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Keeping The Stress Levels Down Over the Holidays

Holidays are very important in our family, and because we are somewhat spread out, there are all kinds of difficulties. Knowing what they are and what to do about them is important if you want to enjoy friends, family and memory making occasions.

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Overcoming Stress at Work

Most of the people suffer and get stress from office mainly from the workload. This will contribute to the other stress from the work. This root cause of the stress is the quantity and the amount of work that has to be done that will need you to work for extra hours. For this kind of stress immediate relief will not help, instead a long term stress relief plan will only help you to manage and overcome it.

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How to Get Quality Sleep During Stressful Times?

Nothing helps you to be productive, mentally sharp, emotionally balanced, and full of energy all day long as a good night sleep. But what if your days are too stressful on permanent basis and you just cant get it?

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The Number One Stress Management Tip for Quick Results

We all live our lives in a frenetic rush. Work and family commitments put a lot of pressure on us and we are always looking for an answer to live a better life. Stress is becoming a widespread disease and if not taken seriously can cause many illnesses.

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If You Don’t Want to Work, What Will You Do?

If you say the feeling of “do not want to work” is common symptoms, and then what do people do to if they don’t want go to work? Maybe some people have to go on work as always. But some are different, they start a new life.

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Don’t Ask Me, Ask My Donkey!

I have written several times recently about Nasruden. Nasrudin is a character in many tales and parables. He lived in the Middle East many hundreds of years ago. Here is another story about Nasrudin.

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Alternative Medicine: Healthy Stress and Inner Peace

For many of us, stress is everywhere in our lives, and for some of us it is a deadly affliction. But some stress is good, it keeps us on our toes and moving forward. So, how do you know if you are experiencing “healthy stress” versus the kind that might kill you?

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How to Manage Holiday Stress

Tables full of food, family gathering and those memorable funny moments. That is what initially comes to mind when one thinks about the holiday season. We do not think about the stress that is involved with all of the preparations but you need to know that it exist.

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How to Combat Stress With Exploratory Psychotherapy

In years past a lot of stress-related illness was treated with psychoanalysis. It is used much less today. This therapy often involved seeing a therapist several times a week and was a very thorough exploration of everything in the patient’s life and psyche, sometimes taking years to be completed. We mostly don’t have the time or resources for this nowadays, life being as rushed as it is. But if your problems originate very clearly from early on in your life and fail to respond to briefer interventions, you may be recommended this form of therapy, in somewhat more streamlined form. This is called brief focal therapy, which summarizes it pretty well, as it focuses primarily on the aspects of your experience and current mental functioning that underpin your problems.

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Releasing Stress With Stress Management

Stress is one word that becomes routine consumption for almost all urban citizens. While for rural dwellers, they have low-level of stress compared to people in the urban area. Stress level in the city is indeed high because of demand and life style form urban people themselves.

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How to Steer Clear of All Forms of Stress

One of the most important things that you can do for yourself as a favor if you want to live a long and healthy life is to try and steer clear of all forms of stress. There are things that people do so as to try and reduce the amount of stress that they have. They may meditate or take yoga sessions in the mornings or evenings or just get some massage therapy.

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3 Proven Tips for Dealing With Stress in the Office

Having spent twenty years in a corporate work environment as a consultant I pretty much understand the pressures you would be facing right now as you read this article. You are probably working against false deadlines, dishonest commitments, uncooperative colleagues, insecure bosses and worse still, a gender- or culturally-biased environment.

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How to Attain Mind Games for a Good Stress Free Life

Everyone pursues a stress free kind of live most people target their efforts to achieve things which may define achievement of a peaceful life. Whatever the case attaining mind games for any desired lifestyle is quite crucial for individual interested in self development acts; there are quite a number of books and articles written on how individuals can attain desired lifestyle, if one is to analyze information on such books then the power of the mind in affecting any kind of result escapes no mind.

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How to Decrease Stress Right Now

One of the most embarrassing high stress moments I can remember occurred last year during the celebration of my parents’ fiftieth anniversary. I was to solo, and it was the same song I’d performed for their twenty-fifth. I’ve sung this song, both a capella and with the piano for years…and I forgot a line. We managed to keep going, and very few people noticed, but it was still embarrassing.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Handle Stress

Stress is all around us, and is usually a big part of our daily lives. If you have a job, you’re probably concerned you will lose it. If you’re unemployed, the fear that you may not find a job is present. That and other problems can increase the pressure you feel with other aspects of your life. There are several things that can be done, and a few that shouldn’t be in the fight against this tension. Figuring out which is which is important, as some activities could make the situation worse.

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How Stress Can Ruin Your Life

Chronic stress is a thief. It robs you of your happiness, your peace of mind and even your health. The loss of any one of those things could seriously ruin your life, and yet usually stress doesn’t stop at one. In the history of mankind, stress frequently meant the basic physical challenges of finding food, staying clothed and sheltered. Today, in our complex society where most of us lead lives of unmatched abundance that would boggle a primitive’s mind, our stress is generally mental in nature.

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Stress – Personal Traits – Insecurity

When reading people and learning body language, insecurity is one of the easiest components of personal traits stress to identify. In addition to all of the issues a person deals with, insecurity is often accompanied by self-imposed perfectionism. They may be unconscious of their behaviors and actions, or they may think they are very good at masking their insecurities. Either way, by learning to know what to watch and listen for, this stressor is easily identified. Normally, when a problem is being masked, it reveals itself in other aspects of the individual’s life.

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Protecting Your Mental Health

When you read the title of this article, you may be unsure if I am being facetious or if I’m being flippant. I am being neither. I am being quite intentional because I am writing these tips on a plane as I’m leaving a visit to Kentucky where I was visiting my mom, who has recently moved into a nursing home. I am writing these tips for me – and I hope they are also for you.

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Ways to Relieve Stress and Live Longer

According to studies* stress does cause long term or chronic effects on the body. For example. Did you know that chronic stress can result in high blood pressure, abnormal heartbeat and heart failure? People with lots of stress also often have muscle pain, neck an shoulder pain and increased pain from rheumatoid arthritis. American businesses loose and estimated $200 – $300 billion dollars a year to stress related productivity loss and other costs and every week about 95 million Americans suffer some kind of stress related symptom that they take medication for.

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5 Ways to Minimise This Silent Killer

Do you have trouble sleeping or find it really hard to relax? Do you feel overwhelmed by people and things in your life?

I am not surprised. Most people I coach are so stressed out they don’t know whether they are coming or going. A lot of them sleep badly or not at all. Their eating habits are out of control. Many find it a struggle to maintain or lose weight. They also feel like life is passing them by, that they lack the time, energy, confidence or motivation to do everything they need to do.

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