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Nightmares - the kind that wake us with our heart beating wildly and our whole body tensed and ready to do battle with the baddies or run away - are often experienced as very frightening and worrisome.

Many want to forget their bad dreams as soon as possible. They don’t realize these could be missed opportunities for enrichment in their lives. Analyzing dreams is a potent method not only for managing stress but for our personal development.

We may ask ourselves:

Did I see or hear something bad that is coming back to haunt me?

Is my dream warning me about someone who is out to get me?

Did I eat something spoiled for dinner?

Or could there be something more that I am not getting here?

The truth is, any or all of these and many more possibilities may be true. Dreams are imagery and storyline salads that our deeper self puts up on the screen of our awareness during the night. When we sleep, our conscious mind is resting. This allows our unconscious mind the space to chew on and digest whatever issues we have swallowed but have not yet sorted out during the day.

The ingredients in this salad may include

- Residues of experiences from the day

- Memory associations with those experiences that are sitting in the same file drawer of brain

- Feelings similar to those experiences

- resonating like taut guitar strings to a similar note from recent events

- Sounds our unconscious mind notes while we sleep

- Worries and fears about the future

There are countless books for interpreting dreams. These may give us some general ideas about our own nightmares, but only we ourselves can say what our particular dreams mean. This is because we have concocted this imagery salad out of the unique ingredients of our individual, personal lives.

Example

From ‘Kate,’ a 35 year-old, single parent MBA:

“I once woke in a sweat, having dreamed I was driving a car with a steering wheel I could no longer turn.”

The first step in befriending our nightmares is to write down every detail and nuance we can recall, omitting no pixel of pictures, no nuance of feeling, or soundbyte of words, or intonations exchanged by the characters on that inner stage.

“As I started to write, more details emerged. Not only was I approaching a curve, but there was a big truck approaching in the opposite lane. I kept fighting the wheel that wouldn’t turn, terrified as my car crossed the yellow line just in front of the truck. I wanted to scream but no words would come out of my mouth. I woke just before impact.”

Next, we can scan our memories for what might have been a leftover from recent days’ experiences that was dropped into the salad.

“I felt I was being driven by my financial needs to continue on a career path that I was unhappy to pursue. The atmosphere at the factory was terrible because I was being asked to do jobs that weren’t mine, due to several recent staff resignations. I was forced to stay late, compromising my duties as a mom to two young girls. I was having a hard time finding another job I wanted, and worried I could not hold up (might crash) under the stresses.”

Examining patterns from the past that might be similar, Kate realized:

“My father was forced into bankruptcy, due to a poor choice in business partners, when I was in my late teens. This severely disrupted our family and delayed my plans for going to university until I could pay my own way. I felt totally out of control when this happened.”

Sorting out the meanings of the dream, one can explore alternatives that one might have overlooked in the dream and why these blind spots might exist.

“I came to see I had struggled with the steering wheel but never thought of stepping on the brakes. The dream actually helped me understand that when stressed, I often felt panicky and out of control - when actually there often were choices I could make that would be under my control.”

The nightmare can then suggest new ways we might approach our life situations.

“I came to see that I could take a stand for myself and put on the brakes at work. I was lucky that the division manager was an understanding single mom herself and she supported me when I requested shifts in my duties.”

Kate also found ways she could deal with the heavy feelings of hurt, anger and resentment she carried from her father’s bankruptcy.

In short, if we don’t run away from our nightmares or push them back into the fog of unknowing in our unconscious mind, they can be a rich feast for understanding ourselves better and for discovering creative ways to improve our lives.

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If you’re under stress, you know it. You’re anxious, irritable and tense. Or perhaps you’re suffering from physical symptoms - anything from acid reflux to constant headaches. You can eliminate stress, and find relief.

Just follow the simple process in this article, and you’ll find stress relief within a few minutes.

1. What Demands Are You Making?

Start by thinking of the demands you make of yourself.

Stress starts in your mind. Our lives are so complicated. People make demands on us, which causes us stress, and we make demands on ourselves too. The demands we make on ourselves can be completely unreasonable.

Think about what you’re asking of yourself. Look at your To Do list. Are those demands reasonable? Would you make the same demands of someone else?

Some demands we make on ourselves are so deeply ingrained that we don’t even know we’re making them. They come from our culture. Think about some of these demands you may be making:

* Do you feel you need to be perfect - to lose weight, look fantastic, and have a perfect family?

* Do you feel that you must everything everyone else has - the latest gadget, a big house, a pool…?

