With the day-long workload and constant digital overload, people are witnessing stress and pressure more than ever before. As a result, our stress response (the fight or flight response), which is one of our innate physiological mechanisms that should only be triggered in threatening situations ­ is triggered constantly; Not by lions and tigers, but by traffic jams, deadlines, heavy workloads, financial issues, and relationship troubles. Researches show that it can take up to an hour for our body to return to normal once the threat of stress is alleviated, so people spend an excessive amount of time in that stressed stage. This has all sorts of short and long-term health implications, such as anxiety, poor immunity, digestive problems, headaches, high blood pressure, poor sleep, fatigue, and burnout.Read More