1. The Stress Epidemic Mental Emotional Stress and your Health

6. Some Causes of Mental & Emotional Stress Whether it is the daily grind of the commute to and from work or just the traffic jam itself…is it the predicament or how we react to it that determines how stressful it is?

7. Some Causes of Mental & Emotional Stress There’s a difference between being angry about something and being angry at someone. There’s also a difference between holding it in and letting it out. Does anger control you or do you control it?

8. Some Causes of Mental & Emotional Stress Gambling and having a gambling addiction are two different things but…both are stressful. Are you also gambling with your health…your job…your future…your relationship? All are equally stressful.

10. Some Causes of Mental & Emotional Stress Running late again? No time to do all that needs to be done? Too much on your plate? Procrastination? No time to plan? No time for your health? When will it be your turn?

11. Do you often feel as if you’re just hanging on? Let’s take a stress test and see how stress may be affecting your health… Causes of Mental & Emotional Stress

19. So, Is Stress Good or Bad? It’s Neither. Is Stress Ever Going Away? Stress May Change But It Doesn’t Go Away. If It’s Not The Stress, What Is It? It’s Your Ability To Constructively Adapt To The Change. What Governs Our Ability To Adapt?

21. Nerve Stress A stress beyond the ability of the nerve system to adapt produces muscle imbalance which causes skeletal distortion which then negatively affects the nerve system which reduces our ability to adapt to stress and a downward spiral ensues. Muscle Imbalance Skeletal Distortion The Stress Cycle

23. Nerve Stress Chiropractic puts a constructive impulse into the nerve system resulting in muscle balance, skeletal integrity and positive feedback to the nerve system causing an upward spiral in a person’s health and vitality. Muscle Imbalance Skeletal Distortion The Health Cycle

24. Expanded (Healthy) Range of Stress Adaptability Reduced (Sick) Range of Stress Adaptability So, It’s Your Range of Adaptability That Determines Whether Stress Causes Your Body and Health To Break Down and Deteriorate Over Time.

25. Stress range during an hour, day, week, month, year or lifetime. Stress is Sometimes Unrelenting. Most Experience Stress As Bearable, Tolerable, Terrible or Worse. We All Experience Varying Degrees of Stress During An Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year and Lifetime.

26. Range of Adaptability to Stress is less than the stress level so health becomes compromised Gets Sick Stays Healthy Gets Sick This Person’s Range of Adaptability is Far Less Than Their Stress Level Much of the Time. Are They Likely To Be Healthy?

27. This Range of Adaptability is Average. Stress is Occasionally Greater Than Their Range of Adaptability. They Are Likely To Not Be Sick. But, Are They Healthy? Gets Sick Stays Healthy Gets Sick Range of Adaptability to Stress is less than the stress level so health becomes compromised

28. Range of Adaptability to Stress is MORE than the stress level so health is unaffected by stress. Stays Healthy This Range of Adaptability is Ideal. Stress is Rarely, If Ever Greater Than Their Range of Adaptability. They Are Likely To Be Truly Healthy With Their Health Improving Year After Year!

29. Would You Rather Be Healthy or Just Not Sick? Most people would answer, “Healthy.” But, what really is the difference? Do you know?

30. Healthy Just Not Sick No Symptoms Symptoms Sick The dots represent two people. One has symptoms, the other doesn’t. In order to have symptoms, health has had to deteriorate over time.

31. Healthy Just Not Sick No Symptoms Symptoms Sick Our objective is to turn the direction of your health around so it moves towards Healthy. With the relief of symptoms, is this person healthy or just not sick?

32. Healthy Just Not Sick No Symptoms Symptoms Sick Just because there are no symptoms doesn’t mean that the person is healthy. Healthy is the continuous movement of health in the right direction.

33. Solutions To Mental and Emotional Stress What you focus on and fuel with emotion… you create. Do you focus on avoiding what you do not want? Or Do you focus on getting what you do want?