Stress Management Articles

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kevin Sinclair @ Saturday, 29th March 2008 @ 5:59 AM

This article is mainly about how to control your stress. You will find a wonderful stress relieving technique below to help you manage or even eliminate stress. One stress reducing method is to use your imagination to induce relaxation. The mind is a powerful tool and can easily induce relaxation. You can start this technique by doing some abdominal breathing for about five minutes to relax and wind down. Now imagine yourself in a comfortable place, maybe a hammock on a tropical beach or ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Roberto Bonomi @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 8:31 AM

There's a lot of debate and theories about what it is stress and what it does to us. We all have an idea of what's stress because we all experience it from time to time (some persons more often than they would like to experience it). Hans Selye one of the fathers of stress research teached us that stress is not necessarily something bad, that it's part of the natural experience of living and that even the animals have stress. And Selye stated that the biochemical effects of... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Fernando Morales @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 8:00 AM

An important matter to consider in the realm of self assessment and evaluating ones self worth is the subject of success. In today's world the flashy and often glitzy portrayal of what many consider to be success can leave an individual feeling frustrated and overwhelmed to say the least. The demands associated with attempting to measure up to the worlds view of success can easily deplete the mental and emotional resources of a perfectly capable and balanced person. All too often our... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Alex Miller @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 5:28 AM

What causes a panic attack? There could be many different underlying reasons for a panic attack, but the most common reason is simply high stress or anxiety. Understanding the underlying reasons of what causes a panic attack is part learning how to overcome a panic attack. The fact is anxiety is a common part of life and everyone experiences it on a daily basis. How we manage the anxiety is the key to a healthier lifestyle. I watched a TV program that was about a study on people t... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Roberto Bonomi @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 5:28 PM

Sometimes we are not able to escape from our stressors (i.e. if your boss stresses you), but what we all can do is to take a few moments to sit comfortably and melt your stress through mind control. Mind control can be as powerful as the strongest anti stress medicine that you can find anywhere and it's a natural way of solving our problems. Using mind control you can draw on any number of real or imaginary experiences. You can recall a time when you where at peace with blissf... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Nickolove Lovemore @ Tuesday, 25th March 2008 @ 9:43 PM

Room 101 in George Orwell's novel "nineteen eight-four" was the room which contained the "worst thing in the world" and is the name of a popular TV comedy show where celebrities get to air their pet peeves. You can take the Room 101 concept a step further to boost your energy and reduce stress. As I watched a recent episode of the program it struck me that more of us should give our lives the Room 101 treatment. Another word for the phrase "pet peeves" is to... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Joanna Garzilli @ Wednesday, 19th March 2008 @ 8:52 AM

"When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you." Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Life is moving faster and faster. Our society demands instant gratification and quick fixes. Along with this lifestyle, your well-being may suffer. Please take a moment to review the questions below: * Do you wish you had more hours in your day to get more ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kevin Sinclair @ Sunday, 16th March 2008 @ 4:17 AM

It is really not necessary for you to be in a permanent state of stress. By using breathing techniques you will be able to relax both your body and your mind. Yoga will assist you to understand the natural state that your body and mind much prefer to be in, namely a position of relaxation. Deep breathing will have a calming and energizing affect on you. The type of energy you will feel after just a few minutes of careful breathing is not that of a hyper or uptight nature, but the calm a... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 13th March 2008 @ 11:36 AM

The world we live in today does not appear to get any easier. Things seem at best unfair, and at worst painful and unbearable. We go from day to day in the hope that the situation will improve in the not too distant future and eventually our lives will take a turn for the better. More and more people are becoming stressed as each day the world turns into an even crazier place to live. There is no security anymore, what with many folks no longer enjoying good health, getting into debt,... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Mike Shery @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 10:39 AM

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. We all know how it feels; sometimes we experience it as a fleeting annoyance, other times as overwhelming fury. One thing is certain: When it gets away from us and turns destructive, we are instantly at high risk for crises; crises at work, in our intimate relationships or friendships, and in the general quality of life. At this point, you can feel as though you are helplessly at the mercy of an unpredictable, strong, and o... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kevin Sinclair @ Sunday, 9th March 2008 @ 3:55 AM

