5 Steps To Shredded

5 STEPS TO SHREDDED

Are you panicking yet that summer is really right around the corner? Are you suddenly wishing you hadn’t eaten that extra piece of pecan pie, all the candy in your stocking, the entire box of Valentine’s chocolates you got, and all your kid’s Easter candy?

Yes, you’re not alone. It’s easy to look back and see why we’re not exactly bathing suit ready. But, that’s not helping the situation. You want to have a solution, right? You need to know what to do: stat.

Well, luckily, all is not lost and you can still salvage your physique. Here are 5 simple steps that will get you looking ripped and ready.

Step 1: Add HIIT

If you want to get rid of excess body fat, one of the fastest ways to burn off extra calories and fat is by adding HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). Why does this work so well? HIIT cardiovascular exercise requires short bursts of all out effort followed by periods of slower cardio. The maximal effort you put into the bursts forces your body to use more oxygen than it normally does. This means you burn more calories.

And, the news gets even better. The extra oxygen usage means you’ll be burning more calories than usual for hours after your workout (after-burn). This condition is known as “excess post-exercise oxygen consumption” (EPOC).

A study in the Journal of Obesity concluded that HIIT exercise has a massive impact on your levels of body fat, especially in the midsection. And, you don’t have to do this type of exercise every day to reap the benefits. Doing three HIIT workouts a week, using 20-25 minute intervals is sufficient for maximizing fat burning.

Step 2: Up Your Protein

Protein requires energy to be digested. That means just the simple act of eating protein dictates that you’re going to burn more calories than usual. It stands to reason, then, that the more protein you add, the more calories you burn.

How much protein do you need in order to reap the fat-burning and weight loss effects? The typical rule of thumb is to get anywhere from .75 grams—1.25 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight, depending on your fitness goals, and your weightlifting regimen. Obviously, if you’re lifting heavy weight and really tearing it up at the gym, you’ll want to err on the higher side for protein intake. If you’re not getting in that much in terms of lifting, then around 1 gram per pound is a good start.

Protein also helps you burn more fat. It is one of the building blocks of muscle and you need to get plenty of protein to keep your muscles strong and allow them to repair themselves after heavy workouts. Adding extra muscle to your physique means you’ll require more calories to maintain your weight, and that translates to an increased metabolism. So, even if you didn’t change a thing, you’d naturally be burning off additional calories on a daily basis just by being more muscular. So, eat your protein!

Step 3: Eat Your Carbs at the Right Time

Yes, you still want to both watch your carbs and eat your carbs, but it’s critically important that you eat them at the most beneficial time. When is the best time? It’s going to be optimal for fat loss and muscle-building purposes if you can consume your carbs around your training sessions. Ideally, right after your weight workout is the best time to eat the bulk of your starchy carbs for the day.

The remainder of the day should consist of low carb and fibrous veggie selections as well as plenty of protein and healthy fats. This is the quickest way to maintain your muscle while burning off the maximum amount of body fat.

Step 4: Eat Enough Fats

Speaking of healthy fats, how do fats fit into the equation? Fats will provide you with the energy you need to get through your tough muscle-sparing fat-burning workouts. They’ll also help your body repair and recover quickly.

You need to eat fat to make sure your body is able to produce enough testosterone, absorb certain vitamins, have proper brain function, keep skin and hair soft and supple and more.

You’ll also want to make sure to include fat so that you feel full and satisfied. Eating healthy fat sources like whole eggs, coconut oil, fish oil, fatty fresh wild-caught fish, grass-fed meats and dairy products, raw nuts, nut butters and seeds will help your body release body fat while staying energized.

Step 5: Eat Organic and Fresh

Get plenty of fresh (and whenever possible) organic foods. When your body is not fighting against the food you eat, it will be much easier to lose weight. When your body doesn’t have to filter out the pesticides, chemicals, preservatives and other undesirables commonly found in our food sources, your body can simply use the nutrients in your food for fuel, and then focus on fat loss.

Getting the toxins out of your diet will mean less cravings, you’ll shed water weight and you’ll retrain yourself to be satisfied with the good wholesome tastes in natural foods.

Put all these steps into play in your lifestyle and you can virtually guarantee you’ll watch the pounds melt off your body. Throw in some weightlifting alongside your HIIT cardio and you’ll be transformed and beach ready by summer!

