Stress Anxiety Relief Tips
December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There are a list of elements that trigger off the anxiety attacks. Therefore in order to develop the quick anxiety relief a lot would depends upon those factors.
Among the factors that set off the anxiety attacks is the direct interaction with the root of the stress. As for this circumstance the only method to relief the anxiety attack is to get rid of the source of the stress.
While the other factor of the anxiety attack may develop from the underlying phobia. The best way to get relief from anxiety attack in this situation is to seek help from the professional therapist.
Some of the times you can also get an anxiety attacks without whatsoever obvious causes. This could be pretty tough to handle. We are going to be talking about this case and how you could get relief from such anxiety attack that happen with no known reasons.
Step number one is to relax.
I recognize this is challenging to do, because you would not develop anxiety attacks in the first place if you could relax. Nonetheless you could do it whenever you calm down and instruct your psyche to relax.
Normally before you get an anxiety attacks, you would feel uncomfortable and there are some signs and symptoms that I have discussed in other articles on my websites. At this point make yourself physically relax. Loosen up your shirt and tie if you have one. Do whatever you can just to make yourself relax.
Find yourself a place to sit down but do not lie down, hold your hand straight over some back up. Breathe slowly and deeply. Relieve yourself when you take a breath out
At this point clear up your mind from whatever thought around you. Reassure yourself that you are in a quiet situations precisely like you are leaning on a couch in your living room. Your body will block off sending any sign that provoke the anxiety to the adrenals.
Step number two is to clear off any negative thought.
To successfully relieve yourself from the anxiety attacks, you have to clear up up your psyche of any harmful thought at all. You have to talk to yourself and continue assuring yourself that this is impermanent and it will be over shortly.
Get in command, be convinced and tell yourself that you know how to cope with this situation and you are not at risk. It is very crucial to send these positive messages to your mind. It will assist you to relax and cut down the level of stress and anxiety.
Finally you have accept your condition.
If you admit the condition that what you are going through is just a repeating panic or anxiety attack, so it will be easier for you to adopt a better cares in the future.
If your mind has accepted the fact that this is an anxiety attacks, then you can design a strategy on how to manage yourself when you get attack the next time.
Once you have the strategy on how to alleviate yourself from the anxiety attack should it occur again next time. You might also find that you could minimize the circumstance that would set off the attack.
Besides any strategy that you have prepared, don’t leave the professional advice from your doctor or some other professionals in the field.
De-Stress for the Holiday
December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Each year, Christmas arrives on December 25th, and yet, it tends to “sneak” up on some of us as if we had no clue about the actual date of the holiday. In November, I begin to verbally remind myself “Christmas is coming. Christmas is coming.” Plus, I implement the following five tips of preparation to help me embrace the holiday instead of dismaying over its arrival.
1. As early as possible (preferably November) make time to clean your home and tuck away your life clutter, because Christmas brings its own bag of extras such as wrapping paper, baking, and maybe even Uncle Abner and Aunt Thelma for a five day stay. In December, none of the regular household duties and errands stop-the dust mites still need corralling, the kiddos still have piano practice and homework. 2. Plan December meals ahead by marking them on a calendar page. Scale back for everyday meals and keep them as simple and inexpensive as possible. If you can, have the ingredients in your pantry and freezer at the beginning of the month. This will save time and money and extra trips to the supermarket and being enticed to spend more. Those Christmas carols are funneled into the stores for a reason, and it’s not totally “goodwill toward men.” If I hear carols in July, I at least want to mop my floors with Pine-Sol. 3. Display in your home a symbol of why you celebrate Christmas. On her dining table, my mother placed a red Bible opened to Luke chapter 2, as part of the holiday centerpiece, a reminder of why our family cherished the season. Gentle prompts can help us focus on others and not so much on our long to-do lists. 4. As early in December as possible, gather your immediate family and list your holiday traditions, and then take a family poll. Find out which ones are favorites. Do any customs get shoulder shrugs? Consider dropping those and simplifying your December. Is there a stickler among you who has to have Aunt Margaret’s plum pudding? If so, enlist their help in hunting down suet and cheesecloth. 5. Relax. Relax. Relax. Don’t set your expectations too high. Things will and can go wrong. Holiday trees will topple, souffls will fall. Those happenings don’t ruin a holiday-they can make memories or they can cause attitudes to plunge south. Choose to laugh at those minor incidents. Laughter can grant more warmth to the holidays than perfect tinsel and trimmings.
