I know what you’re thinking - you’ve heard of this before; but have you really tried to tap into the power of your thoughts? I cannot tell you that that thoughts can cure everything, but I can tell you that positive thinking really does help. Here are some ways by which you can harness this power.
Think about this scenario: You toss and turn all throughout the night because you have a presentation the next day. You have prepared for this presentation for weeks, and you know the details in and out. You have anticipated possible questions that may raised. Still, you are afraid that things might become a mess. What if you forget the words? What if you overlook a detail?
This is just one scenario, but you can very well change ...
Tags: Mental Health, positive thinking, Stress
Stress is very much part of my life. I thought I realized the full extent of what it did to me. I thought that it was just normal and that it will not do anything “bad” to me. In fact, I used to take pride in the fact that I worked better under duress. Then suddenly, everything just seemed to fall apart. I would get all sorts of illnesses. I would feel bad in general. I would even get depressed and too distracted.
Bottom line: s
tress is NOT good. Too much of it can mess up your life so bad you’d wish you were never born!
The good news is that stress can be managed – for real. Even the busiest and richest person in this world can keep his stress levels down. ...
Tags: emotional health, exercise, Health, Mental Health, Stress
The next time someone tells you that you have gained weight, point them to this blog post. A recent study conducted in Canada has yielded some interesting results with regard to being overweight.
According to a story ran by
The New York Times, the study was done on over 11,000 Canadian adults. The results showed that people who are a bit overweight, but not obese, are less likely to die than those who are not overweight (READ: NORMAL weight). The category of overweight covers people who have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9. In addition to this, people who are underweight – those who have a Body Mass Index of less than 18.5 – are more likely to die than the people who weigh normally.
Obviously, this finding is going to be well-received by ...
Everyday, millions of people suffer from the dreaded
headache sending you to grab that pill you oh so love to take away the
pain. The fast paced lifestyle we all engage in doesn't help and the stresses of the day just keep piling up leaving us weak and fatigued. Readily available OTC drugs may offer relief but that may not be the best solution for the dreaded headache. Your
lifestyle may be the primary cause adding the stress you go through each and everyday, might be the culprit.
Men are less likely to suffer from chronic pain due to extreme activities than men due to the hormone testosterone which has been shown to help lessen the damage to muscles and tissue, thus leaving
women to suffer more. Statistically, women suffer an average of 15 episodes that can ...
Tags: Chronic Pain, Depression, Headache, Health
In the last post, we had a reality check on relationships and the money of giving gifts. In this post, let us look at some other aspects of the
Christmas celebration wherein we can reduce the stress we might experience.
The Christmas meal
I wrote meal because some people eat lunch or dinner for the “main event.” It does not really matter which meal you eat with the whole family – or group of friends – the important thing is to be able to handle the preparations without overly stressing yourself out. One commonly suggested thing is to make the meal potluck. Truth be told, this has been the tradition in my family for many years now. Each family brings his own dish ...
When I am stressed I
eat. The nearer Christmas time is, the more I get stressed. Does this mean that the nearer Christmas is, the more I eat? Sometimes! And I suppose it is not just me who feels this way. So how do we deal with the Christmas stress? Here are some tips that you can bear in mind as Christmas fast approaches.
Create a new method of gift giving.
I don’t know about you but in my family, the tradition is to give gifts to everyone. If you come from a big extended family, this will certainly put a strain on your budget. In order to avoid the stress that comes with astronomical spending, you could come up with ...
YOU THINK??? I really do NOT need any scientific evidence to believe in this. Both personal experience as well as vicarious experience have attested to this fact over and over again. Still, we can’t really stop others if they want to conduct polls or studies regarding this issue.
I read about a poll that Associated Press-AOL Health undertook early this year. They surveyed about a thousand respondents in all the American states with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii.
The results? Read for yourself:
27 percent had ulcers or digestive tract problems, compared with 8 percent of those with low levels of debt stress.
23 percent had severe depression, compared with 4 percent with low debt stress.
6 percent reported heart attacks, double the rate for those with low debt stress.
Ok, I take my statements back – maybe we do NEED ...
Recently we had an addition to our small team at work. This colleague has long been with the company, but in a different department. Prior to his joining our team, we had been asking our boss to add some sort of health benefit for the people in our team, for the simple reason that our job is easily one of the most stressful in the company.
For quite some time, I had been saying, jokingly, that because of the stress, I have had all sorts of symptoms – cluster headaches, inability to sleep, and hyperacidity. A couple of other team members agreed with me. It was not until this newest member – who lives a very healthy lifestyle and rarely ever gets sick – complained of really bad hyperacidity 2 months into the job that I realized that there really is ...
I know what you’re thinking - you’ve heard of this before; but have you really tried to tap into the power of your thoughts? I cannot tell you that that thoughts can cure everything, but I can tell you that positive thinking really does help. Here are some ways by which you can harness this power.
Think about this scenario: You toss and turn all throughout the night because you have a presentation the next day. You have prepared for this presentation for weeks, and you know the details in and out. You have anticipated possible questions that may raised. Still, you are afraid that things might become a mess. What if you forget the words? What if you overlook a detail?
This is just one scenario, but you can very well change ...
