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5 Top Tips To Boost Your Spirits

By Cheryl ⋅ December 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

1. Take a relaxing bath. Add music, candles and a glass of your favourite drink: beer, tea, hot chocolate, wine or even champagne. Close the door and forget about everything else for an hour or so. This helps to increase levels of calmness and the calmer we feel, the less likely we are to get [...]

Stress Management

By Cheryl ⋅ December 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Have you ever said the words, “This job/my life is so stressful!” Or something else along those lines?
Most people believe that stress is something that happens in their lives. They believe it is the result of outside circumstances beyond their control. We are stressed if our work is too difficult. We get stressed when [...]

Stress & Self Esteem: Raising One by Lowering the Other

By Cheryl ⋅ December 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

In our article about Exercise & Stress, we looked at the way these two factors form a self-reinforcing cycle that can work for us. With stress and self-esteem, however, the relationship is negative ? both in the technical sense of the words (i.e. as one increases, the other decreases, and vice versa), and in its [...]

Discover The Wisdom of Letting Go

By Cheryl ⋅ December 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

When a great Zen Master returned to his country after many years of studying abroad the people asked what he brought with him. He said, "I’ve come with nothing but empty hands."
What are these empty hands? What value are they of us today? Usually our own hands are full, filled with tasks, problems and possessions [...]

Stress Managment and Mastery: 7 Ways to Take Yourself Off Restriction

By Cheryl ⋅ December 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Q. So many times in my life, I seem to hold myself back from what I want to do. I make great plans and have great intentions, but then end up holding myself back in some way. Do you have any suggestions for changing this?
A. When you were a kid, did you ever do something [...]

Aromatherapy Candles Release Stress

By Cheryl ⋅ December 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Have you been feeling so stressful and almost losing your patience over anything? Everything seems to be shattered and you think that you cannot handle it anymore. This is definitely the perfect time to lighten the burden! Aromatherapy is a great conclusion. Some scented aromatherapy candles will help you out! What are aromatherapy candles anyway? [...]

Stress Elimination

By Cheryl ⋅ December 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Learning methods of stress elimination is a vital skill in the modern world. After all, there is no way to get away from stress these days, thanks to work, life, family, the economy, the state of the world, global warming, and an overabundance of people who are reminding you constantly about all of these. [...]

Secrets to Aromatherapy II – Psychological Complaints

By Cheryl ⋅ December 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Aromatherapy is very therapeutic when it comes to healingemotional and psychological conditions. This is because theessential oils from plants contain all kinds of compounds,phytoestrogens and phytochemicals that have the ability tosubtly alter brain chemistry for the better.
Given the stressful demands of today’s busy schedules,anxiety is a very common problem. There are scores ofessential oils that [...]

Put the 80/20 Rule to Work for Your Life!

By Cheryl ⋅ December 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Perhaps you’ve heard of the 80/20 rule, but don’t know where it came from or how it was adapted. Please allow me to give a bit of background on the 80/20 rule before I jump into the way you can put it to work for you.
In 1906, Italian economist Wilfredo Pareto came up with a [...]

Coping with Stress

By Cheryl ⋅ December 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Everyone experiences stress at some point in their life. In fact, stress is a natural part of life.
Your ability to identify stress, manage it, cope with it and reduce it where possible can have a dramatic impact on your life and on the lives of those around you. How well you do these things will [...]

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