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7 Ways to Reduce Stress in Your Home

March 4, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Does this picture describe your happy home? The baby’s crying while you hurriedly put the fast food on the table, the dog is throwing up on the floor, the hubby’s got the TV on full-blast, and your teenager just angrily slammed the door on his way out.

Unfortunately, it’s a typical scene for many of us. However, the good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. There are, in fact, things you can do to ease this stress and create a more harmonious environment so that you and your family can look forward to coming home!

Although some degree of stress is inherent as you deal with the varying phases of your family members, if you strive to uphold a core set of values and go with the flow, you can maintain a happy and healthy home.

Here are some specific ways you can reduce the stress at home:

1. Get organized. Life can quickly become chaotic when you don’t maintain organization. An organized home runs smoothly, while an unorganized home leads to stress and lost time. [Read more...]

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Why a Trip to the Spa Can Be Stress-Relieving

February 28, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

You’ve seen them on television and in the movies. Towel-covered women are relaxing, mud on their face, while a therapist is giving them a massage. It looks like heaven and that’s why a trip to the spa can be stress-relieving; when your treatments are over, you feel like a million dollars.

Think of how you feel after a long, stressful day at work or at home with sick children. Your muscles ache and your head pounds. All you want is a few moments of peace to yourself.

Well, why not take the time and pamper yourself? Make an appointment at a day spa and treat yourself to much-needed time to relax and recoup. When you return home, your family may think someone else has walked through the door.

Mainly women visit day spas, but that doesn’t mean men aren’t allowed. In fact, many day spas are beginning to offer their services to men because they can benefit from similar treatments, too. You could find someone to mind the children, if you have them, and you and your partner go for a day at the spa together. [Read more...]

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Staying Positive and Reducing Stress in a Fast Paced World

February 14, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

People are constantly working to make real improvements in the world. New waves of communication and better technology have lead to increased life spans and seemingly better lives.

While there are many positives when it comes to modern life, the downside is that sometimes people try to cram too many things into one day. In this fast paced world, stress may get the better of you and you might have trouble looking on the bright side.

Scheduling Downtime

You may feel like you should always be doing something productive. However, taking care of yourself is ultimately the most productive thing you can do. When you’ve given yourself proper rest and permission to do whatever you want once in awhile, you’ll be better able to focus great efforts on the other things in your life that matter. [Read more...]

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Men and Stress

January 31, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Stress doesn’t just affect women. Maybe we seem to be more frazzled by it than the other sex, but they experience stress as well. Men also have to learn to deal with stressful situations before they ruin their health.

Where do men get the majority of their stress? It is from their jobs. Men are thought of as the breadwinners in traditional households and it is they who have to shoulder the responsibility of household finances. This doesn’t mean that wives don’t work, but if there is any shortfall, the man is almost always purposed with finding a way to deal with it.

Most men internalize their feelings. Unlike women, men are taught from an early age not to show too much emotion. It is one of the reasons that men have such a hard time in relationships. They equate being strong with absence of outward emotion. [Read more...]

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De-stress with Music and Dancing

January 28, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

What do you do to combat your stress? Taking a vacation may not be in the cards, but you can still escape from it all. Turn on the radio and shake your booty.

Music is a series of notes strung together to make pleasurable sounds. What one person finds pleasurable could sound like nails on the chalkboard to another. The best thing about music is that there is something for everyone. From hard rock to instrumental and everything in between, music is enjoyed by young and the young at heart.

We often attach memories to music—the first time we fall in love, our first dance, or a happy holiday. Music surrounds our life and listening to tunes that conjure up pleasant memories tends to relax us. If you don’t believe me, listen to some music that was popular when you were growing up. [Read more...]

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Total Bliss – Stress Mastery Course – Stress Relief Training III

January 17, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

By Ryan C. Angelo

Your mind is a very powerful tool. It has the power to affect your entire body simply with its thoughts and through the mind-body connection. As was stated above, emotional stress results from your thoughts and perspectives. If stress can be created by your thoughts, then stress can simultaneously be eliminated by your thoughts.

Positive psychology is a school of psychology that focuses on maintaining an optimistic, but realistic out look. It is a perspective that focuses on strengths more than weakness: automatic stress relief. Challenges allow us to walk one of two paths: the way of an optimist or the way of a pessimist. The pessimist, by nature, has an uncanny ability to spot potential problems and pit falls. They are seldom surprised by misfortune because they anticipate it. In doing so, their scope of reality is limited.

