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Stress Relief And Relaxation Through The Use Of Music Therapy

June 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

by Howard Platt

In today’s fast paced lifestyle it is almost impossible to avoid stress whether we are at home or work. We must take any measures possible to help us manage such hectic lifestyles. Thankfully there are steps that we can take that will dramatically reduce the levels of stress that invade our everyday lives.

Learning how to truly relax will help you in your efforts to enjoy a stress free life. One of the most effective methods that you may use to bring a sense of ease to your life is music therapy. Listening to music has an amazing effect on how you feel inside and out.

Music therapy has been growing in popularity for the past years. We started our lives being carried in our Mothers womb for the first nine months of our existence. Many experts believe that the rhythmic beat of our Mothers heart became so soothing to us that we created a deep seated need for some type of replication of that continual rhythmic pattern. [Read more...]

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Relaxation Techniques for Stress Management

June 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Relaxing in the Midst of Stress

Stress management is an important practice that most people nowadays need to learn. With a fast paced working environment, people are constantly subjected to tremendous pressure that result to unpleasant levels of stress in their lives. You need to be able to cope quickly with the amount of stress that you have to deal with since it produces several negative effects on your body in mind.

First off, stress can cause your performance to drop because of your inability to focus on the tasks at hand. Stress can also affect your health and body. Oftentimes, stress can escalate into depression or anxiety. Relaxation is one of the best techniques used to cope with and reduce the symptoms of stress. Relaxation methods have been utilized for stress management during ancient times and they prove to be as effective today. Therefore, learning how to relax in the midst of too much stress in your everyday life will mean a world of difference.

Starting a Relaxation Practice

As with anything, starting a relaxation practice is often the biggest hurdle that people are faced with. Once you begin to notice that you seem to quickly lose energy and constantly change your mood, then maybe it’s time to re-evaluate yourself because this can be all caused by stress. There are several relaxation activities that help combat stress in your life whether as simple as deep breathing, stretching or meditation, to more advanced relaxation methods such as yoga or tai chi. [Read more...]

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Read Stress Management Books To Reduce Stress

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

by natishanel

In a world full of pressures, tension and anxiety, stress management is not a luxury. Often, the lack of effective stress management can lead to missed opportunities, underperformance, decline in interpersonal relationships and health problems. Most importantly, a stressed out person can never be happy or grow to their potential. This is why it is important to practice effective stress management techniques in your daily life, regardless of whether you are a homemaker, a top-notch executive or a savvy politician.

A number of stress management techniques like deep breathing, Yoga, massage, meditation and visualization can effectively help you fight stress. But these are activities that require some amount of free, personal time. Unfortunately, time is something most people do not have enough of these days. This is the #1 reason why most people continue to lead highly stressed, unhealthy lives. But what if there was a way in which you could relieve stress from your mind and body, while you are on the go? [Read more...]

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Stress Management Techniques For Men and Women

May 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

By Steve Davidson Ph.D.

Work, family, credit card debt, mortgage(s), finances, in-laws; what goes through your mind and how does your body react when you think of what each one of these words means to you?

Take Sam and Sally as an example. Hard-working Sam just received news he’s been laid-off from his job that has provided for his family for the past 15 years. He’s got a family, two mortgages, credit card debt, and elderly in-laws requiring additional care each year. Sam comes home to find his wife, Sally, making dinner for their two children. She takes one look at Sam’s face and knows something’s wrong. (Sam, actually, might be in mild shock!)

In an attempt to create a relaxing diversion, Sam retreats to the family room, sits on the couch, turns on the television and stays focused on the screen. Sally comes in and asks the inevitable question “what’s wrong?” After much prodding, Sam let’s her know he’s been let go from his job. Sally wants to talk about it and Sam wants to continue watching television, thinking if there’s nothing he can do and no way to solve the problem, then why talk about it? Sally immediately gets on the phone with her closest friend and spends an hour processing what just happened. Sam retreats, Sally connects.

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Dealing With Stress In Your Everyday Life

April 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Stress is a response produced by your body when you are subjected to various types of demand, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally. Contrary to what most people believe, stress is not associated with the negative only since excessive positive emotions can result to stress as well. When something that takes place or is about to take place in the environment is producing stress in a person’s body, it results into the release of certain chemicals into your bloodstream.

