How to Reduce Stress - 3 Stress Relief Quotes for You

Before talking about the way to reduce stress when we have financial crisis, let me share to you some stress relief quotes:

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~Lily Tomlin

"When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think." - Korean Zen master Seung Sahn (Article of Toni Bernhard, J.D., Psychology Today) It's performing less, one task at a time. When you read, eat and think at the same time, you multitask. When you are blank, when you do not know what to do, pause for a moment, pick the most important task, if you are hungry for the moment, eat and forget other things. (Am doing this, everyday, trying, at least.)

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Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Terri Guillemets

Can you? Is that possible? Yes it is. Sit straight, breast out, close your eyes, take several deep breath... think about nothing with a smile on your face, just do that... just let your mind fly, free. You are not caged now... you'll be alright... everything will be!

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ~William James

Of course, when I will try to accommodate all the thoughts right this time, I am just like playing in the boxing ring unprepared, I will be knocked out in the very first round. I would be hurt, mentally, domino effect, yes, absolutely. Why not tackle things one by one, is it not good to make a process for yourself? An organize one? I believe we deserve it.

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Resources:
• Quote Garden
• Psychology Today

Posted by Editorial Team on 3/14/2012 06:13:00 PM in Stress Management

Acceptance - A Way to Reduce Stress

Guys I got one hour to let go and recharge... come on...

Well guys, it's been a long time. And I am just here now, in a net cafe, yes, this is my working hour but I have to get out to produce some copies of my report, so I got an hour to standby and think of something better. Just waiting for the lady to tell me it's my turn, it's first come first serve rule. So here I am trying to find something that can relieve me from becoming stress again today, I cannot avoid to load my mind with so many things, about my personal life, about my family, about my sister who is sick at the moment, well, that's because I am human. If you have same case with mine, then do not worry that much, we are just human after all, we have feelings.

Today, I got one hour to look for something for myself and for you too. Do not worry, I am not selfish sharing you the things that can help us reduce and relieve our body and mind from being exhausted and stress out. I have shared you several ways already, but I would always disclaim, I am not the expert guys, if you are reading this today, that's because you want to hear the statement of the person who is in the state of stress, and is trying to get out himself from the situation.

Another effective way to cope with stress and get away from it is a simple acceptance. Often times we worry about tomorrow, if we have problems today we always try to guess what will happen next. We want to solve the problems right away, or else we want to always see a good result which is not possible all the time.

In the last chapter of my short story, I shared this :

When you are weak, don’t deceive yourself to be not. Accept that you are troubled, and you will find the exit, and eventually you will be heading towards the source of your strength.

It's about acceptance, it's about unloading ourselves from too much thoughts of possibilities, from the thinking so many 'how if's'! Today, yes I am troubled again, well that's life and I'll accept it! What should I do? I am not going to let myself worry that much this time around, I just need to pace forward, to do what need to be done, and that's it. If there would be situation that beyond my limit and capabilities, then let it be. If I learn to accept, there would be some ways that I can find my strength in the midst of being weak. Maybe, in a different way. Yes, there must be always an exit.

Guys, if you are trouble right this time, join me. Let's breath together.

Helpful Articles:

• Life, I Live (C-3)
• 3 Extremely Effective Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
• 100 Natural Ways to Overcome Anxiety

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Posted by Editorial Team on 3/07/2012 10:23:00 AM in Stress Management

Where Moderate Use of Alcohol and Drugs Lead You?

Self-medication should be avoided. When you are in trouble, it’s always good to seek the guidance of the people you trust. The use of alcohol and drugs will give you the disadvantage in the long run! They are just temporary reliefs, but if you want to cope with stress, if you want to get out from trouble, then you have to seek the right way. The use of alcohol and drugs, even if someone says he is using it moderately will end up walking towards dead end!

Self-medication often times deceives you. Today, you will find their company calming. But within a certain period, it will hunt you like a predator running after your life. The moderate use will become excessive and abnormal. It will become uncontrollable. The dark spirits of alcohol and drugs will control you completely, that you got no choice but to follow like a puppet. You will be walking to and pro without purpose in mind. Remember, we are purposely gifted with life.

But it’s always been a choice whether to proceed finding the real way out or choose the easy ones, the company of these bad spirits. Bear in mind, it’s not lasting. If you choose this, get ready to walk up one day with nothing like a lost soul in a desert with nothing left but you, the scorching sun, amidst the endless earth of sand.

Beware alcohol and drugs are just like snakes. They can be your friends, but they would bite you at your back, taking away your life. Choose, live or die not in time. Addiction, it's a result of the wrong practice, self-medication!

