Some studies say our evolving brains🧠 are still wired to focus on problems, negativity as a cautionary mechanism to avert threats like those posed by tigers 🐯or lions 🦁in ancient ages.

Means when walking out of cave for food, one has to stay always cautious, alert, else would get eaten by some animal. Imagine the stress, tension it would create in body and mind in those days.

Tigers today are replaced by different stressors, news-overload and other multiple socio-environmental factors.

However, due to such ancient brain wiring, we almost automatically tend to respond to today's threats as if responding tigers and our body's follow the same course, keeping the whole system under flight-fight response unnecessarily.

This results in production of various stress hormones which create a self-feeding vicious cycle for the body and the mind. Many unexplained conditions like tension headaches, musculo-skeletal issues, cardio-vascular issues, digestive issues are result of such stress hormones. Adrenaline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain's use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues. In nut shell, chronic stress puts our health at risk.

Ayurveda offers time-tested practices like Vedic Counselling and treatments like Shirodhara which work effectively bring more clarity to the mind so we can choose our appropriate response to today's stressors and avoid triggering of these unwanted hormones in excess.