Many of these cultural demands we make of ourselves are dangerous, because we don’t realize we’re making them. If you never challenge any of these demands, they’ll cause unlimited stress.

2. Could You Change Those Demands to Preferences?

Make a list of the demands you know you’re making of yourself.

Yes, write them down. Once you see what you’ve written:

“I must lose weight. I must have the latest fashions. I must have a new hair style. My kids must behave perfectly… My spouse must… My friends must…”

Writing down your demands helps you to see how unreasonable they ALL are.

Now you’ve written down your demands (our demands are endless, so you should have a long list), decide that you will change your demands to preferences.

You can change any demand to a preference. For example, if you’re overweight, you may prefer to lose weight. If you’re in debt, you may prefer to be debt-free.

Or not. Preferences give you choices, and when you have choices, you’re free to choose - this releases stress.

Once you change a demand to a preference, it stops causing you stress. You may want to lose weight, but it’s a preference, in the same way you prefer vanilla ice cream to strawberry.

3. The Bubble Technique for Floating Your Problems Away

Every day you’re face with problems. Some are solvable, and you go ahead and fix them. Other challenges are not fixable, not right now - indeed, if they involve other people, they won’t ever be fixable, because you can’t change others.

When you’re faced with a problem, here’s an easy way to float your cares away.

See the problem, whatever it is, enclosed in a pink (or blue - or any color) bubble. The bubble is light, lighter than a balloon, and as you watch, the bubble floats away…

Watch the bubble, enclosing your problem, floating away, up into the sky… see it floating far away.

This “bubble” visualization technique is useful for any and every problem you encounter. Using it will give you instant stress relief.

The above processes are guaranteed to bring you stress relief; use them every day.

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Rest for Less Stress

To reduce stress, often you simply need to rest.

You need to let the body, mind and emotions rest. It’s not much good putting your body in bed for the night if your mind won’t turn off. And it can be miserable trying to rest if you are emotionally exhausted or out of balance.

Distractions are Stressful

I’m finding that the older I get, the more easily I’m distracted by whatever passes in front of my eyes. If I’m cooking and see my computer, I dash over to clear a few emails, or write a few lines. If I’m making the bed, I interrupt myself to put away clothing. If I’m at my university office creating a presentation, I’ll remember another project and get up to find the items for my next task.

Mentally, if I am imagining a desired outcome, I get distracted and don’t always complete my inner process. I am often aware of a dozen micro-changes in my emotional climate in an hour, depending on how my thoughts trigger my feelings! All this hodge-podge of thought, feeling and action is distracting and stressful, not restful.

What’s the Solution?

For me, turning off my mind helps my body and my emotions. And turning off my mind requires focusing on something other than my unruly thoughts! (Believe you me, even after more than thirty years of personal and spiritual growth work, I still have negative thoughts passing through.)

To manage stress, I invite you to find ways to turn off your thoughts, if only for a few moments. You could find such stress relief through meditating, chanting, toning, repeating or writing an affirmation many times, praying, dancing, working out, walking, running, yoga, laughing, or many other similar activities. Have plenty of self-compassion as you play with various strategies.

Mental Level

When you focus gently but consistently on something like a meditative sound or words, you are directing your mind past the stressful, conflicting distractions.

Physical Level

When you engage fully in physical activity, you are paying more attention to the physical here and now experience and the mental chatter fades away or aligns with your action. Stress melts away.

Emotional Level

When you “go with” your emotional state (for instance, allowing yourself to laugh or cry whole-heartedly), you release conflicting energies and allow the mind as well as emotions to reach a resting place. Stress lifts and you feel inner peace and freedom.

So try turning off your mind for a few minutes to create the rest — physical, emotional and mental — that will reduce your stress levels today. Experiment until you find the tools that work best for you.

Meanwhile, for more stress reduction tips grounded in self-compassion, I invite you to sign up for my free newsletter, 17 Simple Stress Solutions, at http://www.powerofpersonalpeace.com/optin.htm

Dr. Ilenya Marrin is a personal peace consultant, inspirational speaker and author of ebooks The Power of Personal Peace: Reducing Stress by Loving Yourself from the Inside Out and 77 Loving Steps for Success.

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Which Sort Are You Today?

“Sorting yourself out” is a phrase I picked up when I lived in England many years ago, when it generally referred to engaging in psychotherapy.

Re-Ordering Your Inner Environment

Now I think of “sorting myself out” simply as re-ordering or restructuring my inner environment. How can you restructure your inner environment for less stress?

