episode 13: stress and its impact on your health

[00:00:01] A warm welcome to all my lovely people who are hearing to Hina's Emo wisdom podcast.

[00:00:06] Well, this is Hina Amarine Khan, certified wellness coach, certified life coach, speaker,

[00:00:10] author, former soil scientist from Indian Institute of Science.

[00:00:14] Well, the topics that I bring up in this Emo podcast is based on the emotional wisdom

[00:00:21] and my mission and purpose has always been to empower every single individual existing on this earth.

[00:00:29] Well, my dear lovely people, the topics that I bring is either through the experiences

[00:00:35] or that resonates with day to day life of the people.

[00:00:39] And today's topic is very much that exists in everyone's life that's about stress.

[00:00:45] Okay, we all feel that, oh, I'm stressed, I'm stressed, I'm stressed.

[00:00:51] Do you think that you can keep stress away and you can live with it?

[00:00:55] But you can still live with stress. But how? By dealing with stress.

[00:01:01] Well, I'm going to give you certain highlights that you can implement it in your life

[00:01:06] and you can see how you can have the approach towards the stress that you are living in life.

[00:01:14] Well, stress is a physical and emotional signal that indicates that we care about something

[00:01:20] and perceive it to be at risk. This feeling isn't inherently good or bad.

[00:01:26] Okay, stress actually focuses our attention, my dear friends, on what we believe

[00:01:32] when it is jeopardized and motivates us to take action.

[00:01:38] When we experience stress, okay, what happens is a heart rate increases.

[00:01:44] You would have felt that. Our breathing becomes rapid. Yes.

[00:01:47] And our neuro hormones, like the adrenaline, oxytocin, they are released.

[00:01:53] This can provide the energy that is needed to complete the task and foster to care for what we want.

[00:02:01] Stress can be beneficial, my dear friends, if we learn to leverage it effectively.

[00:02:09] Let me tell you again, it is beneficial if we learn to leverage it effectively.

[00:02:15] And the first step is to just change how you think about the stress response.

[00:02:22] The same stress, if it is given to different human beings, they respond in a different way. Why?

[00:02:27] Because their wisdom is different. It's very important to recognize that all the emotions, they convey information.

[00:02:35] Stress in particular can concentrate our attention and boost our energy.

[00:02:41] However, we have a choice in how we interpret this.

[00:02:47] A decision that significantly which alters the stress impacts on us.

[00:02:55] Remember this. People experience stress, yes, either as a challenge or a threat.

[00:03:01] We do experience it in this way. When we perceive that we have sufficient resources to handle any situation,

[00:03:08] we experience it as a challenge.

[00:03:12] We just experience that something is a challenge. Oh, this has come as a challenge.

[00:03:17] And I always tell my students instead of calling it as a problem, problem, problem, that seems to look like a problem,

[00:03:24] say it as a challenge or some challenge is given to me. So I have to do that.

[00:03:29] When you feel it, it's a challenge and you have to overcome it and you're going to do it,

[00:03:34] then your mind turns into those actions and those actions you will see as the result.

[00:03:41] Conversely, when the situation seems to exceed, we feel threatened.

[00:03:49] For instance, when it is going to be a challenge, it's like increased blood flow that's happening inside our body,

[00:03:58] increased cardiac beats that's happening inside our body,

[00:04:02] emotions that motivate approaching the opportunities.

[00:04:07] There are different kinds of emotions that are happening and there's a higher performance.

[00:04:11] It can be the effectiveness or the accuracy when there is a challenge.

[00:04:15] But when it is a threat, when there is a threat, there's a decreased blood flow.

[00:04:21] There are emotions that are avoiding those dangers and it actually lowers the performance.

[00:04:30] When you view stress as a challenge, it will energize us.

[00:04:34] That's what I'm trying to say. Instead of considering any problem as a problem

[00:04:38] because those problems cause a lot of stress inside our body, inside our being.

[00:04:42] So when you consider it as a challenge, take it as an opportunity.

[00:04:45] Just consider it as an opportunity and you feel more energized

[00:04:49] because it's a challenge that is given to you and you have to do that.

[00:04:52] So you feel more energized. Yes, I have to do that.

[00:04:54] And if you feel you're feeling overwhelmed all the time,

[00:04:57] then you can take a break and not break your head to that level

[00:05:00] where you feel the extreme kind of stress.

[00:05:03] It helps you to enhance efficiency in your productivity.

[00:05:07] On the other hand, if you perceive it as a threat,

[00:05:12] it will inhibit your work in different ways.

[00:05:17] Often the difference lies in our perception of the situation.

[00:05:24] Everything, the secret lies in the perception.

[00:05:28] How you perceive only brings everything.

[00:05:31] What you have seen may not be so much stressful,

[00:05:34] but you see it in a way of distressing

[00:05:37] and that accumulates inside your body, inside your mind as a buzzer,

[00:05:44] a stress buzzer, and that you feel inside your feelings, your emotions, your body.

[00:05:51] And that is going to result in chaos.

[00:05:56] Research indicates that changing our mindset will alter our emotional response.

