Your Immune System: a bio-powered Fighting Machine

 

 Our bodies are built with the immune system to fight off infection and disease.

It is stronger than any antioxidant or antibiotic out there. Hence, we must do every to protect our immune system with good nutritional foods, clean environment, and better lifestyles.

Don’t think you are safe just because you wash your hands a few times a day. Bacterial and viral agents can enter the body many different means.

 

Let’s have a look at some examples that illustrate steps of what happens when disease-causing bacteria enter your body.

 

1.    Bacteria or viral organisms enter your body through touch, sneezes, physical contact or through other mechanisms. Keep in mind if someone coughs, their phlegm may spread over 350 feet, meaning whatever illness they have will shower the people around them unless they cover their mouths. That is why it is so important to close your mouth and cover your mouth if you have to cough or sneeze.

 

2.    Your body’s immune system receives a signal from your brain that shouts out ‘Time to make white blood cells!” White blood cells are the form of cells in your body that react to infection. Their job is to help create cells that fight diseases whether they are viral or bacterial in nature.

 

 

3.    If your immune system is as strong as it can be, your body will send enough antibodies to fight any attack, no matter how severe. This doesn’t mean you won’t get sick, it means your body will do everything it can to keep you healthy. If you fall sick, your chances of recovery from illness are high if the immune system has been maintained from the past.

 

4.    It may take you a few days to get well, but most people easily recover from minor infections or viruses. It may take some days for an average cold or bacterial infection. Immuno-compromised patients may take their body much longer to overcome something even as simple as the common cold.

 

Most people do not have a fine-tuned immune system. If you had it, you probably wouldn’t need to read this piece. Information like this helps you “fine tune” your immune system so you have the best chances of reducing the length and preventing an ill health simultaneously. Now that you understand how the immune system works, it is necessary you are aware of some major factors that influence your immune system or make it function less optimally than it ought to.

 

 

Factors That Influence Your Immune System

Your immune system may be compromised in several ways, which are also reasons your body may not jump to attack an infection or disease the way it ought to.

 

That you engage in one or two of these habits today without issues, doesn’t mean your immune system is happy. The speed at which people fall ill differs from person to person, depending on the level of their immune system. Here are some common factors that negatively influence the immune system.

 

    Excessive fast food and saturated fat in your diet: Fat can clog your arteries, thereby narrowing the path of blood flow. Take note that the heart will continue to pump blood at its normal rate for you to be alive. As these happen, the heart now requires a higher pressure to continue its normal process. Hence the victim experiences what is known as high blood pressure. This lifestyle over time will result in drastic weight gain due to increase in total body fat accumulating in the body. Thereby bringing about life-threatening diseases such as stroke, etc.

 

    Irregular exercise: When you don’t exercise your body, or you overdo it, you may become ill rather than prevent illness. Sometimes more is better; however, more is not better if you exercise to the point where you over train your muscles and body. You need to give your body a break, especially between strength training sessions, so you are able to fight against the disease. Here, Moderation should be the watchword.

 

    Stress: This sends levels of cortisol (a stress hormone) through the roof, which can result in general dissatisfaction or illness. Stress is a killer, which can lead to heart attacks, anger, depression, high blood pressure, and aggression, and many other disorders. The less stressed you are exposed to, the better your body will be at fighting off diseases.

 

    Insomnia: Sleeplessness or insufficient sleep changes the hormonal levels in your body. This situation inspires you to eat more and increases your weakness to common colds or infections. You may gain weight, which also puts you at risk for diseases such as II diabetes. At this point, it must be noted that if you sleep too much, you may have a health problem. (Consult with your doctor). Most people do well when they sleep 6-8 hours each day.

 

    Poor diet: This factor should have come first, but I decide to use it, to sum up, the points so you will have enough time to ponder on it. A balanced diet is not that too expensive, compare to all the junk foods around. Also, you need to eat too much (This actually slows down your metabolism, meaning you will gain weight even if you eat fewer portions than you have in the past), or totally deprive yourself of food to fight disease (your body goes into starvation mode). Use a practical approach, one that encourages moderation in our eating habit.

