Stress (A to Z Information on How to Identify & Reduce Stress)

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Today we live a life on the fast track that makes a lot of demands, through competitions, deadlines, rat race, accelerating pace of life, learning ever changing technology making adjustments all the time, meeting the overgrowing needs of the family etc. It all creates pressures and fills one with tensions. Stress has now become an integral part of each and everyone's life. Dr. Chhajer reveals easy and simple ways to reduce the stress to ease up tensions and live with a smile.

Dr. BimalChhajer, MD, is a well-known personality in the world of medical science. He is a pioneer in Non-Invasive Cardiology in India. After his MD, he worked as a member of faculty at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), New Delhi for a few years. He conceptualized a complete heart care program called SAAOL (Science and Art of Living) and a special way of non-fat cooking-"Zero Oil Cooking". His SAAOL program is now India's most popular scientific treatment program, which helps to prevent and reverse heart disease without surgical intervention. He has authored more than 70 books. His numerous lectures are available in the form of DVD, and he is a magnificent teacher of Preventive Cardiology. Dr. Bimal Chhajer has till now treated more than 60,000 heart patients and helped them to avoid Heart Attack, Bypass Surgery and Angioplasty. He has treated India's Ex. President Late Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma. The Former President of India, Honourable Mrs. Pratibha D Patil and her husband has also taken a three day's heart care training from Dr. Chhajer. Dr. Chhajer has been awarded many times including Rajiv Gandhi Rashtriya Ekta Award, Banga Seva Samman. He can be consulted.

Inspite of the tremendous progress in medical science, discovery of new drugs to treat and control diseases, the modern medical science has failed badly in the field of stress related diseases. Even in the golden period of allopathy, we do not have a diagnostic test to measure STRESS. No authentic quantification of speriod possible. Not even a unit to count stress "Like Rupees, Centimeters, Deciliters, Kilograms or so on has been devised". There is no drug to cure stress or operation to remove stress from our body or mind. These facts only establish the supremacy of our body and especially the brain over the mighty medical science. Whatever they have done in the past few decades like eliminating small pox, finding cause of AIDS or mechanism of cancer, discovering newer molecules to develop the most modern drugs, developing genetic engineering - becomes small when we talk of the gradual increase in the incidence of stress related diseases or Psychosomatic Diseases. Modern medical science has not been able to know adequately about the brain circuits, the mechanism of stress production, emotions, the limbic system of the brain (the system related to anger, sorrow, rage, love, hate, jealousy, lust, happiness) despite so many claims of breakthroughs/discoveries which all become insignificant in view of the fact that stress is the root cause of so many medical/mental problems. Today, more and more people suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, suicidal behaviour, coronary heart disease, alcoholism, psychiatric diseases, sleeplessness. Almost, all are related to excessive stress. The irony is that while we are progressing in one direction we are losing out on the stress reduction battle. Human behaviour and its mechanism is something the medical science is unable to comprehend fully. A lot of work is still needed to even gauge the depth of this problem. Stress stands for anger, sorrow, pressure on the mind, body's response to stimuli, irritability, fear, anxiety, worry, phobia, excitement, a disturbed or unsettled mind, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, depression, strain, tension, burden, conflict, agitation, nervousness, panic and hostility. The human mind is so developed that it can judge these behaviours and roughly quantify them as mild, moderate or severe. It seems, in absence of any authentic gadgets from medical science, we have to measure stress by using the only reliable machine of the world - our brain itself. The only tool that the psychologists could think of to measure stress was questionnaires or psychological tests. Your own brain has to be used to understand your stress. Such tests can measure only Type A behaviour, Happiness, Anxiety, Well-being, Emotional Quotient, Spiritual Quotient and Hostility. Other than these listed above-effects of stress can also be measured indirectly by measuring the response of the body to stress. Adrenaline estimation in the urine in the past 24 hours, looking for beta waves in the brair EEG, indirectly measuring the stress induced sweating by galvanometer (Galvanic skin Resistance or GSRY Hooking for cardiac reactivity (increment of pulse rate, blood pressure after a standard stimulus to the body are some of the ways we can measure stress. But how do we quantify stress or how do we de-stress ourselve or remove stress from our lives are questions so far neither fully explored nor satisfactorily answered medical science.