Stress, Anxiety and Depression Treatment Articles: stress

Entertaining Without Stress
Let’s face it. If you are stressed, agitated and flitting about, your guests will be uncomfortable and won’t be able to relax. Here is an easy test of how well you are doing. How many times do your guests ask if there is anything they can do to help? It is reasonable that guests may ask when they first arrive but if you hear the question over and… (read 670 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Ways To Overcome Stress
Stress is an ugly fact of life. Stress is a wonderful motivator. Which stress are we talking about? The first turns us into a cucumber, a miserable wrinkled cucumber. We lie down in the fetal position and quake. The second causes us to go into business for our self and make a zillion dollars. Well, let’s take them one at a time. Ugly Stress… (read 546 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How to Use Color Therapy at Home to Relieve Stress and Anxiety
Color therapy is an inexpensive and readily available form of alternative therapy, which can be an effective tool for treating the symptoms of excess stress. Over millennia the colors found in nature have been influencing human beings such that their effect is deeply felt in all of us and their meanings instinctively understood. Our ancestors saw… (read 256 times since Apr 27th 2007)

100 Ways to Reduce Stress
Don’t let stress wear you down. Next time you are feeling stressed, step back from the situation and try one of the following tips to take control of the situation and de-stress: 1. Pray 2. Meditate 3. Take an aromatherapy bath 4. Get a massage 5. Give a massage 6. Write in your journal 7. Stretch 8. Practice yoga 9. Help someone in need 10. Read… (read 205 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Talk Yourself Out of Stress
Seventy-five percent of all our problems – both emotional and physical problems – come from the same source. If you could identify that source, would you want to eliminate it? For most people, the answer is obvious. Unfortunately, few people are able to identify the core of their problems. And those who do typically don’t know the steps to take to… (read 199 times since Apr 27th 2007)

You Can Take A Vacation From Stress Whenever You Desire
You can go to faraway places with white sandy beaches and clear azure skies in the blink of an eye. You can go back in time to the days of prehistoric monsters or you forward to the world of tomorrow. You can even fill your eyes with tears one moment and laugh out loud the next. Reading a book is one of the best ways to reduce your stress level… (read 174 times since Apr 27th 2007)

The Origins of All Stress; How to Understand It, Deal With It, and Conquer It!
Do you think you know where stress comes from? I'll bet you'll be surprised about what I am about to say! Before I reveal the secret I need to go over a little known law of physics. It's called Newton's Second Law of Motion. This is science applied to human nature. Bear with me on this. Don't get lost because I start talking about science. This is… (read 169 times since Apr 27th 2007)

6 Ways To Overcome Workplace Stresses
This is probably one issue for which you may not need a survey to confirm. Nearly everyone feels stressed at work. Workplace stresses are not that different from domestic stresses. You feel stressed when there are high expectations, changes in responsibilities, possibility of job loss or even when you are standing at the threshold of a promotion.… (read 162 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Workplace Stress
It is estimated that 500,000 people in the UK are suffering illness that has been caused by stress in the workplace, with a further 5 million people reporting themselves as being very or extremely stressed whilst at work. Stress at work also affects people’s life outside work too, with 55% of full time workers saying that they took their stress… (read 160 times since Apr 27th 2007)

De-Stressing in Boulder - Spas
Although Boulder is a college town, that does not mean there isn’t stress. Boulder spas present you with an opportunity to be the stress monster. De-Stressing in Boulder — Spas Boulder has long been famous for its natural vistas, hiking and biking trails, and stunning wildlife. Obviously, this alone is good enough reason why so many tourists… (read 154 times since Apr 27th 2007)

5 Ways To Relieve Stress
In this article I will be discussing how important stress relief is in your life and also giving five of the best ways to relieve stress. Stress is always present in a modern lifestyle, we are hooked on instant gratification and ever more powerful technology, which inevitably leads to stress and frustration when our needs are not met. We get… (read 154 times since Apr 27th 2007)

