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Stress Causes the Body to Become Less Functional

“The environmental factors that I think are relevant to people being very healthy in their bodies and maintaining a good level of body awareness are really experientially based.

“The environmental factors that come to my mind are the things that stress people’s bodies. And those stressors can be anything from chemicals to physical activity, and also psycho-emotional stressors. So the things that cause somebody’s physical body to break down, that being my area of expertise, at the level of being less functional, is the accumulation of stress at any level. This adds up to an over-stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and causes the whole adrenal response system to take over the body. And here we are adding caffeine on top of it just to make sure that we’re cranked up to the max. The effect of that is to add an enormous amount of physical functional tension into the body.”
Naturalpath Health Expert Jocelyn Olivier has dedicated 33 years to the development and refinement of specific forms of bodywork known as Conscious BodyWork® and NeuroMuscular Reprogramming® (NMR). She is currently the director of the Healus Center in Corte Madera, CA.
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May 31, 2007 - 10:38pm — PaulineD

The Basic Truth

Jocelyn is dead-on. This message should be a basic truth for everyone. What may be less known is the specific stresses that fall under the categories of chemicals, physical activity, and psychoemotional stresses. Many people forget that chemicals don't only need to be ingested, they are present in foods, skin products, and even makeup. I love how caffeine is presented in combination with this article on stress. As a college student, I see almost everyone walking around with a coffee mug, a 24 oz. coffee, and my professor invites us to his office for shots of espresso! What a health-compromising addiction.
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