Human beings were never meant to deal with prolonged, chronic, unrelieved stress. The person who experiences persistent stress day after day is tense, off center, and out of balance. A recent nation wide study suggests that better than 90% of the adult population is in this negative, unrelieved stress state. This means an enormous amount of Life energy is continually focused outward ever ready to defend and/or survive. Little energy is left to live, function and be. Negative, fearful thinking predominates, and becomes more and more of a challenge. It fragments us and holds us back from expressing the creative, better, joyful part of ourselves. Unrelieved stress also stimulates the perpetual release of the hormones adrenaline and cortisol which in time sear the body/mind like a constant drizzle of acid. The more persistent a person’s tension, the greater amounts of these hormones that are produced. This distorts our thinking and ravages our bodies. How stressed am I? With the help of the following table, you can find out what stress level you are currently in. | 
