How can acupuncture help to relieve stress?
Acupuncture aims to treat the root cause of stress, and helps to increase energy levels and improve over all well-being.
Stress can have a deep effect on our emotional and physical well-being, causing a wide range of symptoms.
o Anxiety
o Insomnia
o Muscle pain
o Weight gain or loss
o Fatigue
o Depression
o Irritable bowel, Crohns, and digestive disorders.
o Fibromyalgia and muscular pain
o Migraine and headaches
o Fertility and Reproductive problems
When you have little or no energy then it’s difficult to be ‘happy and on top of our life. Anxiety and worry will often lead to sleepless nights. Lack of sleep drains your energy, you become tired and depleted. This can lead to fatigue and chronic depression, and then worrying about not feeling well can create more anxiety and therefore more sleepless nights. You want to get better, but you feel stuck and just don’t feel like you have the energy to do so. This is just one small window into a pattern of events which we call stress.
Continued imbalance of stress hormones can wear the body down, triggering chronic fatigue and immune suppression.
The effect on our health of stress depends on how we see change and stressful events and how adept we are at adapting to that stressor whilst maintaining coherence and inner balance.
Acupuncture is highly effective at helping to maintain the balance within the body and the mind, and brings relief from stress symptoms, often within the first few treatments.
What is stress?
Stress is a popular term that is used to cover the range of human responses to the different pressures of life. Stress is a concept that we can all identify with, it is a natural part of life and cannot be avoided. We all suffer from insecurity in response to ever changing circumstances. The moment we are born until death is a constant process of change and growth. We are resilient in that we are always trying to find ways to adapt and to cope with stress through our involvement in life.
We all experience these stresses differently, in that we all have different resources in strength and character or physiology or perception of life and are resilient in that through our involvement with life we try to find ways to adapt and cope with the challenges of life.
Our belief about life, how we see ourselves and also how aware we are of what causes us to become stressed and our ability to consciously change how we respond are all important factors in managing stress.
Sometimes when we feel anxious or vulnerable the slightest thing can trigger a strong emotional reaction to stress at other times we can deal with most things that come along with ease.If our reactions to things are clouded by emotions of inadequacy fear or anger, it may be hard for us to see a way out of our problems, with events becoming overwhelming and we cannot cope. This is stress.
Acupuncture helps balance our responses to daily stress
After acupuncture treatment you feel better, feel more relaxed, less stressed. This feeling is not a temporary state but a progressive building of a new perspective. This allows us to see our life situation more clearly and thereby influence the amount of stress associated with our habitual reactions in difficult situations.We can change the way we see and the way we respond to stressful situations, this is a vital step forward to improving health and quality of life alongside building inner resources and support systems that will help us to find peace of mind and cope better in our daily life.