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While most stress management programs are cognitive, trying to figure out our problems and solutions, try a new perspective to taking charge of your stress; through identifying where it lives, stored in your body. Stress: It?s Not All in Your Head | Psychology Today

What is stress: Stress - What Is Stress? Management of Stress | ehealthMD

The author of What is Stress article tells us:

Managing stress involves learning about:

• How stress affects the mind and body
• How to identify the warning signs of stress
• How to develop good stress-management techniques
• When to seek professional help

and goes on to provide a lot of information that might benefit us.

Steve Sisgold, a Body Centered Therapist, offers a different viewpoint in his Stress: It’s Not All in Your Head, article. Sisgold refers to studies that our bodies are more than an adjunct to the brain.

This emerging research is fascinating because it is demonstrating how your body is a part of your mind in a powerful way. The way you think is affected by your body, and in fact, the way you use your body will help us think.

Studies like this raise the possibility that paying attention to our movements could be instrumental in arriving at insights, enhancing creative thinking, and taking charge of our stress and reducing it on demand!

Perhaps, this hypothesis should not be surprising. We already know exercise reduces stress. Exercise and stress: Get moving to manage stress - Mayo Clinic

Even so, I think next time I feel particularly stressed, I might do a body inventory to see if I might locate the offending body part.

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