When emergency switch triggers, powerful hormones flow into our body through a process set in motion by our reactive brain. Our reactive brain cues master gland of our endocrine system that we are in danger and then another phase of fight or flight response is set into motion.

An often overlooked, but critical, factor in understanding and controlling stress related illness is to address our perceptual tendencies to view life situations as stressful. The way we see things determines our “view.” View defines reality. If we tend to view life events as stressful, they will be. Such perceptual tendencies can result from unhealed past wounds or if we are not honoring what we truly want and love in life. Provisional solutions to stress include regular exercise, deep relaxation and meditation training, to name a few.

However, unless we deal with real sources of stress in our life, these methods are just short-term bypasses. After 30 years of work in best of western and eastern well-being traditions, I created a powerful practice to, among other things, address this problem. The Good Life Process™ incorporates ancient spiritual wisdom with cutting-edge knowledge to short-circuit stress at its source.

This practice also helps create positive conditions within mind and body that bring deep awareness, well-being and longevity. The Good Life Process™ relieves conditions that cause stress by returning us to our Heart—to who we deeply are.

Americans suffer from a great deal of work related stress. We work three months longer than Germans every year and one month longer than Japanese. And we sleep 90 minutes less a night than did our grandparents.

But it’s not just working too long that causes American work stress. For many of Americans, their work isn’t Heart based. We do what we feel that we should do or must do instead of what we want and love to do. This is a set up for stress and health problems associated with what I call “the-not-such-a-good-life.” As Confucius told us: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” And as Buddha added: “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.”

The fact is that our soul, our inner life, aches at “just for money” work that lacks depth and meaning. Such work has no connection to all-important “inner spark” that can only be found within our deepest nature. Nothing but a good connection to this inner spark can set our lives on fire. We need to connect to our deepest nature, find our inner spark and set our life ablaze with what we want and love.

Nothing will prove more effective at bringing us health and well-being needed to enjoy richest of Good Life’s harvests.