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In recent years the words “tension“, “anxiety” and “stress” have entered our everyday language to describe certain states often suffer disturbing, especially those who live in big cities.

Tension and anxiety are normal psychophysiological mechanisms that are activated for our body and mind to be alert so that we can meet our daily activities, you can even say that the need for life. “Stress” is a controversial term, but it could easily be defined as an altered state resulting from imbalance between the demands of the environment, whether real or subjective, and resources available to us to face them.

It was once thought that stress, anxiety and stress suffered only the top executives and business people with great responsibilities, were associated with a type of work and a high socioeconomic level, but today we know that this is not true; everyone from children to old, rich and poor, at some point in our lives we have to deal with situations that disturb us physically and emotionally, indeed, it may be stressed and tense is already part of everyday life.

What is alarming is that stress and anxiety affect the health and quality of life of those who suffer and those around them, because a person who can not handle these situations contaminated with their concern and irascible character to his family and their classmates or work.

It is known that some physical ailments can have a strong emotional component and that those who suffer chronic diseases experience tension and anxiety that impede the healing process itself.

At some point, everyone in situations like school exams, job interviews, economic crises, work and interpersonal conflicts, to the daily problems or simply when things do not go our way, we can feel:

• Rapid pulse

• Rapid breathing, irregular and shallow.

• Contracted muscles, tense shoulders, neck and back.

• Restlessness.

• Perspiration and heat.

• Frequent urination.

• Lack of coordination.

• Dry mouth, thirst.

• Fatigue or low energy.

• Headaches.

• Feeling of discomfort or heaviness.

• Stomach or lack of appetite.

• Irregular sleep.

• Skin rashes.

Among others, these are symptoms of stress, and generally, as stated by Dr. Erika Cabrera, a psychologist specializing in psychophysiology (discipline that studies the biology of behavior and psychological processes) and neurofeedbac (treatment to help you develop strategies to modify and train brain activity), are accompanied by negative emotions such as disapproval author, exaggeration, sterile anguish, distress, irritability, fear, loathing or disgust, shyness, depression, apathy, hopelessness, guilt and frustration.

Whom does relaxation techniques?

Dr. Erika Cabrera works with patients trying to manage anxiety and stress through therapies that involve the body. And while coordinating its work with a group of colleagues and psychiatrists, it is interesting that many of their patients are, in turn, referred by other physicians, and dermatologists (specialist in skin conditions) and gastroenterologists (specialists in stomach), that after having ruled out or treated the physical origin of disease, want their patients to learn relaxation techniques to manage their stress levels, anxiety and stress. Another important group of patients suffering from different disorders ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to bulimia and anorexia, as well as children with attention deficit. Relaxation techniques can also help those who are about to stop treatment with anxiolytics and faces the fear of living without drugs.

What are relaxation techniques?

The experience has led me to reduce technical and especially adapted to each patient, the doctor explains. For example, the best known are those of Edmund Jacobson, the father of muscle relaxation, but their method is very complex and it takes about 55 sessions to feel a real effect on the body. I lie is clear that older perform better, but it is very difficult for someone to agree to take as many sessions, because the obvious answer is that no time or money, whether we’re talking about a person is usually restless , restless, always with the watch in his hand, and say that will sit and take the time to do a long series of exercises, which is more complicated.

But a simple technique that you yourself can do on your own is one that works seven muscle groups, thus the whole body relaxes and is called ‘progressive muscle relaxation’, plus or deep diaphragmatic breathing. If relaxation techniques were part of the knowledge taught in school we would have a more peaceful and pleasant.

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