Category: Stress

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How To Relax More Worry Less – Stress Management Tips Techniques

What is Stress?

how-stress-affects-your-healthTo understand the need for stress management, we must first understand stress. When a person is in danger, the body reacts, preparing to defend itself. The heart rate increases, blood pressure climbs higher, breathing becomes faster and blood flows to the muscles. This is great if a fierce dog is chasing you, because it gives you additional energy to get out of harm’s way. Unfortunately, the body reacts in the same way in response to daily problems and changes and over time this causes issues. Continue reading “How To Relax More Worry Less – Stress Management Tips Techniques”

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Reflexology Revives Energy Levels

When chronic stress causes your energy levels to plummet, it’s time to take control and reduce the stress levels in your life, and the most effective stress reliever I know is Reflexology. You may not even know that it’s stress causing the problems, but there are many reasons why stress causes fatigue and other health problems.

Reflexology: Ancient Solution to Modern Day Stress

When chronic stress permeates your body, muscles tense, you breathe with more difficulty and the stress hormones may make your heart beat faster and harder. Gastrointestinal issues and other problems that zap your energy may also occur.

Feeling drained, emotionally and physically can seem like you’re dragging a heavy burden along with you on a daily basis. Eventually, you’re not only dealing with fatigue, but other serious health problems. Continue reading “Reflexology Revives Energy Levels”

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Is your Child Stressed? This can Help!

Know how to recognize the causes and signs of this common problem in kids.

Anxiety is an all-too-common problem faced by children today. As with adults, children respond differently to stress depending on their age, individual personalities, and coping skills.

Childhood stress can manifest with difficult behavior, and it is important for parents to recognize the signs of stress and to look for the possible causes.

Some common signs of stress and anxiety include:

  • Complaints of stomach aches or headaches
  • Sleep problems or nightmares
  • Bedwetting
  • Getting into trouble at school

Note: If you suspect that a change in the family such as a new sibling, a move, divorce, or a death of a family member is behind your child’s stress and anxiety, seek advice from an expert such as your child’s school counselor, your pediatrician, or a child therapist.

Quick Stress-Relief Ideas for Kids

Plan fun activities you can enjoy together such as:

  • snuggling together with a book
  • massage
  • playing a favorite game
  • deep breathing exercises. Encourage your child to breathe in “good” air and exhale “bad” air, and picture it carrying any worries out of their body.
  • do some yoga poses with your kids. Simple yoga poses such as downward dog, cobra, and tree are excellent for kids

For something that has longer term benefits – perhaps try something different such as Brazilian Toe Massage (BTM) – so called because it originated from Brazil and involves a light touch to each of the toes.

BTM is a simple 15-minute routine, based on 10,000-year-old Chinese Meridians, that is fast acting and gentle enough for even small children.

Brazilian Toe Massage has been known to get a tantrum-throwing child to fall sleep in 15 minutes.

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