6 Ways to Release Stress
We are currently living in a capitalist society where money and power rule. Therefore, many of us have become workaholics and often overlook signs of tiredness in order to stay on track. I am not saying that people should stop working hard to achieve their goals. However, there is a slight problem we do not know how to manage our stress, which is… (read 123 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Stress Secrets: How To Remove Hidden Sources Of Stress
Most people find it easy to identify the sources of stress in their lives. Ask Maggie M. about the stress in her life and she says, “I run a full time business and have an active toddler. My husband’s job keeps him working 10 hours days, so I do most of the errands. I know exactly where stress comes from!” But many people find that even in times… (read 111 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Ten Ways to Overcome Stress at Work
Stress in the workplace has taken off as a main complaint around the world. There are many different reasons for this. Because of its importance in the context of stress generally, I have decided to write this article to help you deal with stress at work. I have a particular interest in it anyway, because of my work in coaching business people.… (read 105 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Why is Stress Harmful?
The Mechanism When something happens to trigger feelings of stress in us, our body is programmed to make certain adjustments to our normal state. Indeed, our body chemistry changes quite fundamentally every time we react to stress. These adjustments probably have their origin in our distant ancestors, whose lifestyle was quite different from our… (read 99 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Ten Ways to Reduce Stress at Work
Stress free living is probably impossible. It is wise however to manage the stress so that we can work more effectively. Need help reducing stress? Hire a coach! A coach can help you to identify the stressors in your life and then will help you select the appropriate solution. It takes practice and persistence to put these into action. It’s easy… (read 96 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Ways to Minimize Stress
Now we are living in the technological and modern world. In each and every family both mother and father are employees. They are busy with their works. They have no time to observe their children. They have no time to take care themselves also. They live daily life with full of stress and strain. They do not know they loose their lifetime because… (read 94 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Four Stress - Hacking Techniques Kills the Anguish
Communal support and relations are an essential part of stress management because they have such a positive effect on minimizing the sequence of depression. As we become stressed, we require other people for contact, communication, and social buttress. It's much easier to survive stress tribulation when we find someone to share it with or some… (read 93 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Detecting Signs of Stress
In order to keep from becoming stressed, one of the first things to do is to be aware of the signs of stress. This is, admittedly, difficult, since people who are stressed are usually too stressed to notice that they are stressed. This is because stress tends to wrap itself up into a self-concerned package that not only alerts you to everything… (read 91 times since Apr 27th 2007)

3 Easy Ways to Reduce Stress
Stress, America’s #1 health problem, is a leading cause of major illness. In fact, heart disease, high blood pressure, and depression are just some of the harmful effects of stress. Research has shown that releasing stress and learning how to relax promotes a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life. Here are 3 easy ways to reduce your stress… (read 90 times since Apr 27th 2007)

9 Warning Signs of Stress
Stress is the nastiest 4 letter word you ever met. Don’t stress, I know it is six letters but it packs the wallop of the meanest 4 letter word you ever heard. Stress can affect your health and keep you from being all you can be to borrow a phrase recently made popular by the U.S. Army. Psychologists, scientists and those who study this particular… (read 89 times since Apr 27th 2007)

5 Tips on How to Deal With Chronic Stress
The constant pressure of anxiety is the feeling of not being in control of your environment. This removes the safety net of security because you believe that you are constantly in danger. The danger-feeling that you experience can be either physical danger or emotional danger, such as in the case of public humiliation or embarrassment. 5 Tips on… (read 89 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Simple Ways To Prevent Stress
Stress is often lurking in the background when an illness strikes. Maybe you have caught the flu that has been floating around work and you notice that you always seem to catch the latest thing that is doing the rounds, be it the flu at work or the cold at your daughter's kindergarten. It could well be that you are stressed out and this has… (read 87 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Managing Stress Without the Use of Drugs
In today's fast paced environment, many people are under a lot of stress. Women are even more susceptible to the strains of everyday life. Some are single mothers that work full time jobs and then come home and care for their baby. They are over worked, underpaid and under extreme stress. Many women go to their family doctors complaining about… (read 87 times since Apr 27th 2007)

