Stress Management Articles

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Wednesday, 26th July 2006 @ 6:06 AM

Stress refers to the feeling caused by a lot of pressure and demands at home, at work, at school, etc. It can also be a result of life’s events like death within family or friends, lost of job, marital break-up, major catastrophe, etc. Stress has emotional and physical effects that may create negative or positive feelings. Stress, on rare occasions, drives people to do their best and pushes them to the limit to do amazing things. However, most of the time, stress results to anger, reject... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Richard MacKenzie @ Tuesday, 25th July 2006 @ 2:12 AM

Let’s begin by counting how many times you got angry today. Did you honk a tad bit extra to get people out of your way as you were late to work? Did you throw a fit because your kid wouldn’t have his glass of milk, and you wondered “Why God, why me?” Were you upset because your spouse spent the evening at work, and missed your dinner date? Little things seem to irk you beyond belief, you feel like the universe is conspiring against you. You think Murphy’s laws were written keeping you as the exa... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Arun Pal Singh @ Friday, 21st July 2006 @ 12:44 PM

People are afraid of changes especially those which affect their existence in a negative way. Wherever we live we create a comfort zone for ourselves. It could be the room in the house where we live in and feel cozy and comforted every time we go there. Or it could be cubicle in the office we have got used to. We get accustomed to some particular routine or things and highly detest the change that might occur. For some individuals this fear of change starts occupying major share of their ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Bob Kish @ Wednesday, 19th July 2006 @ 6:27 PM

Everyone needs a spiritual retreat now and then. A spiritual retreat is more than just a vacation. A typical vacation may leave you feeling more burned out than when you left - often from rushing back and forth while trying to squeeze as many sites of interest as possible into a short timeframe. A true spiritual vacation on the other hand is a retreat from all the hustle and bustle. A time for renewal and regeneration of spirit, mind and body. With the goal in mind of renewa... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By John Savage @ Tuesday, 18th July 2006 @ 9:05 PM

The concept of depression is broad and encompasses a number of different phenomena. The term is used in the vernacular to refer to a simple “blue” mood. In a medical sense it can label anything from a long-lingering feeling of hollowness to a critical situation ending in a suicide. The simple “down mood” or “bad hair day” really isn’t depression at all. It’s merely the experience of normal human emotions in response to external and internal factors. Every case of being sad or lonely i... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Arun Pal Singh @ Wednesday, 12th July 2006 @ 12:06 AM

Happy and sad moment alternate in our lives and the problem arises when we realize we have no or very little control over them. A 100% happy life is utopist, but there are ways to train yourself to react better to problems and difficulties. We will discuss today at some of the most frequently used methods of cheering up, no matter how big the problems might seem. Try to surround yourself with cute things, like children or animals. You will be instantly “contaminated” with their jo... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Wednesday, 12th July 2006 @ 12:04 AM

“Oh my, how time flies!” “My, my…..Look at the time.” All these expressions suggest one thing. Time waits for no one. Time is important and you must utilize it to the fullest. What would be the best way to win the race against time? Start with your habits. Make a list and examine your daily activities. Find out which among these eat most of your time and lead to lowest productivity. Look at these: 1. Too much TV time is the number one time stealer. TV time eats up ti... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Tuesday, 11th July 2006 @ 11:00 PM

Hypnosis is one of the therapeutic techniques used in order to put people in a state where they are more focused and open to different ideas and suggestions. This is commonly used to alter the state of consciousness to retrace specific inhibitions, access creativity, and heighten suggestibility. Here are some scenarios when a person can use hypnosis: 1. Attain self-acceptance to become happier and contented with one self. This is beneficial in order to validate, appreciate, and su... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Arun Pal Singh @ Monday, 10th July 2006 @ 11:12 PM

The importance of breathing is obvious and we depend on it to sustain our lives. As human beings we have to eliminate the things that our body is no longer using, and breathing takes care of 70% of this process. Other than eliminating the air from your lungs, after it has been depleted of oxygen, breathing also takes out toxins from your body. You can also eliminate non-chemical items such as emotions or stress. By harnessing the immense power of breathing you can create a better... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Thursday, 29th June 2006 @ 2:57 AM

The real problems with stress arise when you don’t do anything at all. Some people are not aware they are at risk for problems such as heart attack and stroke. Stress is so common and strikes so slowly that few people are aware of any danger till its too late. A little statistic might make this a little clearer; webmd.com estimates that 75% to 95% of all doctors’ visits are stress related! In other words, if you have symptoms of stress, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Daegan Smith @ Wednesday, 28th June 2006 @ 6:46 AM