Take a Positive Inventory

First, get out a notepad and pencil and take a positive self-inventory, using lots of appreciation and self-compassion as you engage with yourself! Here are some questions to get you started.

What is working best in your life? What brings you joy, health, well-being and love? What brings you prosperity and abundance? What allows you to share with and uplift others? What helps to create stability or a firm foundation in your life? What enables your relationships or career to run smoothly?

How Am I Doing That?

As you identify the parts of your life that are working best, ask yourself, “How am I doing that?” What skills, abilities, talents, strategies do I use to bring success? How can I transfer those skills over to an area I want to improve? How can I expand on talents or enhance my strong points?

How Did You Stay Calm and Stress Free?

Now specifically think of examples when you were really pleased with how you managed to stay calm, peaceful and balanced. When were you able to walk through stressful situations with minimal stress? How did you do that? Which of your success skills were you using to reduce, eliminate or avoid stress?

Take Heart-Centered Action

By now you should have substantial list of your unique life success and stress management tools. Probably one or two will jump out at you, indicating where you can create a new self-architecture, a new interior design for inner peace and stress relief.

Go ahead and take action according to your heart-centered understanding. Explore how this next step works for you and adjust as needed. Be the designer of your own stress-reduction plan for life.

To help with your sorting out process, I invite you to enjoy more stress reduction tips based on self-compassion, by signing up for my free newsletter, 17 Simple Stress Solutions, at http://www.powerofpersonalpeace.com/optin.htm

Check out my articles on success, less stress, and my Ask Dr. Ilenya advice column at my blog, http://lovingyoursuccess.blogspot.com

Dr. Ilenya Marrin is a personal peace consultant, inspirational speaker and author of ebooks The Power of Personal Peace: Reducing Stress by Loving Yourself from the Inside Out and 77 Loving Steps for Success.

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If you are leading a busy and modern lifestyle, you may feel some stress. There is no way to avoid stress completely, but natural remedy can treat your body better whenever you are under a lot of stress.

Stress can make you sleepless and feel overloaded. When you don’t sleep properly your immune system will be weak or low. You have to learn to cope with stress naturally with positive attitude. Vitamins and supplements are helpful in making your body and mind strong enough to fight against stress and depression. You should take proper diet for adequate supply of nutrients in the body.

Drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes are bad for stress. Some people used to smoke or drink in stress to cure it. But the truth is that alcohol and smoking takes away the nutrients from the body. It can cause more stress and affect your health badly.

Siberian ginseng or lemon balm is very effective natural remedy for stress. It soothes the complete nervous system and decrease stress levels very quickly.

Vitamin C is also good for stress control. Vitamin C has an antioxidant and it also strengthens the immune system. It resists stress related diseases such as headache, colds and fever.

Aromatherapy is the best natural remedy for stress. Aromatherapy massage involves breathing in the scents of pleasantly scented oils and natural herbs. The pleasing smells can actually reduce or eradicate stress level.

Calcium helps to control heart’s beat. More calcium is required in the body to fight with stress. Dairy products, almonds, broccoli are good natural sources for calcium. It is very easy and safe natural remedies for stress.

Salmon, flaxseed oil herring, mackerel, tuna and walnuts are full of omega-3 fatty acids, which will manage your stress level and reduce the risk of developing coronary heart disease.

The most important thing is to know how to deal with stress naturally. Stress can make your heartbeat faster. If you are in stress you can feel drowsy and weird. When people are in trouble they feel stress. The natural remedies for stress discussed in this article will help you come out from stress or reduce it without the fear of any side effect.

Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provide health advice and is for general information only. Always seek the insights of a qualified health professional before embarking on any health program.

Nick Mutt writes on natural health and has published many ebooks on herbal treatments and home remedies. He is one of the popular authors on natural health topics. To get relief from stress read more Home remedies for stress at Natural Cures guide - a health guide to make you and your family live better, fit and healthy.

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Three-ringed binders, sharpened pencils, shiny lunch boxes, cool book bags … classroom memories. For some, those recollections include dismal memories of feeling stupid.

I recall learning - or rather, struggling to learn - how to do long division. I stood at the blackboard praying that the solution to the problem would miraculously spell itself out in the chalk dust. The problem in front of me was “49 divided by 7.” I kept mumbling the question that the teacher had posed: “How many times does 7 go into 49?” But this didn’t help, because the question itself made no sense to me. The very language defeated me. What does it mean to say that one number goes into another number?

