Jobs and CareersStress Management - 5 Natural Methods to Ease Stress in Everyday Life
By Shannon E Cook
Stress is a common effect of our modern society. People seek a variety of ways to relieve stress, whether it be vacations, massages, shopping, or even unhealthy habits such as drinking. While we can't always remove sources of stress, we can take care of ourselves and build up our abilities to manage stress levels in effective ways. Here are 5 natural methods for dealing with the stressors in our lives:
1. Eat healthy foods whenever possible. Gravitate toward organic, unprocessed foods and avoid highly processed, sugary foods. If your appetite is affected by your stress level, and you struggle with eating enough, try carrying around healthy snack foods and having small amounts throughout the day. If you tend to overeat, try setting a time in the evening when you stop eating. Don't eat while distracted, like when you are watching television.
2. Look into vitamins and supplements if needed. Your naturopath can provide you with a customized "supplement menu" tailored to your particular health needs. Most people can benefit from high quality fish oil and a food based multivitamin to start. L-theanine is an anti-anxiety supplement that can also be helpful in reducing stress.
3. Exercise regularly after checking with your doctor to determine an appropriate level of activity. Cardiovascular exercise is extremely beneficial, as it allows for release of endorphins that elevate mood and ease stress.
4. Talk things out with others. Supportive friends and family members can help you process the issues and events in your life that are contributing to your stress. If emotions are overwhelming, consider counseling as an option to take care of yourself. Coaching can also be a great option to help you create goals and identify the steps needed to accomplish your goals.
5. Do small things for yourself daily to care for yourself. Make a list of small things you enjoy doing, and make it a point to take the time to do one of those things each day. When you have exhausted your list of activities, create a new one.
Are you interested in addressing your life challenges from a holistic standpoint, assessing the physical, emotional, and relationship components?
For a free copy of my ebook, "Natural Methods To Fight Depression", click here: http://www.stoptoxicrelationships.com/gifts-naturalmethodstofightdepression.html
Shannon Cook is a personal coach and resource guide who has written a number of informative articles and ebooks on the topic of toxic relationships and holistic personal growth, including physical, emotional and relationship health.
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The Three C's of Stress Hardiness
By Kathleen Daniel
We all know people who do well under stressful conditions, in fact, they seem to thrive on it. These are "stress-hardy" folks, and here are three clues to how do it. They form the basis of what's called Transformational Coping.
In essence, stress-hardy people place potentially stressful events into a new frame of reference. They have learned how to transform a stressful situation into an opportunity to be creative, or growth-enhancing, or maybe even uplifting or humorous. Rather than doing battle with an uncomfortable or unpleasant event, or taking it personally, they allow the situation to challenge them to learn, and to grow.
Here are the 3 C's of transformational coping that stress-hardy people thrive on:
Challenge. If we define stress as reacting to a comment or a situation as threatening, stress-hardy people take the view that a difficult person or circumstance is a challenge that they can rise to. Rather than feeling threatened, they reframe the event as an opportunity to be creative. How do they do this? One simple secret is that they become curious. Rather than become defensive or falling back on old scripts, they take a moment to pause and get curious as to what would lead a person to make such an 'outlandish' claim. They wonder what they might be missing, and they take an interest in finding other ways to approach situations that makes them stretch, and perhaps even shape events to their advantage.
Commitment. Stress-hardy people find meaning in their work. They feel that their work is connected to a higher purpose, and that their role contributes to a larger goal. Here are three possible answers a mason gives to the question: What are you doing? "I am laying bricks," is a cynical response. "I am earning a living," is a joyless response. "I am building a cathedral," shows a person connected to a larger purpose. The connection to something larger allows stress-hardy people to consider as minor annoyances things that might stop another person dead in his or her tracks.
Control. Stress-hardy people know when to hold and when to fold. They know when they can control events and when they can't. They know how to let go and flow with events until they find an opening when they can again assert themselves. While they may give up, they don't give in. They alter their strategy, including perhaps altering their goal, by going more deeply into their intention. They are attached to their intention, to expressing themselves, and to their goals, but not necessarily to the form that these take.
