Jobs and CareersStress Relief Music With Meditation Can Improve Your Physical and Mental Health
By James D'Alterio
Our professional and personal lives today are filled with problems and they're hard to get out of our minds. It seems like we can never turn our minds away from all of the problems and negative thoughts. One way to deal with this problem is to take time every day to listen to stress relief music while meditating.
In order to achieve real and lasting results, you must listen to stress relief music that is specifically designed for meditation. This means that the music must be able to reduce brainwave frequencies lower through the Alpha (1-4Hz)and Theta (4-8Hz)ranges. These are the ranges that provide the most relaxation for your mind and body.
If you have the persistence and available time, you can take classes or instruction in yoga and Tai Chi. Both of these methods can be productive but they also can take a few years to learn and practice in order to achieve real and last results.
If you don't have the time and want or need more immediate results, brainwave entrainment or binaural beats can be the answer. Binaural beats can be embedded in stress relief music while meditating.
Binaural beats are a method of inputting different frequencies into each ear while wearing headphones. The idea is to input, let's assume, 200 Hz into one ear and 210 Hz into the other ear. The brain "hears" both these frequencies and adjusts itself to the frequency differential between the two. In other words a "third" frequency is induced in the mind. It's not actually a new frequency, but the brain just sees it that way.
Therefore, it is possible to adjust the frequency differential and cause the brain to assume whatever meditative state you want.
The advantages of binaural beats when embedded in stress relief music are:
1. Easy to Learn
2. Do not take years of practice
3. Can achieve immediate results
4. Can be done practically anywhere
5. Enable to achieve deep meditative more quickly
6. No side effects as you might have with drugs
If you would like to learn more about how stress relief music when combined with binaural beats can help you to a calmer life, visit this site.
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How to Feel Settled in an Unsettled World
By MaryAnn Bailey
One of the main themes among my clients these days is the sense of unsettledness. Some of them have lost their jobs and are in the process of finding a new career path. Some have been thinking about retiring; however with the current economic situation they are now rethinking and redesigning their timeline. Others have no immediate crisis, but have absorbed much of the fear and uncertainty that is so pervasive right now.
There is no doubt that these are unsettling times. What we are going through as a nation is unprecedented. Every time we turn on the TV, pick up a newspaper or look on the internet we are bombarded with some sort of bad news. People are fearful and that fear is contagious. It's similar to a flu epidemic; if you come into contact with a fearful and panicky person, it's hard not to catch their hysteria. So, what's fueling all these feelings of uneasiness?
When life throws us a curve, our illusion of being in control is challenged. When things are going along the way we want them to, we believe that we are in control and that is why things are so good. When our life hits an unexpected snag, we think we've lost that control and that scares us. We do not like to feel out of control and it is easy to spiral into panic mode.
In reality, control is just an illusion. We are never really in control. Life does what life does. Our job is to first understand, that in spite of our best efforts and intentions, bad things will happen. Next we need to become proactive and create a framework or process by which we can lessen the impact that life's unexpected twists and turns can have on us.
The following questions will provide you a starting place to begin creating this framework.
1. What is the actual issue that is causing you to feel unsettled? Take some time with this question to make sure that you get to the true root of your uneasiness. Is it the actual loss of your job, the anticipation of losing your job, financial worries, concerns about what other people might be thinking, generalized anxiety, etc.?
2. Once you figure out the key issue, make a list of what you need in terms of information, resources, support, etc., to lessen your fear. Do you need to meet with a financial advisor? Do you need to hang out with more positive and upbeat friends? Do you need to work with a professional counselor or coach? Do you need to just turn off the TV and quit reading the newspaper?
3. Now that you have this list, create a mini-action plan for each item. Who do you need to talk with? What specific information or resources do you need? Where can you get it? Make a specific timeline for each step.
4. Then create a plan of support for yourself. How are you going to take care of yourself during this difficult time? What can you do to relax? Who can you ask to be part of your support team? Be careful in choosing your team. You want people who won't feed into the hysteria and who are able to understand your needs and provide the kind of support you want.
5. Post your plans in a place where you will see them daily. This is important not only because it will remind you to take action, but also because it will remind you that you don't have to accept feeling fearful and unsettled - that there are steps you can take to guard against this epidemic of panic. Taking positive action steps is the best antidote to feeling out of control.
