Stress Management Articles

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Adrian Adams @ Tuesday, 8th May 2007 @ 11:45 AM

Stress can be a major problem that affects every area of your life, including health and relationships. Don't let stress take over your life. Here are some simple ideas to get you started in reducing your stress levels. 1. Taking time to relax and have fun is essential to reducing stress levels. Get together with family or friends and play games or just goof around. Take your mind off of negative feelings or situations and just have fun. Laughter releases hormones that promote health... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Tuesday, 8th May 2007 @ 12:27 AM

Stress is something that affects the mind and the body. In a sense proving that the mind and body are intimately related. Many studies have shown a correlation between stress and physical illness in everything from weight to heart conditions to headaches and even insomnia Next do this experiment created by Win Wenger PhD, to establish the connection between mind-body for your own experience and understanding. Mind-Body Observation Exercise 1 Stand up and imagine you are sta... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Thursday, 3rd May 2007 @ 1:51 PM

Your thoughts direct your emotional Energy. In other words what you think about will create how you feel . I was traveling from Queens to Staten Island (here in New York City) on a hot rainy day. The subway tracks in Manhattan had flooded so the trains were barely running. Here I was standing in an extremely hot and humid underground station, sweating so much I thought I would melt. I noticed that several individuals around me were getting angry and frustrated. Which led to some complaini... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By John Khu @ Tuesday, 1st May 2007 @ 12:16 PM

With the stress that has become the part and parcel of our life today, it has become imperative for us to know how to be happy. It can be easily achieved by a simple smile. The old adage, Smile and the world smiles with you holds true even today. Or it may touch us through our relationships and love of work. Anything that gives us comfort or pleasure will teach us how to be happy. We constantly devise methods of how to be happy. Razor-edge competition and fast paced economy leaves us wit... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By andrew chin @ Friday, 27th April 2007 @ 7:41 PM

Stress management does mean putting work down and stopping for a while. It entails clearing your head and freeing it of unhealthy distractions, in order to jump back on track. Some stress management programs emphasize the value of relaxation. That is, learning to savour one's time alone and use it to restore the mind and the body. Stress management relaxation programs include meditation, progressive relaxation, autogenic training, and biofeedback. Several other techniques exist, but... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Jimmy Cox @ Thursday, 19th April 2007 @ 12:21 PM

Often times stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday's concerns into our present day concerns. An accumulation will almost always end up in a high stress level. Therefore, we must be able to "dump" all of our concerns from the previous day or days and concentrate wholly on our today. Stress Busting Tip #1 Resolve right now to release every thought from yesterday and be only mindful of the now... this thought only... this breath... this moment. Take in three... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Abbas Abedi @ Thursday, 19th April 2007 @ 12:05 PM

Stress is one of the biggest relationship killers. We all experience stress in our daily lives, but when it starts to become the focus of our relationship then it can be very harmful. Many relationships end due to stress related things. Money is a good example. People stress over money which leads to fighting and eventually it can tear up a relationship. The best way to deal with stress in a relationship is to confront it head on. Do not let stress take control of your relationship. ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Jimmy Cox @ Thursday, 19th April 2007 @ 11:24 AM

De-stress yourself. This is particularly true for those who suffer from tension headaches. Below I have included some tips on how to distress your self. Meditation brings with it peace of mind as we learn to observe our surroundings. We become one with it and it helps us to focus our mental energy on one thing at a time. A lot of it is lost on extraneous things. Through the process of meditation we can harness this energy and use it for constructive purposes. In the initial stag... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Bill Urell @ Thursday, 19th April 2007 @ 12:23 AM

Managing anger is actually not as complex as it may first seem. The first steps are to identify and acknowledge your own anger and then try to find the reason or cause of why are you angry. Emotions should not be suppressed. Repressing them only makes them rear their ugly heads in the long run, usually in a misdirected, explosive way. Expressing one's anger is important, one only needs to do so in a manner that is appropriate and does not cause any one else, or even one's s... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Bill Urell @ Wednesday, 18th April 2007 @ 12:34 AM

Whether you are a mother struggling to make ends meet, a student hoping to maintain a decent grade point average, or a CEO working to keep a company afloat, stress will be a part of your life. Stress, indeed, is common to anyone who has to meet certain requirements to succeed. This universality of stress, however, comes at a large price. Stress can often increase your chances of getting ill, manifesting the signs of aging early, and even dying of a heart attack. Stress, although common, i... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Brenda Shoshanna @ Tuesday, 17th April 2007 @ 4:52 PM

