The Mind Body Connection
Over the past two decades, Cancace Pert, Ph.D., a professor of biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington , D.C. , has been studying the biochemistry of emotions. What she and her colleagues have found is that emotions aren’t all in our heads-they affect our whole bodies. In fact, the chemical [...]
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Did you know…?
The human body is made of:
60,000,000,000 cells (trillion)
600 muscles
206 bones
The kidney filters the equivalent of 42 gallons of water daily.
Nerve impulses travel 300 ft. per second
One quarter sized patch of skin contains:
1 yard of blood vessels
4 yards of nerves
100 sweat glands
3,000.000 cells
Other Amazing Facts:
Every [...]
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Simply put, stress is a signal that something needs to change. It’s the body-mind’s innate response to internal and external factors that disrupt normal functioning or disturb emotional, cognitive or physical well-being.
Perhaps you’ve heard stories of, say, a 5’2” mother suddenly lifting a car to save her baby? That’s the “Fight or Flight” response [...]
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Stress can negatively affect your body in more ways than you may think. A stressful, workaholic lifestyle that is frequently out of balance has many unforeseen consequences. We usually recognize this only when it dramatically confronts us. We may get a violent pain in our abdomen whenever we eat, or we may suddenly feel tired [...]
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