 

 

Just as you put the engine oil in your car to prevent heating and wearing away of the metal, so you have to care for your body to be able to fight off illness.

One thing you must invest in, however, is your health. When your health is good, you feel good. When you feel good, you can do almost anything your desires.

 

Friendship: a key to Divorce Prevention

 

Lots of marriages these days are faced with the critical challenges such as spouses holding an adulterous affair, battling and quarrelling nearly every day, inability to reconcile emotional and mental differences, third party interference in the marriage, a yearn for the return of good old days relationship or even a crave to stop an impending divorce.

I refer to all these as critical challenges because they are capable of jeopardizing our wellbeing if not checked.

If you find yourself in the above states of affairs identified, this piece will be beneficial and valuable to you, regardless how stubborn the opposition, how far your spouse might be from you, how hopeless your state of affairs seem.

 

Friendship has been noticed to be a tried, true and proven technique that can positively influence your marriage, once employed.

In marriage, friendship is forever. Even if we move out of town or adopt residence abroad, we preserve our friendships. We surely don’t divorce our friends just because of a misinterpretation, so if we addressed our spouse as a dear friend, we likely won’t ever require a divorce lawyer and carry out the separation exercise of divorce.

 

Have this in mind

Since love is less lasting and friendship more long-lasting, effort must be made to make our spouse not only a lover or partner, but a friend. Friendship is an observable manifestation of emotional maturity. Marriage is a duty larger than life and may be a source of challenges or sound joy. Only if we turn those challenges and joy into building blocks for a lasting friendship may we say that we have taken the firm path to a union made in heaven.

 

If there is true friendship between husband and wife, the marriage will not end up on the rocks. Rather, it becomes a rock-hard marriage where no person or condition may put it asunder.

Friendship in a union means that the union will be significant with memories of laughter and humour, for we picked those friends who made us laugh the most. Friendship likewise means open and honest communication; a no holds barred type of coupling where our comfort level with our spouse goes beyond a hundred percent, guaranteed that what we state and how we say it won’t be labelled or taken in a damaging light.

 

The friendship between couples returns wholesome feelings of goodwill and faithfulness. Our spouse – our friend – has our concerns at heart, won’t cheat on us and will be our most steadfast supporter. Friendship likewise makes spouse stronger; this durability of friendship is strengthened by the pleasure of shared history of nostalgia and designs for the future.

Romance is a great thing, and we may utilize heaps of it when our relationships get rough. But some people think that romance may be a roadblock to friendship. How come? Romance blots out the darker side of our being – our concerns, fear, anxieties, and insecurities. Yet, it’s those fears, anxieties, and insecurities that by nature draw us to our friend.

 

Familiarity due to romance does not spawn contempt. It spawns content. A sense of contentment corresponds with satisfaction, warmth, and firm assurance. Partaking in a life together in love and friendship makes for a book that’s deeper and denser in shared histories, in content.

If you were to ask a content bachelor and a jubilantly married man to each author their stories, you will get a favourable narration from both.

The single individual’s position would, however, be I, me and myself – and perhaps a string of blind dates and Saturday nights alone. But the husband will discuss “us”, of mutual interests – a story decidedly made richer as there are two stories, not one.

 

Much as it sounds awfully unfashionable, (some people say the modern day marriage is like a contract, which can be terminated as at when due) marriage is a commitment, and people have to make every attempt not to degrade that commitment in any way.

Remaining in married is a lifelong, missionary-like enterprise. It calls for guts. It calls for nerves of steel to make a union work. A sense of humour and a humbler degree of egotism may sustain us in the field of marriage.

The obstructions will be many, and there will be spots where we’ll question our saneness, uncertain if we truly have to hang on.

