STRESS: COMMON STRESSES TO AVOID

While working on your attitude, breathing and mental relaxation exercises, avoid, wherever possible, the common stresses of modern life:

• Sunburn—even on small areas of the body, like forearms, hands and nose. Always wear a sunblock.

• Crash diets and skipping meals.

• Nutritionally deficient diets (hamburgers, frozen and tinned foods, dehydrated packaged foods, take-away, fast foods).

• Strict vegetarian (vegan) diets that exclude such important protein foods as fish, eggs and cheese. .

• Dehydration—not drinking enough fluid, especially through the day.

• Shallow breathing—oxygen deficiency, carbon dioxide excess.

• Fasting—the total withholding of food from the body.

• Chills and colds.

• Chilling of the body clue to: not wearing shoes in winter; rising in the morning without putting on slippers and dressing gown; sitting next to a heater while in a draught; working, sleeping, sitting or watching TV in a draught; surfing and swimming in winter without a wetsuit; playing sports in cold southerly winds; sleeping under a fan in summer.

• Self-sabotaging attitudes. Habitually putting negative interpretations on what others say and do and on what happens to you in life.

• Physical trauma, including surgical operations. (Get a second opinion if it’s not a life-threatening emergency.)

• Over-work, lack of sleep and recreation, over-exercising.

• Pain—acute and chronic sports injuries, headache, neckache and backache from poor posture (mainly while sitting).

• Loneliness.

• Over-crowding.

• Excess noise.

• Poor posture.

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