Sentences with phrase «of body stress»

If you play lacrosse or volleyball, you will need a higher level of body stress (7 - 9) to prepare you for contact and allow your body to generate explosive movement.

Not exact matches

Anything less than this is considered to be inadequate, which can limit your motivation, increase the release of cortisol (a stress hormone), as well as decrease your body's ability to recover from exercise — all of which are damaging to your health and fitness routine.

Stress, simply put, is our body's way of protecting us from danger.

Working lower - intensity fitness into your weekly routine is just as important as that HIIT class you love because it lowers your body's level of cortisol, the stress hormone responsible for making you hungry and fat.

This is the body's natural response to stress, developed over millions of years of human evolution.

In the absence of feedback, the body defaults to a state of stress.

When caffeine puts your brain and body into this hyperaroused state of stress, your emotions overrun your behavior.

The stress that caffeine creates is far from intermittent, as its long half - life ensures that it takes its sweet time working its way out of your body.

-- turning off your phone gives your body a break from a constant source of stress.

Eventually, hurry sickness really can make you sick, since it increases the body's output of the stress hormone cortisol, which suppresses the immune system and has been linked with heart disease.

Sleep deprivation (even just getting less than six hours a night) is a kind of chronic stress that impairs how the body and brain use energy.

Because most of us spend the majority of our time working, it stands that if you are stressed about work, your body will start to show it.

The scientists discovered that no matter the artistic experience of the participants, about 75 percent experienced a decrease in their levels of cortisol, a hormone that the body secretes to respond to stress.

Meditation is scientifically proven to reduce levels of cortisol in your body (nature's stress hormone), and according to one Harvard neuroscientist, can even change the chemistry in your brain.

One hour of yoga increases levels of a neurotransmitter called GABA, which inhibits stress responses in the body and is even used in the pharmacological treatment of anxiety, depression and anger.

With science showing sleep deprivation creates a host of negative effects, from decreased creativity to radically compromised mental performance (and that's not even getting into the physical problems it causes), attending to your body's need for sleep is always a good idea, but failing to get enough rest also exacerbates our tendency to get stressed out, so it's even more important to pay attention to if you feel your mental health is getting a little shaky.

Exercise pumps up your body's endorphins and drastically reduces levels of cortisol (stress hormones) in the body.

It appears that both in and out of stressful situations, the daily presence of bond partners actually regulates the system that manages the body's hormones, reducing an individual's overall stress.

An appropriate amount of rest can also result in improved memory, lowered stress levels, a healthier body weight and a longer life.

Watch too much of that stuff and it puts your body into «fight or flight», creating stress even where none existed before.

When you work out, you're giving your body a chance to exert energy, to burn off stress, to focus on the here and now and let go of issues that have been plaguing you.

«Calming the mind has the effect of calming the body as well,» Tan says, adding that these steps calm the Vagus nerve, which regulates physiological stress reactions.

The even design of the carrier ensures that you can carry your twins around without feeling more stress on your body than what you can afford to handle at a certain time.

In times of tension, keeping a smile on your face — especially a genuine smile that's formed by the muscles around your eyes as well as your mouth — reduces your body's stress responses, even if you don't feel happy.

Constant traveling, long days and nights, eating out, and being exposed to nasty germs and rapidly changing temperatures during flights can put a tremendous amount of stress on your body.

Constant stress eventually makes us sick though, and my body took the brunt of it.

Abraham Geiger, a major thinker in the nineteenth - century Reform movement, declared that the idea of a postmortem existence «should not be expressed in terms which suggest a future revival, a resurrection of the body; rather they must stress the immortality of the soul.»

High levels of stress and anxiety have significant physical effects on our bodies, such as stomach pain, muscle tension, chronic pain, headaches, weakened immune systems and the development of other mental health disorders.

Overall, he has produced an impressive body of work which, thankfully, demonstrates that liturgical arts (which Schickel prefers to call «ritual arts» because «it stresses the way in which these objects participate in the drama of religious ritual») can be tastefully done in a modern idiom without lapsing into the triteness or sentimentality that plagues so many of our newer churches.

This Christian stress on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence of the Christian community as well as of other human groupings, has a close relationship with the fourth assertion: that each of us is an organic unity, body - mind - spirit.

In the Pauline literature much stress is laid on membership in the «body of Christ».

He stresses that, as he is bound in prison, so should his congregation be «bound in peace» by its faith in Christ, who has freed us from the Captivity of sin and death in order to be «joined» as a common body.

«Faith in the Risen Christ was thus at first a simple affirmation of His exaltation to the rank of Messiah and Lord, and was quite independent of any stress upon the material reanimation of the body.

Jerome (342 - 420) is said to have been an ardent supporter of Origen's ideas until 394, but then «made a complete voile - face, and began to stress, with crudely literalistic elaboration, the physical identity of the resurrection body with the earthly body».47 There is a very full discussion in the treatise he addressed to Pammachius.

Fr Crean's article on the Eucharist (Sept 09) stresses the need to see the sacrifice of our Lord's mortal body as the essential fact which makes the offering of the Mass a sacrifice; and his thesis is usefully complemented by the editorial comment, which reminds us that «the presence of the Lamb that was slain for our sins is inseparable from his risen and glorified presence before the Father in heaven».

When the normal fight - or - flight response to stress (with its elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and body tension) becomes a continuing pattern of living, the body pays a high price.

Finally, Hartshorne stresses the ethical and social defectiveness of humanism: if the total universe and even human bodies are essentially loveless machines driven by blind forces, «then it is impossible that the conception of spirit or love should have more than a very fitful hold upon us.

@TruthPrevails «What you neglect to consider is that when a woman becomes pregnant it is a great deal of stress on her body... so if it means Mom or babes life, who do we choose?»

Later the theme of the Mystical Body was stressed, integrating previous concepts of Church.

What you neglect to consider is that when a woman becomes pregnant it is a great deal of stress on her body... so if it means Mom or babes life, who do we choose?

Origen, for example, prefers seed imagery to the common metaphor of the statue; Dante and Aquinas stress growth and development of body and soul.

Bynum claims not only that the church was not dualistic about body and soul, but that it stressed the importance of human difference and particularity.

The first is «turning off the physical motor» by getting the alcohol out of his body (thus interrupting physical craving), and second, «turning off the mental motor,» which means terminating obsessive thinking about alcohol (mental craving) and the response of automatically turning to alcohol to handle any stress.

Here he stresses the role of the body, for in the mode of causal efficacy, «the almost instantaneously precedent bodily organs» impose their characters on the experience in question.

Following this classical tradition, virtually all branches of the Church stress the idea that baptism implies membership in the body of the Christ, the Church, an entrance into a brother / sisterhood, a communion, fellowship of all in the spirit of the Christ.

They are Madisonian pluralists who stress Federalist Paper No. 45 as the preferred side of Madison: «The public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued: and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.»

Obviously the first and fundamental truth to emphasise is the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist in the fully Catholic sense, stressing that the Eucharist is not bread, blessed bread, or super-blessed bread but the body, blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

I stress this mainly because one old error in explaining the evolution of «mind» seems quite persistent: the notion that «bodies» evolved first through purely physical means, and then later «minds» appeared, exhibiting mentality.

Laughter is just a release of tension; when you laugh, all the anxiety and stress in your body is cast out, exorcised, not allowed to stay.

Eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies; they provide antioxidants which will help neutralize the free radicals (unstable molecules) our bodies give off during stress (Nutritionist Henry Hall, as quoted in Vibrant Life magazine).