Stress and Acupuncture

Stress Awareness Week Reminder

This week, and beyond, take a moment to reflect on how you relate to yourself and others. Practise compassion, kindness, and acceptance, even when life feels challenging.

Most importantly, remember to extend that same care to yourself. Too often, we put ourselves at the bottom of the list. Yet, we cannot truly care for others if we neglect our own well-being.

Let Traditional Five Element Acupuncture support you in cultivating self-love and balance. It’s a gentle, holistic way to restore harmony and help you feel grounded, calm, and cared for.

Traditional Five Element Acupuncture can help reduce stress by activating the body’s relaxation response, calming the nervous system, and enhancing your well-being.

How Acupuncture Treats Your Stress

• Calms the Nervous System; Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system; fight-or-flight. Acupuncture treats the parasympathetic nervous system,  promoting relaxation and recovery.
• Boosts Feel-Good Chemicals; Encourages the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers and mood enhancers.
• Balances Brain Chemistry; Helps regulate neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, which are key to mood stability.
• Lowers Stress Hormones; Reduces cortisol,  hormones linked to stress and anxiety. Helps with PMS and Menopause anxiety and stress.
• Relieves Physical Symptoms; Eases muscle tension, headaches, fatigue, and digestive issues often triggered by stress.
• Improves Sleep Quality; Sleep can be improved, which is essential for stress recovery.
• Enhanced feeling of well-being; Traditional Five Element Acupuncture treats you holistically, your whole system in Body, Mind and Spirit. Treating your stress and underlying factors. To learn more about Five Element Acupuncture – see link- https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/acupuncture-five-elements/
• Dealing with Stress; the stress in your life may not go away, the stress in your life may not go away, though Traditional Five Element Acupuncture can help you manage and cope with what you are going through and help you find strategies for your Well-being.

Acupuncture Treatment

For help with your stress and to enhance your well-being with Acupuncture – Contact Hannah Charles – at https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/contact/

Hannah Charles is a founder member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC)

The BAcC is an advocate for traditional acupuncture professionals and maintains the highest professional standards to protect the general public. BAcC members belong to an accredited register, regulated and approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care (PSA). For More information, see the website – https://acupuncture.org.uk/