Over time I learned to arrive at the correct answers to such problems but only years later, when I encountered “new math” as an adult, did I realize that it wasn’t my stupidity that prevented me from understanding long division. The new math approach clarified mathematics for me, revealed to me its perfect logic. At age 26, I understood for the first time how a variety of mathematical processes were related to one another. I thought: “If only I had been taught this way as a child, it would have made sense to me; it would have been easy; I would have liked it.” Instead, I felt stupid.

Children are so vulnerable to feeling stupid. There is, after all, so much that children don’t yet know. Once I watched young children engrossed in decorating pumpkins for Halloween. There was a festive atmosphere as little hands mixed paint colors and dabbed the pumpkins. Then a mother near me exclaimed in a tone of disgust: “Black! Why are you painting it black?” The room became quiet in response to her shrill voice, but she didn’t seem to notice, and she went on relentlessly, ending her tirade with “Black’s not a Halloween color!” Several of us looked up in surprise. She realized her mistake, and tried to recoup, muttering, “Well, black is a Halloween color, but I don’t know why you’d want to paint your pumpkin black! Look at all the pretty colors here, why don’t you use green or red or blue?” The child she was addressing couldn’t have been more than three years old, too young to defend herself, even in her own mind, against her mother’s judgment that she had done something unbelievably stupid.

It’s hard to imagine a child growing up totally unscathed by criticism. Most of us will endure feelings of being stupid as the result of our struggles to learn something new, our failures in areas where we aren’t especially gifted, our siblings’ teasing when we have blundered. As an adult, I discovered new math and realized that this approach would have transformed the learning of mathematics for me. But as a child, I would never have attributed the difficulty I had to a poor instructional approach. Neither would I have speculated that some of my difficulties were probably just a natural part of the learning process, just part of being human. Instead, I saw my bewilderment as another sign that maybe I was “just stupid.”

One of our blind spots is a basic fact about ourselves that many of us lose sight of, the fact that we are only human. No one can know everything; there is no one to whom every skill and area of knowledge comes easily; learning is a process that takes time and patience. One of the stories that I recount in Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things is the story of a young boy who is helping a painter prime a wall. Watching him, his older brother sneers and says “You’re doing a terrible job!” The younger child doesn’t miss a beat. He simply says “Of course I am. It’s my first time. I’m just learning.”

In the midst of struggling to prove that I was smart, I achieved a PhD, became a college professor, and set perfection as my standard. Talking with a friend about the burden of making perfection my goal, I remarked “But if I’m only human…” She interrupted and reminded me, “Madeleine, there’s no ‘but’ there.” In an attempt to defend our self-images as intelligent people, some of us forget that there is no “but” there. We are only human.

As children go off to school each morning, let’s hope that more of us, more of the time, can remember that we are only human, and adopt the matter-of-fact acceptance of our own humanity that the younger brother showed. The less we have to defend ourselves against feelings of stupidity, the more we might re-discover the joys of ignorance - that is, the absorption and exhilaration of learning something, of exploring an unknown world.

Madeleine Van Hecke, PhD is the author of Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things (Prometheus Books, Inc., 2007). She offers workshops and seminars on reducing negativity in the workplace, improving communication, handling stress, and encouraging innovative thinking. For other free articles, including “What to Do When Other People’s Blind Spots Are Driving YOU Crazy,” visit http://www.overcomeblindspots.com

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Now-a-days many people suffer from excessive stress due to hectic and modern lifestyle. In excessive stress, the body tends to break down or feeling drowsy and tired. Person with stress easily get irritated, exhausted and even get sick. Some people used to take drug to reduce their stress, but it gives relief for short time. This may have some side effects which can be harmful for your health.

An easy and safe way is to use home remedies for stress. These home remedies are natural and designed to be effective in the long run without any side effects.

Chamomile, lavender, marjoram, frankincense, peppermint, tangerine, rosemary and sandalwood aromatherapy are very beneficial and effective home remedies for stress.

Walking, jogging, swimming, yoga or aerobics exercises are one of the most effective remedies for stress. Daily 20-30 minutes exercise session helps you in relaxing the body. It decreases anxiety and strengthens the immune system.

Potatoes, cantaloupe, strawberries, raw cabbage and citrus fruits are very beneficial in combating stress. These are the easiest and safe home remedies for stress. These are full of antioxidant which is very good for reducing stress. This also strengthens your immune system.

