Stress Signals: Listen to Your Body, Recognize and Respond
If the smoke alarm in your home were beeping loudly, you would quickly take action. Similarly, if your car alarm started blaring, you would investigate. And if a tornado warning were issued for your neighborhood, you would definitely seek shelter. However, experts agree that we are not as prompt to respond to our body’s warning signs, indicating that we need to slow down. According to Jennifer King, an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University, we are conditioned to ignore our body’s signals from an early age.