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  • The Stress of Mess  By : Lynn Powers
    One room that has been known to stress me out is my office. When my work area is messy and unorganized, I tend to be less productive than when everything is neatly put in its place. The same goes for the kitchen. If there are dishes piled high in the sink and papers strewn all over the counter, just thinking about cooking dinner practically sends me over the edge. On the other hand, if my kitchen counter is clear and free of clutter, I’m more at ease and willing to dig out those recipes.
  • Better Health by Traveling  By : Jerry Waxman
    We may not have much control over how the powers that be handle the economy. But we do have control over how we react. Just because the government has said there is an economic crisis does not mean we all should have a personal crisis.
  • Seven Ways to De-Stress  By : Lynn Powers
    Studies show that women are more likely than men to experience anxiety, depression, and just feel generally stressed-out. This may be due to hormones, genetics, or because women feel they need to be and do everything for everyone. Keeping the house up, arranging the kids’ hectic schedules, working, friends, husbands, church…women tend to have a huge collection of hats of which they wear several on any given day.
  • Crisis Times: How to Handle Them  By : Suzi Elton
    1.) Do what it takes to create several different potential options for yourself. One option might be to stick with the job you have and do what it takes to secure your position. This would make sense if you love your job and the company you work for. Another option would be to take a serious look at what your next career move might be, given your skills, experience and desires.
  • Cheer Up! How to Deal With Depression  By : Alan Moore
    Whenever a severe problem enters into our lives, we tend to experience a range of moods . These moods range from downright lack of interest in everything to low spirits. The word used to describe this range of moods is Depression. Depression is something that is very difficult to recognize, so much so, it can literally go undetected. While this can go undetected, the good news is that when detected on time, depression can be treated in most people.
  • Making Love and Logic a Lifetime Habit  By : Jim Fay
    Needless to say I grew up knowing nothing else and tried to use the same techniques on my own child. Unfortunately, when I said, "Sit down and shut up," my kids didn't sit down and shut up. They said, "We're calling Social Services. We have rights." The parenting style my dad used so effectively didn't work on kids a generation later. I also had a hard time getting his style to work for me as a classroom teacher. I was fortunate enough to discover some new skills that worked better. But they only worked when I remembered to use them.
  • How Does Stress Affect Your Performance at Work?  By : Brent McNutt
    There are several other reasons why people work. Some because of ambition while others because of pride. Whatever your reason is, you will surely deal with stress. Stress is present in any type of profession. If you are in the corporate world, you will deal with executives, clients, and bosses. If you are working in the medical industry, on the other hand, you will deal with doctors, chief nurses, and patients.
  • What to Do When a Co-Worker Drives You Crazy  By : Lynne Eisaguirre
    How do you decide who is truly difficult? A good test is this: Does the person’s behavior have an impact on your individual or team performance? If not, it’s eccentric, “rascally” behavior and you need to manage your own attitude. If the person is keeping you from doing your best work, it may be because of what you’re doing.
  • Root Causes of Stress  By : Karen Lincoln
    1. Financial worries may sound common to you especially when dollar strength is depreciating. Every month, you think of whether you can cover your electric, internet, phone, and appliance bills. Alternatively, perhaps you are worried your mortgage and car loans are giving you some burden. On the other hand, you might be spending excessively more than what you are earning, thus financial debts arise. In numerous surveys, financial trouble is the number one root of stress. Most people who are in trouble are those engaging in more than one mortgage or those unemployed.
  • Emotional Eating 101 - What is Emotional Eating?  By : Kate O'Neal
    Emotional eaters may feel hunger come on very quickly and they feel they need to eat NOW (whereas regular physical hunger comes on slowly and usually isn't as demanding). They may go out of their way to get food like driving to the grocery store late at night or driving long distances just to get a specific food.
  • Are You a Stress Addict?  By : Ian Lapidus-Saltz
    Even while complaining about stress, stress addicts believe that if you aren’t stressed, you: A) are too dumb to notice what a terrible state everything is in, B) just took a tranquilizer or C) need to be educated by someone who “gets it” before you experience the dire consequences of your lack of awareness.
  • Dealing With Stress  By : Thomas J Bronson
    Stress symptoms include mental, social and physical changes that a person experiences. These include exhaustion, headaches, crying, sleeplessness, oversleeping, loss of appetite and feelings of frustration, rage, apathy.
