CEO of the Brain is Knocked Out by Stress

Stress causes a body serious harm. Researchers have already told us that stress can damage the heart by increasing the risks for high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

According to Dr. Gary Kaplan, a Long Island neurologist in the September 30, 2005 article from CanWest News Service called: Job stress takes its toll on the brain,“High stress, long hours, bad diet (fast food) in the workplace also takes a terrible toll on the brain.”

Dr. Kaplan says that the area of the brain most affected by stress is the prefrontal cortex. That’s in the front of the head behind the forehead. Here is the disturbing message. “Brain imaging and behavioral studies show that the so-called CEO of the brain, which regulates judgment, planning, problem-solving, decision making, moral reasoning and sense of self, is actually knocked out by stress.” The main controller of the brain is actually knocked out by stress.

In that same article, another expert, Fred Travis says, “If you are under constant stress, your brain is rewiring to just deal with surface facts.” It can’t handle anything else. He says, “Over time, the body’s natural feedback mechanisms break down, so even when you’re not in a stressful situation your body’s activation remains permanently on and at a higher level.” The fight or flight response in the body to stress causes a form of tunnel vision that actually takes the prefrontal cortex of the brain offline causing people to be unable to plan ahead or make far reaching decisions, which are a function of the prefrontal cortex.

Have you ever gone to the emergency room at the hospital because of an anxiety attack, feeling you were going to fall apart or that you were too afraid to take a shower because you felt you might fall apart or have a heart attack? Yes, this is stress to an extreme. If you are someone who has difficulty making decisions or you’ve lost your sense of self because of stress, if you are having trouble seeing the Big Picture, consider that it may be because of compounded stress and that you have actually rewired that part of your brain.

Energy healing self-help such as Healing Touch Quick Steps may be an easy way to support the return your brain functions to a harmonic state of wholeness. One simple Quick Step that has been known to influence healthy brain functions is called Calms Nervous System, and another Quick Step is called Waist Up-Waist Down Harmony. From the application of one or two of the Healing Touch Quick Steps mentioned here you may begin to notice a clearing of your mind, maybe even a sense of feeling energized, relaxed and alert at the same time, all from the reducing and melting away stress. This is important because no matter what kind of a day you had at work or at home, you may instantly tap into perfect harmony and rewire your brain to get yourself back on track.

Remember the Healing Touch Quick Steps do not replace, treat, diagnose, prescribe or cure. They may simply help you become clear about how best to help yourself in any moment with any conventional medicine including getting yourself to a hospital if that is what you need. Be well.

Take care. Take great self-care.

Many blessings,

Barbara J. Semple

(c) Copyright 2009. Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. Permission received from CanWest News Service.