Eighty percent of doctor visits stem from stress-related illness. Stressful thoughts trigger immediate chemical reactions in your body, and when those thoughts become habitual, the cascade turns toxic. Your nervous system evolved for short bursts of danger, not constant strain.
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Upwards of 80% of all physician visits today are for stress related diseases. 80% up to 80% because of the stress related component. Because stress isn't just something that's invisible. Your thoughts create correlating chemistry in your body instantaneously. And so if you're having these habitual stressful thoughts and automatic negative thoughts, when this is on automatic for yourself, you're just releasing these these chemicals, a chemical cascade that can lean towards toxicity. They can be great in the short term to help you to survive short term stress. acute stressors. But we were never designed to carry constant emotional stress, constant mental stress, constant environmental stress.