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today I’m going to show you the magic

formula for being calm under pressure or

being relaxed in stressful situations

you know sometimes we can’t control our

environments but we can definitely

control our attitude towards stress and

I have some very important information

to share with you based on this book

right here called relax and win this is

by an author Bud Winters who was a coach

for 30 years and guided athletes to over

37 world records and there’s some great

data I want to share with you in this

book some things you can do to train

yourself to be calm in stressful

situations now before I start um go

ahead and comment down below how you

cope with stress is it good is it bad to

use medication drugs junk food sugar

smoking alcohol

just make a note in the comments section

I’m just very curious I mean the

significance of how stress affects our

body is massive have you ever heard of

the stressed induced ulcers or what

about stress induced diabetes how could

that possibly occur especially if you’re

not eating a lot of sugar or junk Foods

well stress activates two hormones one

is called cortisol and the other one is

adrenaline and both of those actually

switch the fuel that you run on it

basically switches the body to run on

glucose even though you’re not consuming

sugar or carbs the body takes your

protein and turns it into glucose and

that’s called

gluconeogenesis and so going through

chronic stress can actually cause you to

have diabetes and of course lose your

muscles that’s called atrophy you can

actually get fat from stress you can

even develop cancer from stress from

different ways it suppresses the white

blood cells it inhibits the immune

system from working and it causes

viruses to come out of remission and be

active as an Epstein-Barr virus and the

herpes viruses as well as developing

autoimmune diseases like Ms Hashimoto’s

lupus rheumatoid arthritis nearly every

person in practice that I talked to that

developed an autoimmune disease always

had some stress event that occurred

right before it and it’s usually chronic

stress or some major loss there’s also a

thing called stress-induced stroke or

stress-induced heart attack stress can

cause infertility definitely insomnia

lack of oxygen throughout the body

muscle tension and this other thing

called cortisol resistance where you

just get a lot more inflammation so even

though stress kicks in cortisol which is

an anti-inflammatory

over a period of time you developed as

resistance to cortisol and now you’re

inflamed because you’re lacking cortisol

inside the cells and this is where they

give people prednisone and prednisone is

a synthetic type of cortisol just like

they might give insulin to a diabetic

type 2.

