Heartsavers - Stress
Reducing the stress in your life makes sense for your overall health and happiness.
Prevention of coronary heart disease.
The role of stress in heart health
In some ways stress is the most difficult lifestyle issue to tackle, after all you can make a conscious effort to improve your diet or take more exercise, but stress involves the subconscious part of your mind. Changing patterns of thought that have developed over many years is not easy, particularly as it is often difficult to be objective about one's own state of mind.
Nevertheless it is a vital area which we ignore at our peril, for not only does it have an impact on our physical self, it affects our entire sense of well being - our happiness.