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Very nice & if a fan or actually know real milk bar people, after C-19 is done ripping us all new…
By: Tim Colby
Tags: Politics, Stress Management, Humor, Listicles, Election 2020

Very nice & if a fan or actually know real milk bar people, after C-19 is done ripping us all new one, please remind them we live over here in the dairy state and believe it or not have no dairy bar store brand anywhere! Shameful.

While we are on the subject of the whole election selection theme:

If Georgia turns totally blueish in January can we at least get the ball rolling on getting rid of the horribly legal democracy voter suppression institution also known as the electoral college? I guess the word ‘college’ makes it sound like a smart thing. NO, I don’t want to hear from a bunch of ivy league grads on the positive merits of that E.C. Never want to have to look at the following graphic ever again. NEVER.

Don’t want to see this ever again. It’s democratic misinformation B.S.

I mean WTF ever happened to vote majorities? Yes, there are versions here and there that produce differently enabled bedfellow people, like California’s ballot questions du jour with outcomes sometimes unexplainable, still, methinks there are at least 2 political parties that may never say so but would love this practice abolished, in California. Whatever, still this is manageable.

2. A constitutional amendment or article addendum, ‘when you are legal age in the USA you are registered’, done, over. Court order enforcement voter challenges must be submitted in federal court eliminating any state by state attempted eligibility challenges of citizen voting rights, not cherry-picked by any one state.

3. Stop gerrymandering by any political party. We are the United States of America and NOT the citizens-united of America. Along with motion #3 is the obvious #3a here. Get big biz & corporate mega-money OUT of democratic politics. (check out the gospel of Medium writer Larry Lessig)

4. Readers can plug in their personal responses to other un-democratic ideas I’ve obviously left out….. like does your state have a hairball of voter suppression election laws? Get rid of all of them, you are a U.S. citizen first and foremost and not beholden to some party line state legalese that enables voter suppression.
Overcoming Fear and Anxiety
By: Romain Sinclair
Tags: Self Belief, Self Improvement, Overcoming Fear, Stress Management, Overcoming Obstacles

Dealing with fear can be tough, when you’re unsure or doubting your ability to deliver and you’re just in an overall dark place. Seeing the light might be tough but you must continue to try, because the moment when you give up is when you’ll be stuck in that dark place.

Everyone suffers or deals with some type of fear, in some way or another. I don’t think it’s something we will ever lose, it’s part of being human. So rather than feel the need to be fearless, how about trying a different approach. Instead, how about working through it? What I’ve realized is that most times the very thing we fear is needed in the next step in our personal growth.

Mad Question Askin’

What if, instead of fearing fear, we use it as an indicator to see and feel through whatever it is?

What if we take that energy and just apply it towards a creative effort?

What if our mind is indeed making a mountain out of a molehill?

How can we remind ourselves that we create and shape our reality?

Doing the work and showing up, especially on days when it’s tough because self doubt creeps in, is a good practice for working through that emotion and feeling. It’s like getting that monkey of our back, and the more we practice showing up and doing the work, the less painful and the experience of fear will be.

Meditation is also a tool that can be used to help with fear and anxiety. Taking a few minutes out the day, 10, 15, or maybe 20 minutes is really all you need. Focusing on your breathe for those few minutes will help you calm and clear your mind.

This has been a favorite practice of mine for sometime now. But it’s not enough on it’s own. Couple meditation with taking action towards that fear, whatever it is, and that’s how we will begin to grow through it and not run from it. When we grow through our fears we level up, and become stronger because it.
The stress factor is what most weight loss or fitness programs leave out.
By: Mary Gallagher
Tags: Stress Management, Meditation

The stress factor is what most weight loss or fitness programs leave out. So important to incorporate stress reducing activities too!
Simple Secret to Happy Life
Tags: Burnout Syndrom, Stress Management, Happiness, Goals In Life, Burnout Prevention

We’re all think that the happiness is only achieving something at peak. There is no denying of that Happiness Peak, but its a big one for the future.

For something that’s to be achieved in distant future we’re struggling everyday, we sacrifice a lot in life and we do the things that we don’t like.

And there is no denial for the necessity of those efforts,

“But Why Be Unhappy While Trying”.

We’re all have different targets in life but it doesn’t mean our journey to that has to be unhappy.

“Be Happy Today”

It might sound simple but its important to remind our self everyday. Because with several situations on our journey towards our future goal will we’ll skip our today’s happiness.

But important thing is skipping these small happiness might lead to frustration in our journey towards our future goal.

Someday it might lead to a thought that why do we have to keep on running.

Reason for that is by human nature its not possible for us to hold on to suffering for long period of time.

Its necessary for us to see little happiness often.

Problem with people running towards success is that they listen to a lot of talks, observe the people around them and conclude that their idols are running hard and so they have to run more harder.

