!7# Stress Reducer - Learning to Control Your Reactions to Stress

!±8± Stress Reducer - Learning to Control Your Reactions to Stress

The emotional response to stimulus that we call stress is hard wired into us. It began as the "flight or fight" reaction to truly life threatening situations (like being eaten by wild animals!).

Although being lunch for a tiger is no longer a problem for most of us the emotional trigger is still with and is activated much more by social, cultural, or professional external stimuli than by true life threatening situations.

The evidence that we do not know how to deal well with stress is all around. The large pharmaceutical companies spend millions on internet, TV, and print advertising to push their brand name anti-depressant drugs like Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, and Prozac.

Additionally, the mental health professions don't seem to want for clients either. Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals all depend on our poor reactions to stress as a large part of their business.

While both counseling and medication therapies have their place, and have provided benefits to many people, many others continue to suffer the effects of stress without seeking help.

Many of these folks have lived with stress and its affects for so long that they don't realize that there is any different way to live. Or, they are concerned about becoming drug dependent and are uncomfortable with the thought of counseling.

But there is hope for these folks who are not comfortable with drugs and counseling.

Even though the "fight or flight" response is as old as humanity, it is a learned response and so can be learned to be controlled to a great degree. In other words, we can learn to react to stress in a much different way and prevent much of its damaging affects.

Of course, learning to control your responses to stress is much easier and more effective if you have some mechanism that tells you how you are doing.

And this is where the Personal Stress Reliever from Heartmath can be of such help. Based on medically proven bio feedback techniques, this portable device is invaluable in helping you learn to control your reactions to stress and anxiety without drugs, and without counseling.