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A Quick Guide to Stress Management with Reiki

December 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

by William Doyle

Stress is overwhelmingly affecting people in our society today. Busy with work, home, family, and many other daily tasks – stress piles on without our realizing it. That’s why so many people are turning to the stress-reducing techniques used in Reiki, a spiritual energy used with healing, meditation and spiritual growth.

Introduction to Reiki

When a person is introduced to Reiki, an initiation takes place called “Reiki Attunement.” This brings the person into a relationship with Reiki energy, and is usually activated by a trained Reiki master-teacher. During a Reiki Attunement, the person’s dense energy is cleared and released, and etheric and chakras fields are strengthened so the person will be able to receive and transmit high frequency healing light. The person can become familiar with Reiki healing and Reiki symbols as well.

Learning to Relax

Stress usually takes over when a person is fearful, doubtful, or full of worry about things that are happening around them. The person often lives in a constant tense state without realizing what is happening. The body naturally reacts with fatigue, moodiness and sometimes, disease. To relieve stress, one must learn to relax and overcome the fears and worries of everyday life. [Read more...]

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Yoga is a Cure for Modern Day Stresses

November 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

As an effective method of stress management, yoga is spreading into the business world, the helping professions, nursing and old age homes, and is used in the treatment of alcoholics, hyperactive children and youngsters with learning disabilities. Yoga centers are getting stiff competition from adult education classes of community colleges, boards of education and parks and recreation departments.

The meaning of yoga is union of the body, mind and spirit with truth. There are many kinds of yoga to study, and there can be endless years of practice for the willing student.

Hatha Yoga is among the most popular forms in the west. It emphasizes the practice of postures, which stretch and strengthen the body, help develop a sense of balance and flexibility, as well as body awareness and mental concentration. All forms of yoga incorporate the practice of proper breathing techniques for relaxation, to rest the mind from its constant chatter, to experience an internal calm, and to energize and purify the body. [Read more...]

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Hypertension? Learn To Manage Stress And Get Lower Blood Pressure

October 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Hypertension? Learn To Manage Stress And Get Lower Blood Pressure High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a common problem in today’s world. In the beginning, it can be hard to realize that you suffer from hypertension. Initially, it causes no symptoms but if nothing is done it may result in serious health issues later on in life. A lot of studies indicate that long term stress is one of the main causes of hypertension.

Emotions such as anger and fear trigger the body’s fight or flight response. The adrenal glands flood the body with stress hormones. The brain shunts blood away from the gut and towards the muscles, in preparation for physical exertion. Heart rate, blood pressure and respiration increase. The fight or flight response has been very important for the survival of mankind, a caveman had to quickly make up his mind either to stay and fight or try to escape a threat. Today, very few real life threatening dangers exist but the old fight or flight response still gets triggered in a lot of situations. [Read more...]

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Stress Management Activities You Can Try Out

October 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

It is quite possible to easily cope with stress if you find the right activities to help you get your mind off the problem that’s bothering you. Even if having fun does not directly get rid of the source of the problem entirely, diverting your mind from it for a short period of time will calm you down and regain your composure before taking it on again.

You don’t have to go on an extended vacation just to get rid of stress. In fact, you can easily have fun while in the comforts of your own home to get your mind off it. You can indulge in word or board games, sports, music and art, and many others to fill up your time with something you like to do and forget your problems to help you relax.

Let Your Mind Have Some Fun

Since stress is centered on your mind, then it would only be plausible to divert it into something more productive and fun. Try to delve into games that require your mind to think. Chess is a great way to stop thinking about the problem and focus more on how to beat your partner. You can also try playing word or number games that will put your logical mind at work, like scrabble, Sudoku, word puzzles, crosswords, and the like. This will help divert your mind from stress to help you achieve a sense of relaxation. [Read more...]

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Stress Busting Diet to Help You Manage Stress

September 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

With today’s lifestyle and economy, we all would benefit by learning ways to manage stress. Many of us are aware that we need to control stress – and for good reason. Stress is linked to depression and many other life threatening diseases including heart disease, lung disease and cancer.

Harmful internal toxins are created during times of high stress. When overly excited, angry or afraid, your body releases chemicals throughout. Ever felt butterflies in your stomach every time you think of a certain person or circumstance? This is the release of harmful internal toxins.

As these extreme emotions happen to many of us on a daily basis, these chemicals are released daily as well. They will build up over time. Now you have the daily emotional issues and the built up internal toxins that add to and hold in fear and stress.

Added to these toxins are the chemicals in processed and junk foods. Eating the wrong foods will create a harmful cycle of creating toxins, adding more through your food, which makes you feel worse, so you stress and create more toxins, and so on. Our wellbeing is in jeopardy and stress management becomes more important since our health is in jeopardy. [Read more...]