“Highly Driven People Burn Out Fast”

By seeing a lot of successful people we might think that we’re the only ones who’s not running hard or not achieved the necessary things for the life.

When having these thoughts

“Don’t Over Complicate, Remember to Smile”

We need today’s happiness as well as tomorrows happiness.

We’re running with the hope that we’ll be happy tomorrow, but we can already be a little happy today. So, enjoy the today’s small happiness first.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow”

Small Happiness can be like:

Think of playing, go and play.

Think of eating something, eat it.

Think of buying something but doubted that it might not be valuable, if buying that won’t cause a lot of trouble or money loss, buy and enjoy it.

Enjoy all the happiness possible today,

“But Don’t Hurt Others & U”.

It might still intrigues to skip everything and run towards the future goal and there is no doubt that we’ll achieve it one day.

But when that happens remember to not have any regrets when looking back.

“A Regret Free Life”

Another important thing is small breaks and happiness will motivate you to keep on running.

What if we’re afraid to take break from running?

Just Try! we’ll immediately notice a lot of happiness around us.

“Stay Happy Win Fast”

Thanks to Dr V S Jithendra for sharing this ideas in Tamil.
6 Science-Based Reasons to Start Journaling Now
By: Kelly Simmerman
Tags: Anxiety Relief, Mindfulness, Journaling, Stress Management, Creativity

6 Science-Based Reasons to Start Journaling Now

Photo by The Creative Exchange on Unsplash

Being a writer, I have kept many journals throughout the years. When I was sixteen and wanted to be just like Stevie Nicks, I kept a songwriting journal. I’ve kept dream journals where I would jot down my nighttime dreams and poetry journals.

When I first started journaling, I only wrote about cheerful things. I thought if anyone reads this, they’ll see how happy I am. I would sit and tap my pen, searching my mind for long, sophisticated sentences, as well. Onlookers might think — wow, she’s a brilliant writer. Neither strategy served me, and nobody has ever read my journals. So there’s that. They’re not that interesting to anyone else, so I told myself to drop all the pretenses and just free-write. Jot down whatever comes to mind. Don’t edit. Don’t judge. It took me a while. I had to put my editor in a timeout which helped.

“Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind.” — Natalie Goldberg, Author and Speaker

Journaling involves the practice of keeping a journal that explores thoughts and feelings surrounding the events of your life. There are several ways to do this. Journaling, like stress management and self-exploration, works best when done consistently, but even occasional, sporadic journaling can be stress relieving. I like to focus on gratitude and emotional processing to reprogram the story surrounding an experience and the corresponding emotion.

Journaling is no longer old-fashioned, or just for people of a certain older-and-wiser age. Journaling does more than just help you record your memories or find self-expression. Turns out, It’s good for your physical and mental health, as well.

As the American Psychological Association says;
Today was a big win big loss is a big win day.
Tags: Mindfulness, Mindset Shift, Stress Management, Happiness, Celebration

Today was a big win big loss is a big win day. I realized that my dad whom I had already canceled is a borderline, which lead to the release of pain from pockets I didn’t know existed. Still reeling from this yet starting to wrap my head around how positively productive it would be, I set out for a clear-my-head-run, and as I opened the front door I saw a package on the stoop and I became instantly giddy over the fact that my new keyboard, not scheduled to arrive till Monday, was here!! Small win made me soooo happy.

Now, not only am a writer, I am a writer with proper equipment :)
When you feel stressed, remember..
By: Chaz Miles
Tags: Self Improvement, Stress Management, Happiness, Memories, Calm

Think of happiness.

What I’m going to say next is going to feel a little bit like you’re trying to fly away from fictional pirates, but, it really works.

Think of your happiness!

When was a time in your life you were happy?

Was it that awesome camping trip with your family?

When you achieved something great?

When you got a promotion or praise?

When you got together with your family for a celebration?

When you got to curl up on the couch with your favorite book or movie?

Every person is going to have some different kind of happy memory to think of, it might be small, it might be big, it might be the same as many other people or completely original.

Calm your mind, close your eyes, think of a happy time and remember that you can and will reach that point of happiness again.

Think of how you can take steps to achieve this and set your mind on that goal and if you can’t get to that point today, try again tomorrow and the day after that.

It may not come in an instant, it might not even be soon, everyone has their struggles, but you will get there.

Don’t let yourself be consumed by the bad, slow, sad times.

They will pass, they always do, eventually.

You will be happy again and you can make that happen.

Feel free to share some of your favorite memories, I look forward to reading them.
How to Reduce Your Stress at Work in 2 Minutes
By: Anggun Bawi
Tags: Personal Growth, Self Improvement, This Happened To Me, Stress Management, Self

If you’ve been feeling mentally and emotionally exhausted and even think about quitting your job, I assure you that you are not alone. I used to and still do have those days where I feel like I can’t take it anymore. Is moving to another ‘better’ job the solution? No, not necessarily, but managing your stress is.

