Let Go of Stress to Look and Stay Younger

Inner peace is anti-aging, while distress is aging. Being a parent, you must learn to let go of everyday stress to look and stay younger.

Stress is normal. Your body needs stress to accept challenges, to concentrate on doing a difficult task, to make important decisions, or even to have sex. But too much stress can accelerate your aging process.

How stress can age you

1. Chronic stress, which causes your body to maintain physiological reactions for long periods of time, especially with respect to the release of hormones, can lead to depletion of vital nutrients in your body, particularly DHEA (a hormone critical to aging and longevity), vitamin C, and the B-complex vitamins.

2. During stress, your body uses its DHEA supply and impairs the functioning of your body’s hormonal glands. According to scientific research, your DHEA levels decrease as you age. Stress is adding insult to injury.

3. Too much stress increases the production of hormone epinephrine, which wears out your hormonal glands.

One interesting study showed that men who practice meditation (an anti-stress strategy) regularly have significantly more DHEA than those who do not, and the difference is even much more significant in the case of women (maybe women do have more stress than men).

Indeed, stress can accelerate the aging process. According to Robert Sapolsky, author of Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, you lose your ability to cope with stress as you age, due to elevated blood pressure, which adversely impacts hormone secretions. In this way, stress can become a vicious circle.

If you wish to remain younger and healthier for longer, do not allow stress into your life.

Living in the present

In addition to meditation, cultivate inner peace to look younger for longer by living in the present, which is essentially acute awareness of what is going on around you, in particular, your body response to it. For example, if you are walking, pay total attention to the surrounding, as well as the movements of your hands and feet, and your breathing, instead of listening to the music or talking on the cell phone. Read my book The Book of Life and Living for more tips on wisdom in living.

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Stephen Lau

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