On the positive side, these chemicals can be utilized to produce more energy or added strength. This is helpful when the cause of your stress is something physical. But when you are dealing with emotional stress, it can cause a negative effect on your body since there is no outlet for releasing that extra boost of energy and strength. Therefore, stress results to various types of emotional or physical responses because each individual’s body respond differently to the stimulus. [Read more...]

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Stress Management Tips For Moms

April 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

By Aurelia Williams, Certified Life Coach

Let’s Face it, every mom has had one of “those days”. The baby is feed and dry but very fussy, your child forgot to tell you about a science project that is due tomorrow and hands you a list of 10 things that you must get from the store, you forgot the roast in the oven and now it is dry and your husband just called to say that he is stuck at the office… again! After a day like this, it can be very hard to keep your stress level low. With each passing minute you may feel your stress and irritability rising, your patience getting shorter and your fuse about to blow! Calgon Take Me Away!!

When you feel the need to escape and take a few minutes to yourself to de-stress, follow some (if not all) of the tips I share with my own coaching clients below. [Read more...]

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Managing Stress through Self Hypnosis

April 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The stress levels of people now are much higher compared before. This is one of the reasons why more and more of them are finding ways to manage stress so as not to affect their overall health. One of the ways that people—especially those that have super stressful jobs—prefer is self hypnosis. This is because the practice can help them relieve and manage stress the most natural means possible.

Why use self hypnosis?

When the word “hypnosis” is mentioned, many people are hesitant to try it because of the common misconception that it can manipulate one to do things beyond his or her wishes. Not many of them realize that this is not always the case. If truth to be told, hypnosis—through self hypnosis—can be one of the best therapeutic tools that a person can use. This is because people can use this in overcoming their fears. It will also be able to help them in withstanding pain and manage varying levels of stress that they experience in their lives. [Read more...]

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Stress Management and Weight Loss

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

bellywithtapeWe have all heard about the usual lament that stress makes people overweight. This is another of those supposed coping mechanism that people under stress adopt. It is only partly true. In reality, when people are stressed out, the body releases cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone in the body that is often triggered by stress. When cortisol is released in higher than normal amounts, it triggers pangs of hunger and then one may eat often to excess. What is worse is that when stress is elevated, cortisol works in a way where it stores fat, especially in the area where we do not like it most, the abdominal region. And then a cycle is started. As one fails to manage stress, eating is resorted to that releases additional cortisol further storing fat in the belly and so it goes on. This affects both men and women in a similar fashion. [Read more...]

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Stress Soothing Techniques

February 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

specromancepicnic_4xMany people have situations in their everyday life that bothers them. It may be someone at work, a money issue, the traffic on your ride home, or a loved one. No matter what the reason is, you need to deal with it and find a way to smooth your stressful situation. There are some things that you can do to help make the stress disappear and make your life fun and happy again.

Smoothing stress can be anything that you like to do. If you enjoy long evening walks alone or with a loved one, this is a great way to relieve your stress. You can enjoy this time to talk about your feelings and things that are causing stress in your life.

You can also take long rides in the country. Getting out of the house and getting some, fresh air may be what you need for a nice pick ‘me up’. This is a great opportunity to take in the sights and the different atmosphere that surrounds you. You can take the drive alone or with someone special to make it wonderful romantic getaway. Plan a romantic picnic lunch for you and your special someone as well. [Read more...]

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Write it Down in a Journal to Help Reduce Stress

January 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Often, we tend to “catastrophize” the stress we feel. We think that we have much more to worry about than we actually do. Of course, there are times we are worrying just as much as we should too.

If you find that your mind is racing and that you cannot concentrate because you are anxious, it can help to write down everything you are worrying about in a journal. Writing in a journal is very helpful in reducing stress. Writing or typing information and ideas reduces stress because the thoughts are now on paper instead of sitting in your mind and this helps to clear your mind.

Write down all of the tasks you need to complete or other things that are on your mind. This will help to [Read more...]

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