8 Tips to Eliminate Your Energy Drainers - Stress Management
Are you feeling tired, the kind of tired where nothing really matters anymore? Have your energy levels dipped to the point that you feel like you are dragging around a leg iron? It's time to relax and be patient. Save your energy the way water ... [... more]
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Most of us feel frustrated when we think we have no control over what is happening to us. Living in ambiguity or uncertainty, we turn to our crystal balls and forecast gloom and doom in our lives. We tend to create a fictional certainty to ... [... more]
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You can have it all - just not all the time!
In the year 2004 women are still conflicted: to stay or not to stay at home with the children; to go or not to go to work for self-fulfillment and a much needed second income, or to juggle both worlds- perfectly. Women were raised to be good ... [... more]
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Caregiving Can Be Harmful to Your Health - Stress Management
Did you know that if you are a caregiver, you might be damaging your own health? If you are not a caregiver, is one of your parents a caregiver? The New England Journal of Medicine cited a groundbreaking new study by Dr. Nicholas Christakis that ... [... more]
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Dr. Laurie Steelsmith
When my Western eyes first read books on the subject of Chinese medicine, I liked the stories, but considered the practice to be more art than science. I grew up with Western medicine which is analytical and biochemical. In contrast, Chinese ... [... more]
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Don't Try So Hard to be Happy - Stress Management
If you are on a quest for happiness, give it up because you will end up miserable. Happiness is a personality trait determined by your genes and slightly influenced by your environment. Only 17% of the population claim to be happy all the time. ... [... more]
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Don't Stress About Aging: Start Your Health Account ...
If we want our golden years to be 18 karat as opposed to gold plated, we need to set up for them when we are young, or at least young at heart. We need to begin saving in our health bank. In other words, taking a quantum leap into our future when ... [... more]
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Drop Dead Gorgeous - Holistic Alternatives to Cosmetic ...
The untimely death of writer Olivia Goldsmith, author of the First Wives Club, from plastic surgery highlighted the risks associated with our narcissistic addiction to looking forever young. Is being beautiful and youthful through surgical ... [... more]
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For Free Healing Learn How to Laugh - Stress Management
Humor is an amazing coping skill for both physical and emotional stressors. Many religions believe that laughter is an expression of a heightened spirituality. Doctors call it free medicine. In spite of the benefits, humor can be difficult to ... [... more]
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Do You Say Yes When You Mean No?
Emotional and physical well being depend on the balance between giving and receiving. Both the Jewish mystical work, the Kabbalah, and the Dali Lama's Book of Transformations assert the same principle: Each one of us needs to establish a balance ... [... more]
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How My Dog Trained Me - Stress Management
Recently, I stood up close and personal to a hawk which swooped down to attack the plastic heron standing guard over my fish pond. He saw me, obviously embarrassed by his mistake, and flew back up into the expansive blue sky. I could have been on ... [... more]
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I am fascinated by the success and contentment inherent in many Japanese companies. The secret - they use the Kaizen management concept for gradual, continuous improvement. Literally, kai means change; zen means to become good. The foundation of ... [... more]
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