Stress Management

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Break the chains of your programming

Break the chains of your programming

Break the chains of your programming Break the chains of your programming if you can! Lets face it you are being programmed?  What does programming look like for you? Is it peer pressure, your work colleagues, your friends, the media, your family, teachers and the list could go on and on. Your mind ...
Verified By Visa Issues

Verified By Visa Issues

As there appears to be some major Verified By Visa Issues going on at the moment, I thought I would take this opportunity to tell you a short story and also give you an update on our up and comming Wellbeing store. Imagine my surprise when we started having issues with our ...
Why do you treat me differently?

Why do you treat me differently?

I want to do what I love and I want to make a difference. I am passionate about my work and I want it to do something great. Does that seem egotistical? I don't think so. I do know there is no "I" in team. And now here at Healthy Lifestyles ...
Stress Management Strategies

Stress Management Strategies

If your life is filled with stress, and you feel at the end of your tether both emotionally and physically, it’s time you learnt to deal with it better. There are a wide number of ways to manage and cope with stress, but they all require change. You can either change ...
When Coping With Stress Isn’t A Bad Thing

When Coping With Stress Isn’t A Bad Thing

We often talk about coping with stress as being a bad thing. But at times stress is good for us. Have you ever noticed how productive you can be when you feel a sense of urgency for yourself to get things done? Stress has certainly earned its bad reputation. Too much of ...
What Causes Anxiety

What Causes Anxiety

Panic attacks can come on unexpectedly, with little or no warning. So what causes anxiety in the first place? There are a wide variety of causes that can bring on anxiety or panic attacks, and in this article I will try to help you understand what these are. Anxiety describes feelings of ...
Top 10 Stress Buster Articles from Healthy Lifestyles Living

Top 10 Stress Buster Articles from Healthy Lifestyles Living

When faced with a threat, the body's defence’s kick into the “fight-or-flight” response. The body calls upon all its forces to confront the on coming threat and protect you from harm. Its your body's defence mechanism,  resulting in the following reactions: Heartbeat increases; pumping blood to the necessary parts of the ...
Symptoms of Stress

Symptoms of Stress

There are so many different symptoms of stress in the world today, and these symptoms can show in so many different ways. Until you learn to spot the symptoms of stress, you have no hope of combating stress itself, because you won’t even recognise you have it. We’re all stressed! It's ...
Relaxation Technique Six: Mental Imagery

Relaxation Technique Six: Mental Imagery

Taking visualisation  to the next stage, we move on to mental imagery. When you picture soothing mental images in your mind, your body will benefit through being physically relaxed. To make this relaxation most effective, you need to bring all the five senses into your image: touch, sight, smell, taste and ...
Relaxation Technique Five: Get into Centre

Relaxation Technique Five: Get into Centre

Modern life struggles challenge our centre every day. Losing our centre can create an inability to manage stress successfully. This technique will enable you to tap into the power that’s inside you. I refer to this as “the centre”. This power within you can dramatically change anything in your life - literally ...