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When we realize any danger, brain reflex changes the body functions. These changes are meant to give big muscles more energy to fight or escape from the crisis. Theses changes in the body are for body movements, to run or to fight but irony is we don’t move our body in that moment. In modern age we can’t escape from danger by physically running from it because danger is not from tiger but from lack of resources. We have to think to solve the problem. In stress, body changes are made for running but we are sitting in the chair thinking about the crisis. This condition is icing over cake which causes many physical diseases.

High blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, migraine, indigestion, hyperacidity, mouth ulcers, intestinal injuries, thyroid problems, chronic pain, fatigue, irritable bowel, psoriasis are all psychosomatic diseases. Their root cause is mental stress.

Chronic stress keeps war mode in our body. The changes are useful for a short time to get rid of danger. However these changes can become permanent because of chronic stress, then we call them as disease. For example, in war mode pressure on blood increases, when it is permanent, we named it as hypertension. If I want to prevent and cure these illness, I need to be aware that I am in war mode. Many people do not have this awareness, so they live in the illusion that they have no stress.

Mental stress, if it is in the right amount, and at proper time keeps the person active. It is called eustress, good stress .However, as the stress increases, physical and mental symptoms begin to feel. Increased irritability, lack of concentration, headache, body pains, fatigue, restless sleep, palpitation are symptoms of chronic stress Most of the drugs for psychosomatic diseases are blocking the chemicals produced in the body during chronic stress. This is why doctors say that antihypertensive medicines should be taken for a lifetime. That is correct. If the chemicals in the body are being produced by stress daily, they need to be blocked daily. That is why antihypertensive drugs are named as beta blockers, calcium channel blocker or ACE inhibitors. These medicines are blocking effects of chemicals but they can’t reduce amount of those stress induced chemicals.

Sattvavajay therapy can change this scenario. Its goal is to reduce unnecessary chronic stress and stress chemicals. These chemicals are culprit of all psychosomatic diseases. When we reduces these chemicals we can reverse and cure all physical diseases caused by chronic stress. Sattvavajay therapy is useful in all physical diseases caused by chronic stress.