A Bite-Sized Briefing On Your Brain And Acute Stress

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Stress, in a nutshell, is our body’s way of reacting to certain circumstances. It’s the body’s way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.

There are different kinds of stressors – these are the things that lead to stress – and these things may or may not involve potential loss of life and limb, those that do not may include public speaking (for everybody), taking a difficult class for one semester (for students) or having to deal with a rebellious teenager (for parents).

How does stress influence our thinking? Most of the time, stress is associated with the corporate world, and is not life-threatening in any way, shape or form. Most comes from things like work overload, conflicting priorities, inconsistent values, over-challenging deadlines, conflict with co-workers, unpleasant environments and so on. These situations could potentially cause only more grief, as over-analyzing and over-thinking these situations can cause a slump in performance or an inability to meet the sales quota.

What does acute stress lead to? Envisage yourself in the time of prehistoric man…being chased by a huge wooly mammoth or cave bear…this is probably the best way to picture acute stress.

The Brain’s Response to Acute Stress With the irate polar bear as the stimuli, the brain reacts through its HPA system, or hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal in scientific terms.

Steroid Hormones – Not The ‘Roid Rage You Know! Steroids are more than just what unscrupulous athletes use to get more buff – these are actually created naturally as cortisol, a stress hormone, or glucocorticoid, triggered by a more alert HPA system. Cortisol galvanizes the body’s miscellaneous systems, including, but not limited to the heart, metabolism, circulatory system and lungs, in an effort to come up with a quick reaction to evade the bear/mammoth/dinosaur/etc.

A Simple Discourse on Catecholamines. Medical nuts are quite familiar with the other byproducts of the HPA system’s reaction to stress – these would be defined as catecholamines, or neurotransmitters that encourage the production of dopamine, norepinephrine and adrenaline, also known as epinephrine.

Stress Ball – No, Not A New Team Sport As an aside, did you realize that you can relieve stress while getting a nice workout? And that such workout can be done without shedding a drop of sweat or exercising no more than a small modicum of focus? And finally, did you realize that this wonderful little object can actually help you become incrementally stronger?

Tadadadadada…the stress ball! Bouncing your way to a store near you. And yours provided you go out and get one…incredible!

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