Jobs and CareersGuided Meditation - Learn How to Relax and Reduce Stress With Ease
By Padma S
Guided Meditation
The daily demands of life can take its toll on our health. These cause stresses and tensions to engulf us, ultimately leading to a nervous breakdown, poor behavior, migraine, or respiratory problems. Most of the time, many people become cranky and irrational because of the stresses that have accumulated in the body.
A good way to fight stress and tension is to regularly submit yourself to a guided meditation. It is a form of meditation wherein you listen to someone direct your feelings and thoughts into a wonderful state of calm and peace. That someone will serve as the voice of your soul, slowly guiding you back to the time when you feel happy and peaceful.
A guided meditation may come in the form of a script, a voiceover, a CD, or a file in your iPOD. You will be made to sit still or lay down, whatever suits you best and makes you comfortable. The whole idea here is to bring you to a state of relaxation where your mind will guide all your feelings, thoughts, and body responses.
A guided meditation is a narrative that puts you in a specific, imagined place like a forest, beach, or clouds. You will first have to pay attention to your body and current thoughts. And will then be asked to slowly release all the ill feelings, resentment, tensions, and unhealthy notions that you may be harboring. As you do this, you will be asked to breathe deeply and slowly because breathing is the ultimate relaxant. As you take deep, full breaths, you need to slowly release any tension or tightness in your muscles and allow your imagination to be drifted into the beauty and peace of the setting.
The key to a successful guided meditation is a receptive mind and a willing spirit. It is a great opportunity to travel to a place without actually going there and to experience priceless, elusive peace amidst the daily humdrums of life. As you go through the motions of the meditation, imagine the warmth of the sun seeping through every fiber of your being. Imagine the wind calming every restless nerve of your body. And remember that peace is only a state of mind that needs to be discovered within ourselves.
Guided meditation can be truly healthy and liberating. For more information about it, feel free to grab a copy of our free 8-steps to meditating guide on Guided Meditation.
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Using Your Environment to Reduce Stress - 3 Places You Can Use to Reduce Stress in Your Environment
By Ellen R. Norman
No matter where you live you have two major choices of environments. Your out doors and your in doors. You will see that these choices are simple yet powerful areas in contributing to your stress reduction.
1) Getting back to nature is important and a very common way to reduce stress. Your out door back to nature could be a park close to were you live or work. This is were you can walk, sit and read, or meditate. Your in doors back to nature is the plants and flowers you bring into your home. Nature sounds you play in the background, while you enjoy your meals will decrease your stress levels as well.
2) Stress is reduced by exercise. Out door exercise includes brisk walking or a light jog, or even walking your dog. Remember deep breathing is essential. Exercise indoors is more private and more fun. Rent a DVD from the library and do some light aerobics, do a morning and evening routine of Tai Chi or put some dance music on and dance by yourself. Your frame of mind is important when you exercising in doors, be sure to turn off the phones and lock the door.
3) An extremely important place to use to reduce stress is your own personal space. You do have your personal space out doors as you interact with people at the grocery store, in lines or driving in your car. Consider your personal space very special and keep an attitude of calm about you. You can radiate this calm, relaxed vibration that will attract the calmness back to you. Plus this acts as a shield against the negativity of everyday life. Your personal space in doors is your quiet time. The time you control during the day that you allow yourself to have. You must let others know that you are not available. This can be done by scheduling a child's nap time around your quiet time. Or offer quiet time credits with a friend. They help you to get and take your quiet times and you do the same for them. This way babies and small children are cared for without limiting your quiet times.
With that said, I would like to invite you to claim your free monthly newsletters, tips, tricks and ideas and a free e-book "Creating your Own Day Spa". At http://www.thezensage.com Ellen R. Norman is a Life Coach who specializes in stress management. I use my 40 plus years of Nursing background and life experiences to Coach others to Win in this Game called Life.
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The Hidden Benefits of Spring Cleaning
By Debbie Mandel
It's spring and from the ground up we are all thinking about spring cleaning. Some of us are actually doing it while the rest of us are procrastinating. All that decision-making of what to throw away presents the primary impediment. Besides, throwing out what we have already purchased invalidates the money we spent as well as the intent - could we have been wrong?
Maybe you don't realize it, but all of your stuff is piling up altering your perception: the various knickknacks, the hundreds of similar photographs, the piles of magazines and mail and the layers of dust. Your space becomes uninviting (embarrassed to let people drop in) which contributes to the loneliness - "Why don't I have more friends?" Maybe you don't really see the person who lives with you and loves you and he or she doesn't see you anymore because the view is obscured. Here are some reasons why de-cluttering will immediately invigorate your life and renew your relationships.
