Pain is one of the less enjoyable facets of life. We all have dealt with it at some points in our lives, and it is very likely that most of us have not seen the last of it. It is usually a disturbing experience, the degree of mental discomfort being directly proportional to the degree of pain. However, the effect on your psyche will be minimal if you are familiar with the expansive peace inherent in you. This article explains the mechanics of the phenomenon.

To align with the...

If you're a shift worker then you would know that shift work and stress certainly goes hand in hand with one another. Just getting up at 3am to go into work is stressful enough! So as a fellow shift worker and having just returned from a financial education conference in Sydney recently, I heard one of the guest speakers announce something that absolutely shocked me to the core.

And that was thatAustralianow has the highest household debt to disposable income ratio in the...

Mindfulness is that quality of conscious awareness of whatever arises in our present experience in which there is an attitude ofengaged-presence.

Mindfulness is both very simple and very profound, and to really benefit from its remarkable powers you have to approach the subject with a complete openness of mind and heart – but, of course, that is what mindfulness, orsatiin the Pali Sanskrit dialect in which the Buddha's teachings were first recorded over...

Severe anxiety has the power to produce a number of negative mental and physical symptoms that can range from moderate to extreme.  If you've ever experienced shortness of breath, heart palpatations, trembling, dizziness, nausea, or all of the above you may be suffering from severe anxiety.  The same would apply if you've ever felt like you were going to die or felt as though you were losing control of your life.

If left untreated, anxiety and panic can escalate and...

Does this sound familiar?  You just had a heavy lunch and you feel sleepy and lethargic.  Well then, take a short nap, even if its just for 10 minutes.  Midday naps have long been recommended as beneficial both for the mind and body.  It improves your memory, makes you learn better,  lowers blood pressure and brings down the risk of heart attack.

Amazingly, researchers have discovered  that snoozing long enough will permit your memory banks to...

Anger is a relative sensation. It is not the stuff that happens to you that produces anger as much it is how you respond to these things. How you reply to unpleasant things depends on how you see the world. What follows is several methods of viewing the world that are likely to create frustration:

1. Viewing the world from a cycnical perspective.

Do you wake up every day ready for horrible things to take place? Do you get out of bed thinking that beneficial stuff can't...

Women these day's seem to have it all-  a family, a career, money. We are driven, we have achieved great things and great things have been accomplished. We have burned our bra's and we have fought long and hard for women's rights. But has the pendulum swung too far?

Do we really want it all?

The issue is often when we keep going, running ourselves into the ground until we reach empty. And that is when our health starts to decline. We might stop cooking the...

"With smart food choices and exercise, learn how to use meditation to create a well balanced life."

Managing stress through meditation is increasing in popularity. Since stress is a part of our daily life, it must be carefully handled. In every decision we make, stress has something to do with it. Every aspect of our life has a relation to stress be it physical or emotional. So stress isn't bad altogether. It is a matter of how we react to it. Those who can handle stress...

How to treat panic attacks naturallyis a question that thousand of sufferers of Panic Attacks tend to ask on public forums and to their friends and relative. Panic attack episodes are horrible and a person suffering from these can easily understand what this means. As these attacks can occur anytime without any warning and hence are more disturbing. Panic attacks may lead to a very serious situation if not treated as soon as possible because a sufferer finds himself unable to cope with...

Living with stress and anxiety can be exhausting.  It can take over your life to the point where you have no energy, suffer from illness, have a lack of concentration and end up feeling very alone.  There are lots of different methods of dealing with anxiety.  I have personally found binaural beats to be one of the quickest and most effective aids in combating stress and feeling like a more well balanced and positive individual.

I decided a long time ago that...