Due to my father returning from the Korean war with psychological turmoil, I never had the opportunity to know him: my family disintegrated into divorce before while I was only 4 years of age, and my father died of stress related heart disease before I had the opportunity to reach out to him and create a new relationship.
My career inadvertently became guided to helping solve this problem of stress upon our health, to prevent others from suffering ill health, disease and poor fitness, and their families from its collateral damage.
Although my primary outreach remains health, fitness and nutrition, I remain at my heart a martial artist, and I maintain a martial artist?s view on wellness. Studying the impact of stress upon the body, through psychophysiology in Russia and stress physiology in USA, I discovered the science underpinning an old martial art:
The sword has a double-edged blade: one that gives life and one that takes it.
In Japanese, there are two expressions:
?> Satsujinken - the sword which takes life.
?> Katsujinken - the sword which gives life.
It is the same sword, the difference is in the person who uses it. Stress (positive stress levels or ?eustress?) is how our health improves, as well as our fitness. Without stress, we die. I discovered working with the Russian Cosmonaut researchers, when they taught me methods to slow the rapid aging caused from zero gravity.
But too much stress (excessive levels called ?distress?) cannibalizes us? which is evident by the early mortality rate of tactical first responders having an average lifespan of 54 years young: the number one killer being stress-related heart disease like my father.
Stress is the sword which gives life and takes it. We walk the razors edge. You will make mistakes whether you take action or you avoid it. But if you avoid it, your health and fitness have no chance of improving. If you do take action, and you do step across the line into distress, focus on your recovery methods - mobility, nutrition, sleep, walking, playing, laughing, stretching, massage, sauna? These are how you heal the accidental, unavoidable wounds from handling the life-giving sword? But without doing so, you shall surely fall on the life-taking blade of distress, for inaction registers to your body as excessive stress and accelerates aging, disease and death.
It is not easy. It is often not even this simple, because stress blurs our clear thinking. But if you focus on recovery, you?ll spin the hilt in your hands, and return to the life-giving blade of eustress.
Very respectfully,
Scott Sonnon
www.facebook.com/scottsonnon
Source: http://www.rmaxinternational.com/flowcoach/?p=1314
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