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Stress Causes Your Body to Use Food Differently

Stress Causes Your Body to Use Food Differently

Have you ever considered yourself a “stress eater?” Or sometimes it’s labeled as “emotional eating.” Turning to food when your stress levels increase is a common occurrence.

It’s a root cause for many obese men and women. The simple fact that our lives are full of stress – and we increase our calorie consumption during those times – is enough to pack on the pounds easily.

But researchers now say that highly stressed individuals actually have a harder time utilizing the foods they eat. There was a study conducted specifically regarding caregivers and how the stress they endure affects their bodies’ ability to process the foods they eat.

The University of California’s San Francisco Department of Psychiatry wanted to find out how chronic stress and eating affect the body. They took a sampling of women who were caregivers to a parent or partner suffering from memory loss and measured how their bodies reacted to the increase of more fat and more sugary foods.

They compared that to women who were eating the same foods, but not under the same stressful long-term conditions and they found that those under extreme stress didn’t handle the junk food as well – it led to larger waistlines and insulin insensitivity.

This particular study was for women over the age of 50. It revealed that the high stress group had metabolic changes – the kind that lead to disease, while the lower stressed women did not.

If you’re a man or woman (of any age) who is experiencing chronic stress and notices that you eat your worries away, then the key isn’t in trying to diet, but in trying to get a handle on the stress levels you experience.

There are many ways you can alleviate stress in those circumstances. It’s all rooted in self care. You have to take time for yourself and allow others (such as hospice workers) to take over while you rejuvenate yourself during these tough times.

You’re not just doing it for yourself and your own health, but for the loved one that you’re caring for. And if you have chronic stress that doesn’t involve care-taking, you can still engage in self care to stave off metabolic changes that might harm your body, too.

Stress Is as Contagious as a Yawn

Stress Is as Contagious as a Yawn

Have you ever seen someone yawn in front of you and instantly felt the need to yawn as well? You may have even yawned just reading this article because it mentioned the word.

Stress is something we can’t see or hear (like we can a yawn), but it’s something that’s every bit as contagious, so you have to be on alert as if it’s a viral elements that you want to avoid.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Technische Universitat Dresden discovered that not only can someone else’s stress seep into your world if you’re in close contact with them, but even watching stress unfold on TV can wreak havoc in your world.

It’s called empathetic stress, and even though you might not know or care about the people on TV, your mind is capable of empathizing with the character – otherwise, the show wouldn’t be anything you’re drawn to.

Scientists were able to measure the stress hormone cortisol that freely flooded the bodies of those who were around someone else’s stress – even though they, themselves weren’t put into a stressful situation.

It’s not as prevalent as those who are in the direct line of fire. During the study, 95% of those confronted with stress experienced higher cortisol levels. But almost 30% of bystanders who were strangers did, too!

The number jumps when it’s someone you love. If someone close to you is under stress, then you’re 40% more likely to stress out yourself. So what can you do is you’re affected by contagious stress?

Don’t make matters worse by trying to become the “fixer” of everyone else’s world. It’s okay to offer advice when requested, but it’s best to learn how to create an invisible barrier around yourself so that you are buffered from other peoples’ stress.

It doesn’t mean you can’t have empathy – but practice understanding the situation logically. Don’t let yourself get mired in trying to make it all better for them, but if you want to, make it known that you’re there to lend an ear or a shoulder if needed.

As for strangers – if you’re noticing that your stress levels are too high, then it’s time to decrease your exposure to outside influences. That might include not watching the 24/7 cable TV news, not listening to talk radio on your commute, hiding or unfriending negative acquaintances on Facebook, and more.

Must-Have Medical Screenings as You Grow Older

Must-Have Medical Screenings as You Grow Older

As you grow older, you should begin looking into medical screenings that are considered must-haves for your age group. Those who are over fifty years old have to pay closer attention to blood pressure, cholesterol, and a large amount of other important functions for your body.

Although some of these screenings may not be something you want to do, getting the right tests done can help catch problems early and can lead to a longer and healthier life.

Colonoscopies are never high on anyone’s to do list, but they should be. A colonoscopy is the test often used to search for colon cancer in both men and women.

It also allows for a doctor to see any subtle bleeding that may be occurring without your knowledge. For males, a colonoscopy can also alert your doctor if you have prostate cancer.