5 Simple Strategies for Stress Management
As a hypnotherapist, my goal with clients is to help them discover both internal and external resources for dealing with their lives. In addition to work done in trance I always try to give clients homework– strategies, tools and techniques to use consciously on a day-to-day basis. Stress is unavoidable in life. Some days even getting out of bed… (read 84 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How To Control Stress
Research has shown that the stress hormone cortisol reduces a person’s ability to retrieve information and memory. Even worse, this same stress hormone is linked to progressive shrinking of the hippocampus — an important memory center in the temporal region. High levels of stress also promote depression, which severely impairs memory and… (read 82 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Why Do We Stress?
If you do an on-line search on stress, you'll find a lot of web sites that do a good job of identifying stress with quizzes and tools that measure your level of stress. There's even a website that has a test to determine whether you even have stress at all… and if they convince you that you do, they're ready and willing to sell you the… (read 82 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Executive Stress: Why We Are More Stressed Out Now Than Ever Before
On his one hour commute into work, Robert, the executive vice-president for a large international bank, noticed that his stomach seemed tied up in knots. His doctor had referred him for some executive coaching to assist him in reducing symptoms of job stress. Robert was being treated for stress related high blood pressure and now he was having… (read 82 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Five Ways To Manage Stress
You will stress out in college. That’s a given. There will be deadlines you have to meet, projects that you have to research and unexpected drama that will acquire your attention. If you are prepared for the stress, you can manage it. If you control stress enough, you can convert it to a motivating force. Here are five functional ways to manage… (read 82 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Take Charge of Stress
Stress Control “Learn how to control stress?” the woman said to me at a workshop. “You must be kidding.” Nope, not kidding, it can be done. Each of us responds differently to stressful events. Stress is almost an over-used word. But the reason this word is being used a lot is that unfortunately, life is more stressful. I would even say that in… (read 81 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Five Instant 'Stress Soothers' for Counteracting Negative Emotions
Do you ever have thoughts, feelings or impulses that attempt to hijack you? These intense feelings and thoughts come out of nowhere. They show up when you least expect it. It might be anxiety, despair, loneliness, resentment, bitterness, jealousy, or anger. What is your response to this villain who is attempting to take over your mind, body and… (read 81 times since Apr 27th 2007)

6 Steps to Relieve Stress
We get over-stressed now and then. It's a natural response under certain conditions. We need to be concern when our stress is getting out of hand and interfering with our lifestyle. What problems can too much stress cause? · High Blood Pressure · Colds and the Flu · Allergies · Diabetes · Damage Relationships · General Bad Health The list goes… (read 80 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Signs and Symptoms, Causes of Stress
First of all, let’s understand this. Stress is not the pile of papers sitting on your desk. Stress is not the child screaming in the living room, or the clean laundry the dog just dragged out the door. Stress is not the phone that is ringing off the hook, throwing you behind schedule. Stress is your response to those things. They are stressors,… (read 80 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Causes of Stress
In order to eliminate or at least control stress, it is vital to know and understand the causes of stress. Of course, there are many causes of stress and they are as varied as the people who suffer from stress, but there are a few places to look first. And by learning about these causes of stress, you can figure out where stress is entering your… (read 80 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Coping With Stress During the Season to Be Jolly
Real-life holidays may not be anything like the Hollywood “Brady Bunch” holidays. While radios and store Muzak blare Ho-ho-ho and Fa-la-la, we sometimes find ourselves feeling the contrast between what we WANT in their lives and what we HAVE. We may be grieving for people who are not with us—who may be gone because of military duty, illness,… (read 78 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Conquering Stress and Depression with Exercise
One of the best ways to combat stress and depression is to make physical fitness a part of your daily routine. Aside from the proven health benefits of exercise, people who exercise regularly are more apt to deal with stressful situations more easily, handle physical work tasks better, and tend to be less susceptible to illness and injuries. There… (read 78 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Stress Test: Getting to the Root Cause of Your Stress
Here’s what you need to do. Schedule some time and lock yourself away for at least one hour. Somewhere quiet. Switch off the mobile phone, the television and devote this time to you. You don’t need to sit cross-legged on the floor for this, but I want you to do some contemplation. Think about your everyday life. Run the video in your mind. Take… (read 78 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Coloring Therapy: How a Coloring Book and Crayons Can Help Dissolve Stress
Remember when you were a child, lying on your tummy on the floor, coloring book open, crayon in hand with the other crayons spilling out of the box? Can you remember the sense of peace and enjoyment you felt while you were coloring? Why not consider revisiting this favorite childhood pastime to help during those times when you find yourself… (read 77 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Curing Stress By Understanding Its Root Causes And Effects
It is often suggested that taking a walk, involving yourself in some sort of creative activity, or enjoying a good workout can do much to relieve the symptoms of stress and, while this is certainly true, this is a much more a strategy for coping with stress rather than for curing it. To deal effectively with long term chronic stress it is… (read 77 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Your Brain On Stress
Neurosurgeons and neurologists have studied the human brain for centuries. Today, they agree there are two halves, or cerebral hemispheres. The left side controls the right half, and Eureka! The right side controls the left. Apparently the left hemisphere, specializing in speech and language comprehension, is the technical detail-oriented area… (read 77 times since Apr 27th 2007)

