then be eliminated during the running away or battle with that threat.
These days, thankfully, we don’t have genuine threats to life like sabre toothed tigers or an enemy tribe.
In some ways, what we have, is worse.
We have a constant dripping tap of stress due to the high pressure society we live in.
That adrenalin and cortisol – it’s not getting used up.
Instead, it accumulates.
One days stress rolls into the next…
…and the next…
…and the next.
And because it’s often low level stress, like traffic jams or anger at your partner for leaving the toilet seat up, we often don’t realise it’s accumulating.
Sure, we’d know about stress if we lost a job or a loved one.
But, this low level background stress, we almost just see it as “how things are”.
Not realising that our reactions to our environment, through accumulation, are slowly cannibalising our bodies and can lead us to that early grave so many of us fear.
We wake up in the morning and then…
We’re late out the door to work because the kids are struggling to motivate themselves.
Drip…
We arrive at work and see a demanding email from a colleague who has pushed a deadline forward, trying to make their life easier but making ours a nightmare.
Drip…
At lunchtime someone barges into us without saying sorry…
The queue at the coffee shop takes forever…
A text from an elderly parent winds us up…
Drip…
Drip…
Drip…
Throughout the day, if we’re not careful, we can be victims to these little bumps of adrenalin and cortisol and other neurochemical nasties that aren’t doing us any good.
And certainly won’t do our families good if we’re robbed from them too early due to the one of the many common stress related illnesses.
It’s scary.
And if you’re not scared, without putting too blunt a point on it, you should be.
Because the statistics don’t lie.
So…
What do you do about it?
This is part of a series of emails I’m sending out about how to live longer.
After all – you can’t live life once the lights go out.
So who wants them going out early!
In two days time I’ll send you two ways you can handle stress that don’t cost a penny and are easy to do.
I dearly want to help you get a handle on this because not doing so can make everyday life a chore and, longer term, the consequences can be fatal.
The information I’ll share with you can be easily passed on to your loved ones so you can help them, for the rest of their life, too.
Let’s stop being victims to our evolutionary wiring and instead take back control so that we don’t have to experience the pain and suffering that so many do when this slow drip of energy sapping chemicals eats away at us.
Between now and then, start to notice how easily you can be triggered to feel stress in every day situations.
Anger…
Anxiety…
Fear…
Guilt…
Pressure…
They’re all triggering that drip into your system.
I’m going to help you get a handle on it.
It’s time to take control of your future back!
Speak to you on (Two days time)
David