Research has shown that unless we are good at managing the stress that we have, it has a higher chance to affect us physically, and one of them might be getting a heart attack.

I’ve also found that the more stressed I become, the more unstable my relationships with others in general. This is because we tend to think negatively about ourselves, and other people can sense that.

Here’s how you can reduce your stress at work:
How to Learn to Chuckle in the Darkest of the Times
By: Anshu Kumari
Tags: Motivation, Stress Management, Happiness, Personal Development, Laughter

How to Learn to Chuckle in the Darkest of the Times

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

A friend of mine called me yesterday in the evening. She had lost a significant deal for her company, for which she had slaved away all year. And she was visibly upset.

And so I did what any good friend would do, I disconnected the call.

I reached her house with a bottle of wine. After listening to seven rounds of her ‘I am worthless, I can’t do shit’ rant and half the bottle, we cozied ourselves on the sofa. And then we watched an embarrassingly large number of episodes of Friends.

We laughed all through the night. She was a little more relaxed when I left. I know I didn’t, in any way, provide a solution for her condition. But our time together undoubtedly offered her a fleeting distraction from the stress.
4 Stress Inoculation Techniques For Healthy Living
By: Belinda Adom Takyi
Tags: Lifestyle, Self Improvement, Productivity, Stress Management, Mental Health

Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash

Manage your stress like a pro with these techniques

Gone are the days when stress was a plaque for only high aimers and productivity junkies. Right now, life on earth is stressful for everyone. You do not have to overload yourself with a to-do list to feel the heat.

Life has become a battle, financially, health-wise, social circumstances, recreation, and procreation. Nothing is exempted. It is important to acknowledge that stress itself is not a bad thing.

It only becomes toxic when it is not properly managed and left to run riots in our lives. Here are a few ways unhealthy stress can be controlled healthily.
How Can Mental Aikido Help You in Re-framing Stress?
By: Piyush Kamal
Tags: Self Improvement, Productivity, Stress Management, Stress, Mental Health

Someone grown up on the staple diet of martial art could immediately relate Aikido (a form of martial art) with “Steven Seagal” — a famous action star of the 90s. Yes, you caught me there— I’m old enough to remember action stars of the ’90s — but young enough to practice two different kinds of martial arts, even today.

Meaning ‘the way of harmony and spirit’ Aikido does not look to meet violence with violence — it is primarily based on circular natural body movements whereby an attacker’s aggressive force is turned against them.

In other words, it means that instead of blocking an opponent’s attack, you use the energy to redirect its momentum. Therefore, at an elementary level, Aikido is somewhat counterintuitive to the conventional form of martial art.

When I first heard about the potential of mental Aikido to reframe stress — I was immediately hooked to unravel the mystery.

I am sure; once you learn to use the underlying principles of mental Aikido, you too would prefer to use it as a go-to method to counter your share of stress. Because whether we accept it or not, living in an uncertain world can often throw you off balance by exposing you to life-altering stressful moments like losing your job, reputation, or relationship.

Numerous researchers have found that perception of stress as a threat dramatically increases its harmful physical effects on our body while taking a heavy toll on our creativity & productivity.
How to Make Peace with Those Holiday Obligations
By: The Good Men Project
Tags: Family, Emotional Health, Stress Management, Holidays, Advice

If you’re feeling burdened by too much obligation around the season this year — whether it be parties, gifts, or culinary contributions to events — here are a few guidelines to help you stay in your authority as you divvy up your resources and make choices.

1. Create a Needs Chart: Start with you. Ask “What are my needs for the holidays?” and write them all down — no holds barred. Then, create a chart and do the same for what you know and suspect each person you in your family needs. Look for the overlap. Then you can make clearer choices and compromises. If you and your partner need to rest, and your mother wants you and the kids to make the exhausting trip to her, you can go, and make plans to have her watch the kids for big chunks of time while you kick back. Or, if your needs truly trump attendance at a family or other gathering, you can decline with remorse and honor them by celebrating together at a later date.

2. Heed the Resentment and Axe the Guilt: Resentment and obligation do tend to go hand in hand, but that doesn’t mean obligation isn’t worthy. The question is, how much resentment? Those occasional years that I choose to disappoint my father, face my FOMO and do my own thing, are those times when my resentment will be too high to for me to be present if I don’t follow another path. Use your level of resentment as a signal.

Guilt and obligation are also partners, but most of the time, the guilt is really just masking anger about feeling obligated in the first place. Guilt tends to keep you feeling stuck and powerless to make a decision. When we are not aware of our guilt or underlying resentment, we tend to disappoint others in a way that leaks that hostility on to them, e.g. showing up too late, forgetting promised provisions, canceling at the last minute. Become aware of your feelings of anger and communicate responsibly, instead of acting out.