It will be a massive effort to stay attracted to the same qualities that pulled you to your spouse on the first day you got together. Your spouse is yet the same individual you fell in love with, he or she hasn’t altered his or her soul or being.

 

Finally, there is just one way to divorce, but a thousand ways to save your union, which route will you choose? Are you going to quit or accept one more hurdle?

 

 

 

 

 

Stress and Vital Human Organs

Life is full of struggles and questions. Just as the planets travel oscillate around the sun in obedience to nature, so man, on each, make effort to make ends meet. Human beings strive not only to make the present day comfortable but strive to correct the past and even prepare for the future. In the face of these multiple struggles, circumstances have their own rules to play. And when they do not dance to the time table of man, Stress set in, and gradually impact on our vital Organs.

 

If Stress becomes part of everyone’s daily lives. Should one then give in to it? Stress can affect your body in ways that can have a long-lasting impact on your precious health. Here are some ways stress can affect your health through the vital body organs:

 

• The Effect of Stress on the Brain – Stress can cause you to lose your concentration and memory abilities. When you are under stress, the brain associated with memory, do not work well. Hence, you cannot turn short-term memory into long-term memory. All effort to concentrate on things you hear, see, read or even perceive will fail.

 

• Effect of Stress on the Cardiovascular System – Stress causes the secretion of Adrenalin, which automatically raises your blood pressure and heart rate. This chemical process put more stress on your heart, thereby putting you at higher risk of suffering from hypertension-related diseases like heart failure and stroke. These do not just happen overnight but result from long-term or chronic stress. The possibility of this life-threatening illness is high if you do not eat well (poor dieting) or even have a strong family history of heart disease. This is one good reason everyone needs to visit the doctor, not only when you are ill. You may get a life-saving advice.

 

• Effect of Stress on the Gastrointestinal Tract – Stress triggers the body’s fight or flight in response to the release of Adrenalin from your adrenal glands. This has multiple effects on the body. This event forces blood away from the gastrointestinal tract and toward the muscles of the body as a way of preparing to “flee or fight” from a real or imagined opponent (fear). This can lead to a decreased blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract, which translates into indigestion and poor uptake of nutrients

 

• Effect of Stress on the Immune System – Excess Stress also causes the release of cortisol (steroid hormone which regulates the immune response metabolism) from the adrenal cortex. Cortisol has many effects on the body but one of the main ones is that it suppresses the immune system. High levels of cortisol mean that you are at greater risk of getting colds and the flu and have a harder time healing from open cuts or wounds. Cortisol can suppress several aspects of the immune system. Hence, you fall ill more often when under stress than you would be if you were not under Stress.

 

Things You Can Do To Reduce Stress

Due to the fact that stress can wreak havoc on your body, you need to do what you can to lessen the Stress in your life so you can remain healthy. Sometimes, it may be a matter of modifying your lifestyle so as to reduce to the minimum level the major sources of Stress such as;

• getting out of a Stressful relationship,
• befriending people that make you happy
• add meaning to your personality
• avoiding actions that can cause you expensive mistakes, thereby causing regret
• getting your finances in order
• changing your job situation so you don’t go to work each day with stressful feelings.
• living in a healthy environment devoid of sights & sound that put Stress of you

 

However, if you can’t change your circumstances, you may want to practice stress-relieving techniques such as meditation and exercise among others.

These techniques can be effortlessly learned through attending health classes or watching films/videos that will teach you ways to reduce the total sum of Stress in your life.

 

Finally, I discover one other great way to reduce stress is to take a vacation away from that regular place that generates your Stress and spend enough time in nature that naturally calms the mind, body, and spirit.