Joy, happiness and all things positive aren’t enjoyed because a pessimist possesses a horrible skill: they can find a negative twist to any positive. Believe me, I was one of them before I learned this stuff! That’s why I created the Total Bliss Program!

Pessimists are often greatly affected by external stress, and even more so by [Read more...]

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Total Bliss – Stress Mastery Course – Stress Relief Training II

January 14, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

By Ryan C Angelo

Hello Friend, I had debated about whether to start with this topic, but ultimately I chose to (obviously). My reasoning is this: I have worked with many clients, and their greatest strides and accomplishments occur once they grasp this principle. The technique I’m about to share, Meta-Cognition, is a closely guarded secret of powerful leaders, psychologist, and masters.

Here me for a moment, this discipline is the very essence of power. It is the beginning of controlling your entire life…

Meta-Cognition is essentially when one thinks about his/her thinking patterns. It is a discipline that provides us with a great tool. Often, our emotions, thoughts and moods go unchecked. It’s like being in a river and allowing the current to do what it will with you.

The practice of meta-cognition places awareness over the mind’s unending activities. Like an over-seer watching the activities of those beneath, this discipline allows a person leverage over his/her thoughts. In moments of great challenge, it is easy to fall into a more negative mindset. In practicing meta-cognition, there is a quiet halt to the emotional cascade, and a drop of logic is introduced. [Read more...]

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Total Bliss – Stress Mastery Course – Stress Relief Training I

January 10, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Total Bliss - Stress Mastery Course – Stress Relief Training I
By Ryan C Angelo

The moral of the “Stress Story” is this: A little stress is good, but too much stress can be lethal.

The ability to understand the stress response is the first step. If you have been reading my articles, you have taken a leap – Congratulations. Now, the following understanding is an overview of the proven stress relief techniques I will be imparting.

Let me add a “dramatic pause” just for affect…

(1, 2, 3, 4…)

…Stress is a necessary part of life, far more necessary is developing the ability to manage stress! It is even more necessary to develop your ability to manage all forms of stress. Stress will always be present around you. No days are perfect and some are far from it.

Luckily, you are superbly equipped to resist stress in short durations. Continuous stress can be truly destructive and even deadly. You cannot control external stress, you can only respond to it. Emotional stress, on the other hand, MUST BE CONTROLLED. Emotional stress is positioned to do the most damage. Like an infiltrator, unchecked negative thoughts, feelings, memories etc. will induce emotional stress. [Read more...]

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Stress Management through Guided Relaxation

January 7, 2010 By admin 2 Comments

Is stress controlling you? Stress and tension is one of the hardest things that a person has to learn to deal with. Stress and tension will control you if you let it. Therefore, you need to learn how to reduce it as much as possible.

How managing stress helps you to relax:

To reduce stress you will need a stress management program. The program may include walking, socializing, using music; bathing, fragrances, massages, videos and more that help you relax. You can use books as well. Books designed to teach you to relax will help you set up a stress management program.

Finding relief with books:

If you enjoy reading, go to the library and pick up your favorite books. Instead of rushing through the day, take a moment out for you and relax. Read your book and do not allow demands to take over you. For example, if your mind is telling you to get those dishes done, put it off. We are not promoting procrastination; rather we are saying that sometimes you just need to relax. If the dishes are bothering you, ask someone else to handle the task. Ultimately you can get it out of the way, and then take time out to read your book. [Read more...]

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Find Relief from Stress at Work with Ergonomic Office Products

December 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

by Tomer Harel

Although people spend countless hours at the same desk and keyboard each day, they often fail to see how it will affect them physically. As aches and pains develop, they will often blame age or stress. However, they don’t realize that these uncomfortable feelings are not necessary. Rather than dealing with the aches and pains, they could find relief by making some ergonomic changes in their office. Ergonomic office equipment or just making simple changes in their daily work habits can give them the relief they need to be a more productive worker.

The term “ergonomics” has grown very popular in recent years. The dictionary gives this description of ergonomics: “The applied science of equipment design, as for the workplace, intended to maximize productivity by reducing operator fatigue and discomfort.” In other words, when we speak of ergonomic office equipment, we are speaking of equipment that will provide you with less fatigue and discomfort as you work.

These are products that will make your life easier by giving your body the support it needs to get through the day and relieving stress on various parts of your body. We become miserable when we use the same muscles everyday at work. People often make the mistake of trying to change their position at the desks and keyboards, only making the physical problems worse. [Read more...]

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