Friday 26 February 2016

Coping with stress

Is your hair a little greyer?
Does your face have many lines?
Do you need another shoulder?
To lean on: to cry out your terrible pain?
Are you made sick from your worries?
Do you feel a little more than strained?
What is your major problem?
Have you lost more than you have gained?
Does the fight/flight instinct/syndrome?
Leave you more than a little tired...
That adrenalin is climbing...
Searing through all of your veins...
Ah...I realise you are fighting harder
To maintain your uncertain poise
Please look a little deeper to find out
How you can avoid all that incessant noise
After-all your heart was pumping madly
Your cortisol is on the rise...
If you cannot lower all your stressors?
If you cannot cope with all the strain
How do you think to escape?
From all those modern day diseases
That: appear just like some silly craze...
Do you feel that you are cornered?
Have you lost your self-control?
Are you feeling ever trapped? 
Like a rat within a maze?
What do you do to ease that madness?
What helps lessen the constant strain?
If you cannot lower the stress my darling
You will go the way of many who blame
Their diseases upon many reasons
But please let me explain...
Studies show that many of today's diseases
Are caused by stress...
Cardiovascular disease...
Stroke and mental disorders...
Have been shown to have evolved
And progressed due to stress...

We all need to learn how to manage our stress
Through exercise and relaxation...
Through reading and artistic expression
Through natural medicine, and spas
Through social activity and hobbies
Through deep breathing and meditation
Through cognitive therapy and music
Through prayer and yoga or Tai Chi

Hans Seyle wrote his amazing paper
About how "stress" kills and maims
Yes it's all about how "stress"
Causes many diseases of modern days
In the "General Adaptation Syndrome"
He certainly explains: about "stress"
The modern killer that leaves its scars
"Every stress leaves an indelible scar
And the organism pays for its survival
After a stressful situation
By becoming a little older"


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