 

 

 

 

Stop your Anger

Anger is a strong emotion that is caused by loss of self-control. Although anger is normal due to today’s fast-paced life, anger can lead to other emotions such as bitterness, vengeance or hate and might cause health problems such as high blood pressure, heart attack or depression. Some might counter anger through food or alcohol. Whenever you feel any negative feeling rising within yourself, use these simple techniques:

 

1. Take a walk and do some light exercise. -Stretch out; take a deep breath to let your brain get enough oxygen to analyze the matter. Ensure you repeat this to clear your mind before taking any action.
2. However, it might be necessary to get away from aggravator until your anger subsides and then only you try to handle your situation.
3. Anger can be caused by frustrations. To express your frustrations, being angry will only worsen the situations. Be calm, clear your mind and express your frustration as assertive as possible without being confrontational and controlling.
4. Do some exercise; it is a good way to release your steam if you feel that you have a lot of pent up anger inside yourself. Physical activity is able to stimulate your brain and body to release endorphins and make you feel happier and relax.
5. Hold fast to your values. Think of your personality and what you strive to be. Do you want to be someone who uses anger to get what you want? There is goodness inside everyone and it is just waiting to be unleashed. Make good use it!
6. Think before you speak. This is to avoid making the situation worst and allowed a few moments to collect your thoughts before bringing up any points.
7. Search for solutions instead of blaming others. Sometimes littlest things could make you angry but it is possible to resolve it instead of focusing on it.
8. Forgive the person in the wrong. Do not allow anger to control you until you hold a grudge against that person. Being able to forgive someone will bring out positive feelings within you and make you feel better.
9. Laughter is the best medicine. Try to ease the tension through laughter. It can help both sides to view things in a better light.
10. Try to relax. Practice relaxation techniques such as meditation or yoga to help calm your mind and diffuse your anger
11. Understand your opponent. Try to look from your opponent’s point of view. Anger can blind you from absurd and funny reasons of why you are angry with someone.
12. Say your prayers and be grateful. Instead of being angry, try to look for things that make you feel lucky for being alive. It might be your good health, your work or just seeing a sun shining brightly above you.
13. Write down the reasons for your anger. Once you write it down in details, review it once more. You might find that the reasons seem very important at first but once on paper, you will feel that the reasons are insignificant. Throw or burn the paper to shift all your anger.

 

Do’s and Don’ts: The Best Way to Manage Anger

Anger is experienced by everybody. However, different people handle anger differently. Anger can be an indicator that there is something wrong and things needed to be changed. It can be a good self-motivator if managed in healthy ways. However, anger can also cause health and relationship problems. Several people do not know how to deal with anger as it is a powerful and potentially destructive feeling.

With proper examination and management technique, anger can be used to influence your health, relationships and overall happiness in a positive way.

It is very importance to understand the root cause of your anger. It could be due to stress, insomnia, food deprivation and others that make people generally irritable. However, try to identify the specific reason for your anger. This can be done by keeping an anger journal to record what reason for your anger for a few weeks. Then it is possible to discuss the issue with a good friend or see a Counselor to uncover any source of anger if the matters could not be solved by you. Once you are more aware of the cause of your anger, steps can be taken to deal with it.

 

After understanding your anger, it is important to express your anger in a constructive way. Research has shown that writing about your anger and expressing it in a constructive way helps in reducing the negative mood and pain associated. By writing it down the feelings that have been bothering you and working through them on paper, you are actively doing something with your anger instead of letting the anger aggravate inside you and making you feel terrible.

 

It is not good to preoccupy your mind with anger as it is one of the biggest don’t in dealing with anger. Research has shown that people who tend to preoccupy your mind with anger tend to experience high blood pressure resulting in greater risk of organ damage and associated health challenges.

 

It is also important to remember that over-discussing anger could backfire. By discussing anger with a trusted friend can help to plan an effective strategy in countering it. However, by repeatedly talking about the topics that angered you with your friends can make both felt worst and increased stress hormones in the blood. People tend to complain especially women who tend to occupy their minds with complaining which turn into a decline of negative emotions. So it is better to change the topic before it gets that far.

However, if you wanted to talk more about what makes you angry, it is better to seek professional help as a therapist has more helpful ideas on dealing with anger.