3. Locate the love: Obligation can co-exist with love. You can detest going to your in-laws and do it anyway because of the love you feel for your partner. This is not being a pushover. It’s acting on behalf of the relationship. All relationships have needs — attention, commitment and reciprocity for starters — that require them to survive. When you start to think, I have to do FILL IN THE BANK for INSERT FRIEND, RELATIVE, or ORGANIZATION HERE, it focuses on and exacerbates the sense of obligation, resentment, guilt. But when you act on behalf of the relationship, the negativity has a chance to subside. Locating the love is about doing the thing you feel obligated about for you — for your sense of integrity and contribution to a relationship, and out of respect for the connection.
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By: Niran Banleurat
Tags: Stress Management, Self Help, จิตวิทยา, Psychology, Cognitive Distortion

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Want to achieve a Work life balance? Let’s understand its components first!
By: The Workers Rights
Tags: Stress Management, Work Life Balance, Time, Components

Work life balance has become the most discussed aspect of one’s life, especially during current unprecedented pandemic situation as all professionals are at home working and trying to strike a balance between work and personal life.

But in order to achieve a desirable balance of work and life, it is important to understand the intricacies of the entity ‘work-life balance’ and its components. The important components of it are:

Self-management:

The first step towards achieving a balance is being able to sufficiently able to manage one-self. This can be challenging, especially with aspects like getting enough sleep, nutrition and exercise. Self-management is the self-awareness of utilizing small sections and spaces of our daily routine effectively, while using available resources like time aptly.

Time management:

This involves optimal use of time throughout the day. This is while keeping the resources and tasks at hand in sync. Time management is achieved by keeping in mind the specific goals and going towards them — goals being both urgent and important, versus urgent or important. It essentially means what you can do the best and when.

Stress management:

Adapting to the stress causing factors like noise, distractions, and maintaining tranquility and working ourselves out of situations filled up with stress and pressure. Also, multi-tasking tends to increase stress levels, so paving one’s way through this also is a crucial part of stress management and work life balance.

Change management:

Change is the only constant in life. Continuously adapting to new methods and then re-adapting is the key to balanced and happy professional and personal life.

Technology management:

This means ensuring technology is at your disposal and to your service rather than reverse. Technology is a big and important part of today’s life and one has no choice but to keep up with its joneses, but its dependency must be controlled.

Leisure management:

The most neglected but one of the most important aspect of work life balance — rest, relax and leisure. The “time off” is as important as is the working part. But too much of it can also lead to monotony. Just the right balance can help in relaxing mind and body.

https://www.theworkersrights.com/want-to-achieve-a-work-life-balance-lets-understand-its-components-first/
Stress Addicts
By: Olivia Shackleton
Tags: Guilt, Stress Management, Comparison, Stress, Addiction

Stress Addicts

Photo by Jordan Whitfield on Unsplash

In times of low stress, I tend to worry about why I am not more stressed. I’ve grown accustomed to putting high amounts of stress on myself. “Hustle culture,” as it is called, has played into this. I have high expectations for myself and what I can accomplish, so when I am not spending my free time actively working towards my goals I feel like I am failing behind. That feeling paired with seeing what my peers are accomplishing leaves me defeated.

This left me wondering — can we be addicted to stress?

Perhaps addiction is too strong of a label for me personally, but research has shown that people can develop an addiction to stress. When under stressful conditions your body releases the stress hormone cortisol. Prolonged periods of stress can turn your natural bodily reaction into an addiction since that hormone is continuously circulating in your system, leading to the need for more stressful situations to keep that high.

According to Dr. Judith Orloff, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, “People are tired and they want a rush. We become adrenaline junkies, which leads to workaholism.”

The challenge is that many people don’t want to rid themselves of stress. Stress motivates us and makes us feel productive. It is a bragging right in social situations when comparing who is under the most stress, since people conflate being stressed with being an accomplished individual.

Another deterrent is people often associate having free time with guilt. A study published in the Journal of Communication dove into this topic, explaining that after focusing and practicing self-control during the workday, unwinding by watching TV or playing video games can leave you feeling guilty. Because spending time relaxing feels like you are procrastinating other tasks, you will not get the benefits of unwinding.

It is important to find ways to combat a stress addiction because being under nearly constant stress can have negative effects on your health and body. Stress can cause headaches, fatigue, sleep issues and digestion issues, among other health problems.

A few tactics to actively fight your stress addiction include: avoiding comparison to others in your career, drinking green tea and eating dark chocolate while unwinding to help regulate cortisol levels, exercising and practicing intentional breathing.

