How Stress and Cortisol Affect Your Health and Wellbeing – TPS546
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Cortisol is an important hormone that regulates stress. However, when stress is constant, cortisol levels become very high. This can cause a surprising range of ongoing physical and mental discomforts. In this episode, I talk about how cortisol affects you and what you can do to minimize its effects.
Highlights- I explain what cortisol is and why you need it.
- When you are under constant stress, you will have too much cortisol which causes a whole range of physical and emotional problems. I list them and mention what you can do to minimize cortisol response.
- When you get older, it gets easier to deal with life’s difficulties and to learn to trust yourself to solve your problems.
- Mindfulness and meditation have been shown to help minimize anxiety levels and cortisol response.
- Alternative solutions that I use include L-Thanine, Rhodiola Rosea, Ashwagandha, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids. Also useful are Ginkgo Biloba and Cinnamon.
- I share my history of having high cortisol levels.
- Diet makes a difference. What you eat can be connected to your emotions.
- If you look things up on the internet, be discriminating about what you accept as truth and understand that not everything works for everybody.
- Time yourself each day doing either mindfulness or meditation so you can be in touch with your thoughts and inner guidance.
- Pay attention to your morning and evening thoughts and decide to turn them into positive thoughts.
- How you respond when life happens is what determines which brain chemicals are going to affect your decisions.
- How you decide to deal with stress depends upon where you are in the lifecycle. A young parent will deal with stress very differently from an elderly person.
- If things are out of your control, you don’t have to take responsibility for fixing them – like climate change and political chaos.
- Actions you can take include taking care of yourself, eating healthy foods, getting enough sleep, cleaning up your house, laughing a lot, and making your life less complicated.
- Whatever you decide to do, do it with joy.
- If you are worried that you aren’t making enough money, you are probably filling up your life with too many things.
- Understand what’s causing your anxiety, and are you willing to make changes?
- I talk about how to use EFT and BSFF, and how BSFF helps to reprogram your subconscious.
- The better you get at knowing yourself, the better your life will be.
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