 

Why should you Control your Anger

These are reasons to keep you from blowing your head up.

• Anger can cause irrational actions which will be reflected badly on your personality
• Most times, unwise words are spoken during in anger. Control your emotions and think before speaking in a hurry. These words, once spoken are not retractable.
• Anger will only hurt the person who is angry. The person on the wrong side, most time escape unharmed.
• Anger will lead to shame.
• The end result caused by anger can be more destructive than the reasons of anger.
• Being angry is just falling into a trap that someone sets up so that they can conquer you.
• If you are angry at someone’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own faults as well. It might not be the other person’s fault.
• Getting angry over a minor setback might cause your dignity

Laughter: How does it affect the Overall Health?

Laughter is a response to humor. When you hear the sound of laughter, you can’t help but smile and laugh yourself. Hence, it can be infectious. When laughter is shared among others, it causes a binding between people and increases both intimacy and happiness, making people comfortable with one another and feel open and free.

 

The physical process of Laughter:

During laughter, the respiratory system is intermittently disturbed by the epiglottis, closing the larynx halfway so that air intake becomes irregular, making us gasp (struggle for breath). The mouth also begins opening and closing, struggling for oxygen intake in unity with the respiratory system.

In a situation where the laughter intensifies, the tear ducts are activated and the eyes become moist with tears.

 

Biological Process of laughter:

Have you heard that laughter is helpful to those coping with major illness and the stress of life’s problems? Yes, that is a fact. It can basically bring a balance to all the components of the immune system, which helps us fight off diseases.

Laughter reduces the levels of certain stress hormones by providing a safety valve that shuts off the flow of stress hormones that takes action when our bodies experience anger, stress or uncomfortable situations. These stress hormones are destructive, in that they suppress the immune system and increase the number of blood platelets which can cause obstructions in arteries, thereby raising the blood pressure. When we are in the laughing process, the natural killer cells that destroy tumors and viruses increase.

Laughter triggers healthy bodily changes, which in turn creates healthy changes in the mind. Laughter can increase your energy level, lessen pain, strengthen the immune system, and protect people from stress.

 

Laughter is Strong Medicine

Laughter can be a strong antidote to conflict, pain, and stress. , it can be said to be one of the best medicine because it is free, fun, and easy.

There is nothing else that works more dependable or quicker to bring your body and mind into balance than laughter. The use of humor can lighten emotional and psychological burdens, connect you to others, inspire your hope, keep you at alert and focused.

With this ability to renew your health and heal you, laughter can be a great resource for whatever problems you may have. It can also strengthen your relationships and can improve wellbeing.

 

How Is Laughter Good For Your Health?

Laughter can have many health benefits which include the following:

• Laughter can increase your immune system. It can decrease the level of stress hormones within the body and increase the number of immune cells and antibodies you have, which will help you become more resistant to diseases.
• Laughter is relaxing. A wonderful laugh can relieve you of stress and physical tension by relaxing your muscles.
• Laughter releases endorphins. Endorphins are the body’s feel-good hormones. When your endogenous endorphins are released, you feel a sense of well-being and a reduction in the sensation of body pain.
• Laughter can help the heart. Laughter can increase the ability of the blood vessels to nourish all parts of the body. It can increase your blood flow, which in turn can help prevent heart attacks and other types of heart diseases.

 

Laughter Can Help Your Emotional Health

Laughter simply makes a person feel good. This good feeling persists even when you are done laughing. Laughter helps you maintain an optimistic, positive stance so you can get through situations of disappointments, loss and other complicated situations.

Laughter is more than just a protection against pain and sadness. It gives you the strength and courage to find other sources of hope and meaning. Even when you find yourself in the most difficult of times, laughter or even a smile can take you far when it comes to feeling better. Laughter really is a bit transmittable. When you hear someone else laugh, it primes your brain and sets you up to join that person in laughing too.

