Top 3 Stress Reduction Strategies for combating the holiday season and life in general.
I love the holiday season! I love the chaos. The gift buying and wrapping, the traveling, the gathering with friends and family. I just love the whole thing!! That being said, it seems as we head into the holiday season most people’s stress levels begin to escalate (myself included from time to time). Stress unfortunately can be a very dangerous thing when it comes to our health.
Studies show stress is all about the nerve system (brain & spinal cord), teaching it to adapt, and better teaching it to handle the things that go on day in and day out. So let’s discuss the top 3 stress reduction strategies.
#1 Strategy: chiropractic adjustments– Chiropractic adjustments immediately stimulate neurological tracts that go up to your brain and, long story short, breaks the stress response immediately. Therefore initiating a healing response. So it stops destructive things and starts healing the healing process.
#2 Strategy: movement/mobilizing your spine– When you move you reduce tension through your body. It helps to relax your muscles and also circulates and pumps fluid up and around your brain, which is actually responsible for 90% of the nutrition to your brain. That’s why people who do stretching report feeling so much more relaxed after.
#3 Strategy: renewing your mind– Having something you go back to that puts positivity into your mind is a proven lifelong stress reduction strategy. Whether it’s a book on your night stand that you read for 5 minutes or daily affirmations, positive things that you put into your mind will actually fuel your body as well.
Engage in these top 3 stress reduction strategies this year to help you have both a more enjoyable and healthy holiday season! If you would like to see if there is interference to your nerve system that is making it hard for you to adapt to your stress then call us TODAY. 
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