One of Life’s Greatest Lessons: Be Grateful for what you have. (excerpted from the New Jim Rohn Weekend Event DVD/CD series) Is thankfulness a survival skill? Perhaps most of you would respond with, “No, Jim, thankfulness is not key to survival”, and I would tend to agree with you. Most of us have probably already solved the [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2009
Realizing the need of stress management, many experts have been continuously conducting studies in order to give people who suffer from it as many options as possible. As defined, stress management is means of managing stress using various techniques that are key in equipping people with coping mechanisms that can be effective when they undergo [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2009
The first step to developing a stress management program is recognizing your body’s personal warning signals of stress. Since everyone is different, and we all have different stressors, those warning signals will vary from person to person. Some may include feeling anxious, mind racing, chest palpitations, problems concentrating, easily irritated, avoiding people and responsibilities, focusing [...]
Continue reading...28. February 2009
Are you a woman who lives with a secret shame called Closet Eating?A closet eater is a person with a complex about eating in full view and in front of others. For a closet eater, the idea of eating food in public creates an excessively uncomfortable feeling in their body generating fears and beliefs that [...]
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If you have come across the word ‘kaizen’ before it will probably have been in the context of industrial quality control or personal development. “Kaizen” is a Japanese word that is usually translated as ‘improvement’, but it means more than that. The word has connotations of continuous, gradual, orderly and never-ending improvement, the willingness to [...]
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Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself,and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.~Peter Latham (1789-1875) In the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, right action and right living create a life of harmony and delight. When a balance occurs between opposing forces, then your life [...]
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In this article I thought I would set down ten things that you can do – ten principles to take account of – to benefit your practice of Reiki. This is not something that has come from Japan, or from early practitioners of Reiki: it is just something that I have put together myself. I [...]
Continue reading...18. February 2009
Progressive muscle relaxation [PMR] is a relaxation technique of stress management developed by American physician Edmund Jacobson in 1934. This progressive muscle relaxation technique is focused on tensing and releasing tensions in the 16 different muscle groups. Jacobson reasoned that since muscular tension is usually followed as a by product of anxiety, one can lower [...]
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Journaling for Health: 5 Techniques 1. Write about how you feel about everyday events; writing about the events is fine, but be sure to include the feelings. The goal is to get the intense emotions on paper and out of your body/mind. 2. Write about the issues that are most impacting your life today, particularly any [...]
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Stress relief and management Recognizing stress symptoms can be a positive influence in that we’re compelled to take action. The sooner the better. It’s not always easy to discern why the stress in each situation but some of the more common events that trigger those emotions are the death of a loved one, the birth of [...]
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Life would be so wonderful if it weren’t for other people. Let’s face it, people will upset you. They will say things that will hurt your feeling. And no matter how well you plan, problems and challenges will pop up. You will be stressed out. But it’s your responsibility to do something to feel better. Here are [...]
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Acts of Kindness Benefit Everyone Do you really want to be happy? Everyone says yes, but the gateway to happiness makes some of us frown. The gateway to happiness, is giving to others. Think about this: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” - The Dalai [...]
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5 Barriers to Forgiveness By Jeff Herring Most barriers to forgiveness come in the form of a “but.” For example - “But I don’t feel like forgiving.” And you may not for a while. Ultimately, forgiveness is a decision, not a feeling. “But if I forgive someone, doesn’t that mean I approve of what they did?” No, not at all. Forgiveness does [...]
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Life, Love, and StressMany people in the world we live in today experience some form of stress. The inevitable stress is something that happens to all of us and leads many on a quest to find some way to deal with it. Stress relief is a great option because it provides you with a manageable [...]
Continue reading...13. February 2009
Author and speaker H. Stephen Glenn has said, “In terms of the entire world, if, when you wake up in the morning, you have a choice of what to eat, a choice of what to wear, a job to go to and a way to get there, you have abundance.” And yet we squander that abundance so [...]
Continue reading...12. February 2009
The value of stress management should never be underestimated. You would be hard-pressed to find a single individual that never succumbs to stress. Work issues, family problems, financial matters: any one of these can quickly add up and make it seem impossible to get anything done. All your thoughts are focused on issues you can’t [...]
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“Self-worth, or how you feel about yourself, is arguably the most important possession we own.”Rainer MartensSelf-Worth: Your Success Depends On ItEven though our society seems to be restrained in discussions about Self-Worth, it needs to be included as part of everybody’s success plans and strategies. It already affects all of us—in a negative, neutral, or [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2009
Stress mainly depends on physical, emotional, or chemical event that causes mental or physical tension. It has to be managed properly; otherwise may result in anxiety, tension, loss of concentration, anger, sleep disturbances, headaches, mild to severe bouts of depression, and lack of interest in food or increased appetite.Stress Relief Techniques #1: Stress relief music [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2009
Present age is an internet age and whatever information we need we search it on the internet. This is the reason why a lot of people are getting addicted to computers. Even most of the information for stress management is available on the internet, you simply have to search it on the various search engines. [...]
Continue reading...6. February 2009
If you are wondering what Reiki is all about, here would be a good place to start.Imagine that you have gone along to a Natural Healing Exhibition and you are going to sit in on a talk about Reiki. You will find out what Reiki is and where it comes from. You will discover what [...]
Continue reading...5. February 2009
We all know how unpleasant excessive stress can be. We also know the feeling of sickness in our stomach before an important performance, and the intense ‘fight-or-flight’ reaction we get when we face frustration after frustration.In this society where challenges have to be met and limits to be broken all the time, there are just [...]
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