 

Laughter and Mental Health

Laughter is associated with better mental health. Some things laughter can do to improve your mental health include the following:

• Laughter allows you to relax. A good laugh can lessen stress and increase your energy levels so that you can remain focused and get more things accomplished.
• Laughter shifts your perspective. It allows you to see things in a less threatening and more realistic light. Being humorous helps create a psychological distance between you and stressful events so that you don’t feel so overwhelmed.
• Laughter lessens fear and worry. When this happens, joy is added to our life.

 

Laughter has Social Benefits              

Laughter creates team spirit and oneness – This, in turn, strengthens relationships, as it becomes stronger and triggers positive emotions and an emotional connection with those you are laughing with.

A positive bond develops – Laughter can act as a powerful buffer against disappointment, disagreements, and stress when you laugh with others, this is a more powerful thing than when you laugh alone.

 

How to Create More Opportunities to Laugh

Here are some things you can do or try to increase your chances of laughing:

• Attend a comedy shows like “AY Show”, “Night of a Thousand Laugh” etc
• Watch funny videos on television and on YouTube
• Read the comics in the magazine/newspaper
• Be with people who are naturally humorous and stay away from angry people
• Share a funny story or joke with another
• Read funny stories
• Play games with your friends
• Play with your pet
• Play with children
• Do something you think is silly
• Engage in activities you consider fun

Laughter can do a lot to help you feel better on a physical, emotional, and cognate level. Don’t be afraid to share a good laugh with others for all-around better health.

Let the Laughter Flow

Power of choice:Key to healing yourself from within

The ability or power of choice can be used to improve the Quality Of Life and Wellness

Everyone has got the ability to choose. The ability to decide what to eat each day, what clothes to wear, what restaurants to go to; we have got the ability to choose what we want and do not want in life.

Obviously, there are some things we can’t choose, such as the color our skin, the size of our feet, what day of the week we were born, but we do have the ability to choose something that is really important.

How We Feel

The practice of developing wellness in our lives shows that we have the ability to choose how we feel. We can willfully influence our emotion. We can use mental training strategies such as meditation to promote feelings within our minds.

We have the ability to choose how to react to certain circumstances or to a certain person. That ability to control our emotions so that we don’t fall into negative, degenerative, or destructive thought processes is inbuilt in us. Hence, we can even use the power of choice to heal ourselves of negative situations.

Healing From Within

The power of choice is very similar to the power of intention. When we hold an intention in our minds, we tend to start attracting the result of that intention into our lives. Once we make a choice, the result of that choice into is being attracted to our lives. Therefore, if we learn to be very conscious of our choices we make, and also where our choices can lead us to, we can then learn to remove destructive and negative influences from our lives.

When these negativity and destructive influences are removed from our lives, we feel a universal sense of wellness within our daily way of life. Furthermore, when we can learn to promote this feeling on a regular basis, the natural result we get is healing in the spirit.

What does healing mean?

A person who is incredibly sick and unhealthy physically has the ability to create a feeling from the within that they will become healthy soon. They clear every negative notion of remaining in the sick bed from their spirit. The spirit controls the physical. In a short time, their physical bodies begin to respond the treatment being administered.

Having a complete awareness of what we are, knowing that in reality, everything is okay, and understanding our position and function in life, that is what real healing is about. On the other hand, there is suffering.

Being lost in life, being confused about what is real and what is not, being angry and traumatized by past experiences, holding onto judgments and opinions about people, things or places which lead to a feeling of separateness, these things are all in the realm of suffering.

True healing and true spiritual wellness can only occur when the source of our suffering has been extinguished by no more visualizing them through the spiritual eyes.

Spiritual healing result in Healthy body & mind

We have the ability to choose whether or not we suffer. By choosing not to suffer we are encouraging healing within our spirit. When healing is encouraged within our spirit, this has the natural effect of developing inner peace within our heart.

