In a hectic world, it's all too easy to reach the point of feeling
stressed out beyond our ability to cope. Yet it's our ability to cope that
makes all the difference. The point is that stress is not going to go
away; it's here to stay.If you find yourself reading a book or attending a
seminar that says you can eliminate all stress, either throw the book down
or leave the room ...
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So much has been written about stress management. But stop and consider
this for a moment: why just manage something when you can master
it?Knowing and using these three key distinctions are the beginning of
mastering stress.Key distinction 1 - Fight or FlightThe fight or flight
response is hard wired into our nervous system.A long time ago when the
saber ...
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Signs of stress overloadHurrying everywhere, walking, talking, driving
faster, trying to get it all done.Feeling depressed, bored or apathetic
the majority of the time.Feeling chronically dissatisfied with life, no
matter what you do or try.Different eating and/or sleeping habits.Becoming
a slave to ...
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This article looks into the causes of stress and gives free tips to help
you control and reduce your worries.I have, as I am sure many people do,
stressed for most of my life for many different reasons.Even though I
still worry about many things, I have now learned how to handle many of
these situations and will write about how I go about doing this, in this
article.I am ... Read article
The Never Ending Search for HumorHumor heals.That is the bottom line -
humor heals.When we brought our son home, I remember thinking Im supposed
to take care of this little creature and I cant even remember to take out
my contacts at night!During one of the first diaper changes, he did what
little boys do and aimed it right at his mom. She put up the palm of ...
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"All I wanna do is have some fun. I've got the feeling I'm not the only
one."These lyrics singer Sheryl Crowe a Grammy 10 years ago. They still
speak to us today. I've got the feeling her lyrics have tapped into a
longing experienced by most of us.In our complicated, fast paced,
overworked and overscheduled society, when was the last time you had some
fun?According to ... Read article
Stress can be defined as the non-specific response of the body to any
demands made upon it. In other words is the interaction between the coping
skills of the individual and its environment. When talking about stress,
the first question that comes to my mind is, what causes stress? Well,
there are 2 factors that cause stress. At first, is a stressor, and second
is ...
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There are many useful and powerful strategies for managing and mastering
stress.One of the best and most powerful strategies I have found to help
clients manage their stress is to break it down into smaller and thus more
manageable pieces.How stress is like a pizzaPicture, if you will, your
favorite type of pizza. Whatever it is for you, what would happen to you
if ...
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The best way to relieve stress is to exercise and it is not as easy as it
may appear to do this, but you have to set aside the time and get it done,
exercise does not do itself. It is not all that hard buy a bike or take a
hike. The fresh air could do you some good right? Sure it could and why
not?Consider the change of scenery and how this could increase your
perspective. If you feel ... Read article
Why only manage stress when you can master it? Here are four powerful
strategies for making stress work for you.The powerful art of
reframingReframing is a tool that can alter the pressure we put on
ourselves.Reframing means exactly what it sounds like - to put a different
frame on a situation. Have you noticed how different a painting or picture
can look depending ...
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Right now, do a survey of your body. It will tell you if you are stressed
or not. Feel the muscles in your neck, your jaw. Are they tense? Notice
your hands and arms. Are they tense and searching for things to play with
(including a cigarette)?Bring your consciousness to your back. Is it
tense? If any of the questions (or all of them) received a yes answer, you
body is stressed, and it ...
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Do you want to be a lump of coal or do you want to be a diamond? Thats the
first question I ask to begin my stress management seminar called A
Diamond is Nothing More Than a Lump of Coal That Handled Stress Very
Well.We seem to have some interesting misconceptions about the stress in
our lives. The most common is that stress is something to be avoided at
all costs, and true happiness ...
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This article gives free tips and advice about how to reduce stress. I am a
person who used to stress in a big way. At one point a work colleague made
a comment that he thought that I walked around with the weight of the
world's problems on my shoulders. My hair started to turn grey when I was
only twenty-one years of age. Things though had to and were about to
change.I realised that the ...
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If public relations tactics like special events, brochures, broadcast
plugs and press releases dominate your answer, youre missing the best PR
has to offer.Such a budget would tell us that you believe tactics ARE
public relations. And that would be too bad, because it means you are not
effectively planning to alter individual perception among your key outside
audiences which ...
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Remember the wreck of the Exxon Valdez in 1989 that resulted in a such a
massive oil spill?Most people seem to think it was caused by the captain
being drunk. Not so at all.The National Transportation Safety Board ruled
the cause was sleep deprivation, as the third mate on duty and steering
the ship had slept only six hours of the previous 72 hours.Our bodies were
...
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Many children suffer from various forms of stress and in this article I
give advice on how parents can help their child during these periods.
Their stress can cause them to have nightmares and to lose their
self-confidence. I hope you find this article interesting and
beneficial.Children who have nightmaresThere are many reasons why children
can start to have nightmares. I have ...
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Freedom.Many consider this to be the most important word in the human
language. Wars have been fought, lives lost and revolutions won, all for
the goal of freedom.In the film "Braveheart," Met Gibson played William
Wallace, a 12th-century Scotsman determined to win freedom for himself and
his country.While not completely accurate historically, the film's
depiction of ...
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This week I want to focus on helping singe women deal with stress. Having
stress in your life is just a fact of life. There is just no escaping it.
We all have problems and stress.Women and men deal with stress and
problems differently. And if you know the secrets of helping single women
deal with stress, you will attract more women because you know how to
soothe their emotions ...
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REACTING freezes your choices and shuts down your brain. RESPONDING opens
up your choices and jump starts your creativity.REACTING creates more
problems. RESPONDING solves problems.REACTING says things like "Why does
this always happen to me?" "This is just not fair" or "This shouldn't be
happening!" RESPONDING says "I ...
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Every now and then, we will see an article in a magazine claiming that
Sunday is dead. We've turned it into just another high stress day in which
to get things done.To me, it is the mark of an over-stressed person, a
workaholic, a heart attack waiting to happen, a life out of control.The
artidle went on to make it sound like there are sinister forces at work
trying to steal our ...
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Stress (roughly the opposite of relaxation) is a medical term for a wide
range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological,
which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation
syndrome, first described in 1936 by Hans Selye in the journal Nature.
An emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to
adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health which
can be characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure,
muscular tension, irritability and depression. Stress does not cause
migraine but can be a migraine "trigger".
A condition in which the organism is subjected to unfavourable or
unfamiliar environmental conditions, resulting in some alteration in normal
physical functioning. Short-term stress can often be overcome. Long-term
stress can reduce resistance to disease and parasites, inhibit self-healing
processes, and reduce life-span.
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