Perhaps the most common and simplest form of reducing stress is to take a vacation. Nothing can work better for dealing with stress than to remove yourself completely form the source of it all together. Planning a vacation is the simplest way to do this. If you are trying to decide where you would like to go for your next vacation, you might want to consider an island resort. It can be a difficult choice with so many beautiful and exotic places to go to these days. For example if you've...

It is common for people who suffer from various forms of anxiety to feel that they may experience a loss of control of their body functions, due to their anxiety, when out and about in public. Whilst this may sound almost ridiculous to a more calm, and collected person, these fears can literally take over a person's life for whom fear and anxiety play a substantial part. I would like to point out, however, that more and more often, these are only thoughts rather than facts, where the...

I just finished Daniel Pink's outstanding book =sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277657663&sr=8-1-spell" "A Whole New Mind" . I recommend it to anyone and everyone who plans to succeed in the 'Age of Perception'. It was an eye opener for me and I am sure it will be of immense value to you as well. I will not go into the details of the book, you can find more about it here .

What I AM going to talk about is an exercise that he mentioned in the book which is...

The body's natural relaxation response is a powerful antidote to stress. In order to activate this relaxation response, you may choose to do visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, yoga, and deep breathing. Deep breathing stress reduction is one of the best ways to lower stress in the body. This is because when you breathe deeply it sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax. This prevents the things that happen to you when you are stressed – increased...

Researchers are finding more and more links between stress and illness. Whether it comes from a sudden trauma like the death of a family member, from prolonged emotional strain caused by a divorce, or simply from the day-to-day hassles associated with work, commuting, family and paying the bills, stress can weaken the immune system, cause headaches, irritability, high blood pressure, sleeping disorders and may even play a factor in cancer and heart disease. Experts estimate that from 75...

For the most part, at the beginning of every year we start out with a list of New Year's Resolutions that will help us feel great and lead to some personal accomplishments.   We start out with vigor and perseverance and it slowly phases out in 1-2 months.  Then we are back to where we started with nothing to show for it.   Undoubtedly, finding ways to de-stress is one of those listed items that often goes without resolution and repeatedly gets listed year after...

I think that with fear in general, we need to actually take some time out to analyse and write down our feelings, and the 'things' we think are going to happen to us. I say this, as more often than not, when we take the time to, dare I say, relax, and really look at the root causes of a situation, we find they are not so bad as we might at first think. In addition to this, I have come across a wide variety of people who genuinely think that all things are terrible, and do nothing about...

If you suffer stress from the tedium of boring, repetitive, and meaningless work, then it's time you changed your attitude. Simply by seeing work as adventure, service, ritual, self-expression, and meaningful, you can transform the very nature of the daily grind.

1. Work as Adventure.
Many people might laugh at you if you suggested that a humdrum job could become an adventure. But here are three ways you can turn every day of working life into one of surprise and...

Sadly, stress tension often affects us and cause many problems in our lives. Think of kids, work, responsibilities and school that keep your life too busy at times. This makes you to be exhausted. Are you down because of this?

Stress tension is the main reason for panic attacks and anxiety. It can totally incapacitate your life if you're not in control of it. People who have type-A personality get problems. They are perfectionist in nature. Many things to them seem not to be...

I NEED A DRINK

By

VIKRAM KARVE

One evening a friend of mine landed up at my place and said, "I've had a really hard day at work. I need a drink."

"I'll get you a cup of tea," I said.

"Tea…?" he exclaimed astounded, "haven't you got some whiskey or something…I told you I'm feeling terrible…everything went wrong today…I desperately need a drink…"

"I know you are dying...