You may not have control over what life dishes out, but you do have control over how you choose to react to it. You have the power to decide whether you want to take the passive, helpless approach and get caught up in the hysteria; or whether you want to take a more proactive approach and create a plan of action that will empower you, keep you moving forward and greatly decrease your feelings of fear and unsettledness. The choice is yours.
Mary Ann Bailey, MC, helps professional women successfully navigate the challenges of life transitions. She is the author of Changing Course, Changing Careers and Finding the Right Career Path. Her latest book, Gentle Warrior, Awakening the Courage to Live a Bold and Brilliant Life, will be available in spring of 2009. Visit her website at http://www.baileycoaching.com to read more of her articles and to learn how coaching can help you make the changes you want to make in your life.
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Both Executive and Caregiver? Avoiding Burnout
By Gary E Wood
At work you are an executive, a leader among leaders, looked to for critical direction. At home or in your extended family you are a caregiver, depended on for critical care. That's a demanding role but one you accept with grace.
The family caregiver has been and continues to be central to the long-term well being of millions. Whether it's for a family member or for anyone else in the community, the day-in-day-out burden of care can be stressful.
To care for those in your community or someone you love is right and rewarding. To collapse under the responsibility of that care is regrettable and in most cases preventable.
Caregiver burnout can end the individual up in the same place as burnout does for anyone else in any profession - discouraged, emotionally exhausted and feeling helpless and hopeless. Combine caregiving with your demanding position at work and the daily burden of responsibility you feel may sometimes feel excessive.
Caregivers often forgo their own physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. This marching caregiver stress eventually leads to frustration, exhaustion and anxiety.
You feel trapped, alone with a never ending task that stretches out ahead of you with little relief. You believe that even feeling this way is wrong. After all, love, compassion, respect and care should only have the most generous of feelings toward the one so depending on your care.
To help with preventing caregiver burnout you need to know the signs.
Caregiver Stress Can Show Up As:
* Frustration and irritability
* Problems with sleeping
* Loss of energy, lethargic
* Loss of involvement in activities you enjoy
* Loss or weight or gain in weight
* Anger - sometimes directed to the very one you care for
* Sadness and discouragement
* Headaches, stomach problems, small unexplained ailments
Solutions to Help With Preventing Caregiver Burnout
1. Find and Make Use of Support Services. Inquire about services from your doctor, drug store, local agencies or yellow pages. If services exist in your area, somebody knows about it.
2. Start or Attend a Support Group. There is great assistance being in the company of others who understand. Absolutely one of the essential keys to preventing caregiver burnout is knowing you have other people in your corner.
3. Have a Network of Friends, Family, People, Around You. We can get through so much if we know we have people we can talk to, people who care about us and how we are doing. Don't isolate yourself. Reach out to your network.
4. Access Respite Care for Temporary Relief. Get a break. Others are available to help. The greatest thing you can do to take care of someone else is to take care of yourself.
5. Make use of Counseling. Talk through your situation with a trained professional who understands and can help you with implementing new strategies as you move forward.
6. Take Caregiver Training. You may pick up insights, techniques and strategies that will make your job easier.
7. Know There Comes a Time to Let Others Assume Care. Not always, but often, there comes a time when you need to provide that absolute best care by letting others step in and assist. This isn't abdicating your responsibilities, it's getting the very best possible for the person you care about. Assign others the responsibility of physical care. And you continue the task of loving.
8. Learn Problem Solving Skills. Be proactive and find solutions to those things that create stress, like mobility, use of space and time management problems. Many things are problems with solutions. Getting those taken care of leaves more energy for the more emotionally demanding concerns.
9. Develop Technical Skills. It might now take much to learn some technical things that will make life much easier for you. Ask someone to show you. Write a step by step procedure down so you can follow it more easily.
10. Learn How to Deal with Problem or Challenging Behaviors. Taking a course, reading a helpful book, searching online or asking a professional for some strategies can make the world of difference in how you respond to the behaviors of those you care for.
11. Know How Valuable You Are. To care for another is a high calling. Your love and practical care go well beyond what you can see from your limited view. It is having effects far beyond what you can imagine.
