Is Stress Affecting Your Health?

October 7, 2008

“Eat healthily, exercise and get enough rest”
Sound familiar? This is the common prescription given over the nightly news when faced with the topic of ‘stress’. In the last week I have heard this sound bite time and time again.
If you are like me the first question is HOW?
How do I focus on these [...]

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Go to Creacon! NOW :)

July 15, 2008

If you have heard about or read ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ and said ‘wow I wish I could do that!’ You can! And you don’t have to leave for a year, or sell your possessions to do it.
In May, I traveled to Prema Agni Creacon Lodge Healing Center in New Ross Ireland. I arrived with [...]

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Creating New Habits

May 8, 2008

“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind”.
In a recent New York Times article entitled, “Can You Become a Creature of New Habits,” the fact that building new patterns of behavior fuels individual creativity is brought to the fore.
This is incredibly important in reducing [...]

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Food for your Practice: PEACE

April 8, 2008

No personal peace has come through war with one’s self.

Take a moment to digest this and then think of all of the ways you make war with yourself over the course of a day. For those thinking: “wait a minute I thought this was supposed to help me to relax! This is a [...]

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Holiday Stress Reduction Blog-a-Thon Day 27

January 7, 2008

Write it down!
The holidays are over! Perhaps you are sad, relieved, drained, rejuvenated, all of these. Now is the time to make a list for next year.
What was GREAT?
What was stressful?
What did you wish you were doing instead?
What do you wish you did more of?
What went over really well?
What ‘flopped’?
What things did you [...]

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Holiday Stress Reduction Blog-a-Thon Day 26

January 3, 2008

Take a Break!
When building a practice of stress reduction, it is essential to give yourself permission to take a break from anything and everything every once in a while. The idea of taking a break works well for two distinct reasons:
1) Even the best [cake, vacation, sex, show, game, etc.] would grow boring and [...]

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Holiday Stress Reduction Blog-a-Thon Day 25

December 28, 2007

Be Thankful!
We never know what lies around the corner. This is a beautiful part of living: the unknowing of what lies ahead. Life is truly a mystery. SO BE THANKFUL for EVERY day. Do not fear the unknown, revel in it!

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Holiday Stress Reduction Blog-a-Thon Day 24

December 28, 2007

Trust…
One of the most stressful aspects of being human is our ability to think. Our thinking minds help us in many ways and they CREATE continued patterns of fear, anticipation, jealousy and anger.
For today slip into active trusting of yourself, your life, your health, and your loved ones. Adopting a habit of trusting [...]

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Holiday Stress Reduction Blog-a-Thon Day 23

December 26, 2007

Be Creative!
Creativity may be the mother of invention however, it is also the partner of relaxation! Practice embracing creativity as a lifestyle. When faced with decisions, confrontation, and uncomfortable situations, let go of ‘what you are supposed to do’. Take a new and different approach and see how empowering and (actually) fun [...]

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Holiday Stress Reduction Blog-a-Thon Day 22

December 25, 2007

Everything in Moderation…
Holiday celebrations traditionally bring over consumption. Now is not necessarily the time for ‘healthy substitutes’ or not eating things you love that are readily available. Simply practice holiday-style moderation. Meaning give yourself permission to eat what you like, perhaps a little more than usual, and balance it with lots of [...]

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