[00:06:04] Changing mindset.

[00:06:06] For instance, as I spoke about these hormones, oxytocin,

[00:06:11] which is released by our pituitary gland as part of the stress response,

[00:06:16] it will help and encourage us to connect with others.

[00:06:20] This can reduce the blood pressure and the cortisol level.

[00:06:27] It will like helping us in anti-stress benefit.

[00:06:31] When we alter our mindset about stress

[00:06:37] and engage in some of the activities that are going to help us in our health benefits,

[00:06:44] to make the most out of stress,

[00:06:47] just consider these kinds of interpretations which I am going to say.

[00:06:50] Just listen to this very, very carefully.

[00:06:53] If your heart is pounding, you are stressed and your heart is pounding,

[00:06:56] so what do you say?

[00:06:59] Oh, my body is preparing for an action.

[00:07:02] You have to say this to yourself.

[00:07:05] What you say matters a lot.

[00:07:07] What you perceive matters a lot.

[00:07:10] You perceive and you say.

[00:07:12] What you perceive and what you say has the option either

[00:07:17] to make that stress more complicated or to simplify that stress.

[00:07:23] If you are faster breathing, then what do you say?

[00:07:29] You are getting more oxygen to your brain.

[00:07:33] This is the way you can say it.

[00:07:35] Your blood is surging.

[00:07:37] You feel that, oh, my bb is shooting up.

[00:07:40] You can say my blood vessels are dilating to increase the blood flow.

[00:07:45] There are different ways you can convey the message to your own self

[00:07:52] to combat, to deal with stress, whatever the situation may be.

[00:07:59] Even if you feel that, oh, my God, the matter has come over my head

[00:08:06] and I'm just sinking inside that because you have conveyed this message

[00:08:13] with your perception, with the experiences, with the circumstances,

[00:08:19] with the situations.

[00:08:21] You will find yourself just bogged down by the stress.

[00:08:28] It's all in you.

[00:08:32] When you shift this perspective, your body's stress response,

[00:08:37] it will resemble the condition of people who are experiencing joy and courage.

[00:08:42] This is my own experience of life.

[00:08:46] Stress is unavoidable.

[00:08:50] Bear it in mind.

[00:08:52] But let's use this to our advantage, my dear friends.

[00:08:56] When it is like, you know, when you approach a doctor,

[00:08:59] the doctor says, oh, it's all because of the stress.

[00:09:02] Why are you taking so much of stress?

[00:09:04] And even you feel, oh, doctor, so much of stress I'm going through.

[00:09:08] For which reason am I having this, this, this, this, this, this?

[00:09:13] When you go through all this, my dear friends,

[00:09:15] it's my personal experience, I'm telling you.

[00:09:17] You can change what you convey to yourself, the language,

[00:09:21] what you speak, what you've been talking to yourself.

[00:09:25] The only problem that we people have is we are most attuned

[00:09:30] in a custom to talking something that deliberately or unintentionally

[00:09:37] makes us get aligned with the negative feeling,

[00:09:41] negative emotion, negative thought, kiosk, mess.

[00:09:45] But when it has come to alignment, peace, calm,

[00:09:50] perception of what we are just experiencing,

[00:09:57] you know, when we change that in a positive way,

[00:10:04] that is the biggest dose or the medication

[00:10:08] that you are giving to your own self.

[00:10:14] Because our body is not designed for chemicals or these medicines.

[00:10:22] Okay, our body is made for healthy food, healthy stuff.

[00:10:30] Yes, if you treat yourself really well,

[00:10:34] if you love yourself really well,

[00:10:36] then these kind of challenges that come your way,

[00:10:40] you can overcome them because you believe in yourself.

[00:10:46] Your perception will automatically change,

[00:10:48] your mindset will change,

[00:10:50] and you will approach that serious challenge in the most amicable way

[00:10:56] and you get the commendable results of your life.

[00:11:00] Do not worry about the stress that you're going through.

[00:11:03] Just change the perception by telling yourself.

[00:11:06] What you tell yourself will bring the same results

[00:11:10] in front of you, my dear friends.

[00:11:12] Well, thank you so much, my lovely people.

[00:11:15] I wish you all a most beautiful and blessed life ever and ever.

[00:11:20] Thank you so much for listening to Hina's Emo Podcast.

[00:11:24] I would love to know and read your beautiful feedbacks,

[00:11:29] which I have been getting personally.

[00:11:31] And I'm so, so, so blessed for all the love

[00:11:34] and all the prayers that you guys have been sending to me.

[00:11:38] And I'm so, so blessed to have such vast family,

[00:11:41] I can say across the world people connecting with me.

[00:11:44] Beautiful, willing. Thank you so much.

[00:11:46] Stay tuned and listen to Hina's Emo Podcast

[00:11:49] so that this empowers you, this uplifts you,

[00:11:53] this helps you, this guides you in every walk of your life

[00:11:57] because you are simply the best.

[00:12:00] Love you so much and thank you for hearing once again.

[00:12:04] And stay tuned.

[00:12:05] Till then, see you.

[00:12:07] Take care. Ta-ta and bye-bye.