ACHIEVING INSTANT RELAXATION FOR BODY, MIND AND SOUL IS PERFECTLY POSSIBLEOur best beat-stress advice is pretty straightforward: eat healthy, balanced meals, get enough sleep, and make time for regular exercise.
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10 Key Signs of DepressionRecognizing depression is complex, a matter usually left to professionals. However, there are 6 key signs that can give clues that you, or someone you love, needs professional help.
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Depression StatisticsA major depressive episode can be devastating to every person and family that it touches.
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Beyond Fear And Addiction: Six Steps To HealingOur bodies are designed to respond with the fight or flight mechanism to real and present danger - such as being physically attacked. In the face of real and present danger, the adrenaline flows and the blood drains out of our organs and brain and into our limbs to prepare us for fight or flight.
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Active Relaxation - The Neglected ArtStress is a serious business. The subject is often in the news: we know that it causes the loss of more working days than physical illness and can lead to serious conditions of the heart and other organs. Stress is taken so seriously these days that employers have a legal duty of care towards their employees.
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When Anxiety Has A Life Of Its OwnAccording to the National Institute of Anxiety and Stress, anxiety disorders affect about 40 million people a year. The numbers are staggering especially for women who suffer from anxiety and stress almost twice as much as men. More and more children and seniors are also struggling with anxiety.
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Healing Childhood Emotional WoundsThe fact is that this is not necessarily true. Trauma can come in many forms and is determined by either the intensity of the threat or the weakness and vulnerability of the defenses.
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The Paradox of Self-AngerWe usually associate anger with an intolerance of others. But what if the intolerance is toward one’s self. The familiar pathway for anger tends to be an attempt to humiliate or intimidate those whose worldview is incongruent with one’s own.
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Self Forgiving is Essential for HealingIn the waiting room in my clinic, there is a poster that says "Self Forgiving is Essential for Healing". A patient once asked me what it means and why I put it up there.
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Different Herbs For Anxiety TreatmentAnxiety disorders are a common problem, affecting approximately 20 million adults and children in America. Anxiety is a common emotion consisting of uncertainty and worry faced by many, whilst anxiety disorders are when such fears are experienced irrationally.
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Managing Your Fears and Anxieties with the Help of GodDealing with fear and anxiety can be very difficult. As a result, using the help of God can be very effective in managing your fears.
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Difference between psychosis and schizophreniaWe have many times heard words like psychotic disorders and schizophrenia, and most of the people tend to confuse between psychosis and schizophrenia.
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Is Social Anxiety Holding You Back?Another year, another New Years resolution ... if only this time it could be different?
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Two Easy Cures for StressHow true! If we all practiced these two "cures", we would likely improve our health and decrease our stress! In today’s day and age, too many people are not getting either of these important cures! Both are relatively easy to incorporate in to your day without needing to make any major lifestyle changes. Let’s take a more detailed look at each of these.
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Depression: It's All in Your HeadAccording to NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) nearly 1 in 5 adults suffer from some form of mental illness in any given year. Many of those who suffer go untreated due to not being diagnosed.
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Understanding Mental HealthMental health is as important as physical health. Still, millions of Americans suffer with various types of mental illness and mental health problems, such as social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction to drugs and alcohol, and personality disorders.
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Causes of Anxiety AttacksExperiencing anxiety attacks causes even more anxiety. Did you know that? It's because there's so much misunderstanding in society and even among some doctors about what exactly anxiety is and isn't.
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How To Build Confidence Through Standing TallerBuilding confidence make you feel taller and stand taller. This is a fact. The body language of confidence is portrayed in standing straight and tall, walking with a spring in your step, easy eye contact and an altogether comfortable image.
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OCD & AnxietyAnxiety has been defined several times over the years and, unfortunately, many people now suffer from some form of anxiety. Health professionals have now established that there is a common link between anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.
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CONCENTRATION AND ANXIETYDo you feel that Anxiety is one of the main contributors to our poor concentration? To understand how anxiety impacts us lets first set a definition to it.
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Can Massage Therapy Benefit You in Anxiety?Unfortunately in this fast pacing world most of the people have some kind of anxiety, depression, and tension which is due to over work-load and cut-throat competition.
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Body Image Stress - Aging Insecurities and Self-Image"One topic that I feel that I haven't seen covered much is the issue of body-image related stress, anxiety, and insecurity, and how to fight it. We all age.
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Keep Your Cool with This Stress Reduction ToolIt isn't easy keeping your sense of peace when everyone and everything around you is going crazy. Short of completely isolating yourself from the whole world, within a perfectly peaceful environment, what do you do?
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger. It’s True!I've heard this cliché all my life but never really "got" it until recently. Maybe that’s because I grew up in an abusive family. Surviving my childhood taught me fierce coping skills.
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6 Effective Ways to be relieved from StressStress is an awful experience that not so many people want to experience, especially if you are at work, at home taking care of your baby or in your bedroom making some projects while preparing for an upcoming major exam.
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Panic Problems Can Be Improved EternallyTry to picture yourself walking down a hallway and the walls are starting to close in. The end of the hall is visible you make your way toward the light, as fast as your feet will carry you...
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Managing StressWhat is stress and how does it affect us? Stress is a reaction to a fear that affects both our body and mind.
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ANGER MANAGEMENT IN CHILDRENAnger, even though a normal emotion, can be changed into something painful and ugly when harbored by children.
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How Stressful Thinking Impacts YouMost of us experience tension daily, often it's hour by hour or worse minute to minute. How we cope with stress and worry determines whether we move forward or allow it to hold us back.
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Are Your Friends There When You Need ThemThis summer I did a lot of soul-searching. I realized I've outgrown some of the people in my close circle of friends. What I mean is their idea of friendship is not the same as mine.
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YOGA TECHNIQUES TO TRANSFORM A NEGATIVE MINDHuman mind is the hub of free-flowing thoughts, views, emotions and opinions and owing to its versatility and volatility...
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SMART TECHNIQUES FOR DEALING WITH STRESSDid that guy just cut you off on the highway? Is your boss acting like a jerk? Maybe it’s your better-half, or even your beloved children who are being spoiled brats.
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MIDLIFE CRISIS IS A SCAMSearching for a solution to midlife crisis and bring your life to the next level of fulfillment?
Good for you, because what you are about to discover is a proven system to get you out of it easily. |
I Care … But Not That Much!A quick look around the workplace, or anywhere else for that mater, reveals a world of Mindful, Concerned, Worried, Thinking and Bothered people. On the surface, it would appear we all care a fair bit.
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Creating a Peaceful Place – Simple Stress Reducing TechniqueThis imagery exercise is a useful technique to use whenever you feel stressed out and just need a break to quiet your mind and find a moment of peace.
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3 Steps to Overcome Your Worry"You sound worried again, what is it this time?" I asked my client Susan. "I'm worried that if I don't start getting more clients, I'm going to have to give up my business and get a 'real job'", she said.
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