Category: Success Strategies
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.
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 [...]
Kevin Core Training: Metal Bars To Build Your Shoulders And Core
Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 24th training video, this time using a metal bars to strengthen your core and shoulders. Kevin’s “student” in his video is David Fuentes, site director of Healthtrax in East Longmeadow. And of course Bella is Dave’s three-year-old bulldog who only comes to work on special days. The heavy breathing is [...]
Obesity? The Problem Starts In the Mind For Many
Fascinating new studies are giving us better insight about the growing obesity problem, with part of blame going to our minds, where pictures can be the real culprit. Today’s Wall Street Journal article by Melinda Beck focuses on reports from researchers that the pictures our minds form when thinking, seeing or talking about food is [...]
Women Biking For Few Minutes A Day Results In Weight Loss
“Biking for as little as five minutes a day can help women minimize weight gain as they enter middle age, especially if they’re overweight to begin with, a new study suggests,” CNN reported today.
CNN said a study “study followed more than 18,000 premenopausal women between the ages of 25 and 42 for 16 years. During that time, the women gained an average of about 20.5 pounds.”
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’.
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