Wired Magazine - The Scientific Study of Stress on People

Wired magazine in August had an incredible article on Stress.  Many people have known about the debilitating impact that stress has but maybe didn't realize the full impact.  I think this article spells it out in a new light.

Read the article.

After I read this article I felt that everyone needed to see it.  You see even those of us that practice Mind-Body exercise are not immune to being hit by stress.  I have sometimes very powerful bouts with stress like trying to fight Hercules. It's precisely knowing that I don't want to live this way that leads me to stress reducing actions and techniques. 

The article however adds a new dimension to finding relief.  If we don't we are sure to succumb to the disease  that comes from the dis-ease.  As this type of information becomes more easily accessible to the public, the idea of a vaccine for stress will probably be a very popular option.  I have always believed that the human being is more powerful when accsessing all of what is available to us.  Stress is not new, what's new is that science is beginning to show what most of us know intuitively:  Stress kills.  From this article we now know how it happens.

Byron Katie says, "There are no physical problems - only mental ones."  My former teacher Sifu Ken Lo would say, "everything that  happens to you happens out of a lack of awareness".  If we close down, run away or fight stress, we are still engaged in it. If we become aware and move through it than it changes and we grow. 

The healthy way to move through stress is to become present and ground ourselves in the moment.  As many moments as we possibly can.  This is where AEROFORM and the aforementioned processes truly come to our aid.

Embrace life, love and health,

Michael Sage