To truly heal, to remove all of the anguish, all of the confusion, all of the aggression, all of the conflict, all we have do is make a choice, a choice not to suffer, not to feed our problems, but instead, to take up the source of their inspiration.

The Choice depends on you

If we can choose not to promote suffering in our lives, naturally this has the effect of promoting a greater quality of life and greater health. But even if our physical health is bad, as will be the case with most of us as we age and grow older, we can still have a mindset that doesn’t experience this as suffering, but simply sees that it is a part of the natural way of things.

For those of us who have health problems in our younger years, by making the choice to stop doing anything negative or destructive, we can encourage greater physical health as well and mental and spiritual health. In order to do this, all we have to do is make a choice.

What will you choose?

Overcome that Fear & Worry

The graveyard have been said to be one place with quantum of frustrated talent. This is because a lot of people have died without fulfilling the dreams to their destinies.

Apart from having the resources and time for a project, Fear and Worry is known to be one twin factors that is responsible for people’s failure to achieving their dreams.

Briefly, permit WellBeingDigest to bring you a story and see if you can fetch out a lesson from it;

A young man called Tony was struggling to get out of poverty in one rural community with few basic infrastructures, where he graduated from college. He read many stories about the city life, such as fraudulent people dupe innocent ones, accident rate, failed project and dreams, prostitution among others. He could not imagine himself being a victim of the mentioned social vices. Although, he read of other positive things such as good roads, electricity, success stories but his heart was clouded by the negative sides of the city. After graduating from college, his uncle offered to assist him with some funds, travel to get a job and start a new life in the city. Even though he wished to be in the city, he decided to remain back in the village doing menial jobs. Years after, one Christmas, Gbenga, one of his ex-college friends working as a Manager of a firm in the city visited him. He had plenty of success stories for Tony. Tony was no longer happy as he had permit some built-in excuses (negative belief) to hold him back in life.

From the short story above, Tony capitalized heavily on the negative stories of the city, which in turn became an excuse for fear and worry. He failed to attempt something new. He stopped before ever starting because he was afraid of what would happen to him or even what others may think.

 

FEAR AND WORRY DEFINED

Fear can be simply put as a feeling triggered by anticipated or impending future danger such as threat, disaster or evil.

While

Worry is a mental agitation of unpleasant things or a potential problem that might happen in a way that makes one unhappy or uncomfortable or emotionally stable.

 

From the above definitions, one can say the two words are not the same. Fear in some cases can save a life, take for instance Tony was aware of the high crime rate in the city. This was capable of keeping him safe from being a victim as he would be proactive and careful. His fear created by the knowledge of high crime rate has reserved the signal or picture in his brain. But things become bad when he preoccupied his mind with the potential dangers perceived. Hence, his imagination begins to focus too much on the crime perceived images.

Capitalizing too much on the negative past diminishes our ability to interpret the present situation around us. Hence, we become more likely to miss knowledge that will notify us of near impending dangers.

This is why I strongly agree with someone who defined F.E.A.R. as False Evidence Appearing Real. This is true due to the fact that one chose to believe in unreal or happenings of the past, which may not be applicable to our present day.

On the other hand, Worry is the mental fabrication of fear. Man has a great choice whether to worry or not. Hence, worry is nothing more than a continuous fear caused by indecision.

 

WORRY ANALYSED

In certain situations, worry can either lead people to make healthy decisions or may even help keep them alive. For example, worrying about impending economic crises can make one invest wrongly and worrying about finances can help prevent someone from reckless spending respectively.

Also, worrying about basic safety can make someone become informed about self-defense tactics, thereby secure or lock doors and windows. But when worry persists, and we do nothing about it but occupying much of one’s thoughts and preventing relaxation or enjoyment of life, it can have a significant negative effect on the Mental Health.

Some people may worry to the extent that they become unable to focus on daily tasks, and others may develop insomnia, unhealthy eating habit or on a worst side, might experience heart attack.