10 Ways to Reduce Your Stress Now!
Stress is the 'wear and tear' our bodies experience as we adjust to our constantly changing environment. These 10 tips below can be applied your life and all of your relationships as it pertains to school, work, family, your significant other and friends. My hope is that you find positive ways to help manage all stress that you are dealing with. 1… (read 76 times since Apr 27th 2007)

2 Key Ways to Reduce Your Stress
With stress causing so many problems in our lives, it needs to be seriously addressed, while bearing in mind that one person's level of stress could be another person's challenge. Stress does not have to be automatic. It is actually allowed by the individual, though modern living weakens one’s resolve and encourages it to happen. For example, many… (read 76 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How To Reduce Stress In Your Life
Time is the modern man’s curse. In order to stay at the top of the food chain, you have to be competitive. You have to thrive in challenges, which would also inadvertently mean that you have to function pretty much like a robot. So that means you have to act indifferently even in the face of crisis. You should be arbitrary when it comes to… (read 76 times since Apr 27th 2007)

10 Ways to Benchmark Workplace Stress
With almost 50% of workers complaining that their jobs are very stressful, it is no surprise that more than two-thirds of all medical problems are stress related. Each day, workplace stress is credited with more than a million absences and at least 40% of all personnel turnover. Studies show stress is a primary cause of accidents, quality control… (read 75 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Ten Things You Can Do To Decrease Your Stress At The Office
The world we live on is nothing but a mound of chaotic pressure that is building to the point it bursts like a volcano. We are bombarded with pressure from our employers, our customers and families to the point where some people actually do break. Most of us today in professional lives spend between 8 and 16 hours a day at the office, which… (read 75 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Physical Causes of Stress
Stress occurs when the demands upon an individual surpass the resources in his/her arsenal to meet such demands. There are many causes for stress, which may be broadly classified into physical, mental, emotional, personal, familial, social, professional, religious and spiritual. Let us examine a few important physical causes of stress. A. The… (read 75 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Reduce Your Stress
If you live in the early part of the twenty-first century, chances are you are feeling stressed. Life for most of us today is highly pressured. Many of us feel stressed because of too little money, and too many urgent things to do, and not enough time to relax and unwind. We are often sleeping too little, eating the wrong foods, drinking too much… (read 74 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How To Conquer Stress and Depression
I am quite a fragile person and can quite easily find myself thinking and worrying about the smallest of things. People who know me comment that I am always stressed and that I should attempt to learn to relax more. This is easy for them to say! I have however now learned how to reduce the amount I stress and get depressed and will explain more in… (read 74 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Living And working With Stress
Selling can be very stressful. In my early years in the insurance industry I worked a very tight schedule of 4 appointments each day. These were with the Managing Directors of medium sized companies scattered around my territory. If the appointment was a good one it could last anything up to an hour by the time I waited to be seen and then made my… (read 73 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Causes of Stress
So now we understand what stress is. It’s the sympathetic nervous system reaction towards a certain situation which primes us for activity. It’s the same “flight or flee” response that evolved to meet our prehistoric forefather’s demands for survival. And it is the same nervous system response that readies our body to strenuous activities like… (read 73 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Using Your Body To Strengthen Your Mind
For thousands of years, physical disciplines like yoga, Tai Chi and Sufi Dancing have been said to increase mental and spiritual powers. If this is true, how might one explain this, and even better, how can we use this fact, practically, to enhance our lives as artists, business people, parents, and partners? First, we have to strip away the… (read 72 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Recognizing Stress and How to Deal with it
