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Dieting Your Way to Stress Management
You may notice that you reach for the potato chips when a
television program becomes particularly frightening. Or you grab
the crackers at work when you learn that you'll have to handle a
new project. You may also nibble on candy bars when...
Help for Adult ADD: Learn to Delegate
Adults with ADD are not "wired" for details. We're creatives, entrepreneurs, inventors, idea generators, and big picture thinkers. When an adult with ADD is confronted with too many details to tend to, overwhelm quickly sets in. This is not a...
Pineapples: The Healing Fruit of the Tropics (includes a recipe for Pina-Banana Orange Smoothie)
Pineapples: The Healing Fruit of the Tropics (includes a recipe for Pina-Banana Orange Smoothie) By Monique N. Gilbert, B.Sc. http://www.MoniqueNGilbert.com For a natural and tasty way to improve your health and boost your healing...
Stress Management: Find Your Own Relief!
Would you believe that one of the biggest contributors to your
state of health is how stress free your home environment is?
Those who live in stressful conditions in home or at work are
much more likely to have accidents or become ill when...
Three Things You Can Do NOW To Reduce Stress
Are any of these scenes familiar?
...The kids woke up late again this morning. By the time you get them to school and fight rush hour traffic, you'll be 20 minutes late for the meeting you're supposed to lead...
...When you were first hired, you...
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Choose a Stressless Lifestyle!
Choose a stressless lifestyle? That's very easy to say.
Yet it is so important. Our health should be our # 1 priority.
We all know that, and still we keep hearing about yet another
work mate who is now on the sick-list for several weeks to come.
The book stores are filled with books on stress management.
But, should we manage stress or reduce it? Stress and burnout
are two very common signs of a lifestyle that needs to be
changed. The changes must take place on three levels:
1. Our society
2. Our place of work
3. Our personal life
The third level, our private life, is the one that we can change
most easily. But we must also make efforts to bring about
changes on our job/school and keep claiming that society
takes its responsibility for our health. Of course, there are
no easy solutions.
Back to our question: Should we manage or reduce stress?
Personally I do not like the word "manage". It doesn't have
a good ring to it. To me, manage sounds like trying to handle
a situation by working very hard. I close my eyes and see this
tired out woman carrying heavy shopping bags up the stairs.
"I'll manage", she says as her heart pounds heavily.
I don't
want to be that woman. And maybe that is not at all what the
stress experts mean when they use the word "manage". But,
still, I prefer the word "reduce".
On the personal level we can do a lot to reduce stress. There is
also stress that cannot be totally reduced. Then we need to learn
how to manage it. But watch out, because your boss might
prefer that you manage when you could reduce! It has become
a virtue to manage stress in our modern society. Don't try to
be the perfect employee, the perfect partner or the perfect
parent. When you can reduce, don't manage. Start with reducing
the unnecessary stress, then learn to manage the necessary in
a way that is good for your general health.
About the Author
Ingela Berger started her own Internet business
Lifestyle Plans
in 2003 to inspire others to make
reality of their dreams of a healthy and fulfilling
lifestyle. Ingela has studied theatre directing, history of art,
and leadership psychology. After some years working with art exhibitions and the theatre she is now back at school
to become a health and lifestyle consultant.
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