stress-the mind-body connetion

According this article, mind and body react simultaneously on whatever feeling you have. I think that this is true, because, when I have stress the palms of my hand sweat. There are other kinds of reactions that lead to even make mistakes.

The author of this article-Albert Lee- say that stressful thoughts lead to the secretation stress hormones that eventually slow down our natural healing capabilities. When you are stressed, the stresse hormones generality limit inmune responses. The most familiar of this stress hormones is the adrenaline. In fact, when we feel adrenaline we don't control the move of our body, and we have explosive reactions in diferent alternating situations.

Also Albert Lee say that under stressful situations these hormones sends your body in a state of arousal making your body react, your heart starts to beat faster, your blood increase, your muscles contract, your metabolism speed up, and you can feel adrenaline rushing onto you.

The last sentences teach us that we must treat to control the stress, otherwise, we can be exposed to some damage in our health. For instance, some reactions of the body under stress can be anxiety, insomnia, hypertension, and even heart attacks.

Edgardo Alvarez Pardo

http://EnzineArticles.com/?expert=Albert Lee

The Physiological Effects Of Stress – Mind Body Connection

Stress affects us mentally, emotionally, physically and affects people physiology. Physiology is a science. Human physiology has a wide scope that includes the processes that go on within cells; how tissues and organs work; and also how we respond to the environment. Stress doesn't just happen and then disappear. It has a lingering effect on you. It alters your body and your brain. The effect on your brain is analogous to an allergy. Your body becomes sensitized to stress. Then, the slightest hint of a stressful event can trigger a slew of chemical reactions in your brain and body that assault you from within. The danger is that when the brain is sensitized, it re-circuits itself in response to stress.

The physiological effects of stress vary from one individual to another regardless of whether you've yet been sensitized to stress or not. When stress triggers the adrenal glands they manufacture and release the true stress hormones the body is so responsive to adrenal hormones that basic body functions like blood flow and breathing are significantly altered by even minute changes in these chemicals resulting in significant impacts on health. More physiological effects of stress are a sudden surge in blood sugar or heart rate. The problem is the stress system is actually responsible for coordinating much more than just our response to stress. These chemicals and hormones direct everything from the immune system to the cardiovascular system to our behavioral system.

For example, cortisol directly impacts short-term memory. The stress hormones dopamine and epinephrine are also neurotransmitters widely active in enabling communication among brain cells. Stress also alters serotonin pathways which links stress with depression on one hand, aggression on the other. Stress can also affect the organs, immune system, metabolic system, and even the sexual response system. Other "conditions" include irritability, sleeplessness, anxiety, gastric problems, stroke, substance abuse, possibly cancer, sleep disorders, headaches, uncontrollable bouts of crying, skin allergies, acne, altered metabolism, more susceptible to colds and flu, and various body aches. Stress also directly affects a part of the nervous system that controls the glands, heart, digestive system, respiratory system, and skin. If you take more time to learn about the physiological effects of stress you may be able to explore more effective ways to create a wall of deflection. Stress will always be present in our lives but it doesn't have to be life threatening.

Keishla Marie Rios Cardona

Color and Foods: Red and Blue

Red often trigfgers hunger. What color are used for fast food restaurant singn? KFC, Hordees, McDonals, Pizzahut, and conveniences stores have what colors on their roofs, building, and sings? You may not have been hungry unti you looked at the sing, suddenly, you have the urge for a snake, fries and a burger. That is not a coincidence.

you send a child to their room to do home work. Red pillows and decoration till thye homework. Don't be surprised if the child coms out for snacks often while doing homework.

Color, lighthg, temperature all affect our brains, bodies, how we learn and how we behave.

Blue

Blue is the collor of academics. A science or math room would be a good candidate for this color. Light blue could also be a good overall classroom color. It is also soothing and computer screens are aften light blue for a good reasons. When bright or immitating colors are used on computers students are not able to work with out figething, work for shorter length of time and become more aggresive toward each other, computer screens, especially in BD, Behavior, should be tale blue or pale pink.

http//educationallissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/color_and_learning

Rose Marie chalas Flores

The Mind-Body Connector: The Hypothalamus

Some people call the hypothalamus the mind-body conector. It is the interface between your thoughts and your body's automatic response to those thoughts. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropic releasing factor (CRF) and initiates the body's response to stress.

What happens is your body?

The hypothalamus starts the ball rolling, and the pituitary gland in your responds to CRF by releasing adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). ACTH stimulates the adrenal glands and they secrete stress hormone. In response to stress, the adrenal gland secretes two major hormones (along with some that are less actively involved in stress): adrenaline and cortisol.

Adrenalin stimulates your heart, lungs, brain, and blood vessels-all the most important organs for survival. It sends more blood to those organs and pulls blood awayfrom your skin and digestive system. You body's idea is that if you're facing death, you don't need to digest stuff or feel pain, and you body thinks every threat is a death threat.