Kathleen Daniel, MS, L.Ac. writes about change and transition from the inside out, combining insights and experience from her work as an organizational consultant, educator, and executive coach, as well as her lifelong yoga practice. An alumnus of Johns Hopkins' Women, Leadership and Change program, she leads active retreats for reflection and renewal for women. Website: http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com
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Anxiety - The Modern Stress For Professional Women
By Inese Millere
Modern life is stressful. In small quantities, stress is good -- it can motivate us and help us be more productive.
However, too much stress, or a strong response to stress, is harmful. It can set us up for general poor health as well as a specific physical or psychological illnesses like infections, heart disease, or depression. Persistent and unrelenting stress often leads to anxiety and an unhealthy lifestyle. Anxiety is perhaps one of the most common emotions experienced when a person is stressed. Anxiety is a form of stress that we all want to avoid.
The lives of the majority of professional women and female entrepreneurs today are out of balance. And this imbalance is a reasonable source of stress. And stress feeds anxiety. And anxiety feeds stress.
Let's look at an example of how stress overload and lifestyle factors can contribute to anxiety.
Lets say you work 70 hours a week for several years. This puts excessive stress on your body. To make matter worse, you are so busy working that you only manages to get five or six hours of sleep a night, you do not exercise regularly, and you eat mainly fast food. You can't even remember the last time you took time out for yourself.
Sounds familiar?
Your unhealthy lifestyle creates stress in your life and produces a negative snowball effect. Over time your body starts perceiving these constant stressors as a threat to your survival. Your body eventually gets "burned out" from repeated unnecessary stress reactions. It is on a constant state of alert - contributing to the physical and mental symptoms of anxiety.
Can You change it? Yes.
You have the power to reduce or eliminate many of the stressors in your life and consequently reduce anxiety.
How ?
Take Action:
- Set up the basics via integrating healthy lifestyle habits into your busy life.
- Make choices that promote calmness, self-care, and a balanced lifestyle.
- Sleep eight hours instead of six (You could find useful to support healthy sleep patterns with soothing relaxing music and natural remedies ).
- Eat well-balanced, healthy meals.
- Work 40-50 hours a week instead of 70.
- Use herbs for anxiety
- Learn to view stressors in a less anxious way so your body does not overreact to stressors when they occur.
Inese Millere is an action-oriented life coach who will assist professional women in creating stress management strategies, healthy lifestyle routines and finding a right life balance based on their priorities and values.
She runs a highly popular and comprehensive Stress Management and Balanced Life web site. For more articles and resources on stress symptoms, stress relief, stress reduction, anxiety treatments, balanced life and wellness solutions and much more visit her site.
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Stress Management With a Positive Mental Attitude
By Christyn Young
Having a positive mental attitude is very important in everything we do. We will not be so stressed out whenever a problem arises if we have the correct attitude. How do we define a positive attitude? How do we manage stress with the right mind set?
Do you always wonder how some people can smile all day long? Don't they have any worries or problems? If you have the chance, talk to them. Understand how they look at the facts of life. You will be surprised how simple the answer is.
These are optimistic people. They look at the brighter side of every problem they face and appreciate the good times they have. They are contented with what they have. They do not have enemies as they always look at the good side of difficult people.
Another way of having positive mental attitude is to have a clear awareness of what is going on around us. We need to be aware of what we are feeling when problem arises. Are we scared or upset at that moment? Find the reason why we get upset? We will then know how to solve our problem and avoid getting stressed over the same matter in future.
We need to make sure we maintain our positive attitude. In order to do that, we have to be surrounded by high energy and positive thinking people. These people are usually happy and light-hearted. They are more relaxed. They have time to joke and are always willing to help. These people can give us support and advice when we needed them.
Reach out to people. Do some charity. There are lots of unfortunate people who require our helping hand. Seeing a smile on their faces will also bring a smile on to yours. You can boost your self esteem when you help the needy.