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Managing Stressful Conditions For Inner Peace

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

by Amy Twain

Stress management could produce inner peace within when you become a neutral caring observer of the challenges in your own life. (The term neutral caring observer was coined by someone during his doctoral research on spiritual intention.) As a neutral caring observer of stressful conditions, situations and life in general, you could gain objectively a clearer, sharper and more focused point of view. With a clearer perspective, you would most likely have more alternatives and choices for problem solving which would help you reclaim and renew your peace of mind. Being a neutral caring observer includes 3 easy ways which gets naturally easier through constant practice.

1.) Decide to be neutral–Be objective, even systematic in your observing. As you begin to observe, choose to remain unbiased. Do not criticize or judge easily. Assess without taking inventory and neutrally observe others. You can also neutrally observe yourself, your losses, your wins, your strengths as well as your failures with equal acceptance. 2.) Decide to be caring with yourself and those people around you. See through the eyes of love and kindness. Foster care and compassion. Loving and caring is your roots for optimism, resilience and acceptance. Without the attitude and attention of caring, you could simply become judgmental and critical, thus losing the many key benefits of neutrality and its practices. [Read more...]

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The Benefits of Attending Stress Management Seminars

August 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

People of all ages experience stress at varying levels and degrees. A five-year-old child can encounter stress when he fails to pile up five blocks as planned. A teenager feels stressed when he or she is unable to get good marks a certain quiz in school. A college student gets depressed when she or she fails to get on his or her professor’s good side. An adult feels burned out and tired when his or her boss constantly criticizes his or her performance at the particular project.

While the above examples of stress are not in the same level when you put them together, to the people who are experiencing them, they might already be carrying the same weight. This is what stress management seminars will help us realize. That though stressors differ among people and among situations, the extent and gravity of their effects depend on how people respond to them.

Therefore, a five-year-old’s response to the blocks could be in the same degree as the adult’s response to his or her superior’s comments. Though the stress happened people of different orientations and ages, how they reacted to them can be considered in a similar level. [Read more...]

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7 Spiritual Solutions for Stress Management

August 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Stress is one of the most common issues that bind everyone in this world, no matter their age, gender, race or background. Everybody is prone to stress and, however which way we try to avoid it, we are likely to experience some form of stress at one point in our lives, especially as we get older and have more concerns to face.

A lot of strategies and tools have come up to help us combat stress. Thinking positively is one. However, none of these strategies would really work to their fullest extent without spiritual assistance. That said, practical and spiritual solutions to stress management are also important to keeping us grounded.

Below are 7 spiritual solutions to practical stress management. While not all have worked for everyone who tried it, you will find that majority of them are helpful in your quest to reduce the stressors in your life. Each person’s needs are unique. Therefore, there is no single way to combat stress.

- Do not hold grudges

Feeling hatred for somebody or something is similar to drinking a bottle of slow- [Read more...]

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What is Psychotherapy?

July 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Psychotherapy is a method used for treating emotional and mental disorders, where patients talk about issues and their condition with a psychotherapist. There are group, individual, family, or couples psychotherapy sessions where a psychotherapist works with patients to help them understand, learn, and cope with emotional and mental problems. Group therapy is normally two or more patients that are in therapy together. Patients learn that they are not alone in the way they feel, participate in discussions, and share similar experiences. Individual therapy involves only the therapist and patient. Family therapy includes the patient with a mental illness and his or her entire family because they are part of the patient’s support system. Psychotherapy helps family members understand coping methods for dealing with the illness their loved one is experiencing or going through and ways to help them. Couples or marital therapy is a way for partners and spouses to understand the mental disorder their loved one has, how to cope, and what they can do to help.

Therapists teach patients about the causes of their condition in terms they understand; give them the coping tools necessary to solve problems; teach patients to identify their thought or behavior problems and ways to change them so they do not adversely affect their life; and learn the importance of setting realistic, attainable goals. During therapy, the patient talks to a trained, licensed mental health professional for assistance in identifying the causes of their problem and ways to treat the illness. Some patients only require a couple of psychotherapy sessions while other patients continue to see their psychotherapists for many years. Some people require medication along with psychotherapy treatments to help them deal with their problems. Psychotherapy helps patients to understand how their ideas, emotions, and behaviors can affect their illness and teaches them problem-solving skills and coping techniques so they have a sense of pleasure and control in their life. [Read more...]

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Stress Less!

June 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

By Aurelia Williams, author of Journey to Joy

STRESS. “Yes, the S word’. Stress is the ‘wear and tear’ our bodies experience as we adjust to our constantly changing environment. Stress has both physical and emotional effects on us and can it can create positive or negative feelings.

As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action; it can result in a new consciousness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence, it can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, and depression, which in turn can lead to health problems such as headaches, upset stomach, insomnia, ulcers and other health problems. As you can see, as we adjust to different situations, stress can either help or hinder us depending on how we react to it.

I’m not going to sit here and tell you that you shouldn’t let things concern you but what I do what to say is that you can slowly begin to reduce the stress in your life. [Read more...]

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