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You are so right to feel this way.
By: Hayley Bolan
Tags: Writing, Stress Management, Human Behavior

You are so right to feel this way. I feel the exact same way. It’s stressful right now and the holidays are approaching which adds to that stress. If you’re like me where you are passionate about writing, It’s completely justified to feel this way. I have barley wrote the last 2 months and I feel guilty as hell. Just remember we’re all human and things happen and change. We will get through it :)
How to Cope Up With Stress At Work
By: Music Creation
Tags: Motivation, Stress Management, Health, Work Life Balance, Stress

All of us have some sort of work or job in offices and somewhere else. We always try to live a luxurious life and try hard to earn more money to fulfill our basic needs. We need money for our children and family. For this, we take stress at work. We have the stress of compiling our work for the happy boss. Although we don’t love to do this, we have to do it.

Unfortunately, many people can’t handle this stress and go under depression and stress. This affects their focus on work. These people must need strategies or some type of management of stress. The whole world is stressed in fact.

Do You Need A Stress at Work? Why Have A Stress at Work? Are You Embarrassed by Your Stress at Work Skills? Here’s What to Do

Common reasons for stress at work

Low Salaries

The burden of excessive work

Lack of financial support

Family pressure

Low status in society

Have no control over employee

Effects of uncontrollable stress

Slight stress may be controlled but it causes minor symptoms on both physical and mental health. It causes headaches, stomach problems, Intestinal disorders, and many more common difficulties. This may affect your mental health. Instead, if stress is long-term, it may cause serious issues like depression, obesity, or diabetes.

Now we will focus on the strategies on how to cope with stress at work

Things To Do Immediately About Stress At Work

Track your stress factors

When you are stressed due to work, please don’t go for alcohol, or spills, or some kind of immediate activity to release stress. You need to track those causes to factors that are disturbing you mentally. Are you sure it is no threat of losing a job or work? Did you think it was just your illusions? Track these factors and evaluate them. This will help you to cope with stress from the root.

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

Build boundaries in life

Focus on your current life and make your depict destination with definite goals. Instead of making too many expectations from making small goals, fulfill them. Making small targets will help you a lot. It will make you clear in your doings, and you will be at ease in every situation.

Live easy life

Many of us consider our life the toughest phenomenon. But If we set our targets when we are at east, we feel comfortable. It makes us focused on our target. Be easy and relax come on! Life is something that you expect.
What are the benefits of stress management?
Tags: Stress Management, Stress And Anxiety, Stress Relief, Stress Management Tips

What are the benefits of stress management?

MANAGING STRESS — GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH.

WE ALL KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO FEEL STRESSED, AND WE ALL DEAL WITH IT DIFFERENTLY, BUT HOW MUCH STRESS IS TOO MUCH? YOUR BODY WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’RE OVER STRESSED, WITH MUSCLE TENSION, SWEATY PALMS, OR DIFFICULTY SLEEPING. YOU MIGHT FEEL WORRIED, FEARFUL, FATIGUED, IRRITABLE, OR HAVE A HARD TIME CONCENTRATING. THESE CAN BE THE SIGNS OF STRESS, BUT THE CONSEQUENCES CAN BE MUCH LARGER, BOTH ON YOUR LIFE AND THOSE AROUND YOU.

THE SOLUTION IS TO KEEP YOUR STRESS UNDER CONTROL WITH STRESS MANAGEMENT SKILLS. MIKE WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF HIGH STRESS. HE WAS LAID OFF FROM HIS JOB AND RUNNING OUT OF SAVINGS. THE FINANCIAL STRAIN WAS KEEPING HIM UP AT NIGHT. HE WAS IRRITABLE AND TENSE, AND EVEN HAD DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS. AT THE VA, MIKE GOT HELP FINDING WAYS TO MANAGE HIS STRESS, SUCH AS THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT HIS PROBLEMS AND MAKING TIME FOR HOBBIES AND ACTIVITIES LIKE WALKING HIS DOG. THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HELPED MIKE RELAX AND BE MINDFUL OF HIS STRESS, AND HE LEARNED SOME NEW PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS.

HE FOCUSED ON POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS, AND NOT JUST THE PROBLEMS, EVEN PROGRESS, LIKE VISUALIZING HIMSELF STARTING A NEW JOB. GETTING EXERCISE AND THINKING POSITIVELY HELPED MIKE GET BACK INTO THE JOB MARKET. FINDING WAYS TO PHYSICALLY RELAX CAN BE EXTREMELY HELPFUL. JOE WAS FEELING DETACHED FROM HIS GRAND KIDS, AS HIS ACHES AND PAINS WERE KEEPING HIM FROM KEEPING UP. BUT SINCE HE TOOK RELAXATION CLASSES AT HIS VA AND STARTED DOING LIGHT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AT HOME, JOE HAS FOUND THAT HE FEELS BETTER, BOTH PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY, AND IS ABLE TO ENJOY MORE TIME WITH HIS FAMILY. RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS — WE’VE ALL HAD THEM. GEORGE AND VICKIE’S RELATIONSHIP WAS SUFFERING DUE TO TIME-MANAGEMENT RELATED STRESSES — WORKING LATE, ARGUING OVER WHO WOULD PICK UP THE KIDS, AND SPENDING THEIR ONLY TIME TOGETHER IN SILENCE.

