Personal Coaching – A Drug-Free Approach to Stress

You don’t have to read clinical studies to know that stress has an effect on the body. You can feel it. You can feel the pain, the anxiety, the fear surging through your veins. Your muscles cramp, your stomach churns, and your entire body feels, well, miserable. For people who are chronically stressed, it is nothing less than a mild panic attack repeating itself, many times a day, every day, for years on end.

Over time, chronically stressed people begin to become so accustomed to their stress that they begin to know nothing else. Stress is indistinguishable from their daily life. They don’t know what it’s like to live in a continuous state of calm, peace, and tranquility. And when you try to tell them that there’s another way to live, that there doesn’t have to be stress in their life–they look at you awkwardly, as if you’re speaking gibberish. “How can that be?” They ask, puzzled. “That’s impossible,” they say. “Life is stress,” they proclaim. My personal Spiritual Life Coaching Skype sessions can help you to realize that life is not inherently stressful. Rather, stress stems from your judgments and reactions to whatever life brings.

So what do people do to cope with all this stressful drama? A large percentage of them turn to prescription drugs. An average of six million people a year in the U.S. alone admit to prescription drug abuse. And many more, well, just drink or eat their stress away, resulting in alcoholism and obesity.

The U.S. Department of Health estimates that more than 50 percent of Americans take at least one prescribed pill a day. We are inundated by prescription commercials for ailments as varied as fibromyalgia, erectile dysfunction, allergies, and depression. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), overdose deaths involving prescription drugs increased more than 200 percent from 2001 to 2007.

According to a recent article in Scientific American, the number of deaths and hospitalizations caused by prescription drugs has risen dramatically in the past decade, with overdoses of pain medications, in particular opioids, sedatives and tranquilizers, more than doubling between 1999 and 2006, according to a new study. In fact, by 2006, overdoses of prescription pain killers alone were already causing more deaths than overdoses of cocaine and heroin combined.

Spiritual Life Counseling can provide you with all the drug-free tools, techniques, and psychology you’ll need to relieve stress, transcend your ego, and subsequently choose non-reaction, non-violence, and non-resistance to life’s dramas, conflicts, and challenges.

Spiritual Counselor, Jason Lincoln Jeffers is the founder of The Art of Transformation, a company devoted to teaching Spiritual Enlightenment to the world. His Spiritual Counseling practice uniquely combines spiritual wisdom with ego transcendence, wellness coaching, life path astrology, pain-body counseling, heart-based manifestation, and relationship counseling.