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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The three rs of handling your emotions
- My son was watching a Richard Scarry video this morning as I was doing my usual rushing around, getting ready to leave the house. He's watched it countless times, but I've never managed to sit through the entire thing. This morning one song caught my attention, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands", which I sang many many times as a child in Sunday School, and always followed with "If...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Quick steps on handling stress
- Looking for some quick stress relief?Edward W. Smith, motivational speaker, author and TV show host, who specializes in quick tips on how to move your life ahead even faster, offers the following advice.It is helpful to understand that significant stress reduction can occur in minutes, you do not even have to leave the place where the stress is occuring.First, as soon as you f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Empowerment for highly sensitive people: part 1
- Are you a person who has a keen imagination, a deep inner life, and vivid colorful dreams? Do you need time alone on a regular basis? Do people who know you say you are "too sensitive"?Do your feelings overwhelm you? Are you deeply moved by music or art? If you answered yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person or HSP.In her series of books, the author Elaine Aron details t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Human conditiong, stress management and music
- The predominant role human conditioning plays in a stressful environment. Perspective, reaction and remedy. How music can help.Creating music for stress management can be a rather complicated process. Due to the nature of stress, music must promote and sustain a therapeutic ambience and provide a calming influence that opens the door to reflection, corrective action and ultimately, inner pe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress tips
- 26 ways to minimize and manage the unhealthy effects of stress, anxiety and burnout.No doubt about it - we live in an increasingly competitive and stressful world. In many subtle and not so subtle ways it affects us all and it's not unusual for people to lace their conversation with phrases like 'Stressed out', 'Anxiety syndrome', 'Panic attack', 'Burned out', and more. That's today's reali...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mental and physical stress
- All people experience stress and anxiety in one form or another. Sometimes it can be helpful but if allowed to become chronic, it produces a physically debilitating, unhealthy and destructive mind-set that actually increases stress levels and lowers immune system efficiency.Generally speaking, helpful stress is similar to a wakeup call that motivates one to (a) do something that needs to be...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seven steps to reducing stress and reclaiming your life at work
- According to the StressPulse survey by ComPsych Corporation completed at the end of 2003 and is still valid today:· Employees in the category of high stress have increased by 15% · More than 29% of employees come to work five or more times a year when they are too stressed or distracted to be effective · 63% have high levels o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Sometimes c.o.p.i.n.g is all we can do
- We strive for excellence in our lives, going at full throttle, but sometimes we are faced with a situation where all we do is "hurry up and wait".That's when we need to learn about coping.C is for Conscious.Conscious slowing down is required here, as we take stock of what is really happening in our life. It is not like tuning out, we are fully aware that we are in the moment a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Conquer stress and anxiety naturally with this safe and effective method
- Rhodiola Rosea is the latest natural remedy to join the arsenal of natural anxiety and stress reducers.Rhodiola Rosea, also known as Golden Root, is a native plant of arctic Siberia. For centuries it has been used by eastern European and Asian cultures for physical endurance, work productivity, longevity, resistance to high altitude sickness, and to treat fatigue, depression, anemia, impote...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress & performance: how much is just right?
- WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYSExperts in the stress management field have traditionally found it difficult to pinpoint how much stress is optimum. A very recent study, carried out by the University of Ohio, showed the relationship really depended on your definition of performance. In this study, subjects' ability to recall simple facts seemed to improve as their stress increased, while their abilit...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Common senss stress control
- Statistics show that all of us experience stress at one point in time or another. It is no longer a question of whether or not we are stressed, but rather how much stress we can tolerate. A consistently high level can lead to many physical ailments such as gastro-intestinal problems, sleep disorders, headaches, heart attacks, flu, frequent colds, cancer, skin problems, depression, and chronic pain...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How are you achieving rejuvenation for peak performance?
- When was the last time that you truly took a mental break from work? Many of us in North America are now getting out our calendars to gear up for summer vacations, so it's timely to discuss how we use our "downtime" to enhance our ability to excel in our businesses and our workplaces.The book The Power of Full Engagement, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, 2003, uses an enlightening ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Minimizing stress
- Understanding StressStress has been called "the invisible disease". It is a disease that may affect you, your organization, and any of the people in it, so you cannot afford to ignore it.1) What is Stress?On occasions, all of us experience stress. Beneficial stress can help drive a few of us to become Olympic champions, but harmful stress can drive others to despair....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Those deceiving emotions
- Deceiving? You bet they are. How? Without your even knowing it, the effects of anger, frustration, and resentment can take a toll on your life. Chances are, it's happening right now. But most people are not - no, correction, do not want to be intuitive enough to figure out what's going on. The reason? It takes a certain amount of self study - it may sound a bit ludicrous, but the truth is the vast...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Extreme self-care: make time for yourself
- If you've recently experienced loss or are going through a time of high-stress or uncertainty, it's important that you make a special effort to look after yourself. Here are a few things you can do to care for yourself physically and emotionally:- Take time out. If you can get away from your usual environment then do so. Go away for the weekend or even a day ? do something different ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Intelligent emotions
- We so often take the feelings of happiness and saddness for granted. Why do we even have such feelings inside us at all? Well if you've ever asked yourself that question then perhaps you will find an answer here that resonates with you.In order to help you understand the crucial role these very special emotions were meant to play in our lives I propose a short exercise.A) Think of so...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - High stress means low self esteem
- Do you have the desire for a stress free life? Most people do. After all isn't this why most people are working so hard, to achieve just that? Sounds like a paradox doesn't it, "I'm working hard to achieve a stress free life"?Ironically, by the time you think you've gotten there, the "stress" you've endured as a result of all that work has likely taken such a toll on your health that you ar...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Myth busting: what causes mental breakdown?
