Higher Endeavors

Stress can be experienced in many forms. Our culture is bombarded with stressors that are physical, chemical, electromagnetic, mental, nutritional, and thermal. Understanding that stress can come in a variety of forms is a necessary part of being able to control the amount of stress in daily life. For example, a person who might not feel mentally or physically stressed could fail to realize just how much stress he or she is receiving daily through the consumption of processed food.

There is the old adage “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” This may be true, but in other cases it can unfortunately be very inaccurate. Hans Seyle was one of the first to scientifically investigate the concepts of stress and its impact on physiology. While the majority of his work was completed in a lab on animals his General Adaption Syndrome can easily be applied to humans.