TIME CONSTRAINTS LED THE JOHNSONS TO STOP COOKING MEALS, AND THEIR NEW FAST FOOD DIET TOOK ITS TOLL ON THEIR WALLETS AND THEIR WAISTS. THE JOHNSONS TOOK A STRESS-MANAGEMENT CLASS AT THE VA AND LEARNED THAT MAKING A PLAN — AND STICKING TO IT — COULD EASE THEIR STRESS. THEY USED PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS TO DETERMINE WHO WOULD PICK UP THE KIDS AND MAKE DINNER ON WHICH DAYS, AND IN THE PROCESS THEY MADE TIME TO GO ON WALKS TOGETHER.

THEY LEARNED NO MATTER HOW CHALLENGING LIFE BECOMES, HELP IS AVAILABLE. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO MANAGE STRESS. HEALTHCARE IS DEFINING EXCELLENCE IN THE 21st CENTURY.. THIS NATURAL SUPPLEMENT IS THE MOST POWERFUL REMEDY TO MAKE YOU FORGET ABOUT STRESS AND START LIVING TO THE FULLEST.

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How To Deal with Stress?
By: Nagina Anwar
Tags: Stress Management, Tension, Cognitive Psychology, Stress, Mental Health

Each one of us suffer from stress, tension and anxiety due to multiple reasons. Often what matters to us the most or excite us the most is the thing which keep on enjoying about. The main focus remain shifted towards that. The mind either consciously or uncounciously keep on thinking about that. Indeed, there exist a web in mind for that particular matter. Besides this, there could be any hurdle in the path of success or any accidental or unanticipatory issue which impact the peace of mind. Human beings feel hormonal disturbance due to this and start declining in performing.

Changes Due to Stress:

Stress affect the human beings in different manner. Some people start eating more while for some, there is no concept of hunger during stress conditions. For me stress directly affects my stomach and I literally refrain from eating. It ultimately affects my eating pattern and leads to stomach ache too. Likewise, the preoccupied brain is the condition which many of the individuals suffer from. The sleep patterns also got changed from one individual to another. Some take more sleep to avoid from reality. While others take antidepressants and hypnotic medication for sleep.

Method to Deal with Stress:

The method for dealing with stress is to relax your mind. The most difficult thing is to get control on mind and nerves. There exist various tactics for this.

One of the most useful tactic is to indulge yourself in healthy activities. You may start learning something new which you ever wished for in your life and didn’t find time for that in past. It could be any hobby that you want to give vent such as learning guitar, dancing etc.

Enhance socialization as it would keep your mind busy. Besides this, it would open up your path for different solutions through gatherings. Even, you van go for vacations to have fresh breeze that lead to calmness and freshness of brain.

Counsel your mind as much as you can. It would let you to experience self therapy and you do not need to reveal your stress reasons to others. Hence, the risk to blame game would be perfectly masked.

Start thinking for solutions to come out from the stress solution. Polishing the cognitive skills is the key to success in this regard.

You may even talk to yourself in mirror. Facing the stress with courage is the strength of an individual. Very few people can master it. Deal it at front end and prove yourself to be a warrior. Most often it is said that time is the best healer and everything would be resolved with the passage of time. However, you can also contribute to solving of problems to kick out stress from your life as early as possible.

Still having any queries about stress? Feel free to ask me! I would love yo know how you combat with stress? Share your solution with us 🙂
My Brain Isn’t Perfect, and That is Okay.
By: Alec Scully
Tags: Productivity, Mental Health, Stress Management

My next step? I tried to log out of every social media account on my work device. I stopped most notifications on my phone, and it has improved my happiness immensely. No longer am I constantly checking Facebook and Snapchat among other apps for a small dose of that instant gratification high. My current crutch is YouTube however. “How can I listen to the saved music that helps me focus on studying?” I ask myself internally, knowing that it will only add less than a minute to search for the playlists rather than saving them in my sidebar next to my subscriptions’ newly published videos. I am getting better, but pobody’s nerfect.

Third, take care of your body. Getting a good night of sleep is important. Take it from me, I was up until 3:30am last night and today SUCKED. I was less focused, my head and eyes hurt, and generally it wasn’t a productive day. I haven’t stayed up that late in about six months and with that in mind I think it will be another six before I do it again. Beyond that, make sure you drink a lot of water and get some good meals in you. Water intake can change a lot about your productivity. On days where I don’t drink a lot of water, I am sluggish and more prone to headaches. On days where I drink enough water, I’m productive, my body feels great and the worst part of my day is that I need to pee more frequently. That’s a trade-off I will consciously take every time.

Bobby Boucher Jr. gets it.

