Posted in Stress Management for the Mind and the Body

Our emotions have a powerful effect on our body, giving it all sorts of stress related illnesses. Our mind creates our emotions. What we think is happening is the beginning of our emotional responses. Emotions begin with an event that we interpret, thus all emotions begin with the thoughts that are our interpretation and opinions based on our automatic habitual responses to certain events. We all know that everyone responds at times inappropriately to a situation because they have misinterp...

There’s a theory—and a reasonable one—that as inflammation increases, the amount of oxidative free radicals also increases, and they eventually “spill-over” and disrupt neurotransmitter formation.  Initially, neurotransmitter production increases in response to stressors, but over time inflammation-related free radicals will interrupt Cortisol curve neurotransmitter production, ultimately leading to depletion. Some researchers have suggested that the brain ...