* Toss out the toxins in your life. Why do you clean out your refrigerator? You know that if you don't periodically throw away old foods, they will spoil and release toxins like mold and bacteria. As a result, bad odors will be overwhelming and there will be no room for fresh wholesome foods which anyway would be contaminated by the spoiled food. Do you see the analogy to your own life: how physical and mental clutter can spoil your life? If you don't get rid of what you don't need, mental junk overwhelms your life, keeping you stuck in the past: failures, criticism and grief. There is no room for self-improvement.
* Look for a pattern to your clutter. Are there dead plants? Too many paintings on the wall? The same pants in the same color you bought last time and forgot about? Most of us keep duplicating what we already have, like dating the same type of person we have divorced or the usual repetitive arguing. What are you always buying and why? Is emotional programming the reason? Is there something about yourself you want to complete with all this stuff? Find the answer and you will change your life by doing things differently.
* Learn to be selective. If you photographed everything, would anything be special? If you like everything, then you like nothing. Designate what you treasure and release the rest. Keep making choices about what you want and don't want. "I choose to do it" versus "I choose not to do it." You will stop being a people-pleaser which makes you resentful while you will find some compassion and happiness for yourself. It is important to realize that you absorb the energy of the people with whom you associate, so choose good energy.
* Liberate your true identity. Realize that you accumulate things to fill an empty heart or make you feel accomplished - "Look at what I own" versus "Look at me." If you are living amidst the nostalgia of what has happened in the past, you are not maximizing your present life. By cleaning out your stuff you can channel your energy to discover your hidden assets because nothing is in the way to confuse and distract you.
* Make room for the talent of your space to emerge. How wonderful to reorganize and create a space just for yourself to percolate ideas that go from inspiration to aspiration. You can clean up and set up even a corner of a room to contain your personal, beautiful, inspirational objects - perhaps a window with a view, to be in a wonderful state where art happens. Your creativity and productivity will soar in all areas of your life.
Now that you have worked on yourself and your mental clutter, you are ready to simplify your married life. Are there obstacles to your sensuality and sexuality? Check out your bedroom. Your bed should be the focal point of the room and not have to compete with a desk. Are there photos of the whole family on your night table when there should be photos of the two of you? Are your sheets worn? The rewards of getting rid of negative energy in the bedroom should be quite clear. Set the stage for romance.
Debbie Mandel, MA is the author of Addicted to Stress A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life, Changing Habits: The Caregivers' Total Workout and Turn On Your Inner Light: Fitness for Body, Mind and Soul, a stress-reduction specialist, motivational speaker, a personal trainer and mind/body lecturer. She is the host of the weekly Turn On Your Inner Light Show on WGBB AM1240 in New York City , produces a weekly wellness newsletter, and has been featured on radio/ TV and print media. To learn more visit: TurnOnYourInnerLight.com
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The Second-Hand Pink Slip Blues - 8 Ways to Manage Your Stress in Relation to Layoff
By Cynthia Robinson
Tired of hearing about how your friends and family are being affected by the economic downturn? Can't sleep because thoughts of down-sizing are keeping you up? Do you stress out on Thursday night at the thought of having to go in to work on what is now known as Pink Slip Friday?
Take comfort in the reality that you are not alone. Many of your peers and family members share your circumstance. If you understand that by being a community of employees, you are empowered to turn the negative work environment into a more positive one. You need to refresh your contingency plan and make some new goals.
Living through tough times has a hard learning curve. You have to adapt quickly. Most importantly, you must have a plan. While all of the others are shocked and numb in receiving their position-ending news, you could be working towards a new goal.
Here is a helpful list to stay on task when managing your stress levels and developing your plan "B":
1. Review your skills. Take inventory of what you know, and see if you can improve some of your knowledge through networking or taking a refresher course.
2. Update your resume. Keeping this tool current should be something you work on frequently.
3. Revisit established professional relationships. Dust off some of those business cards that you have stored away and reconnect with what you may deem potential employment connections.
4. Consult an experienced employment professional. Seek the confidential advice of a career trainer. These professionals also have assessment tools available to help you choose the right path.
5. Talk to someone. Many professional workplaces have benefit packages that cover personal counselling services. It may help you work things out in difficult times.
6. Set a goal, and build your plan around it. Without a goal as a foundation, there is nothing to support your plan. Give this goal meaning by choosing one which is close to you, this will help drive its success.
7. Be honest. This may be the most challenging thing to do. If you are honest with yourself and the ones closest to you, you will find that your chances of overcoming a trying time will grow.
8. Go easy on yourself. Just because people around you are being affected, doesn't necessarily mean you're next.
Remember as of today for you, life is still "business as usual". A trip to a day spa won't blow your budget, and after all, it may generate some well deserved introspection.
