If you were to decide to go on a diet, you may decide as a first step to stop eating that delicious double fudge cake that you enjoy so much. An excellent decision for the goal you wish to achieve. However, you now have to resist the thought of that delicious double fudge cake. Resisting it will keep the cake on your mind. A problem.
Why would resisting a desire keep it on your mind? Here's an illustration to make this clear.
The following 2 methods are simple yet very effective in managing stress. Here the power of your imagination is utilized to give you the skills to
1 Decrease or remove general stress and anxiety
2 Provide you support in blocking stress
Anxiety as an object
This technique is very easy to do. First pick a situation that makes you feel a little anxious.
Stress is something that affects the mind and the body. In a sense proving that the mind and body are intimately related. Many studies have shown a correlation between stress and physical illness in everything from weight to heart conditions to headaches and even insomnia
Next do this experiment created by Win Wenger PhD, to establish the connection between mind-body for your own experience and understanding.
Your thoughts direct your emotional Energy. In other words what you think about will create how you feel .
I was traveling from Queens to Staten Island (here in New York City) on a hot rainy day. The subway tracks in Manhattan had flooded so the trains were barely running. Here I was standing in an extremely hot and humid underground station, sweating so much I thought I would melt.
Stress is one of the biggest relationship killers. We all experience stress in our daily lives, but when it starts to become the focus of our relationship then it can be very harmful. Many relationships end due to stress related things. Money is a good example. People stress over money which leads to fighting and eventually it can tear up a relationship.
It used to be called "mid-life crisis" - and haven't all of us joked about it - a turmoil and discomfort that literally turns life upside down.
Nowadays this syndrome is being recognized as "work place burnout" and it is becoming more widespread and is affecting men and women alike throughout the entire workforce. Work place burnout has been pinned as the main cause of reduced morale and absenteeism.
In order for us to change the things that we are unhappy with in our lives we have to change the way that we think. If we never change the way that we think we will continue to get the same results in our lives. In order for us to see changes in our lives we have to face our worst enemy and that is FEAR (really ourselves)
About 90% of people live their lives in fear and never become the person that they dream of becoming.
Stress is not so bad. You can easily take control right away, with a simple daily regimen.
1. Wake Up:
Energize the start of your day with a massage in the shower.
For those who start their day with the ritual of a morning massage under the shower, there is a more than likely chance of seeing it through with a spring in their step and a healthier future.
Experts agree that one best way to manage stress is through exercise. Exercise has been proven to relax the body and mind, burn fat, improve cardiovascular system, bring in more oxygen, reduce the chance of diseases, lower blood pressure and the list goes on.
Best of all it even releases chemicals in the body called Endorphins that relax, re-energize and just make you feel darn good.
Did you know that massage has been used as a therapy to ease human aches and pains and create relaxation for thousands of years. The instinct to rub and stroke muscles that are tense and tired has been refined and studied so that massage therapy performed by a professionally trained practitioner can promote health and well being, relieve stress and help heal injured areas of your body.
By Abbas Abedi
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