As you get older, it’s important that you don’t slack on breast exams. Starting at the age of forty, women should have regular mammograms done once a year, although some doctors advise it less frequently now.

The risk of breast cancer increases with age, so skipping out on breast exams and mammograms can cause a serious health risk. If you have a family history of breast cancer, your doctor may suggest an exam twice a year instead of just once.

As you age, your bones can weaken and begin to lose density. This is why it’s important you take a bone density test as you grow older. These tests are usually recommended for men and women who are over sixty, but if you’re at a higher risk, it may be needed before that age.

One of the high risk factors is osteoporosis, a condition where bones become brittle. When you have osteoporosis, you’re more likely to fracture or break bones, making a bone density test even more important. With this condition, a fall when you’re older can be more serious.

For women, a pap smear may be just as important as a breast exam or mammogram. Women in their fifties and sixties are just as susceptible to cervical cancer as young women are.

Pap smears are recommended for women every two years regardless of whether or not you’re sexually active. These screenings aren’t just for cancer – they can also help your doctor check for irregular bleeding or other problems.

One of the most important tests, a cholesterol screening, should not be omitted from a physical checkup. Men are more prone to high cholesterol, but studies show that women over the age of fifty tend to develop high cholesterol over the years. High cholesterol is one of the leading causes of heart attacks and strokes. As you grow older, make sure your cholesterol levels are checked periodically.

Give Your Body a Boost in Chemistry During Detoxification

Give Your Body a Boost in Chemistry During Detoxification

Everything that you put into your body and all the places that you go impact your body’s health. That’s because everything that enters the body, whether through eating it or absorbing it through your skin or lungs can cause changes to your chemistry.

Even if you’re the type of person who regularly exercises and you practice a healthy way of eating, you’re still exposed to toxins that hurt your body. Getting rid of these toxins can give you a much needed boost in health.

You gain many vitamins that you may have been deficient in. Vitamins have many different ways that they help your body. Your bones need vitamins to help them stay strong.

Vitamins work to repair damage inside and outside of your body. They create a stronger immune system to help stave off disease, and they help you process the food that you eat.

There are two kinds of minerals your body needs. These are trace and major minerals. Major minerals are ones like calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium.

Calcium is instrumental in keeping your bones healthy. Sodium works to help balance the water content in your body. These major minerals work together in harmony.

When one of them gets out of balance, it can throw your body for a loop. For example, people who eat too much salt can end up with a calcium deficit because the body gets to work trying to keep your sodium level from staying high.

Trace minerals are ones like iron, fluoride, and zinc. You need iron to help transport oxygen. Zinc is needed to help your body stop bleeding because it clots blood.

Fluoride helps keep bones strong. When trace or major minerals get out of balance by the toxins, you won’t feel well and it can have an impact on certain bodily functions.

You must have essential fatty acids for healthy cells. You need them for proper brain function, for healthy adrenal and thyroid performance. In order to have good blood pressure, you need essential fatty acids.

You need the omega 6 and 3, specifically. When your body is full of toxins, it impacts how well your body can or can’t utilize these acids. Amino acids help your body with many major functions.

They’re responsible for getting nutrients where they need to go. They help your tissues and organs work the way that they should. They’re essential for healing. But unlike essential fatty acids, toxins in the body can make it difficult for amino acids to work the way that they’re supposed to.

When you detox, all of your chemistry gets a boost – including antioxidants. You can get antioxidants from food and from supplements. Some sources of antioxidants are vitamin A, C and E.

But these antioxidants have to stay in balance within the body or they end up doing harm. You need to detox to keep your chemistry in balance. It’s good for everyone, but especially for those who do use vitamin supplements.

Supplements for Energy – Do They Really Work?

Supplements for Energy – Do They Really Work?

Energy supplements are the newest trend for those of us who aren’t getting all the energy-boosting nutrients that we need in our diets. We also live in a stressful world that can zap our energy and leave us mired in things to do and not enough energy to do them.

Although there aren’t a lot of published, scientific studies to show that energy supplements can make a difference, there are some natural and synthetic products that lead the rest in popularity:

Vitamin B-12 – Many people get Vitamin B-12 shots from their health care providers to give them a boost of energy. A blood test can determine if you need to take Vitamin B-12 supplements.

