In our understanding, stress is the psycho-organic state produced by the mismatch between the individual's potential and the challenge they need to face. Stress is the consequence of the psychophysical effort to face the obstacle. To manage stress, we try to increase the practitioner's energy, so that their potential rises and they can face the challenge from top to bottom.

Stress in itself is not a bad thing. Without it, the human being would be vulnerable and would not be able to fight, work or create with the necessary energy. What is bad is the excess of stress or the lack of control over it.

Between one psychophysical alert and another, the person would be able to recover from this state of extreme organic and mental tension. For this, it would be necessary that there be less frequency of the state of tension or, then, specific techniques to minimize the resulting generalized fatigue and that produces a chain reaction of secondary effects such as heart attack, high blood pressure, migraine, insomnia, depression, nervousness, drop in productivity, hair loss, herpes, digestive problems, ulcer, gastritis, sexual impotence, back pain and the worst of all health problems: the doctor's bills!

Just reduce stress to also alleviate all its effects, which, otherwise, would hardly yield to a definitive solution. They would be merely palliative measures or a masking of the symptoms.

The DeRose Method has in its collection several efficient resources to reduce stress to healthy levels. This opinion is shared by a good number of doctors who recommend this method to their stressed patients.

For this reason, there are many entrepreneurs, executives, artists and liberal professionals who seek, in the DeRose Method, the extra dose of energy and dynamism they need, but, at the same time, the control of stress.

Ninety percent of people feel the effects of combating stress already in the first session of our method. Our techniques and social activities stimulate oxytocin, which is a hormone produced in the hypothalamus. With its stimulation, levels of cortisol (stress hormone) decrease in the body.

From the pocket book Stress
Professor DeRose, Egrégora Books

One day, I went to the dermatologist to have him analyze my hair loss, and he said, It's stress. And it was no use explaining that I am the least stressed person he has ever met. I work at what I love, I wake up whenever I want, I decide what I want to do, I have a wife who is a sweetheart and we never argue, my secretary takes care of everything for me... in short: I have no stress at all. But the dermatologist continued to think that the hair loss was due to stress and not testosterone.

Some time later, I went to the cardiologist to control my blood pressure, which was a little high, and he pontificated: It's stress. And it was no use explaining that my father had high blood pressure, so the first suspicion should be genetics. He continued to think it was the supposed stress.
On another occasion, I went to the gastroenterologist to see if we could locate the bacteria that I had certainly brought from my many trips to India and that was causing abdominal cramps. He told me: This is stress. And it was no use explaining that, with 25 years of traveling to the Himalayas, it was inevitable that I had brought bacteria, protozoa and a whole zoological garden of microorganisms different from ours. He continued to think that the cause was stress.

One day, I hurt my back practicing Aikido. I went to the orthopedist and, as soon as I declared that I had back pain, he told me, based on his experience: It's stress. And it was no use explaining that the cause had been trauma. He persisted in saying that, regardless of the impact on the vertebrae, stress was associated with back pain.

But the most incredible thing was when, years later, I went to the dentist with an abscess in a tooth and the dentist immediately said: It's stress. Recent studies have proven that stress triggers abscesses and all sorts of inflammations, including cancer, because it lowers the body's resistance.

What is the conclusion?
The conclusion of the cases above is that, whatever your problem, the trigger may have been stress. You may have viruses and bacilli in your body that would never create any problems if there was no decrease in immunological capacity due to stress. This is the case of the herpes virus, which is there quietly until you have an episode of stress: immediately the nasty blisters start to appear on the lips or on the genitals. You may have a genetic predisposition to cancer, but it would never develop if there was no decrease in the body's resistance.

From the pocket book Stress
Professor DeRose, Egrégora Books

We all want to be in control. For the most rational way that provides better results is not to play hardball or vomit emotions haphazardly. When you understand that he who says what he wants hears what he doesn't want, your words and actions become more intelligent.
Imagine a huge rock, stable on the edge of a cliff. The rock is our emotional. While it is there, still, it gives us the impression that its stability is perennial. However, its position is likely to roll downhill.

Just a small touch, perhaps with the tip of your index finger, to make it lose its apparent stability and descend destroying everything. So is our emotional. One moment you are happy and cheerful; the next moment - by any eventuality - you become furious or saddened.
However, if the stone starts to oscillate, in the position in which it is, a finger on the other side is also enough to prevent it from falling. That's how our emotional works.
Just one finger is enough to prevent a disaster, if applied at the right time, before the triggering. Remember the story of Peter, the Dutch boy hero? He saw a crack in the dike and put his little finger to prevent the force of the water from increasing the hole and eventually breaking the dam. Just one finger, a child's finger, was enough to prevent a tragedy.
If you can detect a threat of emotional outburst just a moment before it breaks out, it will be very easy to avoid the tantrum, just put your finger in the gap in the dam.

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