What are Stressors and Stress-effect?
Knowing the difference between stressors and stress-effect is helpful. Stressors are the “challenges faced by an individual”, whereas stress-effect is your bodymind’s “response to the challenge”. In other words, a stressor is ‘what happens’, the cause, whereby stress-effect is how a person’s bodymind ‘reacts to what happens’; or, put another way – a stressor is the saber-toothed tiger, stress-effect is what you feel in your bodymind in response to this hair-raising encounter. All stressors and the resulting stress-effects act on your physical or biological body in some way or another. A simple example is when you plunge your arm into a bucket of ice-cold water. Your body’s response to the stressor is muscle contraction, and heart, respiratory and blood pressure rates all increase. Smaller bio-physical stressors on the body include ingesting foods with chemical additives and biocides, all of which create a FOF response, but usually in a less dramatic way. Stressors can best be described
