Surfing Your Adrenalin Wave: How to Dissolve--Not Disguise--Anger

Written by Maya Talisman Frost


Feel that rising tide of anger? Surf's up! Start paddling.

Whenever we feel angry or frustrated, we get a blast of adrenalin coursing through our bloodstream. Inrepparttar fight or flight response to stress, our bodies rely on our appendages. We need to hit, kick, jump or run away, and our bodies help out by sending extra blood to our limbs.

If we were living inrepparttar 115295 wild and had to actually fight off a predator or run away to escape, this would make perfect sense. But in a typical day, we just don't need those survival mechanisms like we used to. In fact, we do our best to thwart our body's response to stress by suppressing our physical reactions.

Oh, sure, we still use our extremities to express our anger. We raise our fists, pound onrepparttar 115296 desk, slam doors or cupboards, kickrepparttar 115297 garbage can, or stomp our feet. Still, since we're trying to be civilized and all, we use words more than body parts to react to whatever upsets us. This is good in that we don't want to go around hitting people. Slugging your boss may be biological, but it won't get you too far in your corporate climb.

So, instead ofrepparttar 115298 fight or flight response our predecessors relied upon, we've developed more of what I call an "explode or seethe" response. Some of us react right away when we're upset. We clench our fists, do some wild gesticulating, raise our voices, or slamrepparttar 115299 phone down. Others tend to seethe. We suck in our breath, count to ten, hold it, and keep our frustration covered by a tight smile or maybe a little gasp of exasperation, but that's about it.

There's alsorepparttar 115300 classic combo ofrepparttar 115301 seether/exploder. You knowrepparttar 115302 type: they just keep their heads down, don't say a word, and then out of repparttar 115303 blue they go into a tirade that rattlesrepparttar 115304 roof.

It's interesting that we consider a seether as more evolved than an exploder. We value those who are able to keep their emotions in check. In our culture, repparttar 115305 seethers arerepparttar 115306 "nice" people who surprise us by keeling over from a heart attack or stroke. We've been programmed to sit and seethe. It's as though we're stepping onrepparttar 115307 gas (adrenalin) and slamming onrepparttar 115308 brakes (inactivity) atrepparttar 115309 same time. Try doing that in your car, and you'll burn up your engine. That's what we're doing to our bodies.

What do we do after a hard day? We sit and watch television. We play video games. We go to a movie. We collapse onrepparttar 115310 sofa and listen to music. We go out to eat and drink.

We've eliminated a lot ofrepparttar 115311 activity of daily life. We don't scrub floors, churn butter, wash clothes by hand, hoerepparttar 115312 garden, walk everywhere, or otherwise eliminate our stress through regular movement. We sit in our cars, sit at our desks, and sit in front ofrepparttar 115313 television. It's no wonder we're obese and suffering fromrepparttar 115314 effects of stress!

The sit-and-seethe starts early. Consider a two-year- old having a tantrum. Picture a little body flailing about, all arms and legs. That's adrenalin in all its glory! No suppression of instincts, just a pure, unadulterated expression of physiology at work.

We can't have kids growing up and throwing tantrums. It's just not socially acceptable. So, we giverepparttar 115315 two- year-old a "time out" to cool off. This is like asking a charging bull to sit and sip a bit of tea in that proverbial china shop.

Red Bull, Does it Give You Wings?

Written by Barrett Niehus


Red Bull, Does it Give You Wings?

By Barrett Niehus http://www.freetrainer.com

I was driving to workrepparttar other day, enjoying my obligatory glass of morning stimulant. This morning it was a can of Red Bull, I didn’t have time to stop at Starbucks, and I noticed thatrepparttar 115294 primary ingredient in Red Bull is Taurine. After hearing their commercial onrepparttar 115295 radio, I got to thinking. How exactly does Red Bull work, and does it really give you wings? Does it give you more energy? Does it make you more alert?

Well, upon inspectingrepparttar 115296 ingredients and doing some research, which wasn’t hard working as a bulk vitamin distributor, I found thatrepparttar 115297 Red Bull wings reference may be more geared to mental well being than to actual body energy. At least this may berepparttar 115298 case with Taurine. As it turns out, Taurine is an amino acid that is used in our body for a number of activities. A couple of which are to act as a neural regulator, and to protect heart function. Substantial amounts of Taurine are also found in our eyes and stomach bile. There is no doubt that Taurine is beneficial, but I could not find any data that indicated it would give you an energy boost.

After searching and searching, I realized thatrepparttar 115299 "wings" reference may be geared more toward your mental state. As I indicated, Taurine acts as a neural regulator. In fact, it is one of those chemicals in our brain that is responsible for a calm positive mood. Perhapsrepparttar 115300 wings effect is referring torepparttar 115301 fact thatrepparttar 115302 Taurine in Red Bull will make you calm and clear-headed. There has certainly been data to demonstrate that Taurine is effective when dealing with stress. Another ingredient that would indicate thatrepparttar 115303 "wings" tag line may refer more to your mental state isrepparttar 115304 ingredient Inositol. This is another compound that has been shown to have a positive, calming, effect on your mood.

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