any people associate the holidays with one word: STRESS! What should be a happy, celebratory time becomes something to be dreaded. This is unnecessary. This article will address the health aspects of handling stress in unique ways, from homeopathic medicine to hands-on and mind-body healing techniques. What Stress Is and Is Not Stress, in itself, is not a bad tiling. It's merely a stimulus. It changes an organism's homcostasis. The word stress is derived from the French word destresse. meaning distress or difficulty handling stress. Most modem day usage of the word "stress" is synonymous with distress, and carries a negative connotation. Lct"s look at all the good things stress docs for us. For example, a vacation can be stressful with all the travel plans and potentials for unexpected circumstances. Or. learning a new skill or game can have some clement of stress to it. These are things we often welcome, however, because they bring more pleasure than discomfort. Sometimes a stressful stimulus can be a good thing. For example, if you step on a tack, that distress helps you lift away from the pain and pull the tack out. Becoming uncomfortable in any situation causes us to look for alternative solutions. Handled correctly, stress can cause us to look for solutions for everything from personal problems to global problems and even thing in-bctw ccn. Stress can actually be a good thing. It can be the stimulus causing us to evolve from victims into victors. Stress vs. Dis-stress Stress is famously connected to numerous health problems, from headaches to heartburn and hemorrhoids to herpes. Some experts claim that 90 percent of all physician visits arc ulti-matclv due to stress-related issues. Negative processing of stress can cause mayhem in our bodies, minds, and emotions - causing both short-term and long-term illnesses. Whether its a temporary weakening of our immune system or a chronic disorder, distress is commonly the causative factor. We all have stressors in our lives. However, some seem to How with stress with the greatest of ease. That kind of "ease"' prevents "dis-ease." I feel the key is in learning how to How in life. Think of this analogy in nature. Stagnation in a stream causes build-up. Flow releases and cleanses that build-up. How do we learn to go with the flow? One thing I try to remember is to not take myself so seriously. My dad always used to say. "Keep the big things big and the little things little." (When we really get down to it. I have found tliat many things that seemed big at the moment became little with perspective.) Lack of tliat perspective can rob us of life's finest qualities. If we had a joy meter to test our patients with, how would they rate? In what ways do they enhance thcirjoy? Do they use healthy, life-enhancing strategies or unhealthy, life-de straying methods? Light Overcomes Darkness I appreciate the relationship between Life. Light, and Health. To me. they are synonymous. I visualize turning up the joy in my life, just like I would turn up a dimmer-switch light (rheostat) to brighten a room. If this analogy- works for you. encourage your patients to turn up their life-rheostat to increase the light-ness and joy in their lives. Just as light overcomes darkness, joy neutralizes dis-slress. Laughter heals. Peace eliminates dis-strcss. Contentment removes dis-strcss. These qualities, joy. peace, and contentment, all prevent stress from becoming overwhelming. The trouble most people have is that the tnic stressors in their lives are not the obvious ones. The tnie stressors stem from a much deeper place, and have root causes behind perplexing and repeating patterns. Psychologists call these patterns subconscious, or below conscious, awareness. We call them mind-body issues. Shine the Light on Hidden Mind-Body Issues Mind-body issues do not have to remain in the shadows, hidden away from the light of conscious awareness. They arc revealed through the beautiful, wonderful language your body uses via its innate intelligence: symptoms. Doctors and scientists use algorithms and protocols for solving problems. Symptoms are the key to your patient's personal algorithm of life. Symptoms can help them become aware of things that are below their conscious understanding of the stress in their life. Stress symptoms can lead you directly to the solutions for your patient's hidden stress triggers. How? To Help the Whole Person, You Must See the Whole Person Through my nearly 40 years of experience in working in the field of natural healing, one of the best tools I have found to reveal the hidden stress points in my patients has been the Mind-Body Appraisal, which is part of the Whole Person Appraisal - free on my website. This appraisal helps you sec the whole patient, not just the part presenting physical symptoms. It helps both you and the patient become aware of those root causes behind the stress. Best of all. there is a medicine that can assist in correcting those hidden areas, almost miraculously. This medicine is safe, natural, effective, and goes to work instantly, since it is biocn-ergctic. affecting the nervous system rather than progressing through the digestive system. Homeopathic medicine, introduced 200 years ago. is still relevant today, and needed now more than ever. It fills the holes in our wholeness. Homeopathic Medicine for Body, Mind, and Emotions Homeopathy, like chiropractic, doesn't suppress symptoms. It gently but effectively stimulates the body to overcome symptoms naturally. In addition, it does this at the root causes, working at the level of body. mind, and emotions. Homeopathic remedies have been studied more than any of the modem medicines. Even 200 years ago. stress was a major factor. Homeopathy utilizes the law of similars, which states that what a substance causes in concentration, it cures after homeopathic, serial ultra-dilution and potcnti/ation. The highly diluted and potcnti/cd remedies contain enough energetic information from the original medicine to stimulate the body to overcome the problem, but not enough to cause any negative side effects. Homeopath} offers formulas for negative reactions to stress, such as fear, anxiety, nervousness, and irritability. Likewise, distress caused by addictions, eating disorders, smoking cessation, jet lag. and even PMS can all be addressed successfully with homeopathy. Mind-Body Techniques After your patients take the Whole Body Appraisal and discover any hidden strcssors. two techniques from my book offer unique tools to help them overcome obstacles to almost anything. These two hands-on techniques can greatly assist your patients in turning up their joy meters: TIP and BRT. TIP - Tap Into Potential - is the method I teach for tapping out stress to improve How and joy in life, and not just for patients, but also for practitioners! Caring for others can be stressful if we dont remember to take good care of ourselves, too. TIP can help, and can be quickly done between scheduled patients. BRT - Bio-Response Testing - is my version of applied kinesiology. It can be used as a "truth detector" to evaluate your patients" tnic strcssors. Do they state. "I love going to my in-laws house for the holidays." while their ami goes weak? It may be time for them to tap out that stress (or change their vacation plans!) Give yourself and your patients the gift of stress-free holidays and a life with a health}' flow through all the ups and downs of life's joyful journey. Dr. Frank King, nalionalh recognized researcher. Icclurcr. and author of The Healing Revolution: Eight Essentials to Awaken Abundant Life, Xalu-rally' is the founder and president of King Bio. an FDA-rcgistcrcd homeopathic manufacturing company. He is dedicated to completing chiroprac- tic destiny with homeopathy. Learn how to easily incorporate contemporary homeopathy into your practice by dow nioading your free Physician s Reference Manual at: www.SafeCareRx. com. 866-298-2740. or: procsrcisafecarerx.com.
