Category: Stress Reduction
Mindfulness: An Ancient Remedy for a Modern Problem
Mindfulness is an ancient technology that has relevance to today’s problem of chronic stress overload. Part of the reason we are chronically stressed is because there is a mismatch between the environments our stress systems evolved within and the challenges of contemporary life (see my previous entry on “Stress is Crucial, So Is Learning to [...]
Know Your “Stress Signatures” and other Tips for Managing Stress
The first principle to handling stress is to know your self. You must be able to monitor your body’s responses to a situation to know when you are becoming stressed and remaining stressed.
The body registers characteristic stress “signatures” such as increased heart rate, sweating, or muscle tension. The exact signatures are individual.
For some people, stress shows up in the body as headache, jaw clenching, or gastrointestinal distress. What are your stress signatures? Noticing when these are happening let’s you know that stress is present. Their presence can also be a reminder to work with the stressful circumstance in a way that can help to reduce the stress.
Stress Is Crucial, So Is Learning To Decrease it
Stress seems to be a dirty word in our culture, something to avoid at all costs, something that needs to be reduced or, even better, eliminated. However, stress is a necessary and vital component of our lives. To get out of bed every morning requires a stress response, albeit a mild one, to get us [...]
Arnie Kozak Joins CtWatchdog As Meditation And Stress Reduction Blogger
Arnie Kozak, Ph.D. a clinical psychologist, meditation instructor, and author, is joining CtWatchdog.com as a blogger. He has published Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness (Wisdom, 2009). He also the founder of the Exquisite Mind in Burlington, Vermont and writes a daily blog entitled Mindfulness Matters: Tools for Living Now! As an [...]
Cheryl Moves On To Her Dream Job At Aetna
How to Find Your Dream Job
Have you lost your job? Are you considering a career change?
Losing your job or living with the fear of losing your job creates stress. So does going to work every day to pay the bills while feeling completely unsatisfied. When we perceive ourselves as being trapped in an unpleasant situation we become plagued with negative thoughts and feelings.
Negative thoughts and feelings decrease our vitality. This makes it even harder to find what we are looking for or attract it into our lives. In this article, I’d like to offer some tips for what you can do while you are looking for a job or considering a career change.
Cheryl’s Stress Tip: Patience
How patient are you? Patience is really a form of wisdom. It involves the ability to sit back and wait for an outcome without feeling anxious, frustrated, or tense. I don’t know about you but this can be a real challenge for me! As humans we need to know how something is going to work [...]
Cheryl Stressless Tip: “Beginner’s Mind”
Living with a ‘Beginner’s Mind’ Reduces Stress
‘Beginner’s Mind’ is the next attitude of mindfulness that I’d like to introduce. It involves seeing everything as though it was for the first time. Living on ‘automatic pilot’ often causes us to take things for granted. When we do this we are unable to be nourished by the positive moments of life.
Cheryl’s Stressless Tip: Acceptance
Over the upcoming weeks I’ll be introducing the seven attitudes of mindfulness. Adopting these attitudes can help us lead a stress-free life.
The first attitude I’d like to introduce is ‘acceptance’.
Cheryl Teaches Us The Basics Of Meditation
Learn to Meditate Meditation is not only good for your health, it is necessary! In this blog I will introduce you to mindfulness meditation so that you can take better care of your body and avoid getting sick. If you are managing an illness, you can do so with more ease. The problem is that [...]
Cheryl’s Stressless Tip: Let Someone Help You
When was the last time you let someone help you? The other day it was raining hard as I was leaving the grocery store. A bagger asked me if I would like to leave my shopping cart with her while I went to get my car. That way I could put the groceries into the [...]
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