Healing the Physical side affects of Adrenal Stress
10 signs of Adrenal Fatigue and
5 tips to restore energy for FREE!
There are many signs of Adrenal Fatigue or sometimes know as “Burnt out, Chronic Fatigue, or Chronic Exhaustion”.
Today’s hectic lifestyle is full of commitments, responsibilities, dreams, goals to achieve and often just basic survival!
So have you ever stopped to think about how your body has to cope? Or do you think it has not option? It has to cope, because there is nothing else I can do about it?
Often people know their body is starting to show signs of stress, but often don’t REALLY understand why? To put it simply, your body AND your mind isn’t designed to be “on the go….ALL the time.” It needs time to rest, feel calm and restore too!
To make it simple here are 10 signs that you may be experiencing some Adrenal and Mental Fatigue
- Feeling excessively tired or fatigued, especially in the morning when you wake up.
2. Feeling tired, but “wired” in the evenings, more awake at night, trouble going to sleep.
3. Crave sugar, caffeine and high carbohydrate foods for an energy boost or to feel better.
4. Finding it hard to lose weight, even though you are eating well and exercising.
5. Experiencing digestive issues, bloating, gas, pain or IBS.
6. Increased heart rate or high blood pressure
7. mood swings, irritability, frustration, depression
8. lack of concentration, memory loss and hard to focus.
9. pain or tension in the shoulders, neck, back muscles and joints
10. headaches
So if you are experiencing any of these symptoms, it’s your body’s way of trying to communicate with you. Hopefully you will agree that it’s time for you to stop and listen! You have the power to be able to turn things around and naturally, without having to take medication. If I can do it, you can too.
Here are my top tips to instantly create more energy and they begin with the mind!
- Stop criticising yourself, putting yourself down and beating up on yourself…..it’s exhausting and not working!
Cut yourself some slack and be your own best friend …..just for a change! Start making yourself, your health and how you feel an instant priority! Stop saying “Yes” to everyone else and “No” to yourself. You are NOT responsible for everyone and everything. You are responsible for YOU! - Start being honest with yourself. Have a big emotional spring clean! Get up and out exactly how you have been feeling and stop piling it under the rug. That huge mound of suppressed emotions is draining your adrenals glands BIG time!
- Start developing a new “Self Care Plan” NOW! Stop waiting for other people to change or life to get easier,
Your current “self care plan” or way of coping may be getting you nowhere because it may consist of constant worry, anxiety, alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, pain medication, unhealthy eating and constant self criticism. - Have a laugh and plenty of fun regularly! This allows other hormones to be released instead, like serotonin and other feel
good hormones. - Make time everyday to still your mind, it helps calm your central nervous system and gives your adrenal glands a break too.
It’s no good if you are physically getting some rest if your mind is still ticking away.
Some of the greatest feedback I hear from my clients, is how calm and relaxed they feel after an appointment and that is something they haven’t experienced often for a very long time. Being able to reconnect to that feeling of peace is really the first stepping stone. Often it brings clarity and a new sense of empowerment to be able turn things around for themself and their life.
For more help and support make an appointment with Alison today to find out how she can help you BLOOM!
Physical side affects of all kinds of stress on your body
When people think about different types of stress that can affect your health and wellbeing, they often think about “big” things, like having to move house, an accident, loosing a job or even a loved one. We don’t often realize how constant, low grade stress and pressures of every day life can be just as debilitating. Things like busy schedules, paying bills, juggling children with work, house hold chores and careers, all activate “cortisol”, the adrenal stress hormone. Cortisol is released from your adrenal glands and is the hormone that gets activated to take action to get up and go.
It is also the hormone that gets triggered when your body senses danger, activating the “fight or flight” response your body needs to survive in a crisis. But in todays world, life is a lot more busy and hectic than it use to be. All day long people often are juggling one minor crisis or emergency after another, never getting the opportunity to calm down properly or switch off their nervous system. From the moment you wake up in the morning, till your fall in to bed at night, people these days are always on the go, which leaves their adrenal glands constantly needing and using cortisol. Imagine a leaky tap, that never gets turned off properly, eventually your adrenal glands can get burnt out and not be able to keep up with the supply.
That’s why it is absolutely essential to balance daily your “get up and go” time with proper “rest and digest”.
Taking time out regularly, everyday to rest your physical body AND your mind is not just a new, modern day “craze”, it’s actually essential to support the way the human body is designed. Your body needs equal amounts of rest and digest time, to be able to support you in everyday life.
The body feels stress, not just by physically doing too much, but also by the negative thoughts you think. Constant worry, fear, anxiety, guilt and over thinking can be very tiring, not just emotionally, but physically too.
Here is the physical chain reaction that your body experiences from any form of stress.
Physical, emotional and mental stress
Activates the adrenal glands –
- adrenal hormones flood the body, eg: cortisol and adrenalin
- switches off stomach digestion – slows down the bowels and intestines
- causes the body to go into “survival mode” therefore starts to store fat – increased weight gain
- immune system slows down
- creates brain overload, memory and concentration problems
- tension in your muscles, aches and pains
- increased heart rate and blood pressure
- starts to cause tiredness and fatigue
- start to crave sugar, caffeine and high carbohydrate foods for energy
- increases poor sleep patterns, problems going to sleep and staying asleep, feeling “tired, but wired”
- wake up feeling tired and unrefreshed
- Process starts ALL OVER AGAIN!
Resting and relaxing the body and mind
Calms the adrenal glands
- switches off adrenalin and cortisol
- switches on the feel good hormones eg: serotonin and oxytocin
- lowers blood pressure and heart rate
- switches on digestion and important enzymes to break down your food and digest it properly
- relaxes bowels and relieves constipation – allows the muscles in your body to relax
- increases and strengthens immune system
- calms the mind – increases memory and concentration
- regulates healthy sleep patterns
- increases natural energy cycles – increases motivation and ability to feel good
- increases energy to prepare and eat healthy foods
- increases weight loss and weight and blood sugars stabilise.
When you understand the basics of how your body works, it can empower you to take action. To make time everyday to rest, relax and calm your mind. There are many things you can do to help yourself relax; the best ones are what you love to do.
For those of you who may feel guilty, worried or scared the whole world may fall down if they stopped for a minute, I urge you to take action the most! Your body is trying to support you the best it can, but over time, it will start struggle and send you signs, it needs attention.
A kinesiology treatment can really help pull your thoughts back into balance. It helps you to release stress from your mind and body, so you can feel more calm, relaxed and free. Your body will respond automatically and help restore your health and happiness naturally.