Inability to Relax from Stress

Stress and an Inability to Relax

An inability to relax can often be caused by stress. Facing a stressful situation, your body automatically goes into fight or flight mode, increasing the amounts of various hormones in your body as well as the amount of adrenaline. You already know that adrenaline can speed up your metabolism and give you extra amounts of energy. Stress also boosts up your heart rate, blood pressure, and blood circulation. You are ready to go; either to do battle with your stressor or run far, far away from it and be safe.

However, these two options are not very useful to us these days, as we well know. Many of the stressors we are faced with are either unsolvable by performing epic battle or by running away to fight another day, or are not even likely to be issues that either of those options apply to. No matter what you may have to deal with, it is likely you will have an inability to relax. That might be fine at the time; for a sports player, relaxation is the last thing they want before a big game. They will want to be revved up, ready to hit the ball or tackle someone on the other side. But for the average person, all that extra adrenaline and overall energy is stuck inside without any sort of outlet. Constantly thinking about a stressor at night can be even worse because you are trying to sleep, but the energy inside of you makes it impossible to relax.

Your mind and body can feel like they are (or should be) going 50 miles per hour. Relaxing and focusing on the issue at hand can be extremely difficult. Unless you find ways of getting your body to relax, it is not going to, not as long as you continue to stress, as that stress why all that extra energy is appearing in your body in the first place.