Using Your MInd-Body Connection

You can use the mind-body connection to turn off your stress response at least some of the time. That's what some relaxation techniques, like meditation and visualization, do. They convince your mind that there is no threat, and your mind tells the hypothalamus to stop sending out CRF so the response stops. When you know how the mind body connection works, you can use it to decrease and manage your strees.

Rose Marie Chalas Flores

Stressed-out Kids: The Mind-Body Connection

Margarita Fermaint Aldarondo

The stress affects its personality and interpersonal relations. The body responds to the stress producing hormones and substances. These hormones can decide as much as I oxygenate enters to the body, as much as can accelerate the metabolism doing that the body need but I oxygenate the stress can intervene with the normal functions of the I gave to I gave. One must help the children to handle the children reacted with fear saying that is difficult, that is hard. The reactions to the stress are not entirely connected with the genes but the children are been distant to the different roles that itself present in one of the factors to reduce the risks of the stress is the IQ greater greater reasoning retention greater for cognitive ability. The stress is a sensation in the children in all its newspaper to live. The stress always this in the children but depends on the circumstances and the high quantities of tension that are the ones that distort the emotional essence and physical of the children.

Reference:
http://www.med.nyu.edu/

COLOR

Margarita Fermaint Aldarondo

Color

The color of an object depends on both the physics of the object in its environment and the characteristic of the perceiving eye and brain. The color reflected in the objects is a complex result of their properties of surface, of their properties of transmission and of us properties of emission, all which they are because factors exist that contribute to the combination of lengths of waves in the light that you leave the surface of the object. The color perceived then is conditioned even but by the nature of the illumination environment and by the properties of color of other objects close, to around of other characteristics.

Reference:

http://www.wikipedia.com

Psychic and Physic Influence of Colors

According to the article found in the Internet about the influence of the color, is to mention certain important factor telling us that: the blue color tends to cause feelings of spirituality. The red vibration creates emotional as anger, passion, and physical love. The black produces pain and darkness. And the green is recommends that produces feelings of rest, relaxation and calm.

An example mentioned in my article says: that red is like blood that arouses anger and disgust. That the skies us blue awaken in us admiration and spirituality.

Psychologist and physiologists on the article are agreed on conclude that the red arouse anger. The yellow is inspired and intellectually simulating. And the blue is cool, soft and soothing.

Finally the colors are affecting physical and psychological with the person, in especially the colors mentioned above.

Gisela G. Jiménez Colón

http://hubpages.com/hub/Psychic-Influence-of-Colors

the colors

The colors (the perception of colors)
The colors that surround us it look like to us the most natural of the world. The colors stimulate our senses and do that our lives are more interesting and varied. The emotion and the intuition prevail in the human being, whereas the rational thing is less important than we believe. The color influences directly the pressure of the blood, the muscles and the nerves and provokes important associations in the human brain. For this reason it can have stimulant or relaxing effects.

At the back of the eye there exist million specializing cells in detecting the proceeding wave lengths from our environment. These wonderful cells, principally the cones and the small sticks, gather the different parts of the spectrum of solar light and transform them into electrical impulses, which are sent then to the brain across the optical nerves, being this one the manager of creating the sensation of the color. The cones center in a region near the center of the retina so called fovea. His distribution follows an angle of about 2 ° counted from the fovea. The quantity of cones is 6 millions and some of them have a nervous completion that goes to the brain. The cones are the persons in charge of the vision of the color and it is believed that there are three types of cones, sensitive to the colors red, green and blue, respectively. Given his form of connection to the nervous completions that go to the brain, they are the persons in charge of the spatial definition. Also they are slightly sensitive to the intensity of the light and provide vision photonic and vision to high levels. The canes centers in zones removed from the fovea and are the persons in charge of the vision ectopic and vision to low levels. The canes share the nervous completions that go to the brain, being therefore his contribution to the spatial slightly important definition. The quantity of canes places about 100 millions and they are not sensitive to the color. The canes are much more sensitive than the cones to the luminous intensity, for what they contribute to the vision of the color aspects as the sheen and the tone, and are the persons in charge of the night vision.
Gledimar Aponte Rivera 801-08-0249

Keep Stress Under Control
What can you do to deal with stress overload or, better yet, to avoid it in the first place? The most helpful method of dealing with stress is learning how to manage the stress that comes along with any new challenge, good or bad. Stress-management skills work best when they're used regularly, not just when the pressure's on. Knowing how to "de-stress" and doing it when things are relatively calm can help you get through challenging circumstances that may arise. Here are some things that can help keep stress under control.