  • Diffusing Anger or Feeding the Flames  By : Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
    They've noticed that it doesn't matter what the conflict is about. Just about anything can touch off their anger, defensiveness, and blame. Then the laundry list from the past comes up and they are at it, often ending with threats of divorce, which neither of them wants.
  • Depressed, Sad, Negative, Irritable?  By : Julia Sorensen
    In our quest to “feel good”, we sometimes lose the forest for the trees and stop allowing ourselves to feel down. If we do not have a period of mourning, however, we cannot bust through to the other side of our depression to the joy, where contentment lies.
  • Deadly Stress - Seven Ways in Which Too Much Unrelenting Stress Can Kill You  By : Elisabeth Kuhn
    The following are seven of the major health effects caused by stress. If you're experiencing any of these conditions and believe they may be linked to stress, seek medical counseling as soon as possible:
  • Handling the Stresses in Your Life  By : Cindy Browne
    It seems like most of us have taken on so much these days that we are carrying around more stress than we need to all the time. The formation of the family has evolved from what it was in the past. There are often both parents working to make ends meet or only one parent in the home doing it all. This can really take a toll on a person. If your to do list is always longer than the day and your thoughts are racing you need to get control of it now.
  • Stress: The 21st Century Killer  By : Terry Doherty
    While stress is often considered a mind altering state, the causes for stress are actually born from a physical response in the body. When a person feels overwhelmed by a situation or series of events, they are thrown into the bodies “fight or flight” response. This response physically increases the heart rate, often to harmful levels, increasing blood pressure and can cause headaches and feelings of physical ailment. The senses of the body are all heighten to extreme levels and the body is literally ready for the worst case scenario, a fight or a flight.
  • Instant Mood Boosters For Busy Women  By : Irina Wardas, HHC
    Let us think, for a second, what causes stress in our life? Well, if I say emotions and bad food choices, will you believe me? I am not sure, but it is true. To feel and look good we have to find balance in our lifestyle and in our body.
  • Testing For Depression  By : Healthy Thoughts
    To determine if a patient is clinically depressed, the psychiatrist will interview them face to face. Typically this interview lasts somewhere in the region of one hour (for an initial assessment – follow up interviews tend to be shorter). The majority of this interview will focus on the patient’s current symptoms (see below), the remaining time being used to look for so-called “risk factors” for clinical depression. Thus they will ask a number of questions covering areas such as the patients childhood, time at school, family life, occupational history, physical medical history, alcohol and other drug use, past psychological and emotional difficulties, and the patients current social situation (occupation, relationships etc).
  • Beating the Stress You Face Everyday  By : Ronnie Nijmeh
    When you are dealing with too much stress you may become depressed, feel fatigued all the time, develop irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, and even suffer from hives! Dealing with stress is important and when you combine affirmations for stress with other stress busting techniques you can lower your stress levels so that you can live a happy, healthy life.
  • Stress Management Tips For Women  By : Aurelia Williams
    The kids are screaming, the pot is boiling over on the stovetop, and the telephone is ringing off the hook. On top of all of this, you have to run errands and pay the bills. Some of these things demand your attention right now, but there's only one of you and you only have two hands to work with. Are you one of the many moms that fall into this trap?
  • Dealing With Conflict In A Positive Way  By : Ronnie Nijmeh
    You can choose to deal with conflict in the most positive and constructive way. It may be tempting to lash out and be cruel or say things that you don't necessarily mean, but this will only bring you down further. It can be a challenge to deal with conflict in a positive way, but it's a challenge worth taking. The challenge will be easier when you incorporate the power of positive affirmations into your life.
  • Stress And Its Effects On Your Body  By : Bertil Hjert
    These responses in turn, affect both the individual and the environment in different ways. This is the reason that all living being constantly interchange with their surroundings in terms of behavior as well as physically.
  • Holiday Stress Relief - Making It Through The Jolly Season With Your Sanity Intact  By : Ronnie Nijmeh
    Decide how much you're going to spend before the season starts. And then stick to it. Not having a budget is a sure way to overextend yourself financially. You'll know that you're creating a mound of debt every time you swipe your credit card, but the real stress will hit when you get your statements in January. Keep track of your spending, and when your budget is spent, your shopping is done.
