Part of improving chronic stress is to start to sense and feel it. Close your eyes and start to sense and feel.

Your soma - body, mind and spirit - reacts beautifully to stress. The problem is, it doesn't hold up well when we don't come down from the stressor. It adapts for a time, but wasn't designed to handle it long-term.

There are physical effects of stress in the body that go along with fight or flight. In our multi-part series on stress during the holidays, learn first what happens to the body when stress starts.