Letting Go to Heal

Stress is your body’s response to increased tension. Stress is normal. Stress is the No. 1 factor not only in the cause of many human diseases, but also in the trigger of many autoimmune diseases.

Stress and anger often go hand in hand. They causes hormone imbalance, which may trigger the development of an autoimmune disease.

Chronic stress, which causes your body to maintain physiological reactions for long periods of time, especially with respect to the release of hormones, can lead to depletion of vital nutrients in your body, particularly DHEA (a hormone critical to aging and the autoimmune system), vitamin C, and the B-complex vitamins.

During stress, your body uses its DHEA supply and impairs the functioning of your body’s hormonal glands. According to scientific research, your DHEA levels decrease with age. Therefore, stress is only adding insult to injury.

Vulnerability to stress increases with age. Robert Sapolsky, author of Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, says you lose your ability to cope with stress as you age, due to elevated blood pressure, which adversely impacts your hormone secretions, thus creating a vicious cycle of stress and ill health.

To avoid or to decrease the symptoms of an autoimmune disease, you must learn to cope with stress and deal with anger, which is usually a concomitant result of stress. More importantly, you must learn how to let go of many of your attachments in life.  

The Wisdom of Letting Go

This 111-page book provides inspiration from ancient Tao wisdom to enhance human wisdom to believe in spiritual wisdom of letting go to live as if everything is a miracle. It explains how the human ego is the origin of stress, and how letting go of the ego-self is the only pathway to releasing stress.

Stephen Lau