Stress is one of the most common threats to our health. Several studies have shown that stress leads to heart related health problems more than we expect. Some people can shake off stress just like this, but most of us can't. Our body's response to stress is destructive and the effects can be felt and seen. The immediate response may be of… (read 71 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Refuse to Stress
Stress is too common in most people's lives today. We live in a fast-paced world with many demands on our time. How we react to stress sets the stage for much of our health. Exercise battles stress We have known for a long time that exercise combats stress. Regular exercise gives people better control over stress and this creates a positive cycle.… (read 71 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Tame Your Work Stress
Work stress has become a major problem today. The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. Now more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to your health. Although an estimated 50% of US employers are trying to help their employees with work stress management – doctors still estimate that 9 out of every 10 patient visits are directly… (read 70 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Dealing with Stress: Learning to Ride the Waves of Change
You get your budget all worked out and then gas prices soar and your commuting expenses send you back to the drawing board. A new baby arrives, someone falls ill or dies, and everything changes. You have to change plans, change roles, learn new skills, and devise new routines — but how? There wasn’t enough time to keep up with things as they… (read 70 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Become Stress Free
Now accepted as a legitimate approach to improving health, the psychological and psychiatric professions not only are allowing relaxation techniques to be generally employed but are encouraging their use in hospitals, particularly in relation to stress related disorders. Stimuli, or situations that can trigger states of anxiety, are referred to as… (read 70 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Five Stress Management Strategies That Really Work
Introduction Please try this experiment right now: Google "how to reduce stress" and notice that about half the entries are essays of the form, "Top [number] Ways to Relieve Stress." It sounds like there are a lot of resources for the stressed-out people in our society, but if you look more closely you'll see that most of them are pretty… (read 69 times since Apr 27th 2007)

The Causes Of Stress
This article looks into the causes of stress and gives free tips to help you control and reduce your worries. I have, as I am sure many people do, stressed for most of my life for many different reasons. Even though I still worry about many things, I have now learned how to handle many of these situations and will write about how I go about doing… (read 69 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Do Not Burn Yourself Out: Have a Stress-free Life
It may seem inevitable that operating the command center of a monthly magazine would invite stress. However, many people do not realize that stress is something you can prevent, no matter how intense your occupation or how fast-paced your daily life is. And, every ounce of prevention can help prevent other conditions. In general, working too hard… (read 69 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Managing Stress Could Be Blessing In Disguise!
Life with stress and life without stress-- they are poles apart! Some types of stress are inevitable. Some stresses are those over which you have no control. For, someone else could be the cause of stress. But whatever be the cause or stimulator of negative stress in you, you ought to find a solution for it. You simply cannot ignore it. Mostly,… (read 69 times since Apr 27th 2007)

10 Ways to Reduce Commuting Stress
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… (read 68 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Why You Should Take Control of Your Stress Levels
We all have our own ways of handling things that occur in our daily lives, and we each have our own individual tolerances of what we can handle. No two people deal with stress in the same way, just as one person may seem able to handle anything, while you may fall apart if someone looks at you the wrong way. We cannot change this, it is just the… (read 68 times since Apr 27th 2007)