Cynthia (Cyndy) Robinson is a Graphic Designer who dedicates her time to creative endeavours. Raised in a retail family business environment, she has experienced many of the ups and downs of small business development. She enjoys designing corporate communications, media production and writing. View more information at http://www.webdocdev.com
By Padma S
Guided Meditation
The daily demands of life can take its toll on our health. These cause stresses and tensions to engulf us, ultimately leading to a nervous breakdown, poor behavior, migraine, or respiratory problems. Most of the time, many people become cranky and irrational because of the stresses that have accumulated in the body.
A good way to fight stress and tension is to regularly submit yourself to a guided meditation. It is a form of meditation wherein you listen to someone direct your feelings and thoughts into a wonderful state of calm and peace. That someone will serve as the voice of your soul, slowly guiding you back to the time when you feel happy and peaceful.
A guided meditation may come in the form of a script, a voiceover, a CD, or a file in your iPOD. You will be made to sit still or lay down, whatever suits you best and makes you comfortable. The whole idea here is to bring you to a state of relaxation where your mind will guide all your feelings, thoughts, and body responses.
A guided meditation is a narrative that puts you in a specific, imagined place like a forest, beach, or clouds. You will first have to pay attention to your body and current thoughts. And will then be asked to slowly release all the ill feelings, resentment, tensions, and unhealthy notions that you may be harboring. As you do this, you will be asked to breathe deeply and slowly because breathing is the ultimate relaxant. As you take deep, full breaths, you need to slowly release any tension or tightness in your muscles and allow your imagination to be drifted into the beauty and peace of the setting.
The key to a successful guided meditation is a receptive mind and a willing spirit. It is a great opportunity to travel to a place without actually going there and to experience priceless, elusive peace amidst the daily humdrums of life. As you go through the motions of the meditation, imagine the warmth of the sun seeping through every fiber of your being. Imagine the wind calming every restless nerve of your body. And remember that peace is only a state of mind that needs to be discovered within ourselves.
Guided meditation can be truly healthy and liberating. For more information about it, feel free to grab a copy of our free 8-steps to meditating guide on Guided Meditation.
========================================
Using Your Environment to Reduce Stress - 3 Places You Can Use to Reduce Stress in Your Environment
By Ellen R. Norman
No matter where you live you have two major choices of environments. Your out doors and your in doors. You will see that these choices are simple yet powerful areas in contributing to your stress reduction.
1) Getting back to nature is important and a very common way to reduce stress. Your out door back to nature could be a park close to were you live or work. This is were you can walk, sit and read, or meditate. Your in doors back to nature is the plants and flowers you bring into your home. Nature sounds you play in the background, while you enjoy your meals will decrease your stress levels as well.
2) Stress is reduced by exercise. Out door exercise includes brisk walking or a light jog, or even walking your dog. Remember deep breathing is essential. Exercise indoors is more private and more fun. Rent a DVD from the library and do some light aerobics, do a morning and evening routine of Tai Chi or put some dance music on and dance by yourself. Your frame of mind is important when you exercising in doors, be sure to turn off the phones and lock the door.
3) An extremely important place to use to reduce stress is your own personal space. You do have your personal space out doors as you interact with people at the grocery store, in lines or driving in your car. Consider your personal space very special and keep an attitude of calm about you. You can radiate this calm, relaxed vibration that will attract the calmness back to you. Plus this acts as a shield against the negativity of everyday life. Your personal space in doors is your quiet time. The time you control during the day that you allow yourself to have. You must let others know that you are not available. This can be done by scheduling a child's nap time around your quiet time. Or offer quiet time credits with a friend. They help you to get and take your quiet times and you do the same for them. This way babies and small children are cared for without limiting your quiet times.
With that said, I would like to invite you to claim your free monthly newsletters, tips, tricks and ideas and a free e-book "Creating your Own Day Spa". At http://www.thezensage.com Ellen R. Norman is a Life Coach who specializes in stress management. I use my 40 plus years of Nursing background and life experiences to Coach others to Win in this Game called Life.
====================================
The Hidden Benefits of Spring Cleaning
By Debbie Mandel
It's spring and from the ground up we are all thinking about spring cleaning. Some of us are actually doing it while the rest of us are procrastinating. All that decision-making of what to throw away presents the primary impediment. Besides, throwing out what we have already purchased invalidates the money we spent as well as the intent - could we have been wrong?
Maybe you don't realize it, but all of your stuff is piling up altering your perception: the various knickknacks, the hundreds of similar photographs, the piles of magazines and mail and the layers of dust. Your space becomes uninviting (embarrassed to let people drop in) which contributes to the loneliness - "Why don't I have more friends?" Maybe you don't really see the person who lives with you and loves you and he or she doesn't see you anymore because the view is obscured. Here are some reasons why de-cluttering will immediately invigorate your life and renew your relationships.