Executive Coach, Gary Wood works internationally with leaders, executives and organizations to beat burnout, build capacity and less stressfully but more effectively move forward significant causes, projects and programs. Gary's book, "52 Solutions for Those Who Need a 25 Hour Day" contains 52 essential strategies for leaders who are serious about improving day-to-day effectiveness . Gary's website is http://www.gewood.com
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Learn Easy Meditation Techniques to Reduce Stress
By James D'Alterio
With all of the stress in our lives these days, it would be helpful to find some easy meditation techniques to reduce stress. Everyone is short of time and it's very difficult to clear our minds in order to get effective stress reduction results from meditation.
One method of an easy meditation technique is to use brainwave entrainment or binaural beats. Traditional methods such as yoga or Tai Chi require extensive learning periods with an instructor and a lot of practice. Using binaural beats is something that you can train yourself to do.
Binaural beats involve wearing stereo headphones and inputting different frequencies into each ear. Let's say for example a 200 Hz beat is heard in one ear and a 210 Hz beat is input into the other. The brain "hears" the difference between the two frequencies and adjust itself to that differential. In effect, the brain creates a "third" frequency and assumes that frequency.
Brainwave frequencies typical run from a high of Beta (up to 40 Hz) down to the lowest of Delta range (1-4Hz). For meditation purposes, the brain functions in the mid-ranges of Alpha and Theta.
If you are trying to control your thoughts and breathing, you can do this on your own, but it takes learning and practice. Brainwave entrainment shortens this process and you will be able to feel the results almost immediately.
Binaural beats can be embedded in pleasing background music that you would normally relax listening to. This could be classical, nature sounds, or New Age. You can use whatever type of music you prefer, just as long as it's relaxing. By using binaural beats embedded in music, you won't actually be aware that they're there, but you will feel the effects.
In order for brainwave entrainment to be effective, you must still be able to try and control your negative thoughts and not let them interfere with your meditation. You have to find a comfortable location that is quiet and not distracting. You have to allow yourself to relax.
Using binaural beats is an easy meditation technique that enables to get into a meditative state more quickly, sometimes in as little as 20 minutes. This means that you might be able to meditate twice a day. By doing this on a regular basis, you will feel more relaxed and productive.
By James D'Alterio
Our professional and personal lives today are filled with problems and they're hard to get out of our minds. It seems like we can never turn our minds away from all of the problems and negative thoughts. One way to deal with this problem is to take time every day to listen to stress relief music while meditating.
In order to achieve real and lasting results, you must listen to stress relief music that is specifically designed for meditation. This means that the music must be able to reduce brainwave frequencies lower through the Alpha (1-4Hz)and Theta (4-8Hz)ranges. These are the ranges that provide the most relaxation for your mind and body.
If you have the persistence and available time, you can take classes or instruction in yoga and Tai Chi. Both of these methods can be productive but they also can take a few years to learn and practice in order to achieve real and last results.
If you don't have the time and want or need more immediate results, brainwave entrainment or binaural beats can be the answer. Binaural beats can be embedded in stress relief music while meditating.
Binaural beats are a method of inputting different frequencies into each ear while wearing headphones. The idea is to input, let's assume, 200 Hz into one ear and 210 Hz into the other ear. The brain "hears" both these frequencies and adjusts itself to the frequency differential between the two. In other words a "third" frequency is induced in the mind. It's not actually a new frequency, but the brain just sees it that way.
Therefore, it is possible to adjust the frequency differential and cause the brain to assume whatever meditative state you want.
The advantages of binaural beats when embedded in stress relief music are:
1. Easy to Learn
2. Do not take years of practice
3. Can achieve immediate results
4. Can be done practically anywhere
5. Enable to achieve deep meditative more quickly
6. No side effects as you might have with drugs
If you would like to learn more about how stress relief music when combined with binaural beats can help you to a calmer life, visit this site.
==============================
How to Feel Settled in an Unsettled World
By MaryAnn Bailey
One of the main themes among my clients these days is the sense of unsettledness. Some of them have lost their jobs and are in the process of finding a new career path. Some have been thinking about retiring; however with the current economic situation they are now rethinking and redesigning their timeline. Others have no immediate crisis, but have absorbed much of the fear and uncertainty that is so pervasive right now.