5 Ways To Stress Relief
Stress has been called 'the plague of our time'. More than ever before stress relief seems to be in great demand and especially for people in stressful jobs or careers. It would be more appropriate to ask which jobs or careers are not stress related and you would probably be able to count the number on one hand. As a self help tool for handling… (read 67 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Talk To Yourself To Reduce Stress And Relax
What is self talk? It is something we all do, when we’re at work, shopping, traveling in the car or by train. But are you aware of the potent power this habit has to raise your level of stress and lower your ability to cope? HELPFUL OR UNHELPFUL THOUGHTS? We create thoughts to help us explain things to ourselves, and making comments to ourselves… (read 66 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Journal Your Stress Away
Writing down our thoughts and feelings, as in keeping a journal or diary, is a proven method to relieve stress and improve well being. The expression achieved through writing in a journal on a regular basis, or during times of high stress, helps to clarify and focus what we are actually feeling and experiencing. Putting down on paper what we are… (read 66 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Managing Stress Through Your Diet
When we think about ‘stress’, we generally think about events outside our control. You know the kind of thing – experts have compiled Top Ten lists of them. These lists vary, but generally ‘death of a spouse or close relative’ is at number 1 with ‘divorce/separation’, ‘serious illness or trauma’ and ‘moving house’ following close behind. The truth… (read 66 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Rid Yourself Of E-Stress
For most of us, E-mail, voice mail, pagers, cell phones and all the technology that is part of everyday life have only lengthened our workdays and given us less time to ourselves. Twenty-five years ago, when you called somebody who wasn't home, the phone rang a lot and that was it. There was no one onus to return your call; it was your… (read 66 times since Apr 27th 2007)

7 Leading Causes of Stress
In 1967, Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe, from the University of Washington, did a study on the connection between significant life events and illness. As part of that study, they compiled a chart of the major causes of stress. That chart, which contained 43 causes of stress in 1967, was updated to 55 causes in 2006. Apparently, society is… (read 65 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Is It All In Your Head?! The Impact of Emotional Stress on Your Physical Body
Back pain can be a finicky beast. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not…other times it seems like it’ll never go away. At some point it’s hard not to wonder if it isn’t really just all in your head! Well…could it be? Could your thoughts and feelings be creating the physical pain you feel? Can emotional pain in the mind project to the body as… (read 64 times since Apr 27th 2007)

5 Stress-Busters: Counteract the Harmful Effects of Stress
Stress — whether it's from the hectic pace of your daily routine or a traumatic life event — can take its toll on your body. Prolonged stress can compromise your immune system, making you more vulnerable to serious illness and infection. If you stress is related to your lifestyle, it might be time to re-evaluate your priorities and… (read 64 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How To Combat Stress
Tips To Ease Tension We all know what it feels like to get emotionally mangled by the weight of day to day struggles. Our bosses yell at us, our spouses yell at us — it feels like an endless circle where getting ahead at the office can leave us with so little energy for home that home turns into battlefield that leaves us with no energy for… (read 63 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Calming The Voice of Stress
But how can this happen to someone? Let’s concentrate on how these illnesses affect the way we value the self. Of all of the destructive patterns of behavior these illnesses cause, the way a sufferer talks to the self is the fuel that maintains their illness. I have experienced depression from two sides. For 5 years, a series of traumatic events… (read 62 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Recognizing Stress and Three Ways to Get Rid of It
Do you realize that you could be feeling stress without even realizing it? It’s true! Many people fail to recognize the signs of stress and mistakenly believe they are handling all of the stressors of life without a problem. Therefore, it is important to be able to recognize the signs of stress and, more importantly, to know how you can relieve… (read 62 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Stressed Out? The Key to Stress is How You Deal With It
Stress is a natural part of life. What you understand by stress though may be quite different from your work colleague, your neighbour or your partner. The same events, the same amount of pressure may inspire one person to get active, creative and move beyond known limits and another person to break down and get ill. In order to successfully deal… (read 62 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Is Your Workplace Suffering from Contagious Stress?
We wonder how many of you might recognise this scenario? Although it happened with a male manager, it could apply to men or women. The manager we worked with had been promoted to a more senior role and was experiencing demands from all sides. He became increasingly tired, was working long hours and spending less time with his family. His overall… (read 62 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Set Yourself Stress-Free
Stress in our personal and professional lives is ever changing and constantly on the rise. Everyday we’re expected to do more and more with less and less — less resources, less energy and less time. In order to master the ability to manage stress, it’s important to first remove one of the biggest obstacles that stands between chaos and calm… (read 61 times since Apr 27th 2007)

