By Aila Accad
The Mind is a wonderful tool for observation, conceptualization and in short, thinking. When the tool becomes the Master, stress is inevitable.
Like a computer, your Mind holds lots of data. It also has a program to organize that data. Each mind programs the input it receives through unique perceptions and interpretations developed in […]
By L. John Mason
Have you ever experienced any stress? Is the world more stressful now than it was 20 years ago? Have you ever experience physical or emotional symptoms that are made worse as a response to stress? Do you believe that the best solution to stress is getting drunk or taking drugs?
I ask these […]
By Lee Heather
I thought I was just shy for years and years, no really I did. I never thought that feeling uncomfortable in new social situations was any more than that I would get tense and start to feel agitated every time I had to meet new people. Later on when I got married, yes […]
By Angelina Dufrain
Webster’s defines stress as: “to put pressure or strain on.” The medical profession claims that “stress” is the number one cause of all office visits. Its effects are related to every ailment imaginable; from heart attacks, to high blood pressure, to anxiety, to even murder and suicide. The idea of avoiding stress altogether […]
By Kathy Atkinson
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.” Carrie Ten Bloom
Think about a time when you played the worst-case scenario over and over in your mind. Your spouse or child is late coming home. You worry that they may be in a ditch, in the hospital, or, […]
By Carol Wiley
To understand the effects of stress on your body, you need to understand the fight or flight response. Historically, humans faced many challenges from nature, for example, lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!), not to mention other unfriendly humans. In those situations, a person had two choices: run or fight.
Nature designed the […]
By Terry Weber
Note: This is what Pat Flora told me (Terry Weber) about what she has gone through and what she has learned. I promised Pat I would help her tell her story to others, so,please read on:
“I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right […]
By Trisha Har
If you think stress only happens to professionals who work indecent hours, think again. Stress is in fact part and parcel of everyone’s response to the increasingly fast pace of daily life in this century. A daily routine can be as ordinary as getting the kids ready for school, taking Dad for his […]
By Krystal Kuehn
Did you ever have so much to do that you didn’t know where to begin? So you just stared at what appeared to be a mountain before you, and you felt totally overwhelmed. Trying to take on too much at once can make you feel like you can’t handle any of it. It […]
