Category: Stress Reduction
Cheryl’s Tip For Less Stress: Giving Feedback
This is the last of my February blog articles, which have focused on having a healthy heart more from the emotional perspective. Emotional wellness has to do with being skillful in our communications to create positive relationships.
Have you been in a situation recently where you needed to give feedback or offer constructive criticism to someone?
This [...]
Cheryl’s Tip: How To Be “Well” With Small Steps
What does “wellness” mean to you?
We hear the word frequently, yet I wonder if we understand its meaning on a personal level.
How do you make these connections in your daily life?
Some say wellness is merely “the absence of disease.” Others are focused on prevention, taking measures to varying degrees in order to adopt a healthful [...]
Real Health Care Reform: We Could Save Hundreds Of Billions With Common Sense Changes
To me, the most powerful and easy to understand part of the health care debate this week came last night on the Larry King show, not during the eight-hour historic televised debate between the president and Republicans – which was mostly theater for the feeble minded.
Two doctors – both prominent politicians from both parties – [...]
Cheryl’s Tips For Stress-Free Living: Giving Feedback
This is the last of my February blog articles which have focused on having a healthy heart more from the emotional perspective. Emotional wellness has to do with being skillful in our communications to create positive relationships.
Have you been in a situation recently where you needed to give feedback or offer constructive criticism to someone?
This is [...]
The Future Of Massage? Clothing On & $25 An Hour, Idea Borrowed From China
There’s a new business spreading quickly around California, and I’d bet it will hit the rest of the country soon: the $25 hour-long massage.
The sign on the local branch of Foot Massage in Santa Cruz offers a $25 foot massage, with head, back, neck, shoulders and legs thrown in for free. There are others now in [...]
Cheryl Learning And Teaching Being A Good Listener
One of the goals I have is to become a better listener. My own perception is that I am a good listener, however my daughter has recently told me otherwise.
Do you consider yourself to be a good listener?
Do you ever get impatient while other people are talking? I do. Sometimes I feel impatience and sometimes it’s [...]
February: Healthy Heart Month
February offers us two special days that focus on the heart. Valentine’s Day is centered on loving relationships and romance…our emotional health. Go Red for Women raises awareness of cardiovascular disease and stroke…our physical health.
What does having a healthy heart mean to you?
We’ve all been educated about what it takes to have a healthy heart from a physical perspective. We know that we need to engage in regular cardiovascular exercise and we need to stay away from fatty foods.
What we haven’t heard much about is how to create a healthy heart from an emotional perspective. So the theme of my February articles will be communication. The intention is to help you to improve your relationships
New Year’s Resolutions: Time To Check In With Yourself
How is it going with your New Year’s resolutions, intentions and goals?
At this point you’ve been making an effort to establish healthy new behaviors for about a month, which makes this a good time to check in with yourself.
If you are meeting your goal then your new behavior is becoming a habit. You may be ready [...]
Cheryl’s Tips: How To Stay In Balance
I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about heard enough about ‘balance’. It seems to be the buzz word these days.
All I can picture is the plate spinner from the Ed Sullivan Show. I know I’m dating myself now!
I imagine each of the demands of my daily life to be a plate spinning on the top of the stick. And I’m the one in charge of running from stick to stick swirling them to keep the plates from crashing down around me. I’m stressed just thinking about this! Sound familiar?
Make Your OWN Choices
Do you move through your day on automatic pilot unaware of the choices you are making?
We all do this to varying degrees. It isn’t possible to be ‘awake’ every minute of the day. When we are unaware that we are choosing, we have a general sense that life is happening to us. We feel as [...]
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