No More Stress, Anxiety and Depression
Nowadays especially in the 21st Century, it is predicted that stress related illnesses such as anxiety and depression will become the biggest killers to human being. Despite significant advances in housing, standards of living, quality of food, and medical science, the pressures all of us have to face in today’s world are as demanding as any… (read 61 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Do You Have a Personal Strategy For Avoiding Stress And Failure?
“Are You Underestimating – Stress?” Just ten years ago it was a prevailing scientific principle that the brains you entered this world with, were all you would ever see. Adults lost neurons daily, but it was fine because we had a billion of them in our mental treasury. No one except a researcher at Princeton University believed that the brain… (read 60 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Expert Tips to Take the Stress out of Entertaining
After over twenty-five years of entertaining at home both as a single person and coupled, I have some ways to take the stress out of having people into my home. It's easy in the beginning to focus on food and drink to create the wow factor of having guests over for dinner, but in the end it's the people that make for enjoyable times. I've been to… (read 60 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How To Reduce Stress And Improve Your Life
What can you enhance to decrease stress in your life? Simply enhancing your life will help to reduce stress since problems (stressors) are the main cause of stress. Do you have friends influencing your life? Are these friends positive influences or junkies that create chaos for you? If you friends are good then you are fine, however if your… (read 60 times since Apr 27th 2007)

The Cost of Stress - the Need to Monitor and Manage the Risks!
How much attention is paid to one of the biggest underlying risk factors within an organisation – the effects of stress? Not only are there a lot of potential risks arising from the spread of stress within an organisation, it costs them a great deal of money! Let us start with looking at some hard-nosed numbers (based on the UK.). The CBI estimate… (read 59 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Stress Relief Self Help: Three Quick Stress Busting Tips
Stress relief self help tips help you to remain in your center, balanced and able to create your everyday magic and synchronicity. You get to choose who you are being in each moment. As a result, you’re in the driver’s seat in terms of shifting your thoughts and feelings that comprise your personal energy balance in each moment. Anytime you begin… (read 59 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Laugh Your Stress Away
Everyone faces some kind of stress in the daily routine of life. Maybe you get stuck in a traffic jam on your way to work or your child picked up head lice from another student. Then there's the stress from world events. The news and newspapers are filled with sadness and stories that can be unpleasant to read. It is common knowledge that stress… (read 59 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Three Ways You Aggravate Stress – And How to Find Bliss
In periods of duress, we tend to bunch-or pull together our shoulders in a tense, rigid formation without recognizing it. This leads to painful injury such as a fraught neck nerve or a muscle tremor, which could eventually trigger twinges that radiate down an elbow and even into the fingers. Here’s a speedy exercise for neck and shoulder muscles… (read 59 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Stress; Control It, Change It or Let It Go!
Have you ever tried to control other people? Who gets stressed out? Have you ever tried to control things or events over which you had no control? Do you find that stressful? There are different typed of stressful situations. Some, like people interrupting you all the time, you can control. You can let the interrupters know you are busy and don't… (read 59 times since Apr 27th 2007)

The High Cost of Stress - Is It Worth It?
A recent press report about a young, successful, well-educated young lawyer apparently taking his own life as a result of the stress he felt under due to work pressure really made me think. He was working for one of the leading, "Magic Circle" legal firms in London with a seemingly bright future. He was well paid, compared with normal salary… (read 58 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Is Stress Imaginary?
Sometimes stress strikes when you least expect it. John Torcelli, a veteran of the Gulf War, found himself stressed out on his wedding day. John could hardly wait to get married. He was in love with a beautiful woman. Professionally, he was all set. John enjoyed working as an electronics engineer for well-known corporation. Getting married was… (read 58 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How to Relieve Stress With Mental Toughness
Knowing how to relieve stress at work is more than picking the right stress management techniques — a lot comes down to your mental toughness. Do people tend to push your 'hot buttons', leaving you feeling frustrated and intense? Do the mannerisms of your clients', or their poor communication skills annoy you? Do demanding or abrupt… (read 57 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Take Back Your Life - Biology Of Emotion & A Stress Free Lifestyle
The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the World is single, all thing by a law divine In one another’s being mingle, Why not I? …. P B Shelley Love’s Philosophy Dr Hans Selye developed the Theory of Relaxation (homeostasis in the body and what happens… (read 57 times since Apr 27th 2007)

