It usually happens when we feel like we have lost control. STRESS that dirty little five-lettered word – is our physical and emotional response to the situations that threaten or somehow challenge us. Not to scare you, but research has shown that long-term stress can lead to ulcers, high blood pressure, and arthritis. Stress increases the likelihood of becoming ill, produces illness, and can even make it difficult to recover from illness. However, continuous exposure to stressors results in our body’s inability to handle stress as blood vessels, heart muscles, and other tissue may deteriorate from constant overstimulation. In emergency situations, this response is beneficial as it propels us into action. Its your body’s immediate way of responding to what the brain has perceived as a “threatening” situation. You ever notice the changes your body undergoes when your anxiety increases? Usually there is an involuntary escalation in heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate. But ( sigh) it is so hard for me to actually find the time to relax, relate, and especially release. Whenever I become stressed, frustrated, and just plain overwhelmed with life, this phrase always pops into my head. Somehow – and someway – something stresses me out everyday. This is one of my favorite episodes and the phrase “relax, relate, release” has become a mantra that I use often. Thereafter, whenever Whitley becomes overwhelmed with emotion, she is encouraged to repeat the phrase “relax, relate, release”. Remember that episode of A Different World when Whitley Gilbert (played by Jasmine Guy) broke down during a session with the campus therapist (played by Debbie Allen) because she couldn’t get over the fact that her wealthy ex-boyfriend, Julian, had moved on? In this scene, the therapist grows tired of hearing her overly dramatic ranting about her ex, and encourages -or rather commands - her to let him go and move on herself.
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