comfort zone >  de-stress not distress    relaxation skills    visualisations

de-stress not distress

"You are what you think" – and if you think that you are stressed, then you will be!

I try to take just one day at a time ...but lately several days have attacked me at once

If you want to make your life less stressful, then you need more than just intention - you need action – here are some stress busting solutions!

If your idea of tackling the stress in your life is to do the odd relaxation exercise, then read on. Rather than solely focusing on calming techniques, cosmic-cherry recommends that you also get down to the root causes of your problems and identify your unhealthy stress habits and responses.

Once you acknowledge your established 'stress patterns', you can choose a new way of thinking and develop a practical action plan for dealing with the inevitable stresses and strains of modern living. You will soon discover inner freedom from the damaging effects of stress, anxiety, depressed feelings and low self-esteem - at work, at home, at play.

Interesting research at the University of East Anglia in the mid 1990s highlighted stress as an essential arousal mechanism! Yet today we are increasingly viewing stress as a disorder and trying to treat it with prescriptive drugs, counselling and psychotherapy.

Confusion has arisen because 'stress' is being used variously to describe a stimulus, a response, an inability to cope, a cause of illness, an illness itself. If we clearly understand what is really meant by 'stress', then we can determine the best way to deal with it effectively - we can re-think and re-organise our lives using the guidelines that follow.

>> Stress chart – explains stress as an essential mechanism
>> The Satisfy System – how to deal with stress in a healthy way

< previous page   ^ top