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As a volunteer, wouldn’t it be nice to receive a card sometime with a beautifully written volunteer appreciation poem in it? But, how many of us ever have truly great volunteer experiences? One of my wellness categories is called, “RECIPROCAL WELLNESS – OUR GENEROSITY” and the sad truth is ...
Have you read any good books lately on the importance of financial planning? There are plenty of them out there if you are willing to spend a bit of time on Amazon or at the local bookstore. Is financial planning enough, though? Not many people understand the big picture about financial ...
Are you ready for the lifestyle changes you will need to make post peak oil? Can you live without a car or truck or even buses? Huh?!? So, the story goes that as of about 2012, the world’s ability to supply oil will cease to meet the demand for oil. After that point, the cost to bring the oil to market will outclass our ability to pay for it.
What do you know about your stress hormones and how they are produced in the body? We all have a lot of room to move in terms of how much stress we feel at any given time. Are you from the CroMagnon period?
Most people do not truly understand that the key to wellness is effective problem solving. By increasing your knowledge of problem solving strategies, you will be able to solve your wellness challenges, reduce stress and take back control of your health and your life. In doing so, you will ...
The personal philosophy of education, of the members of any society, is not something to be taken lightly. Do you have an opinion about how the public education system should work? Fifteen years ago, I was employed in a public, suburban high school that served grades 8 to 12 and as a result of ...
Many people don’t know there are actually two major stress categories that affect us everyday of our lives.
Have you ever dealt with communication anxiety? You know, that discomfort when you feel all tongue-tied because you don’t know what to say in a given situation. It shows up differently for each person. Some feel embarrassed, some feel hot under the collar, some say it feels like they are ...
If you’ve been told your headaches are from stress, you need another opinion, soon. The reality is, any symptoms, seemingly related to stress need more investigation. Stress headaches usually result from chronic stress, but this diagnosis is not correct a good portion of the time. Dr. David Posen (The Little Book of Stress Relief, 2003), diagnoses chronic stress with a checklist. Items queried include clenching of the jaw, teeth grinding, sore, tight muscles, and dizziness and, of course, headaches.
EFT Tapping or Emotional Freedom Techniques is not just the newest kid on the block as far as really amazing stress management techniques is conce ed, it's much more than that. EFT can help you manage your stress and it can help you eliminate stress from your life forever. Just about every negative emotion or physical ailment that you have ever experienced can be addressed with EFT. The really amazing thing is that it's not that complicated. In fact, it could very well be one of the easiest stress solutions ever discovered and it is very cheap to access.
Emotional eating is a hoax. North America is obese because of sugar addiction, NOT emotional eating. Why is this so? This is so because because sugar is more addictive than cocaine or heroin. If you can get off refined white sugar, you can get back control of your health and your life. It's that simple. Do you think emotional eating is the reason why you are mildly overweight or fully obese? Lots of people, who try to function in today's stressed out world, believe they eat in response to stress.
Life is full of risks! If you are a worry wart, then learning how to stop worrying is simply a matter of gaining a better understanding of risk management. Effective risk management is usually thought of as a business skill, but it can be used just as effectively in your personal life. Risk management and the skills involved with learning how to stop worrying go hand in hand. Just like in business, personal risk management involves six basic steps. First you take the time to plan for risks. Then you identify what those risks may be.
Do you know how stress is destroying your life and what to do about it? You’ve all heard of stress but most people think of stress as the emotional kind and are not aware of another kind of stress – oxidative stress. Let's talk about emotional stress first. Hans Selye is known as the father of stress.
Have you ever thought about the type of problem solver that you are? If you haven't, now is probably a good time to think about it. In today's day and age, problems are more complicated than they have ever been before. Ever since the start of the information age and the knowledge economy, the world seems to be working overtime creating the most complex problems ever imaginable. It's not enough to have world hunger anymore. Oh no!
Do you suffer from serious repressed anger and other repressed emotions? Most people don't remember the first three years of life and so are not aware if those years were spent building up a store of repressed anger and other repressed emotions. Dr.
In psychology texts, social withdrawal is identified as a dysfunctional behavior. There are many conditions and diseases, which could be identified, if a patient exhibits the symptom called social withdrawal. One of the most obvious conditions, of course, is high stress levels.
Most people who describe stress use four basic terms – acute, chronic, eustress and distress. I found that these terms, alone, fell short of truly being able to help us understand stress. The reason for this is that not all stress is bad and some stress is even desirable. Leaving the description at these four simple terms left me with a very unbalanced sense of stress. To solve this problem, I have outlined the different types of stress into four quadrants. Try to imagine a box with four equal squares.
Stop spiking your blood sugar! You have been on a blood sugar roller coaster for far too long. You eat a high sugar meal, which spikes your blood sugar and for a short time, you become hyper-glycemic (high blood sugar). Then you come down off this high and your body drops into a low blood sugar range called hypo-glycemia. When this happens, your brain freaks out and starts to panic because it needs glucose (sugar) to function and so it starts screaming at you to eat more sugar. When this happens, you feel terrible and it has nothing to do with emotional eating.