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I have my 7 top approaches to stress management which should hopefully help you keep stress in check. Stress is the major contributor to today's growing health crisis. Illnesses such as Heart Disease, Blood Pressure, Strokes, Diabetes, Cancer, Depression, Anxiety & Chronic Fatigue are just some of those which stress can ...
It's Tuesday morning and so many of you are already finding the pressures of the week already overwhelming you and that is why you need to understand what is stress management. Once you do it will give you the armoury to prevent you from buckling under the strain of your everyday ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Visualisation is a technique where you use your imagination to deliberately create a picture or movie in your mind of your own making. Rather like painting a picture, you have complete control to create any image that you desire.
Visualisation is a way of using your mind to get what you want ...
This is the third Relaxation technique in this series of articles. If you have missed the others, they were:
Deep Breathing
Progressive Muscular Relaxation
With the way our modern lifestyle is, maybe it is no surprise that we are often stressed out. Getting stuck in heavy traffic, crowded shopping centres (particularly during ...
This is article two on Relaxation techniques. The first offered you the technique for Deep Breathing. If you want to get yourself into a supportive mental state, feel physically vibrant and totally alive, then you need to be using relaxation techniques. By using them, you will create for yourself a physical ...
In our constantly moving environment, our bodies and minds are suffering from wear and tear. We call this stress. When we are facing family problems, money problems, relationship problems, problems at work, and any other trials and tribulations that life throws at us, stress comes at us from all sides. We ...
So when you wake up in the morning do you immediately take charge of your thoughts, or do you just wake up, open your eyes, see the time on the alarm clock, and then try to sleep a little longer? You have no desire to get out of bed, and your ...
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