This next point is something that took me a long time to understand. It’s a slight variation of this post’s title and it’s one of the most important things I’ve ever come to realize in my life:

It’s okay to not be okay.

Once I accepted the side of me that wasn’t always happy, productive, or social, I learned how to manage all of that pain and stress. Being welcoming to the “dark side” of me brought a better holistic understanding of myself and a new level of self worth. It’s okay to not be okay, but it is not okay to not do anything about it. Take some time for yourself, find your inner peace, and then say “Fuck it, I’m getting back to work because that’s what I do.”

Ralph shares a similar philosophy.

Lastly, don’t sweat things that you can’t control. In college, I ranted and raved to a friend over things that I had no control over, but I was choosing to let it dictate my moods. They looked me square in the eyes and told me: “You can either let this affect you, or don’t.” At the moment I was angry at how simple that sentence was. How could I just not let things affect me? Upon further reflection, they were right. It is a choice and I urge you to think about some negative daily situations you find yourself in in the same way.
Tips to help you keep your bucket full
By: Jenny Tudor
Tags: Stress Management, Overwhelmed At Work, Stress And Anxiety, Stress Management Tips, Overwhelmed Parents

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How to deal with stress?
Tags: Stress Management, Stress And Anxiety, Stress

Do you ever feel stressed or depressed? Well, they both are different from each other. They have additional import on my mind and body. Stress is a normal part of life.

We usually feel stress symptoms like loss of the temple, headache, or pain in the body. But depression belongs to the mental health condition. Symptoms of depression last longer than stress.

In depression, we feel hopeless, sad, and in some cases, we sleep all day and night, and sometimes we don’t sleep even at night. These symptoms of depression last for at least two weeks or even more.

Stress

Stress is a genuine feeling. As a human, we face a different kind of difficulties in our daily life. In these problematic conditions, the human body responds to these situations. The human body also feels stress due to hormonal changes.

In anxiety, the human body feels a different kind of symptoms. Some symptoms are a rise in blood pressure, temple loss, and headache. Sometimes due to changes in the environment, humans feel stress.

For example, due to an increase in noise, horror scenes in movies, or doing something for the first time also causes stress. These symptoms change the ability of a person to respond.

Effect of stress

In stress, the human body doesn’t work correctly, or the immune system doesn’t work correctly. Some of the effects of the stress are;

· Increase in pulse rate

· Increase in blood pressure

· Lack of sleep

· Disorder in the digestive system

· Tenser muscles

These effects are not some for every human. Every person behaves or feels different in stress.

Types of stress

According to the National Institute of Mental Health recognizes, stress can be of two types;

· Acute stress

· Chronic stress

The National Institute of Mental Health explains stress with different examples

· Stress in daily routines like the stress of routine work or financial problems.

· Something that happens unexpectedly can be stressful, like finding yourself unemployed.

Acute stress

Acute stress is a common type of anxiety. The pressure you feel before going to any wedding function or at any party is known as short term stress or acute stress.

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For example, a person handles stress about an upcoming event. Sometimes a person is stressed about the current discussion. Acute stress will vanish once the problem or argument is solved.

Chronic stress

Chronic stress formulates for a long time and is dangerous than acute stress. This stress occurs due to misunderstandings in families or unhappy marriages.

These kinds of situations lead a person to stress, and the person can not find a way to get rid of problems and stop the findings of the solutions. It makes it difficult to restore the body to the average level of stress hormone production. It may lead the problem to system problems like

· Heart disease

· Ventilation of the Cardiac

· Sleep imbalance

There is a chance of a final breakdown that can lead to suicide, aggressive acts, a heart attack, or stroke in people with chronic stress.
HAVING FEWER CARES
Tags: Positive Thinking, Stress Management, Positivity, Stress Relief, Worried

Between Covid, politics and elections, the economy and the environment, there seems to be no end to the number of things that one might be anxious about. Unfortunately, anxiety is inversely correlated with well-being: the more anxious you are, the less you will feel well.

In the last few months, I have decided to:

· stop watching the news before I go to bed,

· avoid the newspapers with their sensationalist take on everything,

· largely boycott violent or pointless movies.

Essentially, I have put myself on a diet of reduced negative or unhelpful stimuli. I have removed from my agenda matters which are beyond my control or influence to positively improve. Instead, I look for hopeful or helpful experiences which can encourage a sense of gratitude and optimism.

Letting go of so much noise certainly has made my world much lighter and more manageable. I have less concerns to worry about and feel less overwhelmed. Having fewer cares is most empowering as you become more carefree. This focuses your attention on what really matters, where to put your energy and resources and how not to get caught up in concerns beyond your control. There are about a dozen things on my agenda that I pro-actively care about and for each it is solutions, not complaints, that I concern myself with.

