Reading Time: 4 minutes“How people treat you is their Karma; how you react is yours” – Wayne Dyer Just the word itself, redundant, is harsh when you look at the definition: ‘no longer needed or useful; superfluous.’ The loss of confidence that comes with the notion of being redundant can be debilitating, especially if it was a role […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes“Energy” is the body’s electricity. Like the wiring in your house, the energy circuits in your body need to be clear of short-circuits to flow. In your desire for energy, you may consume drinks, power bars, magazines, videos, or exercises – but beware of “false energy,” which can harm you even on the cellular level.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesExercise Exercise promotes health and the natural flow of energy. It helps you fight stress by augmenting your strength, vigour, flexibility and overall hardiness. It relieves depression and insomnia, and boosts your immune function. It is essential to healthy aging, because it keeps your body agile and enhances brain function. Be sure to breathe deeply
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMany people become desensitized to chronic stress because they are so accustomed to it. If this is your pattern, consciously establish new behaviours. Prepare yourself for stress, so when it crops up, you have a new set of tools to use to work on it. “Every thought or emotion you experience has electrical energy and
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Reading Time: 3 minutesStress is a part of life. Some stress is beneficial, but prolonged chronic stress is harmful. Take a holistic approach to changing the basis of your stress, not its symptoms. Rather than “managing” stress, you can identify its causes and reframe your thinking. Your thought patterns may be winding you up and stressing you out.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes“Reactive to Proactive” Shifting this paradigm means taking control of your stress instead of reacting to it. You can’t avoid stress, but you can minimize it. For example, proactive people avoid having to worry about their finances by saving money and following a budget. They exercise, eat right and get regular check-ups to ease their
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteStress is a part of life. You can’t learn a new task or enter a new situation without feeling stress. It illuminates problem areas of your life – and you ignore such areas at your own peril. If you’re trying to live an intentional, actualized life, you’ll inevitably feel stress, which can then become an
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the natural world, only change is permanent. Observe an oak tree as it experiences the cycles of the seasons: it is flexible in the wind and rain, deriving its strength from its deep roots. As part of nature, human beings are also subject to life cycles. Accepting that flux will take you a long
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA good friend once told me, “Life is not what happens to you; life is what happens for you” (Renata Farah). To cope with distressing circumstances, people need to learn to stay upbeat, control their stress, reduce their anxiety, and manage their frustration at the possible loss of a job and/or social involvement. Self-Management Life
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Reading Time: 2 minutesHealth and Happiness Worldwide, health is the major variable that influences joy, even more than money. Contented people are healthier, and healthy people are more content. In the developed nations of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), the higher the blood pressure, the lower the happiness level, and vice versa, indicating a “virtuous
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