Is Calming Down Actually the Key To Dealing With Stress?
There is a lot of talk about nervous system regulation these days. There are many different services and resources that claim to help decrease stress and regulate the nervous system allowing for better health and quality of life. This is such important work, however it’s critical that it’s done right and you know what you are receiving. Chiropractic care is one of the tools that can help you regulate and improve how your body responds and deals with stress. Chiropractic truly helps you life a live with less stress, anxiety and better health. Lets dive into how chiropractic helps nervous system regulation and health.
Regulating our nervous system and decreasing stress is not as simple as just calming our nervous system. Decreasing stress and calming down is a good thing and can be very beneficial to our health. Yoga, meditations, cold plunging and many other activities definitely help to calm our nervous system down. However, the impact is limited, all this calming effect is doing is bringing our nervous system back to our baseline state. It brings the nervous system balance of sympathetic (stress) and Parasympathetic (rest) back to where it was before experiencing the stressor or trigger. While yes this is a calm and relaxed state that our body can function well in, it’s often very temporary. When we face a new stressor or even a reoccurring stressor our body reacts the same and goes back into a stressed, on edge and sympathetic state. This is because these calming activities do not improve the adaptability and elasticity of the nervous system and don’t impact how our nervous system reacts to future stressors. What we truly need is to help the body and the nervous system adapt to these stressors and enable them to overcome them with ease.
This is where Chiropractic care shines. On each visit in our office we are working with the nervous system directly, removing interference with specific adjustments and allowing your brain and body to communicate with greater ease. This is the key to improving adaptability in your nervous system. When your nervous system can communicate to the brain without restriction that it is experiencing a stressor; our bodies can respond more rapidly to that stressor, overcome it quicker and prevent other symptoms from arising. Chiropractic adjustments not only improve the adaptability of our nervous system but it can also allow for more balance and regulation. Which means that not only do you deal with stressors better but your baseline stress level that your body functions at on a day to day basis is lower. So you are more relaxed and stay that way!
What would your life look like if you dealt with stress with ease and lived a life in a more calm and relaxed state. Would you be spending more time doing the things you loved, more present with family and friends, going on trips or taking on new things? Chiropractic care helps you live a life unrestricted and with ease.
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