Ginseng – A natural herb that may be able to reduce lethargy and fatigue. Taken in the proper doses, it may help boost your energy level, but could be harmful if you don’t know how much to take.

Co-Q-10 – This enzyme is very popular right now and has been scientifically proven to safely improve energy levels in those people with heart disease or who are plagued with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone) – A hormone that is taken to boost energy, but it has some risks to your health, so be sure you check with your health care professional before beginning a DHEA regimin.

Ginkgo Biloba – Many claim that ginkgo biloba immediately boosts energy levels, but it may also make your blood thinner, so don’t use this supplement if you have a blood problem or are taking any type of blood-thinning medications.

Bee Pollen – This natural food source has been labeled a superfood by many. It contains vitamins, minerals, proteins, fiber, carbohydrates, enzymes and amino acids as well as antibiotics that can help your immune system.

Amino Acids – These substances are necessary for us to digest proteins properly. One of the amino acid substances is Creatine, which can help build muscle and stave off fatigue. It’s often used for those who suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Even some natural energy supplements can be detrimental to your health – so use according to direction and also take into consideration any conditions you may have or medications that you may take.

There are many vitamin supplements that could help you get the energy you need for your busy daily lifestyle, but you should carefully research these substances and consult a physician before taking them on a regular basis.

Also, keep in mind that you should also practice a healthy lifestyle and eat a diet rich in nutrients and vitamins to make the most of the energy that you naturally produce. Those with chronic energy issues may greatly benefit from the use of supplements.

Natural Energy Boosters

Natural Energy Boosters

You probably already know some of the natural energy boosters that can get your mind and body going – like a cup of coffee or a chocolate bar or high calorie snack. The problem with those boosters is that they only last a very short amount of time.

Then, when you come down from the temporary high, you’re likely to feel more sluggish and lethargic.  Here are some ways you can boost your energy levels naturally – and that you may not know about:

Get up and move. Many of us spend hours sitting at our desks, hunched over a computer and trying to complete enormous workloads. Simply standing by your desk is a small break that can give you a perk that will help you rev up your brain and your body. Walk around if you can and get the added benefit of better blood flow.

Use EFT. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is now being used as a coaching method to relieve stress, produce more T-cells, increase your strength and well-being and boost your energy.

To boost your energy level, tap your thymus gland (it’s in the center, top portion of your chest, between the collar bone and breast area) using the tips of your fingers for about twenty seconds. Take deep breaths during the tapping exercise.

Get energy from the sun. Especially during winter months, we tend to stay indoors, in cramped and stuffy offices and don’t get enough sun. If you’re feeling lethargic, try to spend a few minutes out in the sun and see how your mood improves.

Afternoon tea. The British were on to something when they began afternoon tea breaks to renew your vitality and perk up your brainpower. Green tea is especially great for getting rid of that afternoon sagging feeling.

Blink. When you think that your head is about to fall on your desk top, try blinking exercises. Rather than staring at pages or a computer screen, blink about ten to twenty times during one minute. This will relieve your brain of stress and make it more active.

Deep breathing. This is one of the most useful methods you can have in your arsenal of energizers. A quick search on Google for Yoga deep-breathing exercises can tell you all you need to know about using your rhythmic breath to relax and relieve stress.

If you consistently experience afternoon slumps, think about what you had for lunch. Heavy, carb-laden foods can make you tired and sleepy during afternoon hours. And, are you getting enough sleep?

You have to get a good night’s rest to be alert and able to function at your best during the daylight hours.  Assess your lifestyle, change some bad habits into good ones and you should feel your energy return.

Can Diabetes Be Reversed?

Can Diabetes Be Reversed?

Anyone who has diabetes knows that the disease has many different symptoms. These symptoms can range from tingling in the hands caused by nerve damage from high glucose levels to frequent urination.

As time passes, diabetes can cause a lot of serious harm to your body unless you reverse it. Well over 25 million people now have diabetes. There are two types of diabetes.

Type 1 means that the cells in the pancreas have been destroyed. This is usually caused by an autoimmune disease. Very little insulin is produced in the pancreas and certainly not enough to keep glucose levels manageable.