  • Fun Ways To Relieve Stress - Learning How To Become A Kid Again  By : Ronnie Nijmeh
    Spend some time playing with your kids, nephews or nieces. Few things will help you beat stress like playing with children - their natural joy and exuberance is contagious, and you'll soon forget all about your "grown up" worries. Playing games like Charades, Monopoly, or Hide and Seek are fun ways to relieve stress while recapturing some of your own forgotten youth. Whatever it is, make sure it's an off-the-couch activity, not a passive activity. You won't relieve much stress watching mind-numbing television!
  • Techniques To Relieve Stress - Simple Ways To Live A Happier Life  By : Ronnie Nijmeh
    Before you respond to a difficult person or situation, take a few seconds to think about how you can quickly and effectively diffuse the situation. Often, the best thing to say is that you understand how they're feeling and then ask them: "How can we make things right?" Doing this throws the responsibility back into their court and transitions the conversation towards solution seeking.
  • Stress And Relaxation - How You Can Live A Happy, Stress-Free Life  By : Ronnie Nijmeh
    Using stress relaxation techniques will help you to feel more grounded. When you become stressed, you tend to lose focus of the things around you. This can cause a variety of problems, from missed deadlines, to accidents, to forgotten appointments or meetings. When you take the time to relax, you will have fewer of these problems, which will make you work more efficiently.
  • Stress Symptoms: Nine Physical Warning Signs That You Need To Take It Easy  By : Elisabeth Kuhn
    The following nine key physical warning signs are among the first ones you’ll encounter at times of great stress, and when you do, do yourself a favor and heed their loud and clear message: slow down – if you want to stay healthy, sane, and effective, that is.
  • Top Ten Self-Fullness Tips For Sandwiched Women  By : Dr. Rosemary Lichtman
    No matter what challenges you face in your career and at home with children growing up and parents growing older, it's not selfish to set aside time for a taste of healthy self-fullness. Vow to put your feet up and think about yourself for once. What brings you happiness? What relieves the stress you face every day? What will bring balance to your life? These ten tips will guide you as you make plans to nourish yourself.
  • Your Best Conversion Rate Yet - How To Convert Stress Into Success  By : Jolene Christopherson
    First, commit to yourself that you will not worry. No matter what the situation. You have to be willing to surrender all in order to take yourself to the next level. Think about this. If you lost any material thing; ultimately what harm has come from it? It once was yours. You enjoyed it. Great memories, feelings of accomplishment, pride in ownership, etc. The thing is that it all can be replaced. It may take a little time and effort but you can get it back. Plus, it will be even better when you have it again because of what you learned from past experience.
  • How to reduce stress while commuting  By : sunny malhotra
    Do you get out of your car with a queasy stomach, a headache and your blood pressure registering through the roof? If you do, that energy vulture called stress may have sent your pulse skyrocketing. In a study conducted at the University of California at Irvine, researchers found that the stress of commuting takes a major toll on health. According to the study, it has direct physiological effects of raising blood pressure and releasing stress hormones into the body. Not only that, long commutes (more than 18 miles one way) may also increase the likelihood of having a heart attack due to exposure to high levels of air pollutants, which appears to be a risk factor for heart disease.
  • Stress Relief   By : Donald Mckenzie Jr
    Listening to soft music is a stress relief tactic that you can use to relax yourself before you go to bed or even to calm yourself down. There are people who purchase alarm clocks with nature sounds or classical jazz. You can also purchase a compact disc like this with a variety of soothing sounds on it. While listening to the soothing sounds, you should focus on enjoying the moment and relaxing yourself. You will notice that when you are done with this method, your body will feel less tense and your mind will be clear.
  • Stress Management: 7 Ways To Deal With Stress  By : Gabriel Adams
    Adequate rest serves to protects us from the sometimes debilitating effects of stress. Our body and mind need to be functioning at peek efficiency so we are able to analyze the reasons for our stress and systematically deal with the issues involved.
  • Affects Of Stress Manage Pressure  By : Arjun A Singe
    Stress overall comes from external influences, such as your environment, associations, work, etc. Stress causes you to react to particular situations that result with your behaviors and the actions that it portrays. For instance, if you feel angry because someone hurt your feelings, you may react by verbally assaulting this person, which will show in your behavior.
  • Manage Pressure And Positively Thrive On It  By : Arend Tibben
    The events, which give birth to the situation of stress, are known as stressors, such as per pressure among kids, generation gap between the parents and the individuals, increasing workload at the work place and meeting out the expectations in a relationship. The condition of stress can also crop up when an individual is tormented or is bare to violence. A child can face the condition of stress when he or she is not able to cope up with the school curriculum or is facing problem with some particular subject or a teacher.
