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...center of ever-so-liberal Cambridge and just a stone’s throw from Boston, this university is uniquely positioned to take advantage of not one, but two of North America’s most culturally vibrant urban centers. My imagination bubbled over with fantasies of stress-free afternoons in independent coffee shops, far away from the stress, work, and worry of Harvard College.As one can well imagine, my arrival here constituted a bit of a rude awakening.Early in my freshman year, extracurricular commitments began to conflict with each other, and my inbox started overflowing with the e-detritus...
...knows how H. pylori gets into the stomach--it may be through eating, touching or even kissing--and 80% of people who are infected with the bug never develop ulcers. There may even be some truth to the old ulcer myths: stress and spicy food don't create ulcers, but they can certainly make them worse...
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...Life is stressful and always has been. Eliminating stress entirely is not an option. If there are discrete sources of stress in your life--a relationship, a job, a health problem--you can and should take action to try to mitigate them. But my experience is that we all are subject to a kind of conservation law of stress. If stress recedes in one area, it seems to increase in another. Get your finances in order, and your relationship sours. Get your relationship together, and the kids cause you grief...
Whatever objective stress you have to deal with, you can learn to activate the so-called relaxation response, a shift within the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic dominance (the fight-or-flight response) to parasympathetic dominance (the heart rate slows, blood pressure falls and metabolism and immunity are optimal). You can evoke the relaxation response in many ways: by working on your breathing, practicing yoga, taking biofeedback training, floating in water or stroking a cat or dog that you love...