Of the two types of diabetes, this one can be the most difficult to regulate and is often diagnosed in early childhood. However, Type 2 diabetes can be more easily reversed because this form of the disease is linked to metabolic disorders rather than cell destruction.

People who have Type 2 diabetes don’t have enough insulin production to control their glucose levels. To understand how to reserve diabetes, you’ll need to follow some tips such as the ones shown in Diabetes Free.

Understand the Truth About Diabetes

If you look around in the medicine section of a grocery store or drug store, you’ll easily notice that there are numerous products dedicated to living with diabetes. You’ll find equipment for all kinds of diabetic needs, equipment for keeping your feet comfortable and protected from nerve damage, books on diabetic meal planning and more.

When you keep checking, you’ll see that there are scores of different testing supplies that you can purchase. In the past, to buy a glucose meter, testing strips and lances, you had to have a prescription.

But now that millions of people have been diagnosed with this condition, you can just pick up supplies over the counter. That pretty much removes the limit to how often you can test your levels and how much money you can spend on all of the products.

If you’ll pay attention to all of these supplies, you’ll notice that all of them are there to teach you how you can thrive while having diabetes. Your doctor will have you come in for A1c testing periodically so that you’ll know how well you’re monitoring your levels.

This way, your medication dosage can be raised if your levels are staying too high. You’ll get warned about the long term complications of diabetes – such as blindness or amputation if you don’t keep a tight control on those numbers.

Having all of these products and all of this information from doctors is a good thing, right? Not always. Because when you have tools that help you stay where you are, it’s too easy not to change.

It’s too easy to just accept that this is the way it will always be. What all of this has in common is that the mindset you’re being taught is geared toward making sure you understand how you can live with it rather than how you can fight it.

Instead of loading yourself down with information on accepting and living with diabetes or allowing others to tell you that you have to live with it – look at the alternative – reversing diabetes.

Take back control of your health. It’s easier to do than you might think. Reader’s Digest had an article online dated November 2012 that talked about some guidelines the American Diabetes Association was giving new patients.

Instead of automatically going on medication for diabetes after a diagnosis, the ADA suggested trying some lifestyle changes first. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the results debunk the myth that once you have diabetes, you’ll always have it.

Using lifestyle changes, participants monitored in one of the groups were said to be in diabetes remission. Their glucose levels were within normal range without the need for any medication.

Medications and Insulin Don’t Treat the Root Cause of Diabetes

When someone gets diagnosed with diabetes, one of the first things most doctors will do is give them a prescription for medicine or insulin to get those numbers under control.

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Ridding Yourself of Chronic Stress

Ridding Yourself of Chronic Stress

You don’t need to have a degree in medicine to know what stress is. It’s those knots that you get in your stomach when life situations are difficult. Or it can also be that same sense of feeling you get when you’re worried that situations are going to be difficult.

Did you know that if you’re feeling stressed, you’re actually not in a small group of people? Literally millions of people have stress to some degree in their lives. They do the best that they can to muddle through the life because they think that stress is part of life so they have to live with it.

But the reality that while stress is indeed a part of life, you don’t have to live with it. You don’t have to put on your game face and just keep on plodding along. You can break the cycle of stress and get on your way to a calmer, peaceful, far more enjoyable way of living your life.

There are many ways you can get help – with professionals, or on your own using products in the privacy of your own home. You can learn how to break this cycle by using a formula like Conquer Stress Forever.

The Emotions That Cause Stress

You might not know that though it’s situations that can trigger stress, bad or difficult situations are not what cause stress. Say you’ve got a job that you really just don’t like.

The reason that you don’t like the job is because your boss is the kind of guy who wants to constantly nitpick everything you do. If he finds a mistake, he pounces on you like he’s found a nugget of gold.

The bad job is not what causes you to feel like your stomach is clenched. It’s not what causes your heart to race or your blood pressure to spike. What causes the stress is your emotions.

When you’re dealing with anything in your life – whether it’s personal or work related, you’re going to have an emotional reaction. We all like the happy emotions.

These happy emotions make us feel good. They make us feel rested and at peace with ourselves and the world around us. The negative emotions are where the stress comes in.

So let’s take a look at those negative emotions that lead to stress. The first one up to bat is anxiety. Anxiety is feeling nervous or worried. You just don’t feel certain about a situation or a person.

