" Introduction
»Stress and its mechanisms
An "energy of adaptation
»The reaction or stress response
First phase: alarm
Second phase: resistance
Third stage: exhaustion
Birth of psychoneuroimmunology
Scheme: Stress reaction
What the final effect depends on
Scheme: Mechanism of cognitive and non-cognitive filters
»Consequences of chronic stress
The 5 stages of chronic distress
Table: Some problems and pathologies in which stress is involved
Table: Some of the main symptoms of stress
»Stress management
Stress and immune depression
Stress and cellular life
Stress and nutrition
Stress and neuroassociative conditioning
Stress and psychic tension
Stress and physical tension
Conclusion
Appendix: "Mental" Tips
" Bibliography
"The" human motor animal ", over the years, increasingly suffers the influence of the conscious mind, erroneously considered superior. In reality, it often generates in us, through preconceptions, prejudices, limiting beliefs, conditioning, etc., vicious mental circles that can lead, in the long or short term, to physical as well as psychological discomfort.
Today, thanks to the continuous development of neuroscience, new psychotherapies and "mental technologies" as well as integrated support programs have developed, capable of solving, even in a short time, numerous psychological problems leading to an increase in awareness and control over one's own states. d "spirit, therefore on behavior.
L"mental education it is an integral part of any wellness program.
common characterized by adrenocortical hypertrophy, atrophy of the thymus and lymph glands and gastric ulcers. Selye tried to establish a relationship between the dangerous or threatening external stimulus (stressor) and the internal biological reaction of the organism (stress response or reaction). Observing mammals, the scholar noted that they responded to stimuli of different nature with a very similar physiological reaction, characterized by the common state of activation of the hypothalamic-cortical-adrenal axis, with production and secretions of glucocorticoids; he concluded that stress is the "strategic" response of the body in adapting to any need, both physiological and psychological, to which it is subjected. In other words, it is the non-specific response of the organism to every request made on it.
The vital energy of the human organism comes from the food substances with which we feed. The way in which the organism exploits this vital energy depends above all on that natural and subjective process that we can define as a "stress reaction". Stress therefore causes a physiological reaction, a stress reaction, as a response to the needs caused by external stimuli ( stressor), which mobilizes the available resources in order to produce a special high-yield energy, which can be defined as "stress energy". The biochemical process that releases this energy is a natural reaction that necessarily repeats itself in the organism, every day, all as often as needed. In other words, stress implies an increase in the activity of natural functions stimulated by certain hormones, in particular adrenaline, noradrenaline; it therefore corresponds to an "intensification of vitality which allows the organism to adapt and react to changing circumstances." For this reason, Hans Selye identified stress with "adaptation energy that we experience every day.
Edited by Dr. Giovanni Chetta