Today we fear all kinds of external enemies. It is not so easy to realize, however, that the worse enemy we face is the anger within and the ways this poison affects so much of our lives. Even though we may want to forgive, anger can be ruthless in the course it takes, attacking and disrupting our body, mind and relationships. However, there are specific, simple steps we can take to root this toxin out of our lives. As we do the results will be reflected not only in our mental and emoti... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Rene Graeber @ Monday, 16th April 2007 @ 11:28 AM

There are several ways that one can do to fight stress. Most people go through stress management programs, while some opt to do the simpler "stress-reducer" strategies such as exercise, healthy activities, and enjoyable hobbies. One great way of managing stress is through the oldest distinct practice of "self development", Yoga. Yoga involves classic methods of breathing controls, ethical disciplines, physical postures, and meditation. Originally an Eastern practice, ... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Leon Edward @ Friday, 13th April 2007 @ 1:54 PM

When the human body first experiences stress adrenaline takes over and causes a chain-reaction within the nervous system. The heart begins to beat faster, the sizes of the blood vessels are changed, and the body actually prepares itself for a frightening or emotional event. Even though the humans that are in existence today arent in constant physical danger from wild predators as our pre-historic ancestors were, we still experience this familiar fight-or-flight reaction due to a great deal of di... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Rene Graeber @ Thursday, 12th April 2007 @ 7:11 PM

Stress in every individual varies, depending upon circumstance and how they perceive life and work pressures. What is a "buzz" to one person may be the stress of another, and so it is important for every individual to manage their own stress through recognizing the causes and understanding the effects of stress on them and to others. Personal stress management is all about identifying personal stress and its effects, as well as practicing some simple yet powerful and effective stress m... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Rene Graeber @ Thursday, 12th April 2007 @ 6:56 PM

Most people complain about being stressed out. But in a hectic modern world of today, who wouldn't Stress is considered as any emotional, physical, or chemical factor that becomes the root of mental unrest, and may be an aspect in disease causation. A lot of people associate "stress" with mental or psychological stress; however, physicians and scientists use the term "stress" to indicate any force that damages the balance and stability of the body's functions.... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Rene Graeber @ Wednesday, 11th April 2007 @ 3:33 PM

For a lot of people, summertime may mean sunny, comfortable days ideal for long walks, picnics, and beaches. However, for some people it may mean working outside on projects under the heat of the sun, with no proper cooling systems. Hot working conditions may pose particular hazards to health and safety that is why it is important to be guided of the various injuries and illnesses linked with heat stress, and the proper heat stress management. There are four environmental factors that a... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Carol Ann Rowland @ Wednesday, 4th April 2007 @ 10:20 AM

Do you find that when those around you are depressed, angry, upset or otherwise negative, that your own mood rapidly changes, in response to theirs? Many of us have this experience, from time to time. Some of us experience it on a daily, continual basis. We can be feeling on top of the world, and going about our day when we encounter in person, on the phone, or by email, someone who is upset, angry, or otherwise in a difficult space. The next thing we know, we don't feel s... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 28th March 2007 @ 11:17 AM

Stress is a natural physiological mechanism that drives us to get things done. Without stress, we would float about life aimlessly without any goals in mind. It is stress that makes us get up for work each and every morning and meet our obligations. We know that we have bills to pay, and that they won't get paid without our help. Stress prompts us to take our children to the doctor when they are sick. Stress also helps us avoid collision during a near miss accident while driving. All... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Kevin Sinclair @ Monday, 26th March 2007 @ 2:46 PM

We live in a busy, hectic world. Often we hear comments about how life would be much easier if only there were a couple of extra hours to spare each day. Let me ask you though, what would you use those extra hours for? Do you really need them? Don't you think 24 hours every day is enough ... if we use them properly? Let's break up these 24 hours into the 3 generally accepted categories: 8 hours sleep 8 hours work 8 hours 'free' time When was the las... more...

Personal Development » Stress Management | By Bill Urell @ Friday, 23rd March 2007 @ 10:47 AM

Anxiety attacks aren't always composed of sudden, debilitating bouts of depression, melancholia, and worry like some people would have us think. As a matter of fact, anxiety and stress is at it's most troubling when it creeps up on us slowly, in the course of our daily lives. Instead of being a hammer blow of fear and stress, the most telling forms of anxiety are more like sand caught between the gears of a machine, that wear away at it gradually until it stalls or falls apart. ... more...