How To Manage Stress

Have you ever noticed the before and after picture of someone who had a stressful job and their hair turned almost completely gray within a few short years? Did you know that stress (genotoxic stress) was the primary cause of turning those hairs gray? In this article we will discuss 5 tips to help you find [...]

Have you ever come across a situation where you were curious about a question, but couldn’t find the answer to it? The fact that you couldn’t find the answer caused frustration and you kept thinking about it over and over again.

Inside, you keep telling yourself that finding the answer is pointless, useless, and isn’t going [...]

For the past couple of months, every Sunday, my uncle, aunt, nephews, and I will go hiking together. These are the people in the family, including me, who don’t mind waking up at 8 o’clock in the morning on a Sunday morning just to drive a half an hour to walk an hour on a [...]

She could feel the anxiety rising in her body.

She could hear the negative chatter in her head repeating over and over in an obsessive way.  She had been ‘emotionally hijacked’ – entwined in a prickly vine of fear. 

For some of us, an ‘emotional hijacking’ can happen every now and then. For others it is a [...]

Music is a known stress reliever, but not all has the same effect.  I love music, I grew up with it all my life, but like most people certain types of music just don’t do it for me.  For an example classical music, for some people this is very relaxing, but for me it makes [...]

In becoming stress resistant it may take some concentrated effort to review your basic response to stressors in your life. Many people have autopilot reactions to stressful situations. We have to be able to recognize when we take an action to avoid the stress issue that is facing us. To better understand your reaction to [...]

As we have already discussed how some of the causes of burnout lies with our situation in prior articles. The other part comes from within ourselves when we lost control over our life as a child.

We have to set up a new path for our ideals, our ambitions, attitudes, intentions and our goals.  How we [...]

I often get asked this question.  “How do I meditate when I have so many thought going on in my head?”  And, “How can I stop these thoughts?”  The simplest and most complete answer is “Just begin.”When you understand and then come to know through your experiences the benefits of meditation you will do anything [...]

Stress management exercises will be beneficial for you if you are feeling uptight and tense.

Stress is an everyday part of our lives, whether we like it or not. Stress can be good and bad.  It’s the bad stress that is concerning and if left un managed, can develop into depression and anxiety and wreak havoc [...]

Stress and Anxiety Relief is definitely on the increase.  Do you feel that no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to find any relief?  Perhaps you are trying too hard.  Stop, relax and take a deep breath.

Stress is extremely damaging if left unchecked. It spills over and takes control in all areas of [...]