  • Meditation Can Benefit You In Self Development For Sport And Life  By : Singhe Arjun
    A key to staying healthy and live a successful life is practice using tools to help handle changes and crises whenever they pop up. Today’s biggest challenge with success is stress that is uncontrollable. There is no way possible to relieve all stress from our life; practice to manage pressure and thrive through meditation for meeting everyday challenges.
  • Self-development In Sports And Life Through Yoga  By : Singhe Arjun
    Imagine the ability of adapting from one stressor to another with just a movement in a certain way. Yoga techniques guide you to relax and focus on one thing at a time. Remember when trying to focus on more than one thing at a time it becomes confusing and you can make the wrong decision very easily.
  • Eight Practical Tips To Help You Keep Your Stress In Check  By : Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.
    Stress is the body's response to any stimulus, either external or internal, that is perceived as taxing personal resources. Perhaps gift giving is your source of anxiety, worrying that a better blackberry will hit the market next week. Or food becomes your comfort, and challenge, as you find yourself eating the cookie dough instead of baking it. At the annual office party, notice when you're focused on the buffet table instead of chatting with co-workers. You may be creating more stress for yourself by sticking to the old familiar routine and operating on automatic pilot.
  • Teenage Stress Is Serious  By : Melinda Grossman
    When teens perceive a situation as dangerous, difficult, or painful and they don't know how to effectively cope with it, most of them will experience more stress. Here are some sources of teenage stress:
  • Stress Is Killing You! Free up your life!  By : Daniel Lee
    Most of us know we are stressed and maybe you do a pretty good job of keeping it under control most of the time. No matter how calm you may appear, simply hiding your stress is not really helping you.
  • Fear Of Failure  By : Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
    Most people who are successful in their work and their relationships have experienced many failures along their road to success. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric bulb, is often quoted regarding failure:
  • Cast Out Negativity  By : Shanat Kuphur
    The most common thing which makes a person think negative thoughts are why are things not happening as they were supposed to be? Instead of finding the core reason for things not working the way wanted, an individual will start blaming others for it. Negativity is highly observed at work place. While giving out promotions if your friend goes ahead of you, you start feeling jealous and wish that you should have been in that post rather than him. The more you are concentrating on others happiness and enjoyment towards work, the more negative thoughts come to your mind.
  • Depression Can Be Dealt With  By : Richard MacKenzie
    People can get depressed even if they are been not able to get up with energy in the morning. Depression has many factors, which affect an individual. Medical problem, personal life problems, even genetics can be a cause for depression. You might think how can depression have a genetic cause, research shows that some people get the genes that are inherited from their parents suffering from depression and this can also affect them. Not everyone is affected by it; there can be a case that a person is suffering from depression even though no one from his family has ever undergone it.
  • Interview Nerves Each Time  By : Shanat Kuphur
    A person who is supposed to be interviewed for the job has to pass through many interviews that are conducted by the (HR) the officials hired for hiring people as well as the representatives from the concerned department that you are supposed to work with. There are many ways that a person can prepare and calm nerves before an interview. Basic things can be kept in mind such as keeping your cool and answering confidently, try and stay calm, as acting rude won’t get you anywhere, avoid lying about any thing.
  • Development Of Psychic Self Defense  By : Arjun Singhe
    Not all strategies work for everyone. Find the right one by experimenting until you feel relief and good about who you are and can be in the future. Stress it the most common cause for people to lose energy in self-development. Learn to relieve stress for a more successful future.
  • Cleansing In Psychic Self Defense  By : Arjun Singhe
    You must have realized that when you truly miss a person, you receive his message, call or meet the person. It is the vibrations or aura that attracts as a magnet to attract a person or repel an individual. The people who can see aura are those who have connected with their inner self. The meaning and worth of their life is more than materialistic accumulations. The aura is the energy that consists of colors. Each color has a distinct identity attached to it. The shade that is present dominantly in the aura defines an individual’s personality.
  • Finding Passion From Crisis  By : Jerry Lawson
    According to Robbins, it was this personal and embarrassing public failure that forced him to rethink his life. He reevaluated his personal beliefs and values and assessed how he had ended up at such a low point in his life. He also took time to reflect on the things that really mattered to him searched deep within himself for passion and purpose. He decided that his goal was no longer to simply make a living, instead he would consciously design his life from the inside out. Anthony Robbins claims that suffering and failure can lead us to undertake a journey of personal transformation.
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