Alpaca Ranching - No More Fight or Flight Response



Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2007

by
Owning Alapca

Do you grind your teeth at night? Have headaches or eye twitching? Would you like to stop the fight or flight responses that occur daily to your body? Alpaca ranching can help remove stress hormones from your body and calm overactive neurons.

In todays' civilization, rather than physical threats, we are assaulted by perceived threats that trigger the primitive fight or flight response and can manifest as teeth grinding, headaches, eye twitching, immune problems, and many other physical and mental symptoms. Alpaca ranching can calm the effects of that response in three ways.

1. Physical exercise can help you "sweat out" stress hormones. Alpaca ranching provides plenty of opportunity for physical exercise. Some of the activity needing to be done are herding alpacas and working on fencing and pastures. A brisk 5-10 minutes of scooping poop is all that's needed to calm you down. You can read more about scooping alpaca manure at http://www.owning-alpaca.com/alpaca-manure.html .

2. A change in your physical environment helps. Alpaca ranching can take you out of polluted and noisy surroundings and into the clean country-side. You will be amazed at the calming effect on your body when you leave this hostile background to your life.

3. You need to change the way you look at reality to combat these perceived threats and alpaca ranching can help you here, too. If you're more relaxed, your attitude and emotional reactions to situations are going to change to a more positive outlook. You will look differently at troubling life events. Instead of seeing them as insurmountable problems, you will see them as experiences that you learn from and makes you stronger. For instance, if you loose one of your animals, it is difficult, but you move on and become stronger and wiser.

Do you want to stop that nightly teeth gnashing for good? Look to alpaca ranching. Running an alpaca farm is possible for lots of folks due to the easy maintenance and handling of alpacas. It's a healthier lifestyle, profitable, and fun, too.

Read more about alpaca ranching at http://www.owning-alpaca.com/alpaca-ranching.html . Debby McCandless has raised alpacas for seven years.

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