- I came out of a nightmare 5-year period of anxiety and depression and I did it without taking any drugs. What frustrated me is that despite advances in understanding as to why people become stressed, depressed and anxious, sufferers are still told numerous myths about what causes their illness.This raises an important issue: How can people rid themselves of the pain of these illnesses if th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to stop computers stressing you out
- Of all the forms of stress in today's world, computer stress is the one that is on the rise the fastest. Computers are wonderful machines, but they can also stress out workers by their sometimes confusing demands, their constant presence and their simple inability to work properly. Thus, computer stress must be understood and it must find an outlet or computer users will find themselves even more ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The case of the missing vacation
- This is the time for daydreaming about your annual vacation. Sounds enticing.But when it comes to actually taking time off, a growing number of us become downright ambivalent. ("Paranoid" may be more accurate.) Concerns about job security creep in. If the boss can get along without me for two weeks will he decide I'm not needed? What will happen to my projects when I am gone? Will...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 6 ways to release stress
- We are currently living in a capitalist society where money and power rule. Therefore, many of us have become workaholics and often overlook signs of tiredness in order to stay on track. I am not saying that people should stop working hard to achieve their goals. However, there is a slight problem we do not know how to manage our stress, which is definitely not a good thing! Stress has been linked...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress & self esteem: raising one by lowering the other
- In our article about Exercise & Stress, we looked at the way these two factors form a self-reinforcing cycle that can work for us. With stress and self-esteem, however, the relationship is negative ? both in the technical sense of the words (i.e. as one increases, the other decreases, and vice versa), and in its ultimate result upon the person concerned.Study after study has found that incr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Workplace stress: what to do during down times?
- The main problem in a down economy is that workplaces tend to become stressful and morale bottoms out. This reduces overall productivity and especially gets in the way of teamwork. Here are some approaches that go beyond cash rewards, stock options or other silver-lined benefit packages to keep employees engaged during an economic downturn. Sometimes, simple works best.Have informal coff...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress buster tip: relax from the weekday stack!
- Everyday can be full of stress but we all deserve a break from life's daily deadlines. Whether you're at home or work we all need to take the time to unwind. Dealing with stress through simple relaxation exercises is a very effective and rewarding approach. I've put together a brief outline of some "Stress Busters" that can help you relax from the stressors we encounter everyday of every week....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress reduction and sacred moments
- "The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen Monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists ? that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred ? this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Self indulgence: it isn?t just about chocolate
- It's no secret that we women, by virtue of our genetic make-up I suppose, seem to feel it is necessary to be superwomen-simultaneously balancing the demands of managing a home, caring for children and aging parents, and usually working in a demanding profession. This syndrome, which was first labeled in the 1980s, continues 20-some years later despite zillions of articles and talk shows discussing...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is your workplace suffering from contagious stress?
- We wonder how many of you might recognise this scenario? Although it happened with a male manager, it could apply to men or women. The manager we worked with had been promoted to a more senior role and was experiencing demands from all sides. He became increasingly tired, was working long hours and spending less time with his family. His overall energy dropped, anxiety levels increased, sleep was ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The cost of stress ? the need to monitor and manage the risks!
- How much attention is paid to one of the biggest underlying risk factors within an organisation ? the effects of stress? Not only are there a lot of potential risks arising from the spread of stress within an organisation, it costs them a great deal of money!!Let us start with looking at some hard-nosed numbers (based on the UK.). The CBI estimate that there is a cost of ̉ہ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress relief in minutes
- For those who are suffering from stress, just about the hardest thing to find is stress relief. Stress can often continue itself on its own energy and, as it mounts up upon itself, it builds itself into an absolute mental frenzy. Unfortunately, this sort of mental frenzy is ultimately counter-productive and leaves the mind so frenzied that it cannot actually take care of whatever is causing the st...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Discover the wisdom of letting go
- When a great Zen Master returned to his country after many years of studying abroad the people asked what he brought with him. He said, "I've come with nothing but empty hands."What are these empty hands? What value are they of us today? Usually our own hands are full, filled with tasks, problems and possessions that seem impossible to put down. Our lives are crowded with decision...