My co-authors and I give several calming down tips in our book A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts. Here’s a sampling:
In your home, designate a chair for a resting place and dub it “Santa’s Chair.” Tie a huge red bow on it and announce to your family that whoever needs a rest or just ten minutes of peace, they are to sit in the chair. The rest of the family is to respect this short respite and leave them alone for those 10 minutes. Parents, this can give you a brief rest or your children an oasis of refreshment. It can be a sanity saver.
Another tip we share in the book is called “Silent Night Hour.” Families are in need of quiet and silence. You may need to start out with 10 minutes of silence and work up to an hour of quiet time. During this prescribed time, family members are to turn off all electronics and not answer the phone (preferably turn off the ringer/s). They can read, do homework or work on any low-noise project. No silent text messaging either-try to eliminate incoming disturbances and see if this time of silence offers an invitation for peace and calm to descend and settle lives. Even preschoolers like to play this “quiet game.”
Cathy Messecar is co-author of A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts ~ Stories to Warm Your Heart and Tips to Simplify Your Holiday and author of The Stained Glass Pickup. Visit Cathy at www.cathymessecar.com For other December holiday tips visit http://scrapbookofchristmasfirsts.blogspot.com/ or www.christmas-scrapbook.info
8 Minutes To Peace Of Mind And Ultimate Health Forever
December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
What precisely is meditation? It appears that so many folks nowadays are practicing this form of process. By definition, meditation is oftentimes used to identify the individual’s state of acute attention upon a object of awareness or view. The person tries to turn his or her attention within. Meditation follows ancient Vedic Hinduism roots. This is normally practiced in the eastern faiths but nowadays even the western civilization is active in such natural process.
The reasons people want to practice meditation is so that they can focus their mind to God for their personal development, to attain peace of mind, and to be healthier.
Many Americans are now involved in some form of meditation. According to Time Magazine there is one meditation practice that can be used by almost anyone. This can be considered as the basic primer of Americans wanting to begin meditation but have no idea where to start.
There was a book published in 2005 authored by Victor Davich that’s all about the eight minute meditation. If you buy the book and examine it carefully, you will ascertain a lot of things about meditation, and you can have it all in 8 minutes of your time.
Almost everyone who begins anything new to him or her will often have doubts, desires, and questions about it. There are some people who hope that when they first meditate, they’ll be instantly enlightened. Or perhaps you are one of those individuals who thinks that meditation is just like a workout or diet that you have been forced to do. Any of these things are rather normal; so do not be alarmed if you too are like that.
The best thing you can do is to face every positive and/or negative expectation, and afterward, forget about it and begin with a clean slate. If you would like to try the 8-minute program of meditation, it would be wise to go about it one minute at a time.
While a lot of people think that meditation is an easy practice, you’d be wise to think twice. You might not observe it, but your mind is forever racing from here to there. You find it hard to concentrate. According to the author, you need to watch your breath. This is the very initiative to meditation. Do your breathing in and out by using your diaphragm. If you always breathe this way and continue practicing, you can become adept in meditation.
As a word of reminder, if you catch yourself thinking about other things, or in other words your mind strays off, focus again on your breathing. After all, meditation is all about concentrating and if you realize that you’re not on the right track, you can always return to that state of mind gently. Don’t get discouraged easily and just keep on practicing. There is a popular saying that says practice makes perfect; so always keep that in mind. If you quit easily, then you will remain a quitter.
Meditation can help you in achieving peace of mind. With all your problems at work, in your family, and the entire world, you should at least experience a few minutes of peace.
Don’t miss this chance to attain personal development at no cost of time at all.
Top 10 List Of Do’s And Don’ts During An Anxiety Attacks
December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Most of us came across an anxiety attacks at one time or another in our life. Strangely enough we didn’t even know that we were under anxiety attacks. What are the do’s and don’ts when we are under attacks?
1) Please calm yourself since you are not dying.
Unnecessary fear will make your anxiety even worse. So under this circumstances, calm yourself down and tell yourself that you are going to be fine when the attack is over.
2) You are not suppose to breathe from the chest. Under this condition your breath should come from the abdomen.
