Effects of stress

Stressed women excrete essential vitamins and minerals. It is very important to keep insulin levels under control. When insulin levels become out of control, stressed women are more susceptible to the food addiction. Prolactin is a hormone released during mental or physical stress.

When dieting, a woman’s prolactin rises by more than 50% whereas a man’s prolactin remains unchanged. Dieting creates stress in women and sometimes it creates conditions that can lead to food addiction. Dieting women have a special need to reduce stress. There are three techniques for lowering stress: Exercise, Meditation and Breathing. Reducing stress is a powerful tool to boost your physical and mental health, which makes weight loss easier.

Most of the popular weight loss programs combine dieting with vigorous exercise to eliminate excess stored calories in the body. The reason most of these programs fail is because they are not balanced in their nature. They result in the body switching into stress mode; disturbing the natural function of serotonin and insulin. This switch into stress mode makes weight loss more difficult than with moderate, comfortable, exercise.

A healthy level of exercise is around 30 minutes daily. To do more is a viable option; however, you should only increase your routine as you increase your endurance. The following guidelines are suggested for your routine: 1. Exercise in a manner you enjoy. 2. Exercise half an hour a day, five times per week 3. Never exercise to exhaustion

There is a strong connection between meditation and a mantra, which is a personal phrase you silently repeat to enter meditation easily. Simply repeating your mantra lets you immediately enter a phase of increased meditative awareness. Additionally, hamsa mantra a powerful and is simply listening to your breath.

If you listen closely to your breath you can hear the subtle sound of ‘Hamsa’ (pronounced hamm-saahh). Hamsa is the vibrational sound of one’s inner self while breathing; ‘ham’ being the sound while one inhales and ’sa’ the sound of exhaling. Observing your breath to hear your hamsa is a powerful relaxation too and changing the pattern of your breath easily changes ones inner emotional state.