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The busy doctor or lawyer is an even better known example of the overactive life. Teachers at school and at college are frequently no less free from the pressure of modern life.

Executive work in schools and colleges involves almost endless details of matters for decisions and actions.

Added to the stress of modern occupations are the financial urges from which few are free. Making enough money to satisfy ever increasing desires has come to be an almost constant stimulus to nervous overactivity upon the part of working men and women.

Overactivity and rush are distinctive of the modern era.

Few persons care what their expenses are in nervous and mental energies.

Every organ in the body is supplied with nerves which when overactive produce effects deviating from normal.

In many cases there is no serious impairment in the structure of your nervous system or in other organs.

But doctor’s observation s could be -- too many of muscles are contracting not alone when you are busy but even also when you try to rest.

This means your nerves are overactive. You evidently are wasting energies in various directions with no good effect.

Fatigue comes from your failure to secure sufficiently restful sleep. X-rays may show that your digestive organs are overtense.

Overactive nerves are the diagnosis on tens of thousands of other persons trying to adjust to the complexities and rush of modern life.

Advice -- Relax.

Over active nerves:

Whenever you do anything, you contract muscles somewhere in your body. This applies equally to activities like breathing, which are essential to life and to others like talking, which often are better omitted.

Every movement then depends for its occurrence upon the shortening of muscle fibers somewhere.

Muscles compose about half the weight of the entire body. Every muscle is supplied with a double set of nerves, one set bringing messages to the muscle, the other carrying messages from the muscle to the spinal cord and brain.

Whenever the nerves coming to the muscle are active, muscle which they supply is active. This activity in nerve and muscle is chemical in nature. It proceeds along a nerve like a wave, at a rate of about forty to one hundred yards per second.

The wave is also electrical in nature but does not pass so rapidly as does electricity along wires which moves as fast as light.

When a muscle contracts, electrical waves are present not only in the muscle but also in the nerves that lead to and from the muscle.

We can say, then, “ nerves are overactive “ or that “nerve tension is high “ if various nerves or muscles in the body are discharging at higher frequencies than they normally should.

What frequencies are normal ?

Unlike blood pressure, as measured by the rate of discharge, one nerve may be found completely at rest while another shows great activities.

Nerve discharge into muscle, then produces muscular contractions, whereupon movements occur or else the muscle becomes more or less rigid.

This gives us a convenient way to describe overactive nerves or high nerve tension. It is the failure of the individual to be relaxed when & where he should be normally.

Generally, we expect

-- An athlete running a race
-- A student writing an exam
-- A soldier fighting at the front

To be in the state of high nerve tension.

Advice -- Relax.

To be excited & to be fully relaxed are physiological opposites.

In practicing the method of relaxation to quiet the nervous system, including the mind, all instructions are to relax muscles.

However, when muscles relax, the nerves to & from those muscles relax also and the same doubtless happens to certain parts of the cord and brain to & from which the nerves run.

Success in learning to relax like any other physical art generally comes out with not reading alone, but with competent instructions & constant practice.

By : Pradeep Mahajan

Last updated : Feb 18, 2011