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Paul Huljich is the author of a great book we have called, Stress Pandemic: The Lifestyle Solution

Did you know that stress is more dangerous than tobacco, alcohol and heart disease combined?

It is my strong contention that stress (more than oral pathology) is the #1 cause of aging, disease and ultimately death. It’s stress that is at the root of every known illness. When we turn a negative thought into a positive thought there are over 1,300 chemical and biological processes that occur within that moment of simply deciding to be happy instead of angry.

If I had to make a list of the most important factors that directly affect our health from most important to least important right now from what I’ve come to know here’s how I’d order them.

1. Stress (this includes all emotions and energetic frequencies and modalities)
2. Sleep
3. Oral health
4. Diet/Nutrition
5. Fitness

Just like Dr. Jack Kruse I put food and diet #4 on my list.

I know many of you that are going to be listening to this are looking for a quick fix to stress and there’s nothing wrong with that. There are going to be times in our lives where we perceive a situation as being stressful, even though I believe there’s no such thing as stress objectively. Subjectively there’s lots of stress because of the stories we tell ourselves when we’re in the middle of a “stressful” situation.

There are many tips and things you can do in the moment like certain breathing practices and awareness principles but in actuality you want to design your life in such a way where these types of stressful situations occur as minimally as possible.

It’s like skydiving. You want to carefully and meticulously prepare for the jump so that nothing bad happens. You want to dot every I and cross every T. If you do the same with your life on every level, you can design a life where you can minimize stress and anxiety to a significant degree. You can never remove challenging situations from your life but if you can get rid of them happening by chance by 80% then you can do some spiritual work and some inner work to be able to effectively mitigate that other 20% of stress that happens to you.

Where does stress come from in the first place?

I believe all stress comes from two things:

1. Fear
2. Lack of control

Think about it for a moment and you’ll find out that fear and lack of control are at the heart of every perceivably stressful moment. It also to helps to develop perspective, awareness and a true deep understanding of who you really are in order to take stressful moments in stride.

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