6 Tips To Reduce Physical Stress
1. Drink Plenty of Water — Water is an essential component of life because every cell of the body uses it. It helps to reduce blood pressure, aids in elimination of waste from the body, balances acids in the body, and carries nutrients into all the body's cells. Water also helps to reduce the risk of colon cancer and cardiovascular disease… (read 56 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Common Symptoms of Stress
Stress is a major problem in the modern world, more than 50% of visits to see a doctor are related to stress in one way or another. One of the main reasons that stress is such a huge problem is that most people ignore it completely, either not noticing the symptoms or living in denial, thinking it'll pass or just wont effect them like it does… (read 56 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Causes of Job Stress and How to Cope
Most jobs come with a certain amount of stress. Even business owners deal with stressful situations. However, many people deal with high stress jobs on a daily basis. The causes of job stress can be caused from several factors. A pushy boss, demanding deadlines, work overload, just to name a few. These scenarios can cause any person's blood to… (read 56 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Job Stress Management Tips
Today’s workplace produces plenty of stress. Life’s little hassles mount up until you say to yourself, “If one more thing goes wrong today, I’ll explode.” Don’t reach for the aspirin bottle, try these stress management tips. Can we eliminate the stressors of modern work life? No. The trick is learning how to manage the stress versus being… (read 56 times since Apr 27th 2007)

The Secret Connection Between Stress, Energy and Happiness
Let me make it plain right from the start that although I recognise that some stress in our lives is actually good for us, the use of that term in this article is intended to cover the harmful, negative kind. Hardly anyone is entirely free from stress, but not everyone is unhappy. Yet we know instinctively that stress brings unhappiness. So what… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Are You Facing Up to Stress in Your Profession?
The phrase about the cobbler’s children being the worst shod sprung to mind when I saw a recent report from LawCare, a Scottish based confidential help service to the legal profession. They have recorded a 70% rise in calls over the last two years! Why does this matter? If these figures are an indicator of what is happening across the UK, then it… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Digestive and Abdominal Symptom Control Program: For Stress Related GI Pains
Many people suffer from a variety of abdominal complaints that are either created or made worse by stress. You may be one of people who can learn to minimize, if not eliminate, your stress related symptoms! Digestive & Abdominal symptoms can be confused with serious, sometimes life threatening physical disorders! Please consult your physician to… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Stressed Out? Relieve Stress by Doing More of These Eight Things
How many people have you met that do not know what it feels like to be stressed? Do you even need two hands to count them on? Since you probably don't need two hands, and since you are probably familiar with stress yourself, here are the top eight things you can do, or do more of, to deal with stress: 1. Go for a run. Or a walk. Or go swimming, or… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)

Combating Stress In Your Life - 8 More Secrets, Part 2
Combating Stress In Your Life – 8 More Secrets, Part 2By Danny Presswood Your air conditioner quits; you get fired; you fail a test; your 13 year old son is arrested for shoplifting; or you find out you have cancer. These are just a few of life’s events that trigger stress, frustration, anxiety, or depression. Medical experts estimate that stress… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)

How Do We Measure Our Stress Levels
Stress is caused by an imbalance between the demands upon an individual and his/her ability to cope with those demands. The demands are perceived as challenges which may arise from either external or internal sources. Individuals have their own personal beliefs that influence their attitudes and actions against such perceived or real threats. In… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)

10 Real Ways to De-Stress
Despite people telling us “To stop and smell the flowers,” we are still over-stressed. We deal with stress in unhealthy ways like overeating or being sleep deprived. Well, there are better ways to de-stress, and they are easier than you may think. The first and most important thing to remember that reduces stress is finding ways to feel more in… (read 55 times since Apr 27th 2007)