People are increasingly facing more stress since the Human-Being society became developed and complicated, by ignoring the physical influence to our body, Human’s health suffered considerably from stress. Many people was suggested to solve the stress problem by using psychological approaches, however, the research in recent decades has identified a significant awareness gap between the benefits of physical activities and stress relief. The following paper is aiming at exploring how stress affects physical health and how to relieve stress physically.
Stress was defined by Selye as "the nonspecific response of the body to any demand" (Christopher, 1996), the development of society and economic has significant boost the function of brain, and human’s psychological need. Based on the Maslow need hierarchy theory (Lutz,2010), when the individual’s basic needs ( water, food, safety…etc) are satisfied, it will seeks for higher needs from mental dimensions such as belonging, self-esteem, love and being-love, and self-actualization. The failing of meeting these needs would the driver of stress generating, it is suggested that the stress mainly come from working place, love relationship and the relationship between family members. Having realized the truth of ‘stress are universally exists and will continue to grow as a major part in the daily life’, it is essential to explore the negative physically impact stress might bring about.
It is believed that the relationship between stress and physical health could be considered as ‘fight-or-flight response’, our body would produce Cortisol and other Glucocorticoid hormones for the preparation of an emergency situation. The release of these hormones may negatively influence physical health. As stress grow intense enough or repeated frequently enough, the influence could become worse and discombobulate the Cortisol production system and physiological