Challenge Experience Report: Autogenic Relaxation
In a current environment, one is exposed to diverse stressful situations. It seems like every day, that tension is built up. Tension can lead to shifts in the serum level of numerous hormones, including glucocorticoids, catecholamines, growth hormones, and prolactin. (Spona, J., Ulm, R., Bieglmayer, C., & Husslein, P. 1979). Some of these shifts are required for the fight or flight reaction to safeguard oneself. In this way, it can be a challenge turning such a primal instinct off. It is vital to release this built-up stress because stress responses can lead to endocrine disturbances like Graves’ disease and obesity. (Weaver J. U. 2008).
The Autogenic Relaxation video allows one to move into a state of being where fight or flight can be ignored for the time being. As the blood flows through the body, it creates work that produces heat. A thermal equilibrium can be achieved as blood flows from the heart to the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks, eyes, and brain-a full circle. The body rarely has a moment alone, so it is difficult to adjust. The mind will always protect the body. In this way, the mind will always be safe.
The body slowly warms, releasing the heat, which converts into entropy. This entire process takes practice but is not impossible. The key is to practice in small increments, a lifestyle change, to access such a rare state of being. Understand what stress is, how it can harm, and what to do about it. Stress can correspondingly convert the clinical status of many preexisting endocrine disorders, such as precipitation of adrenal crisis and thyroid storm. (Gilliland P. F. 1983).
A simple form of meditation is ideal for a healthy life because we are organic robots, organisms with a strong will to live. Such practices depend solely on the integrity of the individual, just like rules and laws. Create a rule to be better, to recognize the importance of being still, the absolute power within oneself. The release of destructive built-up tension can be achieved, but it requires a rare moment that very few choose to provide.
Gilliland P. F. (1983). Endocrine emergencies. Adrenal crisis, myxedema coma, and thyroid storm. Postgraduate medicine, 74(5), 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1983.11698506
Weaver J. U. (2008). Classical endocrine diseases causing obesity. Frontiers of hormone research, 36, 212–228. https://doi.org/10.1159/000115367
Spona, J., Ulm, R., Bieglmayer, C., & Husslein, P. (1979). Hormone serum levels and hormone receptor contents of endometria in women with normal menstrual cycles and patients bearing endometrial carcinoma. Gynecologic and obstetric investigation, 10(2-3), 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1159/000299920
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