Stress Management ( 2nd part )

Humor, A Way to Cope with Stress

In coping with stress, you can have a wide choice of activities. You can take some time off and spend the holidays with family. You can do meditation or yoga. You can exercise or do your other hobbies.
One of the newest ways found by the experts in dealing with stress is to laugh. According to research conducted by experts, adults laugh less than children. Children can laugh as much as 400 times in one day, while adults only 15 times. Why do we rarely laugh when laughter is not a difficult thing?
Adults are rarely laugh might be due to problems faced by more and more, giving rise to stress. In addition, the existing mass media provide more news about things that are bad. Death, murder, divorce, seems to be our food daily. No wonder, we laugh less than children. Therefore, let we are more familiar with the benefits that arise if you laugh.

When you laugh, not only makes you look more fresh, but also affect your body's system. When you laugh, the muscles of your body become more relaxed. This of course has a good effect for those of you who are experiencing stress. In addition, with a laugh you can reduce the body's stress hormones. You should know that your body out neuroendocrine hormones when you're stressed. On the other hand when you laugh, your body reduces these hormones so your body will feel more relaxed.

In addition, when you're stressed, your body's immune system becomes weak. You will be more susceptible to disease, which was sometimes causing new stress. Therefore, multiply laughing from now on. Another advantage you get with a laugh is that you can improve your relationships with others. Other people would prefer dealing with people who laugh than someone who always displays a sad face. Therefore, let us lots of laughs from this point. Your health will improve, your relationships with others also increased, and one important thing you can decrease stress. So, remember to have a lot laugh today! So, remember to have a lot laugh today!

"Who has not been stressed in this world and who's never felt love in this world?" I agree with you, would you ever felt what it feels stressed and what is being in love. It's just what the relationship between these two things we might take advantage. There are many articles, books, websites, magazines, research, theory or whatever it is discussing and explaining the meaning of stress as much discussion about what was in love. According to you which causes which? or which caused which? Or how?
Actually, when you fall in love, that's when you experience stress. Okay, maybe you are a little confused with the opinions or statements that I have written above. Before I explain the relationship and meaning of my statement above, we should just - just to know what stress is and what love is.

What is Stress?
Stress is a condition where the body condition perturbed by psychological pressure. Usually stress is associated not because of physical illness but rather on the psychological. However, because the effects of stress is the physical illness can arise due to the weakness and low body resistance at the
Falling in love is a stressor for us, whether originating from within and from outside the body. Essentially when we fall in love, we experience stress. It's just stress that arises in every person is different, falling in love can be eustres (positive stress) or distress (negative stress).

Examples of positive stress:
When we fall in love we feel more confident, challenged or motivated, and make ourselves feel good, which increases the performance of self, the immune system increases, be strong.
Or negative stress When we fall in love we feel scared, weak, insecure, low self-esteem, decreased quality of self, often feel extremely anxious, and even can cause a prolonged frustration.
What is love?
Italian scientists made a study of 12 men and 12 women who fall in love in the last 6 months.
 They found, these men have testosterone levels lower than normal, while women have higher hormone levels than usual.
"In love, the human body naturally seems to want to eliminate the differences between men and women, so that relationships can survive." (KOMPAS, Friday, 04 June 2004, 14:07 GMT).
Falling in love is a feeling that one has when seeing another person (usually from other sex) who caught his attention. If these two matches and became a couple, then this feeling is still there.

The process of falling in love!?!?
From the stressor and the reaction, Well, then what the hell is happening to us? It turned out that in our bodies through the production process of some specific substances which slightly anesthetized brain and the effect could be compared with the effects of drugs. Certain substances are called pheromones. Pheromones are chemicals derived from endocrine glands and are used by living things to recognize same-sex, other individuals, groups, and to assist the process of reproduction. The pheromone produced by the human hormone is a chemical signal in the air that can not be detected by smells but can only be felt by VMO (smell aids) in the nasal / olfactory senses. This signal is produced by specialized tissue that is concentrated in the arm. Pheromone signal is received by the VMO and accessible parts of the brain called the hypothalamus.

This is where hormonal changes that result in behavioral and physiological responses.
The effect is to make someone addicted to want to see their partner or someone dreams as often as possible. This process is called a reaction to the stressor ourselves. The reaction causes a change, and when we fall in love there is usually a change from us. Change (change) is one of life processes strongly associated with stress. In addition to the reaction system changes in our body, changes also occur outside our bodies such as, changes in diet, differences in heart rate, respiration, to change the mindset or the mindset.

It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it

- Hans Selye -