If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time thinking about the things causing stress in your life –money problems, career problems, family problems, relationship problems and more. If you are like most people you also spend a lot of time [...]
For most people, the holiday season is a time of reflection, tradition, and joy. For some, the holiday season brings ever rising levels of panic, stress and even depression. Since we are all experiencing very similar situations – visits from family, additional financial strain, traffic, [...]
Sleep is essential for a person’s health and well-being, according to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). Yet millions of people do not get enough sleep and many suffer from lack of sleep. For example, surveys conducted by the NSF (1999-2004) reveal that at least 40 [...]
Everyone feels “stress,” but few people know what it actually is. We are told that stress is bad for us, that we should manage it, reduce it, and avoid it as much as possible. Yet for all this, stress is both a natural part of [...]
Stress appears to be part of almost everyone’s busy, 21st Century lives: all of us today, it seems, are stretched, worn thin, over-committed, and worried about something. From one perspective, it does indeed seem as though our lives have gotten more complicated, that threats and [...]
In many places today we hear of “stress and anxiety;” two terms often linked, used interchangeably, and virtually, in everyday language, meaning the same thing. But the truth is that they are not the same, and not everyone experiencing one also suffers from the other. [...]
Nature has taught us many lessons and it continues to do so. Nature deals with stress by decreasing high pressure to low pressure. This phenomenon can be observed in some of nature’s most impressive forces like volcanic eruptions and disastrous hurricanes, down to those at the microscopic level like cellular [...]
Everyone has felt anger, both their own and that of another person; and it isn’t pleasant no matter which side of it you are on. But what is anger; and what place should it have in our lives? Put most simply, anger is a basic human emotion related to [...]