There is no doubt that these are unsettling times. What we are going through as a nation is unprecedented. Every time we turn on the TV, pick up a newspaper or look on the internet we are bombarded with some sort of bad news. People are fearful and that fear is contagious. It's similar to a flu epidemic; if you come into contact with a fearful and panicky person, it's hard not to catch their hysteria. So, what's fueling all these feelings of uneasiness?
When life throws us a curve, our illusion of being in control is challenged. When things are going along the way we want them to, we believe that we are in control and that is why things are so good. When our life hits an unexpected snag, we think we've lost that control and that scares us. We do not like to feel out of control and it is easy to spiral into panic mode.
In reality, control is just an illusion. We are never really in control. Life does what life does. Our job is to first understand, that in spite of our best efforts and intentions, bad things will happen. Next we need to become proactive and create a framework or process by which we can lessen the impact that life's unexpected twists and turns can have on us.
The following questions will provide you a starting place to begin creating this framework.
1. What is the actual issue that is causing you to feel unsettled? Take some time with this question to make sure that you get to the true root of your uneasiness. Is it the actual loss of your job, the anticipation of losing your job, financial worries, concerns about what other people might be thinking, generalized anxiety, etc.?
2. Once you figure out the key issue, make a list of what you need in terms of information, resources, support, etc., to lessen your fear. Do you need to meet with a financial advisor? Do you need to hang out with more positive and upbeat friends? Do you need to work with a professional counselor or coach? Do you need to just turn off the TV and quit reading the newspaper?
3. Now that you have this list, create a mini-action plan for each item. Who do you need to talk with? What specific information or resources do you need? Where can you get it? Make a specific timeline for each step.
4. Then create a plan of support for yourself. How are you going to take care of yourself during this difficult time? What can you do to relax? Who can you ask to be part of your support team? Be careful in choosing your team. You want people who won't feed into the hysteria and who are able to understand your needs and provide the kind of support you want.
5. Post your plans in a place where you will see them daily. This is important not only because it will remind you to take action, but also because it will remind you that you don't have to accept feeling fearful and unsettled - that there are steps you can take to guard against this epidemic of panic. Taking positive action steps is the best antidote to feeling out of control.
You may not have control over what life dishes out, but you do have control over how you choose to react to it. You have the power to decide whether you want to take the passive, helpless approach and get caught up in the hysteria; or whether you want to take a more proactive approach and create a plan of action that will empower you, keep you moving forward and greatly decrease your feelings of fear and unsettledness. The choice is yours.
Mary Ann Bailey, MC, helps professional women successfully navigate the challenges of life transitions. She is the author of Changing Course, Changing Careers and Finding the Right Career Path. Her latest book, Gentle Warrior, Awakening the Courage to Live a Bold and Brilliant Life, will be available in spring of 2009. Visit her website at http://www.baileycoaching.com to read more of her articles and to learn how coaching can help you make the changes you want to make in your life.
==============================
Both Executive and Caregiver? Avoiding Burnout
By Gary E Wood
At work you are an executive, a leader among leaders, looked to for critical direction. At home or in your extended family you are a caregiver, depended on for critical care. That's a demanding role but one you accept with grace.
The family caregiver has been and continues to be central to the long-term well being of millions. Whether it's for a family member or for anyone else in the community, the day-in-day-out burden of care can be stressful.
To care for those in your community or someone you love is right and rewarding. To collapse under the responsibility of that care is regrettable and in most cases preventable.
Caregiver burnout can end the individual up in the same place as burnout does for anyone else in any profession - discouraged, emotionally exhausted and feeling helpless and hopeless. Combine caregiving with your demanding position at work and the daily burden of responsibility you feel may sometimes feel excessive.
Caregivers often forgo their own physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. This marching caregiver stress eventually leads to frustration, exhaustion and anxiety.
You feel trapped, alone with a never ending task that stretches out ahead of you with little relief. You believe that even feeling this way is wrong. After all, love, compassion, respect and care should only have the most generous of feelings toward the one so depending on your care.
To help with preventing caregiver burnout you need to know the signs.
