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What Is Burnout
Burnout is a state of fatigue while feeling frustrated, overworked, and unappreciated. It occurs when a person persists with a way of life that doesn’t meet their expectations or exerts too many demands on their energy. |
Water And Mental Health
Water is vital to life and it is often overlooked as a stress reliever. Every cell and every system in the body is dependent on water for healthy functioning. |
Vanquishing Vacation Stress
Vacations are to be relaxing and rejuvenating, but having the expectation that this one will be your 'best vacation ever' can lead to further stress. |
Too Many Hats Not Enough Heads
We rush through traffic to get to work and we rush back again to pick up the children to get to the next sporting event or lesson. We get frustrated. We forget how to talk to each other. Most of us have felt that our lives are too complicated at one time or another. Previous trends have been to achieve more, get more and do more. One of the ways to uncomplicate our lives is through a contrary movement called Simplification. It can be hard to do, but the rewards can be great.
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Holiday Stress - Tisn't The Season To Be Stressed Out
Feeling a little stressed during the holiday season? Like many we tend to let our worry, expectations, poor planning, and over-indulgence get in the way of truly enjoying the holidays. |
Stress Smart For A Stressless School Year
September is fast approaching. Families will soon be back to the morning chaos, and possibly also to the fears about new teachers, new classmates, new courses and the many other things that can throw our children off course. How can you help your children become stress smart? Beverly Beuermann-King, a stress and wellness specialist with Work Smart Live Smart offers 7 great strategies that can make this school year less stressful. |
Stress Overview Optimal Health
Optimal health allows you to come into contact with germs and not get infections. Optimal health should bring a sense of strength and joy, even amidst the day-to-day stresses of life. It is more than just the absence of disease. Optimal health involves good health care, self-awareness, living according to our values and beliefs, being your own best friend, realizing the value of family, friends and co-workers, and enjoying an enthusiasm for work, growth and life. |
Stress Busters 5 Tips To Regain Your Rhythm
In today’s busy world many of us have forgotten the simple techniques that we can use to restore our body’s natural rhythm and decrease the negative effects that stress can have on us. The 5 Quick Tips below are just that. They are fast, simple and for the most part, not new. Sometimes we just need to remind our self to use them. |
Stress And Relaxation Techniques
We need to maintain a healthy rhythm to our life and we can do that by finding ways to ensure our physical needs for food, sleep, water, and exercise our met. Then we need to find ways to alternate the stress in our life with some relaxation or down-time. We can not get rid of all of our stress, nor do we want to. What we want to do is to reduce our negative reactions to stress so that we don't become sick, worn down, and worn out. |
Stress And Healthy Aging
What Are Some Positive Ways To Aid In Healthy Aging?
I recently took a look at a website that tried to determine your real age compared to your chronological age and was pleased to see that it covered a variety of areas related to positive stress management. This site sparked some interesting questions regarding healthy aging. |
Relaxing To The Beat
We have been using music since the dawn of time to express, inspire, remember, rejoice and heal. It connects us to others and to ourselves. It moves us and it can be used to relax us. |
New Year's Resolutions
The celebration of the New Year has long been a time for looking back to the past and more importantly looking forward to the future. We know that the Babylonians celebrated New Years Day over four thousand years ago which coincided with the planting of their spring crops. The Babylonians believed that what they did on the first day of the New Year would have an effect throughout their entire year. |
Laughter And Mood
Humour - For some of us it is a lost art, but it can be one of our most powerful ’life coping’ tools. It is one of the world’s most potent health supplements, not toxic, low-calorie and absolutely free. |
Jet Lag And Travel Stress
Have you ever found yourself exhausted or caught a cold after flying for a business trip or vacation? Whether it is for business or for pleasure, stress from traveling can cause a person to experience many physical and mental symptoms. |
Holiday Stress Enjoy And Be Merry
If you want to avoid that stressed-out feeling this holiday season try implementing some new strategies and avoid some common mistakes. Like many we tend to let our expectations, poor planning, and over-indulgence get in the way of truly enjoying and de-stressing during our "down-time". The key to success in avoiding the "holiday blahs" is to recognize those activities that energize, motivate, and please us, and to delete or change those activities that irritate, disappoint, and anger us. |
Holiday Blues
The ‘holiday blues’ are not as serious as depression, but left un-checked it could lead to a downward spiral that may bring about the symptoms of depression. Feeling tired, overwhelmed, anxious, sad, and guilty or having a complete lack of interest in things may indicate that you are experiencing the blues. |
From Kid To College Bound
Parents are bound to worry when their kids go off to post-secondary school. Will they eat, go to sleep and wake up without their supervision? Will they be able to keep up with the work? Will they make friends or socialize too much? Will the pressure to use alcohol or drugs be too great? |
Food And Mood
Most of us instinctively reach for sweets or caffeine to give relief from the morning sluggishness or afternoon slump. We use sweets as a way of helping ourselves through stressful times. Those strategies might help, temporarily, but there is a downside to these methods. |
Feelings Emotional Wellness
One often forgotten component of overall optimal health is our emotional health. Our feelings have important implications for how we view ourselves, our relationships and the world around us. This ability to maturely face and express these feelings can help us to meet life’s challenges without becoming overwhelmed or hopeless and without the need to dominate and force those around us. |
Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse is the tearing down of another human being and it can be the result of inappropriately handling one’s emotions, the excessive need to control others and the situations around them, or it can be learned from those who have had influence on the person such as their parents, coaches or supervisors. |
