The Real Cause Of Illness Is Stress

The real cause Illness is stress on the body. The three categories of stress are physical, chemical or emotional stress. Preventing stress on the body is key in maintaining homeostasis and a happy healthy body.

Managing stress in our lives is key to optimizing health. Sometimes there are a combination of different stress factors from different categories of stress that we need to work on in order to bring the body back into balance.

Physical Stress

Physical stress can occur in the body when there is damage to the body. Trauma or injury such as a fall or accident, as well as, surgery are examples of physical trauma to the body. These physical stressors can cause many issues from loss of blood or damage to organs and require extra damands on the body for healing and repair.

Chemical Stress

Chemical Stress can occur from many different potential causes such as deficiency or toxicity. Examples of chemical stress include malnutrition, deficiency, exposure to toxins such as alcohol, drugs, pharmaceutical or supplements, plastics, pesticides, pollution or microbes and many more. Restoring nutrition or detoxification play a major role to repair and return the body to balance from chemical stress.

Emotional Stress

Emotional stresses can have a huge impact on our physical health due to the release of stress hormones and the vibration of negative energy from our thoughts. Grief, relationship issues, financial burden, worry and any negative thoughts, feeling or emotions can create emotional stress within the body. Emotional stress creates tissue breakdown and build up of wastes that need to be released from the body. This is why we often see people get sick after a stressful event. During the stress the fight or flight hormones help push us through, but after that symptoms may start to appear when the acute stress has passed. Chronic emotional stress weighs on the body and creates disease.

Combating Stress

To optimize health, it is very important to look at the different types of stress and how we can reduce stress in our lives. Focusing on improving physical, chemical and emotional stresses by improving relationships, getting enough sleep, improving our nutritional state and reducing our exposures to toxins is key to homeostasis within the body. Meditation can also be useful to help with the mind body connection for health and healing as our physical, mental and spiritual selves are all connected.

Understanding these key principles that are the root cause of all illness and understanding that it is stress that contributes to disease creates the opportunity to look deeper inside ourselves to find what may be contributing to our sickness. Focusing on what can be improved upon within our lives will have profound impacts on our health and happiness.