Stress - Stress and Parents, Teenage Dilemmas

Contemporary society presents many circumstances that can encourage stress for teens. One of the chief potential stressors is often found right at home: parents.

That's not to say parents cause teen stress. Even teens are self-responsible individuals, within the realm of actions open to them. And that's the key to some of the sources of teen stress. They are sometimes given too much freedom, in other areas too...

1. Psycho educational programme
Objectives – to know more about stress
To learn more about what is stress, source, sign and symptoms of stress, impact of stress on health, performance and well-being.
Training involves usually lecture, may include psychometric measures and relaxation.

2. Stress inoculation training (SIT)
Objectives – build resilience and tolerance
SIT focuses multiple coping responses to resolve current problems as well as...

Are you looking for the ways to help avoid panic attacks? If the answer is yes, then you have landed in the right place. Panic attacks are avoidable if the proper planning is carried out. Your first panic attack should be a learning curve that can help you avoid panic attacks in the coming future.

A panic attack is an unexpected onset of extreme anxiety followed by fearful anticipation. This is accompanied by dizziness, a rapid heartbeat, nausea, shortness of breath, a...

The real problems with stress arise when you don't do anything at all. Some people are not aware they are at risk for problems such as heart attack and stroke. Stress is so common and strikes so slowly that few people are aware of any danger till its too late. A little statistic might make this a little clearer; webmd.com estimates that 75% to 95% of all doctors' visits are stress related!

In other words, if you have symptoms of stress, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood...

I was watching a couple of episodes of "Fawlty Towers" last night and was struck as always by John Cleese's ability to portray extreme frustration in a really funny manner. Everyone these days seems to have a shorter fuse than in the past. Is this because we are less controlled or because the way in which we live our lives inevitably leads to more frustration, more anger and more swearing?

I wrote an article a few years ago about the number of people who do "Basil...

If you're an anxious person you experience a strong reaction to things in your environment that may be a threat, which results in you having a larger stress response then someone else. As an anxious person you will find it difficult to tolerate uncertainty about the future and things that may go wrong. This may be about world  events - for example, terrorist attacks or plane crashes - or matters relating to your relationship or your health. For example: "What if he doesn't...

Have you ever contemplated “If only I could change him a little…”?

Has anyone ever tried to “mold” you into a different person?

Have you felt frustrated trying to fit into your job?

It could be that you’re just not playing the right cards.

First of all, it’s important to accept that you can’t change a person’s basic characteristics.  Behaviors can evolve over time, but you’ll always be the same...

The first step in breaking the stress cycle (stress – exhaustion – more stress) is to try and adjust your lifestyle, making it simpler and less complicated. Take time off or make sure that your time off is really "time off". Meditation is an excellent tool for combating stress and anxiety. Secondly become more knowledgeable about your body and get to know your adrenals!

Stress adaptogens in the form of herbal supplements can play a large role in supporting...

Did you ever wish that there were a nice, easy way to control your stress? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some way that you could relax your neck and shoulders, relieve your headache, and get rid of that knot in your stomach? Well, there is a way to take care of all these things and you have full control of it twenty-four hours a day. All you need to do is focus on your breath.

Let me explain why breathing is the key to stress relief. Quite a bit of research has been...

Negative self talk and the inner dialogue that is continuously present in our mind is the basis and expression of the reality we are creating. We need to suspend this inner talk to reach a state of awareness and to connect with our inner center of knowing and being.

In Mandala Coloring the focus is on the coloring and our inner dialogue is suspended. When this occurs there can be self discovery and an opening or ourselves to healing and creativity. The suspension of...