Whether you have a high stress job such as an airline pilot and have to sit in one cramped place for long hours at a time or you are the worn out mother of a toddler on the run from morning till night, you can feel like your nerves are shot to pieces. You probably crave genuine relaxation but doubt you can achieve it. No matter what your situation, the answer to your stress may be as simple as progressive muscle relaxation. This technique originated in the 1930s and is still popular today... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Derek Owen @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 5:29 AM

The word stress derives from the Latin word stringere meaning to draw tight and anyone who has ever been stressed will understand that feeling of being stretched beyond what is normally comfortable. The Stress Management Society defines stress as what happens when the demands made on a person exceed the abilities of that person to cope. Yet a certain amount of stress is a good thing and if we did not have stress in our lives, we might not get out of bed in the morning or take that two ho... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Sandra Noble @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 2:32 AM

GOD, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference. The Serenity Prayer In software and technology implementation projects, there needs to be something called "Change Control". And why is this needed? No matter how thorough the business analysis job or how complete the project plan, there's always something that needs to be changed or added after the fact. Users and poten... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Mike Shery @ Tuesday, 4th March 2008 @ 6:46 AM

Counseling or psychotherapy is a form of treatment that can help you understand and resolve problems, modify your behavior for the better and make positive changes. There are several types of psychotherapy or counseling techniques and they use different approaches, techniques and interventions. At times, a combination of different counseling approaches may be helpful, while, in some cases a combination of medication with counseling may be best. Counseling techniques that work, incl... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Lee Heather @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 11:47 PM

In order to manage our stress and improve our health and gain more inner peace and a sense of control over our lives we must be willing to make a commitment to ourselves to manage our own stress levels because nobody else will monitor then for us. We may have to risk thinking and behaving in healthier and more empowering ways to live life optimally. I would like to offer you one new way to manage stress. It is a relaxation technique but is quite different form the traditional progressive ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Lee Heather @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 11:19 PM

Stress is now the number one reason behind sickness from work and more than 70% of working adults have experienced stress at work in the past year according to the Gee Publishing Survey of 2006. Whether or not these statistics are true one thing is certain, we cannot expect our employers to provide everything we need to reduce or manage our stress. They are far too busy themselves. So with this in mind lets look at some simple ways to reduce your stress levels. 1) One of the main i... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Paul Sutherland @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 4:04 PM

Are the pressures of life getting you down? Does it seem like the more you try to relax, the more uptight you become? Is your productivity at work beginning to suffer, you family life tense, and you health declining? You need to know how to relieve anxiety and stress and learn how to enjoy life again. Today, the economy is always in the news. Gone are the family businesses that are handed down through generations. Inheriting the family business is becoming a thing of the past, and the pre... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Paul Sutherland @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 3:25 PM

Good or bad, you will always have challenges in life. Oftentimes, the struggles you face will be happy trials, because you can see the positive end result. However, at other times, you trials will seem like a millstone around your neck, causing a great deal of unhappiness and anxiety. So, learn why you need to rid your life of stress, and learn the coping mechanisms lending to contentment in life. First, unless you get a handle on your stress, it will adversely affect your health. For ex... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Paul Sutherland @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 3:01 PM

Today, more than ever, people are under a lot of pressure. With all the technological advances and constant changes in the workplace, many individuals are becoming work-a-holics simply to safeguard their position in the event of restructuring or downsizing. Ask yourself these questions. Is there really such a thing as a secure job these days? How many people this century will reach 25 years with the same company and get the gold watch? The home is no different. With the high cost o... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Derek Dashwood @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 11:20 AM

Ancient warriors were the most powerful, and as societies grew more complex, the warrior class either were at the top, such as Alexander the Great who overpowered Darius of Persia. Alexander had been trained by Aristotle to believe in God and a good life if one lived a good life. Since then, warriors have used their wits to find their ways to power. Such warriors rarely end their lives in a state of bliss or happiness. It has been such a changed world since the English secret agent James... more...