to override this resistance to insulin

or even the prednisone overrides the

resistance to cortisol and look at all

the side effects that occur with

prednisone

diabetes complete destruction of the

joints so I think it’s really important

to understand this stress component you

know when you’re under stress your

ability to solve problems your ability

to be creative is going to be greatly

inhibited why because you’re stuck in

your head pictures and your memories of

stressful events your ability to be

creative and solve problems occur when

you’re in more on the present when

you’re calm when you have a better state

of mind when you have more space this is

why I always recommend going for a walk

so this book is interesting because

um after World War II this author took

the same techniques which were taught

people who flew planes to relax under

pressure of combat and applied them to

sports and the results were not only

good they were amazing 37 World Records

incredible uh he also talks about like

Joe Lewis the great boxer Joe DiMaggio

great baseball player and noted they all

had sleepy relaxed looks on their faces

their arms were kind of dangled what’s

more important is they let nothing

bother them whether it was hot or cold

whether the stadium was full or empty

whether the competition proved vicious

or gentle so one of the things you have

to do is you have to really train

yourself to have a relaxed attitude one

of the things that the author talks

about is working on relaxing the

antagonistic muscle

if you’re just sitting there right now

right if you just kind of scan your body

where you’re holding your tension uh

with me it’s in the upper back the neck

and lower back so if you can just

let those areas go and just focusing on

relaxing those areas

that would be one thing you can do he

talks about also relaxing the wrinkles

you can look in the mirror and see where

your wrinkles are on your forehead and

just start relaxing them relaxing your

jaw muscles and your tongue

okay because so many people hold tension

in their jaws a lot of people hold

tension in their gut especially when

they eat so when you eat you should slow

your eating chew more and really relax

your whole digestive system that’ll help

not just digestion but it’ll actually

help you sleep at night because I think

the number one reason why people don’t

sleep is they have certain

parts of their body that are under

tension

so you have to actively kind of let

those muscles go so these are little

exercises that you can do on a regular

basis and these are meant mainly for

athletes but I would apply this to

anyone when I was in wrestling in high

school and college before a match I

would literally be so nervous I would

have the adrenaline pumping through my

heart I would just feel this

pounding just incredibly loud and I was

so freaked out the last thing I was is

relaxed in fact when I went to State I

started getting more nervous and of

course that did not lead to a good

performance but the person that did take

first place and stayed at 185 pounds I

remember watching him

he was basically almost like bored

before doing the final match he was just

sitting there just completely and

utterly relaxed and that’s a good state

to be because the more stress you have

the more nervous tension the more

muscular tension the less good

performance you’re going to have in that

competition because you’re going to

choke you’re not going to be able to

think clearly I remember another

incident in college in order to graduate

I had to give this speech and I had a

terror of public speaking I had to go up

in front of my peers and do this

presentation I was this close to

dropping out of college and I don’t know

how I got through it but it was very

very nerve-wracking and so public

speaking is another fear that a lot of

people have and the way that I overcame

it is I basically just

force myself to do a lot of

presentations I think I did 4 900

presentations over a period of time to

get rid of that fear of public speaking

I think the goal should be

really have the Viewpoint of being

carefree and calm under stressful

situations no matter how stressful

things are you have to just change your

mind and have a relaxed Viewpoint and

that also includes controlling your

breathing breathing to your nose I

remember I went out to dinner with a

patient of mine and as we’re talking

she started to choke on her food she

couldn’t breathe and here I am in this

restaurant and I had to give someone the

Heimlich maneuver and I have to remember

how to do it so I I started to do it and

it didn’t work and I can see her eyes

were bloodshot and she’s turning blue

and thank God I just said

sit down and just totally relax

calm down

and that’s when things started to open

up in her throat so anytime someone’s in

a panic mood

you want them just to calm down and you

want them to breathe normally if they

can breathe

especially through their nose we’re also

going to basically be starving for

oxygen in this panic attack so a lot of

times when people are stressed out and

they’re stuck in the past and not in the

present and so this is so important to

connect with your environment to go for

a walk in nature to do something

physical uh you know whether it’s

something like bird watching or playing

with your animal or playing some sport

or being active in your environment that

kind of pulls you out of that stress so

you have more control over your thoughts

and as a side note to that be one

natural B1 can really help those

excessive thoughts that randomly test go

through your mind at night and through

the day as well so if you’re deficient

in B1 because you’re doing too many

carbs that can actually create a bad

effect but taking some natural B1 will

put you in a state where within minutes

you just feel like oh feel calm more

myself now the other thing that I

recommend is when you exercise

you should maintain

a relaxed body you’re gonna have less

injuries you’re gonna have better

performance

even when you walk or hike relax every

part of your body find out where you

hold tension what is in your ankles find

out if you’re kind of limping to one

side because of an old injury and start

to walk and relax every part of your

body including your upper back and your

muscle and your jaw and try to breathe

through your nose okay so here’s some

other things out of the book

to get rid of all your tensions in your

head and your neck drop your shoulders

as low as they’ll go

get them down there and then lower them

even more when you breathe out lets the

tensions go out of your body remember to

breathe slowly and regularly as you

exhale drop your attentions talk to your

right bicep tell it to let go then to

your left bicep then the muscles on the

front part of your body then the muscles

on the back part of your body then the

right leg and then the left leg imagine

your body like a jellyfish you have no

bones in your left arm it just sags just

let it go let the tensions go if you

have any trouble relaxing your arms

clench your fist tightly and then let it

go and see the difference

I think one of the things that people

run into is that

when they kind of scan their body for

tensions they might not be able to

identify where these tensions are

so

I notice another thing that you can do I

bought this it’s called the mobility

stick and there’s a whole series of

stretches that you can do that are very

different and they create a lot of very

cool stretches in certain positions that

you don’t normally get into and so when

you put your body through these range of

motions I’m laterally flexing this way

and rotating as I’m stretching and I’m

finding tension in my body that I never

knew that I had and I would never find

those tensions unless I put my body in

those

really strange positions because going

the other way it’s totally fine but

going to the left it’s really restricted

and I notice when I worked out those

areas of tension

I had the best night’s sleep so

sometimes you have to go through a range

of motion and stretching to find out

where your tensions are so you can start

working on relaxing those tensions

either with letting them go or just

stretching your muscles and then we have

also this hormone called oxytocin I

talked about this in other videos

oxytocin is that hormone that

assists in the

bonding of a mother to their child after

birth they call it the love hormone but

there’s some other things about oxytocin

that can help directly lower cortisol

and stress and some of the things that

can increase oxytocin is bonding with a

pet or an animal or even donating or

contributing to something which is

really helping another I don’t know of

anyone who’s helping a lot of people who

are always in a stress State this video

might be a simple video but I think it’s

really important

if you have not seen my video on doing

um like a stress extraction technique

using manual therapy this is another

thing that I think if you add to what I

talked about it can greatly reduce your

stress and help you sleep I put that

video up right here check it out