Why be stressed when you don't have to? We all feel stressed from time to time, but the important thing is to know how to manage stress in a healthy manner to minimize its impact. Here are 7 quick, effective, and simple stress management tips:

Take breaks– It's easy to start feeling stressed in the endless daily grind. Take some time off from the activities that cause you stress and do something completely unrelated. For example, if you are feeling stressed at work,...

Just post the dog bite incident, I came home and cleaned the bleeding wound with antiseptic and cotton.

The blood wasn't stopping. I was actually getting worried now.

My phone rang and I saw my school friend calling. I talked to him. He asked me something. Then was chatting over and asked if I could meet him.

I checked with family. They said look at your condition, better call him home. I narrated him the incident. I said I better drop in...

In this day and age, many people are stressed. Whether as a result of work, family, or other factors, the majority of people admit to having stress at some point or another. A great way to help release built up stress, is to take some personal time and just relax. I have found that using my hammock as a stress re-leaving tool, has really helped. When I feel like I'm at the point where I need to just relax, I take my hammock out back and just lay down and take deap breaths.I have been...

Newt Gingrich said, "relax and accept that life is just a challenge." He was very candid in sharing that several of his now successful friends did not hit it out of the park the first, fifth or even sixth go round. Sometimes you go down five or six blind alleys.

He also admonished us not to waste our energy worrying. He summed it all up by saying never quit.

My Life Application

I attended a weekend seminar where the presenter gave a fresh...

Why, exactly, do you get mental depression and experience sorrows in your life? These two things are so common in our society today that they have lost their serious meaning. There are so many things around you and as you get engaged in them, you find yourself in problems. Yes, problems come to be part of your life.

Problems breed sadness and if you are not able to control them, then you end up being very unhappy without hopes for the future. Depression is a state of mental...

Imagery promotes powerful changes in your life, such as being happier or more assertive, creating more abundance, better relationships, or physical healing. Imagery is imagining, feeling, seeing, or describing something you would like to create. Imagery creates a new map for you to follow that in turn produces results on the outside.  When you practice a new reality in your own mind using imagery, you are telling your subconscious mind clearly about what you want, so you are...

The endless stream of worries that enter your head is one of the most challenging things I know that comes with anxiety.  You just want to find ways to stop worrying now so you can get on with your life because oftentimes it can become overwhelming.

These are tips that can assist you in ending your obsessive thoughts and stop you from worrying now:

First, write down everything that you are worried about in a journal or a piece of paper.Write down everything...

Our lifestyles dictate what level of stress we have. Some people are able to cope well with stress, while other people are not so lucky. They tend to pent up their emotions to a point where something in the body breaks. It can be a nervous breakdown or in the form of anxiety attacks. It can also be fatal in some by bringing on heart attacks. One antidote to stress is relaxation breathing exercises.

When practiced on a regular basis, this technique can lead to a reduction in...

If you're one of the ones who bottle up your stress, it's important that you know how it's really affecting you when you drive.  You're not doing yourself any favors tucking it neatly away to be dealt with at a more convenient time.

Men and women with this type of problem handling stress ignore the signs of what stress is doing to them.  They pretend like everything's okay and don't connect the fact that their backache, headaches, and driving phobia are a result...

When people think of anxiety, they often think of certain situations. While they realize that there are certain situations that can cause anxiety, like flying or public speaking, people tend to forget that anxiety can also happen while driving. Many people think that driving anxiety is easy to overcome, but there are many who have trouble getting into a car, driving, or traveling long distances outside of their comfort zone. They become anxious, and begin to have trouble with anxiety or...