Why Bodysound?
Experiential seating with BodySound technology is simply the best seating available for watching a movie or TV, listening to music, playing video games, relaxing, or meditating. It will enhance your experience and improve your life.
Feeling Stressed - An Introduction
Stress is the wear and tear our bodies experience as we react and adapt to conditions in our environment. It has physical, emotional, and mental ramifications and can be accompanied by positive or negative feelings. The way in which stress affects us primarily depends on how we choose to perceive and process it. Although our bodies and minds are capable of handling significant fluctuations in our circumstances, both external and internal, it is important to remember that any fluctuation presents itself as a stressor. We are constantly struggling to maintain balance in a world of change.
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How Stress Kills - Part I - Cardiovascular effects
For decades now, heart disease has been the number one and stroke, the number three cause of death in the United States. Is there a root cause underlying both of these conditions? As it turns out, hypertension or high blood pressure is the leading cause of stroke and a major cause of heart disease. In fact, hypertension is considered to be the most common cardiovascular disease, affecting an estimated one in four or 80 million Americans.
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How Stress Kills - Part II - The Metabolic and Immune Effects of Stress
In the last article we discussed the cardiovascular effects of stress-most importantly how high blood pressure, which is stress-mediated, causes both heart attack and stroke, the numbers one and three causes of death in the U.S. In this article we will discuss how the stress response causes harmful metabolic and immune effects.
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How Stress Kills - Part III - The Psychological Effects of Stress
We have previously covered the cardiovascular, metabolic, and immunologic effects of
chronic stress. However the effects of stress initially manifest psychologically.
They can create, contribute to, or exacerbate problems ranging from mental and
emotional distress, generalized anxiety disorder and other anxiety disorders,
depression, alcohol and other drug abuse, to even suicide. The psychological
manifestations that occur as a result of stress vary greatly across
individuals.
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Relaxation
Why is it hard to learn how to relax?
Relaxation is easier said than done. Many people have a difficult time relaxing. It is so difficult for some people that they have literally redefined the term. For them relaxing means to lie down and take a nap because they do not know how to relax and maintain wakefulness. For many others, in order to achieve a relaxed state they must beat their bodies into submission by exercising strenuously or having sex. Is this relaxation or fatigue? Why is it so difficult for so many people to simply relax in a consciously alert and aware state of being?
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Primer on How to Relax & Meditate
Overview
Relaxation is one of those words that no longer has much meaning because everyone interprets it somewhat differently. Regardless, most view it positively and they generally want more of it. In order to provide some clarity regarding relaxation and how best to achieve it when using BodySoundT technology it is best to discuss this topic in relation to four aspects of ourselves-physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The physical and emotional components are covered in the Relaxation section and the mental and spiritual aspects are described in the section on Meditation.
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