Acupuncture for Stress Relief
Stress affects us all. Whether it’s work stress, stress due to your personal life, or even stress with unclear origins, it can cause a great deal of daily trouble and can have major impacts on our overall physical health. Stress management is an extremely important tool in day to day life, and with the all too often non-stop workflow expected in our society, it is often overlooked in favor of productivity.
Did you know that stress has a significant impact on our digestive systems? Stress management is a key factor in dealing with issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic diarrhea, and heartburn (Acid Reflux). In many cases, people dealing with such issues seek over the counter or prescription medications that take a variety of other tolls on the body when used for long periods of time and often function only to mask or hide symptoms rather than truly resolve them.
The impacts of stress on our health and wellbeing are well documented and easy to understand from both a medical and a personal standpoint, but how do you manage it? Acupuncture has enormous capability for stress relief, as well as supportive and even corrective effects on such digestive issues as mentioned above. It helps relieve stress by facilitating relaxation, both of mind and body, causing muscles to loosen and minds to calm; slowing from the breakneck pace of everyday life and allowing room to breathe and think without the distractions we have all come to accept as part of our day-in day-out routines.
It may seem strange that a handful of small needles could relieve the burdens of stress that we tend to carry (sometimes without even knowing it), but the effects can be quite impressive, and the treatments are painless.
Dr. Bob Monroe,
R.Ac, TCMD