One of the upsides is in realising where I can make a difference. I can align my priorities with my worries. Take Covid, something on everyone’s hitlist of angsts. Are you going to get all worked up about finding a vaccine, where the next hotspot is, who isn’t wearing a mask or how we are going to pay for the consequences? Or will you sensibly, caringly, and non-judgmentally use physical distancing, wearing a mask and a smile to reduce its spread? Or the environment: how about just doing your part to reduce your eco-footprint and picking up the litter near your home?

Having fewer cares actually means caring more about your local situation. It involves thinking about how you can enact change in line with your values. It significantly improves your wellness. The calm which this optimism encourages naturally evokes gratitude, the ultimate well-being vitamin.

Physically distance (when required or helpful), never socially distance.

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Don’t deal with Stress, find out Stressors Instead
By: Yiqing Zhao
Tags: Adhd, Stress Management, Choices, Awareness, Stress

Why are you always stressed out?

Photo by Lacie Slezak on Unsplash

I recently had a call with an ADHD coach, who confirmed my suspicion of adult ADHD. I still couldn’t get a psychiatry appointment here in New York, (meaning I’m still not officially diagnosed), but I felt so relieved after that call.

Why? Because now I know my stressors. I get to see the reason behind my chronic anxiety. And once it emerges from the dark unconsciousness, I already feel much more at ease.

I can see it as it is. I can call it by its name. And I get to understand that this is a common disorder, that I shouldn’t feel bad about it. At all.

I’m not saying this new knowledge has freed me from feeling stressed out. But as it sheds more light on this issue, I also feel much more confident dealing with my day-to-day stress.
Be Calmer — Try a Calm 10 Minute Meditation to Connect With the Present Moment
By: Zen Michael
Tags: Mindfulness, Meditation, Stress Management, Health, Wellness

Be Calmer — Try a Calm 10 Minute Meditation to Connect With the Present Moment

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Having the help of someone who guides us while we create regular habits of meditation practice can be a precious resource. Not only at an early stage, but also in those times when, after having created this habit, we feel a little too lazy to do so.

Among the many existing options, I highlight the Daily Calm for being one of those that have a more relaxing effect on me. Both for the texts, for the excellent voice of Tamara Levitt, and for the ambient sounds, these meditations are one of my favorites.

Especially the mediation that I now share and that aims to reconnect us with the present moment. I usually listen to this meditation with some frequency. The repetition of this mediation seems, in my case, to be more effective than trying many of the new ones that Daily Calm kindly offers us daily.

What I like about this guided meditation

the amazing voice of Tamara Levitt (one of the most relaxing voices I know);

the sentences and structure of the text;

the sound atmosphere (with birdsong and water sounds);

the body scan that helps us to feel the body;

the focus on the present moment;

the short duration (10 minutes);

the image/vídeo (although it is recommended that we keep our eyes closed, those who prefer to have their eyes wide open have a magnificent landscape to enjoy).

Try it

Seat in a comfortable position, click on the video, and enjoy this excellent guided meditation by Daily Calm.
Thank you…
Tags: Gratitude, Stress Management, Thank You, Holidays, Lockdown

Okay, okay! we all know that however much we wanted to work from home, but now when it’s finally here the whole situation has actually become a fight between discipline and flexibility.

On most days, I always have much to do from my “to do” list, there is always a crunch of time (though I’m actually saving time by not going out) and I’m perpetually making plans of having a routine, from planning to wake early morning and exercising to binge-watching tv series till morning 😅 It’s complicated and I can go on forever!

Just another day in the lockdown, struggling to complete my pending tasks, I was deep into the day. When an email came into my inbox and the subject line said “Thank you!” with much excitement I opened the mail, to find that it’s a thank you note from someone I had helped a while back. That email suddenly released dopamine in my body and I was intent happy. I paused for a minute in the hustle-bustle of life and reminded myself of all the times I have read about the importance of expressing gratitude but seldom went out of my way to say “Thank you”!

So, like I procrastinate most tasks in my life. I paused the task at hand, time-boxed my gratitude expression time since I’m trying to solve for procrastination 😅, and started writing thank you notes for all the people that have helped me recently! With each thank-you note, more dopamine released and so did my joy increased. I was instantly happy about the fact that I have such amazing people in my life.

That happiness helped me relax and focus better which eventually led to me completing all my tasks for the day.

I decided to be more grateful and to say, “Thank you!” more often.

Maybe we all can take some time to express gratitude which would not only bring joy to the other person but also to us!

Who are you sending joy this holiday season?

Thank you for reading this, Happy holidays! ❤
Menata Hidup yang Berantakan dengan Pola Hidup Minimalis
By: Dwi Rahmawati
Tags: Minimalism, Mindfulness, Stress Management, Stress Management Tips, Hidup Minimalis

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Special end-of-year offer
By: Reframe Your Brain With Keridwyn
Tags: Anxiety, Hypnotherapy, Stress Management, Mindset, Hypnosis

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