A complete body massage is one of the best home remedies for stress. Stress can cause headaches and body pain. A good body massage can relax the muscles and improve blood circulation in the body. This will give tremendous relief in body pain and stress.

Head massage can soothe the nerves and gives relief from stress and headaches. Hot bath after massage can cleanse the skin and head that will relax the muscles and reduce the stress.

Magnesium helps a lot to manage your stress level. Green vegetables like spinach, almonds and seeds are the best source of magnesium. It also helps in muscle spasms.

All these remedies are very effective and safe in stress relief. If you are not able to take proper diet during stress, consider taking the above home remedies for stress in the form of alternative supplements. It is better to try these home remedies for stress to get relief from stress and anxiety before rush to your doctor for a medical treatment. Home remedies are not only effective but also free from side effects.

Disclaimer: This article is not meant to provide health advice and is for general information only. Always seek the insights of a qualified health professional before embarking on any health program.

Nick Mutt writes on natural health and has published many ebooks on herbal treatments and home remedies. He is one of the popular authors on natural health topics. To get relief from stress read more Home remedies for stress at Natural Cures guide - a health guide to make you and your family live better, fit and healthy.

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Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary defines Stress as a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation; a state of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium. Stress is something that everyone experiences at some time or another. Be it on the job, sitting in traffic, or just having an argument with one’s significant other, some stress is unavoidable. However, if stress is allowed to affect your life on an ongoing basis, it can become a chronic condition that can lead to many health problems - even death.

The long-term effects of chronic stress can be physical, behavioral and even psychological. Physical symptoms experienced when encountering too much stress are hair falling out, headaches, upset stomach, tension in the neck, back or other body parts. For example, let’s say you work on a job that is constantly understaffed. There are always unreasonable deadlines. Your boss constantly threatens you with these deadlines and tells you that if the work is not completed by such and such a date, they will have to let you go. You have a car payment, house payment and 2.5 kids. What will you do if you lose your job? You replay that over and over again in your head. You get a headache. Your neck tightens. Shortly after, your stomach begins to ache. Does this sound familiar?

I once worked in a department where I was lied on and talked about. Everyone was afraid to confront the person spreading the discord within the department. It was a highly stressful situation. I was bringing my anxiety home with me and dreading coming to work the next day. I finally decided that enough was enough and I was going to look for another job. This stress was not worth it. Rather than have it control me. I was taking control of the situation and removing myself from it. Well, thank God that during my process of searching for another job, the sower of discord was let go from the company.

Some behavioral symptoms of stress are an increase in irritability, a decrease in work productivity and even impulsive behavior (Can someone say Shopping as a form of therapy?)

Psychological symptoms of stress can be depression and anxiety. For example, let’s revisit the understaffed job that always has you on unreasonable time constraints. You feel undervalued and begin to feel, “What’s the point?” Depression sets in. You don’t even feel like going to work anymore. Maybe you should run away? All sorts of thoughts flood your mind.

While the example in this writing may appear extreme, there are many people experiencing this sort of constant stress every day. I don’t have the time or space to list other avenues of where stress can potentially generate (ex: Sexual harassment on a job, teen on drugs). However, stress should never be taken for granted. To reiterate, while some stress is normal, chronic, unresolved stress can be a serious health problem that can lead to conditions that can even cause death. Prolonged exposure to stress can result in high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke.

There are various methods of dealing with stress. You can ignore it (this is not really dealing with it all). You can enroll in a stress management program. You can purchase stress relief products to help promote your relaxation. You can choose to cast all of your cares on God because He cares for you 1 Peter 5:7. KJV

Rather you choose one or all of the above, do whatever you do to relieve the stress in your life. Don’t ignore it. Handle, it. Manage it. Eliminate the source of it.

Care for You because there’s Only One You!

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Suffering from anxiety or panic attacks these days is not uncommon. The world is just full of stress and difficulties. Suffering from a panic attack can just add to the unbearable load. Here are some tips for panic attacks.

When you feel that a panic attacks is going to begin, try the hyperventilation method. Now this little tip is not for everybody, so make sure you are physically able. Here is the rundown of how it works. Chug a glass of cold water, sprint for 30 seconds, sing a song, or laugh. All these things can cause you to loose your breath, taking your mind off of your anxiety.

Tip number two is to confidently tell yourself to slow down or calm down. Affirmations are a great way to subconsciously cure your panic attacks. Try self talk even when you are not experiencing a panic attack.

