Stress Management - How To Avoid The Ruts And Holes Of Life

Have you ever noticed how we keep falling into the same holes and ruts in life? We know something doesn’t work and yet we keep doing the same things over and over again.

Have you ever wondered why we do this? And more importantly, how do we stop doing it, how do we stop “digging”? And how do we get out?

As I’ve studied and searched over the years for ways to help people get the changes they want, quickly, gently and effectively, I’ve stumbled across a poem that seems to capture well the process of change.

Workaholism steals your mind

Let’s take a look at some of the more serious signs and effects of workaholism.

Workaholism is a thief. Here are a few of the things that workaholism can rob from us.

Workaholism steals your mind

You can rarely think about anything else or concentrate on something else beside work. The focus of your mind is on problems and issues at work. You may be good at problem solving on the job, while problems in the rest of your life are ignored and continue to mount.

Stress Management - Sharks And Dolphins At Work

Q. I work in an office with several people, all of whom I get along with quite well. There is one person, however, that really gets my goat. He gladhands everyone, smiles and schmoozes with the boss and acts like everyone’s friend. The problem is this person steals other people’s ideas, talks behind your back and is basically a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I love my job, and I would not leave it for the world. So what do I do? Do I go to the boss and complain, do I rally my co-workers, do I confront this person myself?

Stress Management

3 Key Distinctions

Fight or Flight - The fight or flight response is hard-wired into our nervous system. A long time ago, when the lion jumped out of the bushes, we had a choice: fight the lion or run for all your worth (and then change your loincloth). Today, when the idiot driver cuts us off or the boss yells at you, we have the same reaction, fight or flee. These days we fight by yelling and screaming, or we flee into TV, over-work, addictions, and other forms of “psychic numbness.”

Relaxation Couldn’t Be Simpler

Many people use their sofa and TV to help them ’switch off and relax’. In reality, television programs can suspend you n stress for yours, with depressing or thrilling storylines, violence and madness!

True relaxation is achieved when all tensions and thoughts are eliminated. Inside, you are calm, peaceful, yet alert and focused. You are in control and feel the strength of just ‘being’. The good news is, anyone can do it.

The aim is not to escape from stress momentarily for a ‘breather’, it is to develop the ability to maintain normal breathing and heart rate, so that you can stay calm and in control, in any given situation.

Managing Stress From Another World

Modern stress is habitual, and is something that the vast majority of Americans and Britons succumb to in their material driven lives. Whether mildly or overwhelmingly, stress will cast its powers across most of us at some stage in our lives, often increasingly as we get sucked into a pattern of working and living that gradually strips us of our individuality.

Stress Management - An Owner’s Manual For Your Brain

Here’s an amazing quote from Time magazine:

“At birth a baby’s brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way.”

My first thought was after reading this was “Wow, we get all that power and hardware with no owner’s manual or instruction booklet!”

Having just recently purchased a new computer, I’ve been pouring through owner’s manuals and instruction booklets, trying to understand a tenth of what this machine can do. Just imagine what we could do if we understood a tenth of what our brains could do.

Stress Management - The Power Of Asking For Support

Like most of his friends, my 11 year old son Jonathon is deep into video games, with his particular “drug of choice” being X-Box.

I picked him up from a friend’s birthday party sleepover this weekend, and as soon as we got in the car, he was in tears. When he got calm enough to be understood, he told me that he had beaten all the levels on the newest Star Wars game, and then one of the kids had saved his game by mistake and Jonathon had lost all the “work” he had done.

Stress Management - My Favourite Change Technique

Hypnosis is a term that brings up a variety of images: of people sleepwalking, stage shows with people doing odd things or a man with a thick German accent, saying, “You are getting very sleepy …” Thanks to talk shows, it also brings up fears about repressed memories and painful accusations.

Although all of the above can and does happen, hypnosis, well and ethically used, is in reality simply a way to help people achieve the changes they desire.

It is really a very commonplace phenomenon. We all go into a state of something like hypnosis at least twice a day: when we are waking up and when we are going to sleep.

Stress Management - The High Cost Of Neglect

Not too long ago a got together with some friends for a little full court basketball, which means a lot of running. It did not take long at all for me to notice that my body was just not able to do much of what my brain was telling it to do.

My body was screaming at me that I had neglected it for too long.

Neglect - what a nasty and potentially life changing word.

When applied to our lives, neglect can look like this:

Neglect your health and, at best, you’re out of shape and embarrassed by your appearance, and, at worse, you die.

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