* Toss out the toxins in your life. Why do you clean out your refrigerator? You know that if you don't periodically throw away old foods, they will spoil and release toxins like mold and bacteria. As a result, bad odors will be overwhelming and there will be no room for fresh wholesome foods which anyway would be contaminated by the spoiled food. Do you see the analogy to your own life: how physical and mental clutter can spoil your life? If you don't get rid of what you don't need, mental junk overwhelms your life, keeping you stuck in the past: failures, criticism and grief. There is no room for self-improvement.
* Look for a pattern to your clutter. Are there dead plants? Too many paintings on the wall? The same pants in the same color you bought last time and forgot about? Most of us keep duplicating what we already have, like dating the same type of person we have divorced or the usual repetitive arguing. What are you always buying and why? Is emotional programming the reason? Is there something about yourself you want to complete with all this stuff? Find the answer and you will change your life by doing things differently.
* Learn to be selective. If you photographed everything, would anything be special? If you like everything, then you like nothing. Designate what you treasure and release the rest. Keep making choices about what you want and don't want. "I choose to do it" versus "I choose not to do it." You will stop being a people-pleaser which makes you resentful while you will find some compassion and happiness for yourself. It is important to realize that you absorb the energy of the people with whom you associate, so choose good energy.
* Liberate your true identity. Realize that you accumulate things to fill an empty heart or make you feel accomplished - "Look at what I own" versus "Look at me." If you are living amidst the nostalgia of what has happened in the past, you are not maximizing your present life. By cleaning out your stuff you can channel your energy to discover your hidden assets because nothing is in the way to confuse and distract you.
* Make room for the talent of your space to emerge. How wonderful to reorganize and create a space just for yourself to percolate ideas that go from inspiration to aspiration. You can clean up and set up even a corner of a room to contain your personal, beautiful, inspirational objects - perhaps a window with a view, to be in a wonderful state where art happens. Your creativity and productivity will soar in all areas of your life.
Now that you have worked on yourself and your mental clutter, you are ready to simplify your married life. Are there obstacles to your sensuality and sexuality? Check out your bedroom. Your bed should be the focal point of the room and not have to compete with a desk. Are there photos of the whole family on your night table when there should be photos of the two of you? Are your sheets worn? The rewards of getting rid of negative energy in the bedroom should be quite clear. Set the stage for romance.
Debbie Mandel, MA is the author of Addicted to Stress A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life, Changing Habits: The Caregivers' Total Workout and Turn On Your Inner Light: Fitness for Body, Mind and Soul, a stress-reduction specialist, motivational speaker, a personal trainer and mind/body lecturer. She is the host of the weekly Turn On Your Inner Light Show on WGBB AM1240 in New York City , produces a weekly wellness newsletter, and has been featured on radio/ TV and print media. To learn more visit: TurnOnYourInnerLight.com
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The Second-Hand Pink Slip Blues - 8 Ways to Manage Your Stress in Relation to Layoff
By Cynthia Robinson
Tired of hearing about how your friends and family are being affected by the economic downturn? Can't sleep because thoughts of down-sizing are keeping you up? Do you stress out on Thursday night at the thought of having to go in to work on what is now known as Pink Slip Friday?
Take comfort in the reality that you are not alone. Many of your peers and family members share your circumstance. If you understand that by being a community of employees, you are empowered to turn the negative work environment into a more positive one. You need to refresh your contingency plan and make some new goals.
Living through tough times has a hard learning curve. You have to adapt quickly. Most importantly, you must have a plan. While all of the others are shocked and numb in receiving their position-ending news, you could be working towards a new goal.
Here is a helpful list to stay on task when managing your stress levels and developing your plan "B":
1. Review your skills. Take inventory of what you know, and see if you can improve some of your knowledge through networking or taking a refresher course.
2. Update your resume. Keeping this tool current should be something you work on frequently.
3. Revisit established professional relationships. Dust off some of those business cards that you have stored away and reconnect with what you may deem potential employment connections.
4. Consult an experienced employment professional. Seek the confidential advice of a career trainer. These professionals also have assessment tools available to help you choose the right path.
5. Talk to someone. Many professional workplaces have benefit packages that cover personal counselling services. It may help you work things out in difficult times.
6. Set a goal, and build your plan around it. Without a goal as a foundation, there is nothing to support your plan. Give this goal meaning by choosing one which is close to you, this will help drive its success.
7. Be honest. This may be the most challenging thing to do. If you are honest with yourself and the ones closest to you, you will find that your chances of overcoming a trying time will grow.
8. Go easy on yourself. Just because people around you are being affected, doesn't necessarily mean you're next.
Remember as of today for you, life is still "business as usual". A trip to a day spa won't blow your budget, and after all, it may generate some well deserved introspection.
Cynthia (Cyndy) Robinson is a Graphic Designer who dedicates her time to creative endeavours. Raised in a retail family business environment, she has experienced many of the ups and downs of small business development. She enjoys designing corporate communications, media production and writing. View more information at http://www.webdocdev.com
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