common indicators of Stress in the body inclde:
• When any muscle in any part of your body is tensed, it shows that you are under stress. This is because when the stress response is initiated in the body, the muscles contract, ready to fight or flee; but when eventually there is no need to fight or flee, it still remains under such tension. Symptoms and signs that can occur in different people depending on their weak area include the following:
• Head & Neck: Pain or tight feelings in the neck and shoulder, teeth grinding, jaw joint pain, bulging eyes, tight jaws or flared nostrils.
• Muscles: High and low back pain, generalized pain or tight feelings in arms, legs and buttock, slouched shoulder, curled toes.
• Hands and skin: Increased sweating, skin eruptions, cold hands and feet.
• Brain: Generalized panic and anxiety, memory loss, migraine or tension headache.
• Heart & blood vessels: Rapid heartbeat, raised blood pressure, dizziness, etc.
• Lungs: Fast breathing, shortness of breath
• Stomach and intestines: Feelings of desire to vomit, distress in the stomach, acid stomach and heartburn, ulcers, diarrhoea, inflammation of the colon, indigestion, constipation, churning.
• Skin: Stress stain on the eye lid, frown lines in the forehead, around the eyes or mouth.
• General: Feelings of trembling, fatigue, dry mouth, fear of impending doom or death, restlessness, pacing, squirming, nervous habits like nail-biting and foot-tapping, irritability, anger, racing thoughts, day dreaming, lack of concentration, indecisiveness, change in eating habits, smoking, crying, yelling, throwing or hitting things, pains in different aspects of the body, compulsive behaviour, lack of motivation, sleeplessness or sleep disruption, feeling of going crazy.
• Note that the body registers stress before the conscious mind does, don’t let your mind deceive you that you are not stressed, ‘listen to your body’.