We cannot help it but fall into our daily routines. Working, studying, running the errands, groceries, kids, deadlines, projects, budgeting--the list can go on and on. It is a paradox that the things that make our lives essentially easier are the same things that bind us to our routines. Technology evolved and is continually improving in leaps and bounds, yet we all feel stressed. The amenities that we now enjoyed are not enjoyed by the previous generation. Yet backaches, brain aneurism, carpal ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kathy Gates @ Wednesday, 28th June 2006 @ 2:16 AM

On the surface it seems an odd idea that you could actually be anything other than who you really are. But from the time we can talk, we’re being programmed to “fit in”. We find ourselves conforming in order to please the people we love, and who love us. But sometimes that means that you have to suppress what you know is the real person inside. And yet, your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have. Without a healthy relationship with your... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Sunday, 25th June 2006 @ 1:21 AM

Each person is like a pressure cooker with its cap on. As long as the cap is on, no one can know how much pressure is built up inside us. Very often even we ourselves are not aware of how much pressure has built up in our system until it explodes the top off or starts to seep out of some weaker points in this «cooker». This release of pressure may take occur as an psychosomatic illness or an «accident»; which to the untrained mind seems to be an event which is caused by some external forc... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Ron Mills @ Wednesday, 14th June 2006 @ 2:00 PM

No matter how much you want something for someone else you cannot set goals for that person and rely on them being achieved. The power within goal setting lies in the fact that the individual decides and commits to the actions to be taken and the outcomes desired. Having said that, coaching young adults is different from coaching adults because very often the young person does not yet have the life skills to find the answer for themselves and therefore input and suggested courses of action may ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Jan Hayner @ Wednesday, 14th June 2006 @ 12:28 PM

You wake up in the morning and you feel like you are drudging through another day. You make the coffee, brush your teeth, get dressed, grab something to eat as you are going out the door with your coffee in hand and you try to make it through another work day. Does that sound about right? You get back home and the morning dishes are waiting for you along with the messed up bed and last nights papers laying all over the floor and the pile of dirty wash that you were too tired to do last ni... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By A Raymond Randall @ Saturday, 10th June 2006 @ 7:33 AM

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the phone rang on the CEO's desk. His sister announced her promotion as Chief Corporate Counsel of another firm. Her brother complimented her reluctantly. They shared a few comments, and then she said, "I want to call Mom and Dad." Her brother stared out the window after the conversation thinking how he could get one-up on his sister. Years later he told a conference how his zero-sum views kept him from sharing his sister's excitement.more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Janette Marie Freeman @ Friday, 9th June 2006 @ 8:01 PM

It seems like we all go through it. You know- those times of change, when everything that we hung our hats of self-esteem on- are cast aside. Perhaps it’s the loss of a job, spouse, friends, health, children, youth and beauty, or some less dramatic change that causes us to experience our share of fear and worry. I’m sure there is no one reading this message that hasn’t experienced it more than once, and I would venture to guess it may even be going on now for many of you. After all, this is ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kathy Gates @ Thursday, 1st June 2006 @ 8:07 AM

“How do I stick with it?” is a question I hear again and again as a Life Coach. And I understand -- getting excited about a project in the beginning is one thing; but about half way through that project, your will-power fails, and you begin to wonder just what you were thinking. Sound familiar? But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can stick with it, and here are a few ideas that can help. Examine the choices of your life for the fun factor. Choose goals that make you ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Tuesday, 30th May 2006 @ 4:58 PM

Alternative methods to dealing with stress can be a very difficult decision to make for most people. Visions of new age robes and crystals can fill your head to the point where it just doesn’t seem realistic. Herbal remedies like Echinacea have been in the know for a long time. Many of the most well respected companies have moved into producing alternative products to meet the growing consumer demand for it. This is a blessing to most of the people who have chosen alternative medicine as a form ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Tuesday, 30th May 2006 @ 4:29 PM

Perhaps the most common and simplest form of reducing stress is to take a vacation. Nothing can work better for dealing with stress than to remove yourself completely form the source of it all together. Planning a vacation is the simplest way to do this. If you are trying to decide where you would like to go for your next vacation, you might want to consider an island resort. It can be a difficult choice with so many beautiful and exotic places to go to these days. For example if you've alw... more...