Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankin M.D

Author:Lissa Rankin, M.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2013-05-07T04:00:00+00:00

Rx for Job Stress

If you’re feeling stressed about work or money, don’t despair. You don’t necessarily have to turn in your resignation letter or win the lottery in order to counteract the stress response. But you do have to have a serious heart-to-heart with yourself about how these issues might be affecting your health.

If you’re committed to preventing disease or healing yourself from illness, be brave enough to tell yourself the truth. If you’re concerned about how these stressors might be affecting your body, all is not lost. There’s hope. You may be able to prevent disease or reverse illness by making positive changes aimed at bringing more relaxation into your body. If you’re powerless to change your professional life, you still have the power to counteract at least a percentage of the negative effects of the stress response on your body with techniques clinically proven to activate the body’s physiological relaxation response and improve your health. (I’ll be discussing these health-inducing techniques in Chapter 8.)

But until then, know this: Stripping off the masks we wear in order to impress other people, appear more “professional,” cover up our imperfections, and protect ourselves from getting hurt can work wonders when we’re on a quest for optimal health. Being unapologetically who we are—not just at work, but at home, in the schoolyard, at church, wherever—soothes the mind, halts the stress response, induces the relaxation response, and heals the body. Authenticity, in work and in life, can be medicine for the body.

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