Let Go of Attachments to Let Go of Stress

Stress is your body’s response to increased tension. Stress is normal. you need stress to do the following:

Accepting challenges

Concentrating on doing a difficult task

Having sex

Making important decisions

Indeed, stress can be conducive to health. For example, sex creates stress: it increases your pulse rate and heartbeat, and stimulates your brain cells. Stress can be enjoyable, such as physical challenge in competitive sports. But too much stress can increase your production of hormone epinephrine (and thus wearing out your hormonal glands) with the following effects:

Blood sugar elevation to produce more energy

Breathing rate acceleration to get more oxygen

Muscle tension

Pulse rate and blood pressure increase

Sweating to cool down the body.

After the initial stressful stimuli, your body should be able to relax, slow down, and return to a state of equilibrium. However, if this does not happen, you become distressed.

Stress is the No. 1 factor not only in the cause of many human diseases, but also in the trigger of many autoimmune diseases, including myasthenia gravis.

Stress and anger often go hand in hand. They causes hormone imbalance, which may trigger the development of an autoimmune disease. Learn to let go of your anger or any emotional attachments that lead to anger or rage.

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 or any negative emotion, which is usually a concomitant result of stress.

The bottom line: learn to let go of attachments in the material world, and they may include attachments to careers, relationships, and material things.

Read my book: The Wisdom of Letting Go. Find out how and why human attachments are obstacles to living a life of balance and happiness. Get the wisdom to let go of your emotional and material attachments in order to live as if everything is a miracle.

Stephen Lau

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