Even under normal circumstances, chest breathing would means that you are in fear. Chest breathing could lead to increase in dizziness and numbness during anxiety attacks.
3) Please keep negative thought out of your mind.
Your anxiety attack will get worse if you keep telling yourself negatively such as I am going to faint soon or I won’t be able to breathe.
4) Think positively and talk positively to yourself.
Keep telling yourself that you are going to get through this soon. Anxiety attacks is indeed temporary. By thinking positively the whole experience is easy.
5) Help from health care professionals are always there for you.
Your own family doctors, counselors, psychologist, psychiatrist and mental health professionals should be able to advise you on how to cope with anxiety attacks.
6) Share your problems with the loved one and with people whom you can trust.
Getting your problems out of your chest would relieve half of your burden. People who are close to you could provide comfort and help to alleviate your problems.
7) Stick to the medication schedule that was prescribed to you by your doctor. Get your medication on time and follow the routine that was advised by your health care professionals.
Don’t feel hopeless
Be energetic. Charge up your confidence level. Take a challenge to tackle the anxiety problem that you have. Remember as the saying goes, nothing to fear but the fear itself.
9) Good news, you are not alone.
There are many support groups that are available in your area that you may not aware of. They are people that are facing the same challenge as you. Join them and be an active participant so that you could benefit from their resources.
10) Continue the learning process. Knowledge is power.
There are abundant of learning materials that you can benefit from. Countless to say from printed materials such as books and magazines to electronic materials such as CD’s and DVD’s
Reduce Your Stress with Massage Chair Treatments
December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It seems that in these modern times that stress is just part of the landscape. We seem to be under more pressure whether at home or a work. The major shift of stress seems to be from physical stress to mental stress. Our fore fathers were in much more under stress from physical dangers. We on the other hand, seem to be under much more mental stress. We react to both mental or physical stress in much the same way: the fight or flight reaction. Our source of stress has certainly changed, but not our reaction to it.
This reaction to stress causes the body to kick itself into high gear. Our heart rate is increased, the major organs shut down all but the most basic functions and adrenaline is pumped out to boost our energy. There is a major redirection of chemical reactions in the body to get it immediately ready for action. However, with many of the stresses we encounter there is no physical release to all this redirection of energy. This can be problematic since many toxin are the by product of these chemical reactions and these stay in the body.
Stress comes from so many different situations, that we are not able to eliminate its causes. Rather we need effective stress management techniques. Professional athletes are able to redirect the build up of stress into ways to enhance their performance. This is a very positive way to deal with the build up of stress. The only downside for most of us, is where professional athletes have a physical release of the stress from their bodies with physical exertion, but we may not.
Effective stress management requires a physical outlet to release the chemicals that the body is releasing when under stress. Physical exertion is one of the best methods, since that is what the body is primed to do. Another excellent method to release stress is massage therapy. There are many benefits with massage therapy. It is great to loosen up tight muscles and relieve tension. It can relax the organs in the body activated by the stress reaction. It will release toxins that are in our muscles and help to flush them out of our system. And best of all it helps us relax our mind and bring harmony back to the body.
Massage chair recliners have many effective massage therapies with proven beneficial effects. Massage chairs come equipped with Shiatsu massage, Swedish massage, Deep Tissue and many others. Each of these massage treatments target specific areas and have different benefits. In general, they all help induce relaxation and help to ease aches and pains. Massage helps to remove toxins from the body and enhances circulation of the blood and lymph. Both the blood and lymph clean the body of toxins and other potentially harmful substances.
Massage cannot eliminate the causes of stress. Stress comes in many forms and individuals all respond differently to them. However, massage therapy can be an essential tool in stress management. Especially massage chairs which offer unprecedented convenience and availability. These massage chairs offer full body massage capability. They can massage from head to toe. Many advanced massage chairs have stretching capabilities to elongate and relax the lower body. They also may have built in music players which help take your mind off the mental stresses impacting you.
Imagine the convenience of having your own massage chair recliner at home. You start to come under stress situations. You can just sit down and let the massage chair work you over. Your body starts to feel better and your mind starts to clear. You now are in a better frame of mind to come up with better ways to overcome the problems at hand. You now have a powerful stress management tool, your massage chair recliner at your disposal.