A healthy stress response is essential to survival: when we perceive threats, the body “adapts” with a series of physiological changes to reduce the impact. With constant, extreme, or long-term stress the body’s resilience is reduced, sleep can be disrupted, and we feel fatigued, anxious, and become vulnerable to infections.
Unfortunately, high stress and poor sleep are common among those living modern lifestyles, affecting people of all ages. Many factors can influence these health issues, including:
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the heart is known as the “king of all organs”, representing self awareness, the ability to connect and live a fulfilling, happy life.
Physiologically, it is the centre of the cardiovascular system – an elaborate network of veins and arteries that flow blood into every area of the body, to ensure that we are oxygenated, nourished and that our hormones and immune response can function properly.