Caregiver Stress Can Show Up As:
* Frustration and irritability
* Problems with sleeping
* Loss of energy, lethargic
* Loss of involvement in activities you enjoy
* Loss or weight or gain in weight
* Anger - sometimes directed to the very one you care for
* Sadness and discouragement
* Headaches, stomach problems, small unexplained ailments
Solutions to Help With Preventing Caregiver Burnout
1. Find and Make Use of Support Services. Inquire about services from your doctor, drug store, local agencies or yellow pages. If services exist in your area, somebody knows about it.
2. Start or Attend a Support Group. There is great assistance being in the company of others who understand. Absolutely one of the essential keys to preventing caregiver burnout is knowing you have other people in your corner.
3. Have a Network of Friends, Family, People, Around You. We can get through so much if we know we have people we can talk to, people who care about us and how we are doing. Don't isolate yourself. Reach out to your network.
4. Access Respite Care for Temporary Relief. Get a break. Others are available to help. The greatest thing you can do to take care of someone else is to take care of yourself.
5. Make use of Counseling. Talk through your situation with a trained professional who understands and can help you with implementing new strategies as you move forward.
6. Take Caregiver Training. You may pick up insights, techniques and strategies that will make your job easier.
7. Know There Comes a Time to Let Others Assume Care. Not always, but often, there comes a time when you need to provide that absolute best care by letting others step in and assist. This isn't abdicating your responsibilities, it's getting the very best possible for the person you care about. Assign others the responsibility of physical care. And you continue the task of loving.
8. Learn Problem Solving Skills. Be proactive and find solutions to those things that create stress, like mobility, use of space and time management problems. Many things are problems with solutions. Getting those taken care of leaves more energy for the more emotionally demanding concerns.
9. Develop Technical Skills. It might now take much to learn some technical things that will make life much easier for you. Ask someone to show you. Write a step by step procedure down so you can follow it more easily.
10. Learn How to Deal with Problem or Challenging Behaviors. Taking a course, reading a helpful book, searching online or asking a professional for some strategies can make the world of difference in how you respond to the behaviors of those you care for.
11. Know How Valuable You Are. To care for another is a high calling. Your love and practical care go well beyond what you can see from your limited view. It is having effects far beyond what you can imagine.
Executive Coach, Gary Wood works internationally with leaders, executives and organizations to beat burnout, build capacity and less stressfully but more effectively move forward significant causes, projects and programs. Gary's book, "52 Solutions for Those Who Need a 25 Hour Day" contains 52 essential strategies for leaders who are serious about improving day-to-day effectiveness . Gary's website is http://www.gewood.com
==================================
Learn Easy Meditation Techniques to Reduce Stress
By James D'Alterio
With all of the stress in our lives these days, it would be helpful to find some easy meditation techniques to reduce stress. Everyone is short of time and it's very difficult to clear our minds in order to get effective stress reduction results from meditation.
One method of an easy meditation technique is to use brainwave entrainment or binaural beats. Traditional methods such as yoga or Tai Chi require extensive learning periods with an instructor and a lot of practice. Using binaural beats is something that you can train yourself to do.
Binaural beats involve wearing stereo headphones and inputting different frequencies into each ear. Let's say for example a 200 Hz beat is heard in one ear and a 210 Hz beat is input into the other. The brain "hears" the difference between the two frequencies and adjust itself to that differential. In effect, the brain creates a "third" frequency and assumes that frequency.
Brainwave frequencies typical run from a high of Beta (up to 40 Hz) down to the lowest of Delta range (1-4Hz). For meditation purposes, the brain functions in the mid-ranges of Alpha and Theta.
If you are trying to control your thoughts and breathing, you can do this on your own, but it takes learning and practice. Brainwave entrainment shortens this process and you will be able to feel the results almost immediately.
Binaural beats can be embedded in pleasing background music that you would normally relax listening to. This could be classical, nature sounds, or New Age. You can use whatever type of music you prefer, just as long as it's relaxing. By using binaural beats embedded in music, you won't actually be aware that they're there, but you will feel the effects.
In order for brainwave entrainment to be effective, you must still be able to try and control your negative thoughts and not let them interfere with your meditation. You have to find a comfortable location that is quiet and not distracting. You have to allow yourself to relax.
Using binaural beats is an easy meditation technique that enables to get into a meditative state more quickly, sometimes in as little as 20 minutes. This means that you might be able to meditate twice a day. By doing this on a regular basis, you will feel more relaxed and productive.
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