• Learn to relax. The body's natural antidote to stress is called the relaxation response. It's your body's opposite of stress, and it creates a sense of well-being and calm. The chemical benefits of the relaxation response can be activated simply by relaxing. You can help trigger the relaxation response by learning simple breathing exercises and then using them when you're caught up in stressful situations. And ensure you stay relaxed by building time into your schedule for activities that are calming and pleasurable: reading a good book or making time for a hobby, spending time with your pet, or just taking a relaxing bath.
• Treat your body well. Experts agree that getting regular exercise helps people manage stress. Excessive or compulsive exercise can contribute to stress, though, so as in all things, use moderation. And eat well to help your body get the right fuel to function at its best. It's easy when you're stressed out to eat on the run or eat junk food or fast food. But under stressful conditions, the body needs its vitamins and minerals more than ever. Some people may turn to substance abuse as a way to ease tension. Although alcohol or drugs may seem to lift the stress temporarily, relying on them to cope with stress actually promotes more stress because it wears down the body's ability to bounce back.
  
• Watch what you're thinking. Your outlook, attitude, and thoughts influence the way you see things. Is your cup half full or half empty? A healthy dose of optimism can help you make the best of stressful circumstances. Even if you're out of practice, or tend to be a bit of a pessimist, everyone can learn to think more optimistically and reap the benefits.

Gledimar Aponte Rivera 801-08-0249

With this article, we see the scientific part of the colors. Also, we observe how the colors influence in the psychological part of us. For example, Max Luscher used this particular tool for obtain very important results about the behavior of his patients.

Edgardo Alvarez Pardo

http://crystal-cure.com/color.html

Mind/Body Connection: How Your Emotions Affect Your Health

Stress and the connection of mind and body, causes a large influence on the health of a human being. When a human has been stresses we see physical changes that show us that the emotional state is out of balance.

The article I found on the Internet mentioned several examples of these effects on the body. Some of these are: back pain, headaches, changes in appetite, high blood pressure, dizziness, shortness of breath, tension in the neck among others. The mind and stress plays with the physical care of our body.

The article provides a series of recommendations that we can do to improve our emotional health. Several recommendations are:

 Notice that on Emotional change emerging and find out what is causing those emotions.
 Express the feelings is do not them close them in.
 Practice methods of relaxation, breathing deeply.
 Have good physical care and be healthy, exercise, get enough sleep, and well.

Gisela G. Jiménez Colón

http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy/mental/782.html

Colors

Our world is full around by colors, they gives us in a special way life and happiness. All of them can influence our mood, our memory retention and even taste of our food. At the same way they individuality influence in our environment in combination they influence too. The combination such as black-red can provoke aggression, black-yellow self-destructive choices, black-green egocentric behavior, and that black-white can precipitate neurotic decisions. Those combinations of color are not positive but this no mean that all of the combination or color influence in a negative way in our life. For example the color violet corrects jaundice and a room with lot of greenery help to recover more quickly from surgery, and use fewer drugs. Well in conclusion all of the colors gave special meaning to our life. A lot of people say that the life is not pink but with all of the color we can paint it.

Alexandra M. Calderón

Stress and Mind-Body Connection

The mind is something power; with it we can do many things. During long time ago many person dedicate their life studding the mind; how it works. Dr.Selye is one of the many doctors that study the human mind. His studies were based in the stress and the mind – body connection. Dr. Selye discovered that his patients experienced physiological and psychological distress when faced with danger. Distress is the body’s response to danger or fear. Distress occurs when we prolong emotional stress and don’t deal with it in a positive manner. The problem arises when tension and energy builds up, and the body does not have time to return to a normal state. To deal with the stress Dr. Leonard Coldwell, a naturopathic doctor, developed a machine (CD) that though meditation and visualization, you enter a peak mental state where you are relaxed. As a result your internal organs work more effectively. Your muscles become soft and loose, and you become more aware of our body and feelings. Both your mind and body rest in the process of deep relaxation. By relaxing, you have the opportunity to regain the energy you need to think clearly.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/stress_and_the_mind-body_connection_9149

Alexandra M.Calderón

Recomendatios of Colors

We Can say that its aproved that the colors really can be an influence in our moods and emotions. Some recomendations that we can make is that if someone wants to memorize some material for an exam it's good and useful to mark or high light with yellow, because it helps to open the mind and memorize. For those people who like to feel themselves with peace and close to the spiritual, we can recomended paint their room in blue or having personal things, like cloth, in this color. Violet helps in the recovering of people. Green can be used in moments of stress or preocupations, because it helps to relax the body and the mind. On other hand, red not is the best color for use in cloth or things in our enviroment, because can be produce hunger and courge. Althought it also represent love and pasion.

Keishla Marie Rios Cardona

Color Simbolism

Sir Isaac newton used a prism in 1666 and saw the rainbow of the colors that we know as the electromagnetic spectrum. Showing that sunlight is not a color, the espectrum is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,violet; the seven basic colors. Also, in 1940's Max Luscher developed a color psychology. He used 8 colors in his color therapy: red, yellow, green, lue,violet, rown, ray and black. He claimed that he could tell a person's stress level and psychologycal make-up by the order the color was chosen or paired with another color. Later a simple test used only green, yellow, red and blue.



Edgardo Alvarez Pardo 402-01-0343