Intense feelings are discharged when they are expressed safely through creative media and complete acceptance of and attunement with the client's process
releases opiods, dopamine and oxytocin, naturally reducing stress levels, calming fears or anger, increasing trust and social attachment and increasing readiness for change.
Ingesting sugar has been shown in studies to
release opiods and dopamine in the brain.
Not exact matches
Other studies have found that other pain - relieving substances called
opiods may be
released into the body during acupuncture treatment.
They stated that stress and food can stimulate
release of
opiod in the body (a chemical substance with morphine like action ie.
When an individual faces stress,
opiod is
released in the body, which is a defense mechanism that decrease activity of the HPA axis, thus weakening the stress response.
This causes the
release of endorphins and endogenous
opiods (the body's own morphine), which help block pain messages.