Posts Tagged ‘life pressures’

How Can You Start Reducing Stress Right Now?

September 10th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

Big businesses recognize the importance of stress relief for their workers and customers. In fact stress relief techniques and stress management programs are in increasingly high demand. But what can you do to cope with your stress right now? Here are a five quick stress busting tips you can use today to lower your stress: [...]

Maxed Out Stress Update

August 20th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

Stress relief comes in many forms – and one of my favourite of all is finding a solution to what ails WordPress when it decides to do whacky stuff with my blog!  I just wanted to share what I’ve discovered in case it helps anyone else reduce their computer stress.  A few posts ago I [...]

Stress Relief – You Need To Sleep on it

July 17th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

Today’s modern world is a high stress environment.  With world news coming at you 24/7, it can be difficult to switch off and relax.  But that is exactly what you must do if you are ever going to reduce your stress levels. High stress levels lead to difficulty sleeping.  And a lack of sufficient quality [...]

SOS Getaways: Savoring the Opportunities of Summer

June 8th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

Copyright (c) 2009 Karin Marcus Summer is the time to renew and rejoice.  It is the time to rest and play and to let the fruits of your labours, ripen.  Physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, your hearts and bodies need this time to rejuvenate.  You have recently emerged from a long hard winter that was [...]

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Stress

June 8th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

How is it that we can face the stress of phones ringing nonstop, car horns blaring, rude clerks, fussy children, irritating neighbours, loud noise pollution and so on without going totally over the edge? In truth these stresses should send us over the edge but they don’t because at the end of the day our [...]

The Stress “Columbo” Comment

May 27th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

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 [...]

Don’t Tear Your Hair Out

May 25th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

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 [...]

Coping with Stress – Top Tips

May 23rd, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

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 [...]

How to Handle Workplace Stress

May 20th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

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 [...]

Laugh A Bit More And Live A Bit Longer

April 14th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

One of my favourite comedians is the Peter Kay.  He’s from Bolton, near my neck of the woods, in the North West of England.  For those who don’t know who he is, here’s a clip. Now I know humour doesn’t always translate so apologies to anyone who struggled with the accent and colloquiums, but the [...]

In A Hundred Years From Now, Who’ll Care?

April 5th, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

Your inner voice is listened to by your powerful subconscious mind. That means that whatever your inner chat is, becomes self-fulfilling. Negative self talk heaps stress upon you. And the wrong sort of stress is very unhealthy.

Beat Stress Five Ways

April 1st, 2009 by Susan Owen-Thursfield

Stress is fast becoming the biggest health problem in modern societies. Financial pressures, work pressures, family pressures – so much to do so little time to do it all! Here’s five quick ways to ease the pressure and relieve stress:


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