Believe it or not, anxiety is normal. It also has times when it’s healthy and even helpful to feel anxiety. Normal anxiety helps you to put your best foot forward at a job interview or in a situation where you’re meeting your girlfriend or boyfriend’s family for the first time.

This is not the kind of anxiety that will cause you any health issues. On the other hand, there’s chronic anxiety. This is the kind of anxiety that can make you absolutely miserable.

Chronic anxiety can affect your way of life. It can get in the way of your relationships, your job and your ability to function in any capacity. Anxiety at this level weighs on your like a heavy coat in the summer heat.

When you have chronic anxiety, you feel anxious almost every day. You feel edgy and nervous. You keep thinking something is going to go wrong so you live in a state of waiting for the other to shoe to drop because you believe it’s going to.

Fear is also an emotion that leads to stress. We all have some fear. Fear of not having enough money to meet our needs, fear of something happening to a loved one – these are normal fears.

But fear can reach the point where it cripples you from being able to live the life you were meant to live. Mixed in with all these emotions is a type of depression. This happens because your body and your mind were not meant to have that daily deluge of negative emotions.

This type of depression can make you want to seek ways to dull the pain. Some people will attempt to silence this depression by sleeping as much as possible. Other people will try over the counter medications, or they’ll turn to alcohol or other addictions just to try to find some relief.

Each one of these emotions is just a branch off the tree of stress. You can cut off the branches, but if you don’t uproot that tree, those branches will just grow right back.

You have to uproot what causes the stress if you truly want to be set free from what you’ve been experiencing. If you still think that stress is no big deal and that you can handle it on your own even though you have that pressure more often than not, you might want to check out how stress is working on you from the inside out.

The Side Effects of Stress

By the time stress reaches the point where you know you’re stressed, your body has already been trying to cope with it. Surely, it can’t be that bad? Since everyone has stress, how bad could it possibly be?

Stress takes a toll on your body from head to toe as if you got up in the middle of the night, ran a marathon and then went back to bed for a few hours before you had to get up to start your day.

That kind of toll, that kind of workout – is what stress does to your body and the longer you stay stressed, the worse your body will feel. And long before your body lets you know something isn’t right, there will already be some damage that went on right under your nose.

Your body is built to combat stress when you need it to for a short-term reason. This combat stress system keeps you safe and in some instances, it even saves your life. So that’s a good thing.

But left untreated, stress acts like a wrecking crew. It will squash your immune system. In return, you’ll get sick easier, you’ll stay sick longer and you’ll be put at a higher risk of getting certain diseases.

Stress also cuts down on the number of new brain cells that you have. This is why you have trouble focusing when you’re stressed about things. When your brain is under the effects of stress, it just can’t work the way it should.

Your blood pressure will rise (even if you don’t have a history of high blood pressure). Stress can jack your blood pressure up to heights that will shock you. When your blood pressure goes up, so does the imminent risk of you having a heart attack or a stroke.

When you don’t feel well and get sick or come down with a disease, you end up feeling anxious about your health and in many cases, you’ll start to feel depressed.

So you start right back where you were with all of the emotions that will keep that stress going. Going through the emotional wringer time after time can leave you with such bone weary fatigue, you don’t know how you’re going to put one foot in front of the other.

In fact, you can’t even find the will to do what you used to find easy and enjoyable. Stress can make it seem like it takes too much physical effort, too much emotional effort – just too much – and deep down, you just can’t work up the energy to care.

On top of all that, when you’re stressed, it can make it more difficult to be in control of your emotions like anger or anxiety. You might end up lashing out at the people you care the most about.

Or you might go the opposite direction and not communicate at all. You might end up withdrawing from family and colleagues alike. You end up trapped when that becomes your way of life.

You have to break that cycle or you will never know what it’s like to enjoy your life to the fullest. This is why you have to learn a formula like Conquer Stress Forever teaches so that this is not part of your future. Getting rid of stress can help you live longer.

Why Conventional Methods Don’t Work

When you go to the doctor and get stressed, more often that not, you’re going to walk out of his office with a slip of paper to take to the pharmacy. There, you’ll get a bottle of pills and you’re supposed to take them however they’re prescribed so that you’ll feel better and the stress will go away, right?

What happens when you stop taking the medicine? The stress comes back just as strong as ever. Only now, you’re probably having to deal with the withdrawal symptoms of getting off the medicine you were taking in order to feel better.