We must practice dealing with stress positively. Do not have negative thoughts as it will bring stress to us. Overloaded with stress can affect our health. We may develop anxiety disorders without noticing it. What is anxiety disorder? What is anxiety attack? Read more about these attacks and its instant relief at http://www.panicawaytips.info
By Shannon E Cook
Stress is a common effect of our modern society. People seek a variety of ways to relieve stress, whether it be vacations, massages, shopping, or even unhealthy habits such as drinking. While we can't always remove sources of stress, we can take care of ourselves and build up our abilities to manage stress levels in effective ways. Here are 5 natural methods for dealing with the stressors in our lives:
1. Eat healthy foods whenever possible. Gravitate toward organic, unprocessed foods and avoid highly processed, sugary foods. If your appetite is affected by your stress level, and you struggle with eating enough, try carrying around healthy snack foods and having small amounts throughout the day. If you tend to overeat, try setting a time in the evening when you stop eating. Don't eat while distracted, like when you are watching television.
2. Look into vitamins and supplements if needed. Your naturopath can provide you with a customized "supplement menu" tailored to your particular health needs. Most people can benefit from high quality fish oil and a food based multivitamin to start. L-theanine is an anti-anxiety supplement that can also be helpful in reducing stress.
3. Exercise regularly after checking with your doctor to determine an appropriate level of activity. Cardiovascular exercise is extremely beneficial, as it allows for release of endorphins that elevate mood and ease stress.
4. Talk things out with others. Supportive friends and family members can help you process the issues and events in your life that are contributing to your stress. If emotions are overwhelming, consider counseling as an option to take care of yourself. Coaching can also be a great option to help you create goals and identify the steps needed to accomplish your goals.
5. Do small things for yourself daily to care for yourself. Make a list of small things you enjoy doing, and make it a point to take the time to do one of those things each day. When you have exhausted your list of activities, create a new one.
Are you interested in addressing your life challenges from a holistic standpoint, assessing the physical, emotional, and relationship components?
For a free copy of my ebook, "Natural Methods To Fight Depression", click here: http://www.stoptoxicrelationships.com/gifts-naturalmethodstofightdepression.html
Shannon Cook is a personal coach and resource guide who has written a number of informative articles and ebooks on the topic of toxic relationships and holistic personal growth, including physical, emotional and relationship health.
==========================================
The Three C's of Stress Hardiness
By Kathleen Daniel
We all know people who do well under stressful conditions, in fact, they seem to thrive on it. These are "stress-hardy" folks, and here are three clues to how do it. They form the basis of what's called Transformational Coping.
In essence, stress-hardy people place potentially stressful events into a new frame of reference. They have learned how to transform a stressful situation into an opportunity to be creative, or growth-enhancing, or maybe even uplifting or humorous. Rather than doing battle with an uncomfortable or unpleasant event, or taking it personally, they allow the situation to challenge them to learn, and to grow.
Here are the 3 C's of transformational coping that stress-hardy people thrive on:
Challenge. If we define stress as reacting to a comment or a situation as threatening, stress-hardy people take the view that a difficult person or circumstance is a challenge that they can rise to. Rather than feeling threatened, they reframe the event as an opportunity to be creative. How do they do this? One simple secret is that they become curious. Rather than become defensive or falling back on old scripts, they take a moment to pause and get curious as to what would lead a person to make such an 'outlandish' claim. They wonder what they might be missing, and they take an interest in finding other ways to approach situations that makes them stretch, and perhaps even shape events to their advantage.
Commitment. Stress-hardy people find meaning in their work. They feel that their work is connected to a higher purpose, and that their role contributes to a larger goal. Here are three possible answers a mason gives to the question: What are you doing? "I am laying bricks," is a cynical response. "I am earning a living," is a joyless response. "I am building a cathedral," shows a person connected to a larger purpose. The connection to something larger allows stress-hardy people to consider as minor annoyances things that might stop another person dead in his or her tracks.
Control. Stress-hardy people know when to hold and when to fold. They know when they can control events and when they can't. They know how to let go and flow with events until they find an opening when they can again assert themselves. While they may give up, they don't give in. They alter their strategy, including perhaps altering their goal, by going more deeply into their intention. They are attached to their intention, to expressing themselves, and to their goals, but not necessarily to the form that these take.
