Stress isn’t always a bad thing.  You’re probably aware of the tense rising exciting stress you feel when you’ve been given a challenge that’s just out of your reach, but which you’re sure you can do.  This positive stress, called eustress, is what every honed athlete feels just before their “big race”.  Our bodies are [...]

It’s a sad fact that when you are overweight, the urge to eat is harder to ignore under stressful conditions. But it is not widely known that stress is so intimately linked to weight that you can actually achieve long-term weight loss simply by learning how to reduce stress in your life – and following [...]

Yesterday I treated myself to a massage.  It was wonderful!  Fifty five minutes of bliss – Well pain and discomfort actually – but the bliss came later.  Massages are tremendous as a form of stress relief and I really do respond well to them. I really don’t get enough massages and I’m not sure why [...]

Unless you are at your peak of health, you need to try and relax.  At the very least, you should take steps to avoid getting stressed out further.  Why?  Well because stress harms your health in more ways than one.   You probably know that chronic stress by itself is known to contribute to many [...]

Is Stress Breaking Your Heart? Whenever we experience stress, it affects us in more ways than one.  In particular, stress takes its toll on our heart, which may lead to heart disease.  Our body is an amazing machine – and especially our heart.  After all, it is built to last through 75 or so years [...]

When it comes to exercise and stress, most of us think back to past conversations we have had during visits to the doctor or physician.  You know the sort of thing.  They take our blood pressure and, noting it’s on the high side, comment that we need to take it easy and let go of [...]

Did you know that your hair and scalp can be a barometer of the stress levels in your life?  People who are happy and handle stress in their lives with ease usually have healthy, shiny hair.  And dry, lifeless and damaged hair could be a sign that you are ill or suffering from too much [...]

Stress, no matter where it comes from, is an ever-present reality.  There is no getting away from most of it, so just how can you learn to cope with stress?  Here are a few quick tips to get you started: First, determine if this stress is something you can let go of.  Are you doing [...]

What do you do with workplace stress?  Your boss is on your back to finish a project.  A co-worker has it in for you for no particular reason.  And to top it off you can’t change jobs because the bills are coming in faster than ever.  Besides, this miserable cycle repeats itself no matter where [...]

We already know that we can’t avoid stress altogether.  But when stress gets out of hand, it morphs into a problem called stress disorder.  Stress disorder is something like a bad habit that needs to be broken.  You first need to recognize the disorder, then identify its causes and finally replace the bad habit with [...]

These kinds of emotional stress issues can add up fast. Like a snowball, you pack on the stresses of your daily life and the next thing you know, you just can’t cope!

Stress is everywhere these days.  It can be all-consuming and it takes a pretty big arsenal of stress relief tools to combat it effectively enough to survive and thrive the way you want to.  One excellent way of doing this is by following Tai Chi. Tai Chi is based on an ancient martial arts form [...]