Enjoy Life And Live Long

t might be an understatement if I would say that stress will give us shorter life. However, in truth, this is the reality. Exposing yourself to too much stress will give a shorter life to live. 

We could not get rid of stress in our life. Let's face it. But, sometimes it is not the situation itself that is the stressor. It is usually our reaction that makes us feel stressful.

For those who are not so much familiar with the makeups of our brain, there is a part known as hypothalamus which is the source of all of our emotions. The hypothalamus is the very part in our brain which gives the reaction. Most of the time, this is what you can call as the "Drama King or Drama Queen". 

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The function of the hypothalamus is to make us fight or flight which is the basic coping mechanism if we are in danger. That is the reason we have these sort of reaction in case we are in a very stressful situation. Our brains could not function as the hypothalamus is excreting a lot of adrenaline so that we can either flight from the situation or fight it. This is the very reason why we could be so agressive in those kind of situations. Or the other reaction would be withdrawal. This means we are down and we do not want to do anything at all.

However, the truth about this is that if we continue to be in that stressful situation, our body will keep on pumping which is the purpose of adrenaline. As this goes on, we can liken our body to an overworked machine that will eventually be worn out in the long run.

It's not a surprise that cancer growth, no matter how mysterious they can be, can be attributed to stressful environment. The very reason for this is that while our body keeps on pumping, our cells keeps on dying. As the body tries to compensate for those cells, it also tries to modify its genetic makeup which means it will recreate a program in our DNA so that it will grow faster to cope with the dying cells in the body.

And what else can this do? A rapid growth of cells in the body turning it to a cancer.

Now, we have dissected the very cause of cancer. For sure, even a chemo therapy won't help as our body is already full of these abnormal cells which have been coded with this genetic program.

If we keep on worrying, then, we will keep our body expose to this stressor.

However, the good thing is we can control these stressors. As we can control our emotions which resides in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is considered a low level brain. The higher levels are foundin our cerebrum which can create a great leverage in terms of control. Now, if you are letting yourself run by your emotion, then, you are letting your hypothalamus doing all those functioning in your body. In other words, you are a "low-brained" person. On the other hand, the cerebrum lets you realize these unwanted emotions. For this reason, you can shut up your hypothalamus and avoid those stressful thinkings.

By putting control in our emotions, we can live long and rid our body of the very thing that will destroy us.