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Stoic Stress ep 18 : Moral Letters 92.3 : Stress and Headaches
Many of us have experienced it. Feeling stress from a situation or a series of events starts to affect us. One of the effects is a headache.
Headaches are one of the bodily responses to stress. Tension headaches are dull pain, tightness, or pressure around your forehead or the back of your head and neck.
Stress and increased frequency of headaches seems to be a given association. After all, stress does cause changes to our body and brain that can favor the development of headaches, so it isn’t farfetched to regard stress as one of your triggers.
Even worse, stress can promote the development of migraines, much worse varieties of headaches that can result in your immobility and loss of countless work hours.
The practice of Stoicism can be seen as a measure to prevent stress. It is through its teachings a course of action to find tranquility and living a happy life even through suffering. When stress starts affecting you with headaches it is a sign that things are affecting you.
It takes discipline and self-control to have a happy life.
Moral Letters 93. 3. What is the happy life? It is peace of mind, and lasting tranquillity. This will be yours if you possess greatness of soul; it will be yours if you possess the steadfastness that resolutely clings to a good judgment just reached. How does a man reach this condition? By gaining a complete view of truth, by maintaining, in all that he does, order, measure, fitness, and a will that is inoffensive and kindly, that is intent upon reason and never departs therefrom, that commands at the same time love and admiration. In short, to give you the principle in brief compass, the wise man's soul ought to be such as would be proper for a god.
Reasoned choices also play a role in getting headaches. Think of unhealthy choices in dealing with stress like consuming alcohol. Consuming too much gives the old hangover and the splitting headache.
Luckily, salvation may come by helping reduce the effects of stress, as the frequency of headaches decrease once the stress response is eliminated.
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By Matt SchmidtMany of us have experienced it. Feeling stress from a situation or a series of events starts to affect us. One of the effects is a headache.
Headaches are one of the bodily responses to stress. Tension headaches are dull pain, tightness, or pressure around your forehead or the back of your head and neck.
Stress and increased frequency of headaches seems to be a given association. After all, stress does cause changes to our body and brain that can favor the development of headaches, so it isn’t farfetched to regard stress as one of your triggers.
Even worse, stress can promote the development of migraines, much worse varieties of headaches that can result in your immobility and loss of countless work hours.
The practice of Stoicism can be seen as a measure to prevent stress. It is through its teachings a course of action to find tranquility and living a happy life even through suffering. When stress starts affecting you with headaches it is a sign that things are affecting you.
It takes discipline and self-control to have a happy life.
Moral Letters 93. 3. What is the happy life? It is peace of mind, and lasting tranquillity. This will be yours if you possess greatness of soul; it will be yours if you possess the steadfastness that resolutely clings to a good judgment just reached. How does a man reach this condition? By gaining a complete view of truth, by maintaining, in all that he does, order, measure, fitness, and a will that is inoffensive and kindly, that is intent upon reason and never departs therefrom, that commands at the same time love and admiration. In short, to give you the principle in brief compass, the wise man's soul ought to be such as would be proper for a god.
Reasoned choices also play a role in getting headaches. Think of unhealthy choices in dealing with stress like consuming alcohol. Consuming too much gives the old hangover and the splitting headache.
Luckily, salvation may come by helping reduce the effects of stress, as the frequency of headaches decrease once the stress response is eliminated.