Worry can affect the physical health negatively when the imagination produces a terrifying scenario. In such a situation, the body responds by releasing a number of chemicals, such as adrenaline and cortisol, in the same way that it would if the imagined scenario were actually taking place. These chemicals help people react to danger on a short-term basis, but they also raise the blood pressure, cause blood to clot faster and lead to muscle tension.

On a long term, these effects can reduce immunity and cause illness. Carrying stress in the body may also lead to aches and pains and the development of high blood pressure or other heart related trouble.

In many cases, worry might also reflect one’s reluctance to take action, whereby the individual begin to worry, thereby expressing anger, depression or fear. They start imagining things that might go wrong and becoming preoccupied with potential outcomes. This may facilitate an avoidance of the actual situation. Hence, persistent worry can become a mechanism to avoid problems that one feels unable to solve.

 

FEAR ANALYSEDS

The amygdalae (a section of the brain that is responsible for detecting fear and preparing for emergency events) trigger a chain of biological events and engulf the mind in the fear, even before the conscious mind can assess the situation. This instinctive biological signal is triggered by the brain, which tries to overcome issues by foolishly preparing the body to defend itself, freeze or even flee from the scene of event.

 

EFFECTS OF FEAR

Fear can cause threatening health consequences such as follows;

• Fear takes control of breathing, digestion, blood circulation.
• The signals from the amygdalae dilate pupils and increase brain wave frequency.
• They make hairs stand on end.
• They reduce saliva, thereby drying the mouth.
• Fear cause sweating and a decrease in skin resistance to weather forces.
• Fear decrease peripheral blood flow and cause hands to become cold.
• The signals speed breathing and dilate bronchial tubes to allow more air to the lungs.
• The fear signal tighten stomach muscles,
• It slow down digestion and close down the excretory system.
• It increases the acids in the stomach, thereby causing diarrhea.
• The signals travel to the adrenal gland, which produces cortisol, causing an increase in glucose production to provide additional fuel for the muscles and brain to deal with the potential stress.
• The action above releases sugar into the blood and increases the tendency for blood clotting.
• They dilate blood vessels to skeletal muscles to allow greater blood flow.
• They slow down the working of the immune system.

 

SIMPLE FORMULA FOR OVERCOMING FEAR

For everyone who want to be free from Worry & Fear, these simple formula can be used to overcome and make them pretty close to being Fearless.

Formula One – Clearly identify the cause of Fear or Worry. Half of the worries and fears will be solved once identified clearly by writing it on paper. What once seemed mighty in your mind will look small and insignificant on paper.

Formula Two – Ask yourself this vital question; What is the worst possible thing that can happen if that, which I fear or worry becomes true?

Make a list a list of possible solution(s) and write them down on paper underneath your clearly defined Fear/worry. At this point, it will be noticed that you about 90% of the fear or worry will never happen? This list will enable you discover how much time you spend on worrying about stuff that never will happen.

Formula Three – Decide in your mind that you will acknowledge the worst possible thing that can happen. Keep telling yourself, I can handle it, over and over again. Since 90% of those things will never take place, then the other 10% will not kill you; Say to yourself  “I will survive”.

Formula Four – Begin to put together an action plans that will ensure the worst never happens. By making positive action/changes and implementing your action plan, your focus will start shifting from your fears to the positive outcomes.

Try this formula today and see. I know it will work for you. It has worked for me.

 

SUMMARY

Fear and Worry over the years has been linked to health issues, including arthritis, migraines, allergies, stomach ulcers and thyroid disease.

Over a lifetime, Worry and Fear builds an additional sensitivity to pain experiences which may have been caused by physical injury, painful confrontations, loss of loved ones, loss of social status, or rejection.

People suffer fears of failing, of being ridiculed, of the loss of loved ones. If a person suffered trauma, such people should endeavor to stay away from loneliness.

Eating well and maintaining physical wellness can often help one in keeping a new positive outlook.