The Wellness Theory: Natural, Effective Ways of Managing Stress and Tension

By Jonathan Mills and Charlotte Stebbing-Mills

When you’ve felt stressed, has anyone ever told you to “just relax” or “brush it off”? The suggestion here is that stress isn’t actually real, that it’s a choice. But we know that stress is very real, and while a certain amount of warranted short-term stress can be healthy, chronic stress can cause some problematic consequences. It’s not up to you whether you experience stress — but you can control how you handle it to prevent short-term stress from building into something chronic.
In their audio course from Scribd Coach, The Wellness Theory: Natural, Effective Ways of Managing Stress and Tension, Jonathan Mills and Charlotte Stebbing-Mills explain just how you can manage stress and prevent it from building to chronic levels. In the course, they share several ways you can reduce tension, what compounding stress is and how it can be managed, and myths and tips surrounding stress. They also share exercise so you can begin applying what you’ve learned right away.
The Wellness Theory is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to combat the perils of stress.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094433691

Jonathan Mills

Jonathan Mills is is an accredited coach and educator, and the co-founder of The Wellness Theory with Charlotte Stebbing-Mills. Jonathan has been specialising in helping people understand their bodies to be able to live a pain free and health abundant life since 2001. Find out more about Jonathan at the Wellness Theory website, thewellnesstheory.com.

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The Wellness Theory

The Wellness Theory

Natural, Effective Ways of Managing Stress and Tension

Jonathan Mills

Charlotte Stebbing-Mills

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2021 by Jonathan Mills and Charlotte Stebbing-Mills

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ISBN: 9781094433691

First e-book edition: November 2021

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Introduction

Hi, and welcome to The Wellness Theory: Natural, Effective Ways of Managing Stress and Tension— a course from Scribd Coach. Thanks for joining us. Let’s get started!

Has someone ever told you when you’re stressed, to just relax or brush it off? I’m sure they have. The suggestion is that stress isn’t actually real, right? — that it’s a choice and that, by simply accepting that, you can just control it at will. But is that actually true? Well, before we begin our course, let’s examine that assumption for a second:

Simply put, stress is the body’s way of reacting to anything it registers as some kind of demand or threat. It’s designed to protect you from whatever is happening around you. It’s not a condition — it’s a state, something you experience rather than something that you are.

It is also important to point out that stress is not an emotion, either. So many people, when asked how they’re feeling, will say, I feel stressed. — But, like I mentioned, it’s a state. When you’re stressed, you’re experiencing other emotions underneath your stress that are fueling it. In that way, you can think of stress as a collective label for some fear, some anger, tension, frustration, sadness, etc. — whatever the emotions are, they’re contributing to your state of stress.

So often you hear people talk about how bad stress is or how bad it is for you — no one wants to be stressed. But, again, stress is a natural bodily response that gets activated through our nervous systems. Your central nervous system sends signals all around the body. And, as parts of that system, you’ve got your sympathetic and your parasympathetic nervous systems.

Your sympathetic nervous system is your stress response. Your parasympathetic nervous system is your rest and digest response. We’re constantly going between these two depending on the threats and demands of our day-to-day life. When you do get stressed, you activate that sympathetic response. That’s when your body goes into stress mode — all the blood in your body that’s helping you digest food or going to your organs and brain gets pushed out of those areas and is sent to your limbs in your muscles, sending your body into a state of stress, as it tries to figure out what’s going on and why