Try keeping a personal journal of your fears. Write your fears down and then ask yourself logical questions about them. Write these answers down so you can see why there is no need to be afraid. Review and update this panic attack journal every day.

The best tip for panic attacks is to breathe. Breathing exercises are one of the most effective methods to end a panic attack. I am sure you have heard this around every corner, but that is because it truly works. Don’t over evaluate its simplicity.

Combine breathing exercises and techniques with verbal affirmations and you will see your success rate double. The more tips for panic attacks that you know and can use the better off you will be.

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Do you feel as if you are being stalked by a grizzly bear? Is your system always on high alert? Do you experience headaches, body aches, digestive distress, anxiety, or sleeplessness? The common culprit behind these symptoms could be… STRESS!

What are the stressors in your life? Do you have neck or low back pain from lifting and transporting patients? Do you feel pulled in different directions, trying to meet the needs of your patients and their doctors? Are you trying to get more done in less time? “Stress” has become such a common household word that we use it to describe everything from the rush of the morning commute to the hours of homework our children complete after their mandatory club soccer practices.

Stress is harmful because stress imbalances every hormone system in your body. To achieve optimum health and an ideal body composition, you must focus on regular stress management. When you experience a stressor, there are three phases to your response:
1) the stressful event,
2) your inner appraisal of it, and
3) your body’s reaction.
The stress response is difficult to handle because once it begins, the mind has no control over it. Sitting in traffic or being criticized at work can trigger a stress response ‘the “fight-or-flight” reaction ‘ that has no hope of being physically carried out, thus dissipating the hormones that create the body’s call to action.

Although you may not be able to control the stressful event — or your body’s reaction to it — your inner appraisal of it, the link between the event and your reaction, is up to you. The totally personal way in which you filter all events determines how stressful they are. Everyone has a different level of stress tolerance. What seems to create the greatest perceived threat in any given situation are these three factors: 1) lack of predictability, 2) lack of control, 3) lack of outlets for frustration.

5 Strategies to Manage Stress

1. Receive some bodywork. Massage therapy or chiropractic sessions can reduce the muscular and skeletal stress that result from tense, overwrought muscles. Caring for the physical body helps reset the emotional self as well.

2. Develop a practice of breath work. Breathing seems such a natural event; we often don’t realize when our breath has become shallow and limited. When we breathe fully and deeply, expanding the air into the bottom of our lungs, we receive the full benefit of oxygenating our brain and body. Our brain is 2% of our body’s weight and uses 20% of our body’s oxygen! Lack of oxygen increases feelings of helplessness, fatigue, and uneasiness. Full, deep breaths help balance the nervous system.

3. Meditate. Make time once or twice a day to turn within and commune with the still small voice that is the “you” inside your physical body. Even if it is only for five minutes, turning your attention within can help reset your thoughts and feelings and refresh your perspective.

4. Exercise. Move your body! Walking, biking, swimming or dancing all get the blood moving, carrying fresh oxygen to all parts of your brain and body. The “fight or flight” response shared by humans and animals is extremely helpful when you are faced with physical danger, like that grizzly bear in the first paragraph. If the problem can be solved by “fighting,” taking action to scare the bear away, or by “flight,” running away so fast the bear can’t harm you, the solution itself dissipates the stress and bodily functions return to normal. When stress is caused by a problem, situation, or condition that can’t be solved through such a response, the impact extends for a longer period. Exercise helps dissipate the hormones that accumulate in the body when it is stressed.

5. Be here now. Keep your thoughts focused on the present moment. It is really all that you have. Fretting about past events or worrying about what may happen in the future both sap your ability to enjoy where you are right now. Reviewing the past and planning for the future are two abilities of higher reasoning that humans have that differentiate us from other mammals. Don’t let circumstances take over your opportunity to see the gift that this moment brings you-that’s why it’s called the “present!”

Our bodies are wired for health and vitality, not for illness and disease. Health is how our bodies function, not how they feel. Health comes from the inside out. And, importantly, the choices we make play a part in our health and well-being. For more information on health and wellness, stress management, weight loss, and releasing emotional blocks that may be sabotaging your health, go to my links below

Dr. Michael B. Roth has been a holistic chiropractor for 23 years. His goal is to transform the health care system from crisis/reactive care to a wellness model of health. Dr. Roth is a dynamic speaker on health and wellness who can motivate and transform your audience and you to bring your own health and well-being to a new level! Learn more about Dr. Roth’s programs by visiting his websites, http://www.rothwellnesscenter.com or http://www.drmichaelroth.com.

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