Kathleen Daniel, MS, L.Ac. writes about change and transition from the inside out, combining insights and experience from her work as an organizational consultant, educator, and executive coach, as well as her lifelong yoga practice. An alumnus of Johns Hopkins' Women, Leadership and Change program, she leads active retreats for reflection and renewal for women. Website: http://www.aheadofthecurveatmidlife.com
====================================
Anxiety - The Modern Stress For Professional Women
By Inese Millere
Modern life is stressful. In small quantities, stress is good -- it can motivate us and help us be more productive.
However, too much stress, or a strong response to stress, is harmful. It can set us up for general poor health as well as a specific physical or psychological illnesses like infections, heart disease, or depression. Persistent and unrelenting stress often leads to anxiety and an unhealthy lifestyle. Anxiety is perhaps one of the most common emotions experienced when a person is stressed. Anxiety is a form of stress that we all want to avoid.
The lives of the majority of professional women and female entrepreneurs today are out of balance. And this imbalance is a reasonable source of stress. And stress feeds anxiety. And anxiety feeds stress.
Let's look at an example of how stress overload and lifestyle factors can contribute to anxiety.
Lets say you work 70 hours a week for several years. This puts excessive stress on your body. To make matter worse, you are so busy working that you only manages to get five or six hours of sleep a night, you do not exercise regularly, and you eat mainly fast food. You can't even remember the last time you took time out for yourself.
Sounds familiar?
Your unhealthy lifestyle creates stress in your life and produces a negative snowball effect. Over time your body starts perceiving these constant stressors as a threat to your survival. Your body eventually gets "burned out" from repeated unnecessary stress reactions. It is on a constant state of alert - contributing to the physical and mental symptoms of anxiety.
Can You change it? Yes.
You have the power to reduce or eliminate many of the stressors in your life and consequently reduce anxiety.
How ?
Take Action:
- Set up the basics via integrating healthy lifestyle habits into your busy life.
- Make choices that promote calmness, self-care, and a balanced lifestyle.
- Sleep eight hours instead of six (You could find useful to support healthy sleep patterns with soothing relaxing music and natural remedies ).
- Eat well-balanced, healthy meals.
- Work 40-50 hours a week instead of 70.
- Use herbs for anxiety
- Learn to view stressors in a less anxious way so your body does not overreact to stressors when they occur.
Inese Millere is an action-oriented life coach who will assist professional women in creating stress management strategies, healthy lifestyle routines and finding a right life balance based on their priorities and values.
She runs a highly popular and comprehensive Stress Management and Balanced Life web site. For more articles and resources on stress symptoms, stress relief, stress reduction, anxiety treatments, balanced life and wellness solutions and much more visit her site.
==================================
Stress Management With a Positive Mental Attitude
By Christyn Young
Having a positive mental attitude is very important in everything we do. We will not be so stressed out whenever a problem arises if we have the correct attitude. How do we define a positive attitude? How do we manage stress with the right mind set?
Do you always wonder how some people can smile all day long? Don't they have any worries or problems? If you have the chance, talk to them. Understand how they look at the facts of life. You will be surprised how simple the answer is.
These are optimistic people. They look at the brighter side of every problem they face and appreciate the good times they have. They are contented with what they have. They do not have enemies as they always look at the good side of difficult people.
Another way of having positive mental attitude is to have a clear awareness of what is going on around us. We need to be aware of what we are feeling when problem arises. Are we scared or upset at that moment? Find the reason why we get upset? We will then know how to solve our problem and avoid getting stressed over the same matter in future.
We need to make sure we maintain our positive attitude. In order to do that, we have to be surrounded by high energy and positive thinking people. These people are usually happy and light-hearted. They are more relaxed. They have time to joke and are always willing to help. These people can give us support and advice when we needed them.
Reach out to people. Do some charity. There are lots of unfortunate people who require our helping hand. Seeing a smile on their faces will also bring a smile on to yours. You can boost your self esteem when you help the needy.
We must practice dealing with stress positively. Do not have negative thoughts as it will bring stress to us. Overloaded with stress can affect our health. We may develop anxiety disorders without noticing it. What is anxiety disorder? What is anxiety attack? Read more about these attacks and its instant relief at http://www.panicawaytips.info
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