August is Stress Awareness Month, a time when the health and wellness community focus on raising the public’s awareness of what causes stress, how dangerous it is to our health, and how to beat it. The American Institute of Stress’s 2014 research shows that, in the U.S., the effects of stress are serious: 77% of people have physical symptoms linked to stress, and at least 73% have psychological symptoms. The top causes of stress? Job pressure tops the list, followed by money, health, relationships, poor nutrition, media overload, and sleep deprivation. Everyone knows that stress is bad for your health, but it’s something you can simply quit like any other unhealthy habit. Stress is the body’s response to what it perceives as a life-threatening situation. While we aren’t often required to run from a predator or escape a burning building, we do face constant sources of low-level stress at work, on our commutes, at home, and in our relationships with others. The tricky thing is that our ...
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