Some of these symptoms include headaches, nausea, vomiting and even seizures. Doesn’t sound like that’s such a healthy thing to take if it will do that to your body when you try to get off of them.

Antidepressants, which are used to treat anxiety, stress and depression do not solve stress. They give the user a chemical solution that covers up the problem but does not eradicate it.

In fact, many labels on these medications used to treat stress contain warnings that being on the medicine can lead to suicidal thoughts. Besides taking medication, some people attempt to treat stress with things like meditation or yoga. It works for many – but not for some others.

It doesn’t work for them because again, it doesn’t get to the root of the problem. Sure, these might be ways to mask some of the symptoms, but if you’re not getting to the root, the stress will keep on growing.

In desperation, some people turn to herbal remedies. They aren’t getting to the root cause, so they just end up poorer from buying all the expensive supplements and in many instances, they end up with gastrointestinal issues from the ingredients in these supplements – because they didn’t research them properly.

Or they try diets. If they can just eat healthy enough, or eat enough of a certain type of food, they think that will give them peace from the stress. But the stress can’t be treated from the outside in. It has to be treated from the inside out.

This is the only reason that all of those conventional methods are failing you. It’s not you. You’re not one of those tough cases who is beyond getting relief from stress. It’s the method that you’ve been trying to use.

Why a Holistic Approach Relieves Stress

Any method that relies on a natural way to live your life is always better for your body and mind than one that requires you to use synthetic means that could have dangerous side effects.

But besides being safer, the holistic approach to relieving stress is the one that actually works where the conventional methods fail you. One of the most powerful truths about a holistic approach is that it changes the mindset.

For example, when you’re dealing with conventional means of treating stress, you’ll inevitably be asked certain questions – such as whether you have a high-risk job.

Are you having any stress at home? Are you having any health issues that could be causing the stress? Sometimes the doctor will point at past traumas or, if you’re overweight, he might suggest that if you lose weight and exercise – because it will help with the stress.

Those aren’t necessarily bad questions, but they are the wrong questions to ask. The reason that they’re the wrong questions to ask is because the slant of them puts the blame of having stress squarely on you.

Like it’s all your fault that you feel the way that you do and that’s why it’s wrong. Stress, regardless of whether it’s mild or moderate, regardless of whether it’s long or short term, is not something that’s your fault.

It’s not something you did, it’s not something your body did. It just is – so if someone tells you that you’re stressed because you’re at fault, you need to reject that mindset.

With a holistic approach, such as what’s taught in Conquer Stress Forever, you’ll learn that you’ve been conditioned to believe certain things about stress that are wrong.

Because this holistic formula understands that stress can show up in physical manifestations, the first thing that it will do is to teach what you can do to get rid of the physical side effects you feel as a result of stress.

The holistic approach will give you the strategies you need to deal with stress that empower you to stop stress in its tracks. The root cause of stress is what’s being treated rather than the symptoms – and this is why it works where other methods do not.

Some of the Benefits of a More Natural Method

Though there really are too many to mention, you’ll notice some of these benefits right away. You’ll notice that you no longer feel out of control of your life. You’ll experience a core of calmness.

The reason that you’ll have this kind of peace is because you’ll know that you have the right tools to effectively treat stress. You’ll understand that you can utilize these steps at any time you need to.

By using a holistic approach to treating stress, you’ll feel better physically. You’ll be able to conquer insomnia and any other manifestation of stress. You’ll also notice an improvement in your performance at work – whether or not you still have the same stressful job.

Though the job may not have changed, you’ll be empowered with how you look at work and you will no longer allow it to get to you, forever altering the situation in your favor.

Regardless of where you are with stress in your life, you can use this approach at any time for any level of stress.  After learning the formula to rid your life of stress, you’ll find that you wake up with a bounce and full of energy.

You’ll look forward to the days again and that exhaustion that once robbed you of joy will be gone. You owe it to yourself to find a relief from stress and you can get started in just minutes to get on track with a life full of peace and possibilities.

No one is saying that you can eliminate stress. That’s a false idea that many stress relief products tout. But what you can do is learn how to effectively handle any stress that comes your way – so that it rolls off your back and isn’t able to invade your mind, body and soul at a deeper, more destructive level.

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