Cortisol the Hormone of Stress . Cortisol is demonized by the healthcare industry - Being stressed in your workplace, at home and in life is seen as a crime and weakness. . It's true Cortisol overload is known to cause: Depression, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Heart Conditions, Obesity, Digestive Problems. 🔥 Cortisol is actually by design a hormone with a purpose. 🌱 In fact without Cortisol - survival stops - There's a reason Cortisol is produced by Mammals. 🌱 Stress is a human mechanism of function; mother nature has primed us this way. 🌱 🌄 In the morning; Mother nature gives us a dose of reality; that reality is the Cortisol Awakening Response. 🌱 It quickly orients us to our living situation in Time & Space and prepares us for the worst. 🌱 🔥🔥🔥 The Hormone of stress creates anxiety, increases blood sugar levels, elevates our heart-rate and provides us an energy pump during fight or flight. ☯️ Cortisol Prepares us for emergencies by: ☯️ Shutting off bodily functions that slow us down (Digestion, Inflammation, Immune System) ☯️ Inhibiting Oxytocin (Self Preservation) ☯️ The constant Pursuit of a stress-free life will bring you more stress, as it is an admission and reinforcement that there is too much stress in the first place. ☯️ #Wellth teaches us to Pursue healthy stress; the types that makes us stronger from experiences, and most of all the type of stress that progressively teaches us to generate inner peace in times of stress. ☯️ 🐾Perhaps the problem in our lives is not Cortisol - The problem is US creating an abundance of situations that perpetuates Cortisol. 🐾 (at Scarborough Beach (strand i Australien, Western Australia)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1NYqD5HdjZ/?igshid=no4rro1srmdd