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Your hair has a way of telling you if your body is in balance. If you are healthy - physically as well as emotionally - your hair will be radiant and shining and your scalp pliant and moist. If you are not well physically, or if you are upset emotionally, your hair becomes dull and lifeless - it will begin to fall out, and your hair will become waxy with the overproduction of your traumatised sebaceous glands. Truly, any major change in our lives can be reflected in the condition of our hair, scalp and skin. If we are well and happy, we reflect this health and well-being in the condition of our hair and scalp. If we are in a slump, that slump is often manifested in the appearance of our hair and scalp. We need stress, we need it to become vital, ambitious and sexually active people. However we also need the ability to cope with stress when it threatens to overwhelm us. Besides which without stress, we would become lethargic and depressed. Stress is very difficult to describe, few people will say the same thing about it and very few people ever agree what causes it. The Oxford dictionary's definition of stress is "that stress is a demand upon physical or mental energy". However what we usually mean by stress is an excessive demand upon our energy, one that we find hard to cope with, which calls on our reserves and which cannot be sustained indefinitely without relief. Stress appears to be a product of modern day life, however it was in existence centuries ago, although it did not have the same press coverage it demands today. Stress can be defined in a variety of ways: Stress is feeling bad, due to troubles beyond our control. The reaction of the mind and body to change. Stress is everywhere and seems to be a recent phenomenon. Stress is unpleasant and has little to do with happy events. Stress is related to change. There again you could reject all of the above and say stress does not exist but is merely a scapegoat for all of modern day problems!
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