Need a Quick Tension-Reliever? Try the "Rag Doll" Technique
The “Rag Doll” is a wonderful little 2-minute technique you can do almost anywhere when you need refreshment and relief from tension. It’s great when you have been staring at a computer screen for a long time, or for a break from prolonged physical activity. I have used it while ...
Take Some Pudding Dear
The act of creation is an amazing act to play. And who knows better to play this starring role than the mothers of the world. Just watching in this mind’s eye all the dinners, after school events, and charity to hundreds of neighborhood kids upon which my mother laid the ...
How To Reduce Stress And Improve Your Life
What can you enhance to decrease stress in your life? Simply enhancing your life will help to reduce stress since problems (stressors) are the main cause of stress. Do you have friends influencing your life? Are these friends positive influences or junkies that create chaos for you? If you friends ...
How to Put Out Your Own Fire: Stressed Out Boomers
Do you experience the blahs? Are you having trouble shaking away the blues? Do you feel overwhelmed, overwrought and overspent? You’re not alone. You’re juggling the roles of parent, spouse, caregiver and employee and have passed the point where you can effectively cope and function well. Perhaps, caring for your ...
How Stress Can Affect A Person's Personal And Work Life
Over the last 25 years or so, stress has been getting to be more and more serious. There are many causes of stress - one of the most common is work-related stress. American workers report at least one day a week with high levels of stress at work, many report ...
5 Steps to Dealing with Problems and Reducing Stress
Here's a look at what happens to our bodies when we're stressed, what causes stress and 5 ways to overcome problems.
What happens when we are stressed?
Our bodies trigger the 'fight or flee' response. This is the body's natural reaction to what it perceives as danger - ...
10 Tips For Dealing With Stress
Feelings of stress are part and parcel of everyday life and in many situations stress can actually be good for us. In emergencies for example stress is nothing more than the body's instinctive reaction to defend itself. It is stress therefore that would cause us to jump out of the ...
Do You Want To Reduce Your Stress And Anxiety?
If so read on to understand why it’s there and how we can learn to manage it so YOU CAN feel better and live a more balanced life.
Stress comes from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry or anxious. Different people feel different amounts of stress in ...
Physical Causes of Stress
Stress occurs when the demands upon an individual surpass the resources in his/her arsenal to meet such demands. There are many causes for stress, which may be broadly classified into physical, mental, emotional, personal, familial, social, professional, religious and spiritual.
Let us examine a few important physical causes of stress.
A. The ...
How Do We Measure Our Stress Levels
Stress is caused by an imbalance between the demands upon an individual and his/her ability to cope with those demands. The demands are perceived as challenges which may arise from either external or internal sources. Individuals have their own personal beliefs that influence their attitudes and actions against such perceived ...
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