What Happens When You Face Stress?

When you confront stress, complicated things happen inside you;
chemicals and nerve impulses create the general adaptation
syndrome or G.A.S., which has three stages:

1. First is the "call to arms"-the alarm reaction. Messages
stream from your brain to your endocrine (hormonal)
system in a "fight or flight" response. If the stress stops, you
revert to normal.
2. If the stress continues, you enter the stage of resistance-
your body tries to adapt to the stress; it puts up the barricades,
so to speak. You run from or fight the threat, you tense your
muscles, you raise your fever, you struggle to prevail. If the stress stops, you revert to normal.
3. If the stress still continues you may enter the stage of exhaustion. Your system falls prey to ill health.

Stress Is Good...Or Bad

With too little you'd be bored to tears; but with too much you'd develop emotional and physical disease. Properly handled, stress can mean a life of challenge, excitement and growth.

The biographies of great scientists, explorers, artists and other creative people reveal that times of intense stress are also times of insight, accomplishment and growth.

You can either grow, thrive and heal in the face of stress or be reduced to dullness and disease. It's often said that stress is one of the most destructive elements in people's daily lives, but that's only a half-truth. The way we react to stress is more important than the stress itself.

The Chiropractic Approach

One of the simplest and easiest ways of stress reduction is having a chiropractic spinal adjustment. Chiropractors are specially trained to free you from a severe, destructive, chronic stress: the vertebral subluxation complex (subluxation). A subluxation is a very common, often painless distortion in your body that affects your nerves and spine, stressing you physically and emotionally.

Vertebral Subluxation Complex (Subluxation)

You may have subluxations in your body for years without knowing it, while your health is being undermined, your energy drops, you age faster, develop disease and show increasing wear and tear in your body. It's similar to a house with termites-no apparent damage at first but one day the floor collapses!

Doctors of Chiropractic specialize in the correction of the
vertebral subluxation complex. Chiropractic care, by removing vertebral subluxation stress from your body, improves the function of your nervous system and promotes better adaptation to stress, whether physical or psychological.

No matter what your health problem, keeping your body free of the vertebral subluxation complex will permit you to better deal with stress, heal better, function better and enjoy life more.

Are you carrying the chronic stress of the vertebral subluxation complex in your body? Are your loved ones? Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can tell.