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Posted by Editorial Team on 2/24/2012 06:28:00 PM in Building a Better Life, Stress Management

How to Reduce Stress: No to Alcohol and Drugs

When was my last entry, well it was couple of days already. Tonight, I am hear to continue my mission in giving our remedies for stressful situations in day to day living. I have observed almost a week on several things around, and being stressed out is the common result of our hectic schedules and tough encounter with life.

Some people usually practice self medication trying to find the nearest escape to their problem. Have you observed yourself? Have your observed your colleagues? Have your observed your friends? If you did, did they mask stress with alcohol and drugs? According to Study Guides and Strategies (studygs.net), alcohol and drugs won't deal with the problems, hence it won't help you cope yourself from the stressful situation. It is not the way to reduce stress, it may just worsen your feeling.

What happened to Whitney Houston? Well, I am not judging her, but we all know that she went into rehab because of a drug addiction (I don't know how true was that though), but I won't dig more, the news was enough for me. The lessons we get from her life behind the super successful singing career are rich to learn. She spent a lot of time in celebrity drug rehabs but she kept on relapsing as the years went by. It's mistake to use drugs and alcohol to run away!

In short, it is not just right to practice self-medication. According to Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia, it is the term used to describe the use of drugs and alcohol to treat untreated [relieve or reduce] stress and anxiety. Please read full definition about self-medication.

Whenever there is self-medication, and then addiction, a worst nightmare will soon conquer your bedtime! No, it will take away your precious life... (I will post about addiction as part of this topic soon.)

Sources:
♥Managing Stress @ studygs.net
♥Self-Medication @ Wikipedia
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Posted by Editorial Team on 2/18/2012 09:53:00 PM in Building a Better Life, Stress Management

How to Reduce Stress: Don't Prolong the Agony

At work, or where ever, we encountered misunderstanding. People who do not know the worst effect of holding any pain, discomfort, distress or dislikes or even hatred will even find ways to prolong it. Instead of ending the trouble, they continue making actions to worsen the situation. What they do get anyway? Well, wrinkles and headaches. That's only a wrapper of the whole package brought by the situation. What's inside is the threat of your health!

When you found out that your neighbor or your colleague fight you at your back, or made some actions against you, of course, they deserve your confrontations, or if you can't manage and hold your temper, it will lead to an extended trouble. But what should you do in the end of the day? Are you going to bring the bitter feelings at home? No.

Leave the feeling at the place where it happened and let go of it. That's what I exactly learned today. Please do not prolong the agony, anger or bitterness inside you. Once you have released it, never let it bother you one more time. You better find some ways to solve it right away, talk to the person nicely perhaps. Sometimes light trouble would become heavy, open your mind and look at it at it's true weight and never waste your time on it.

It's stressful right? So find the solution to relieve yourself. I am doing it almost everyday! We are in the real world and such things are inevitable!

Tip: Listen, Speak and Keep Silent. If you have spoken your side, keep quite and let the situation back to normal again! Time will always heal.

Each day, our body and mind deserve some ways to reduce stress, always remember too much stress is dangerous to our health!

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Posted by Editorial Team on 2/10/2012 10:00:00 PM in Building a Better Life, Communication, Stress Management

How To Reduce Stress: Set Priorities

Our health is the vehicle to our destination, without it, imagine walking a long long way...

Anyway, I am truly stressed out, sometimes even if I am trying hard to run away from stressful situations, but it seems I am in the midst of it the entire month! This is truly a challenging chapter of my life, since I got a parade of deadlines. When the nightfall comes, it is really nice to find something refreshing, well it's not good to go to sleep with mind still occupied with thoughts that can make your entire bed time a nightmare.

This is a part two of how to reduce and cope with stress! There are many ways, and I will tackle it here one by one, I able to come up with this valuable topic because I need this myself in the first place.

Tonight, I stumbled upon with a very helpful guide that talk exactly on how can we manage our stress! I pick one and it's simple:

Don't sweat the small stuff: Try to prioritize a few truly important things and let the rest slide. (www.studygs.net)

What do you think about it? It's just simply related to multitasking. If we are exhausted in doing lot of things, why not evaluate them and set aside the less important ones?

The old saying is true, we cannot better serve two masters at the same time, or unless we can manage. There are really extraordinary people out there, but if you are just like me, if you experienced back-pain and headache already, do not hesitate to list down the things that you wanted to accomplish, which of them are must to do and do it. Forget the miscellaneous ones and think about them if you got the extra time.

In everything we do, we must think of our health in the first place, it serves as a vehicle to our destination, without it imagine walking a long long way...

Study Guides and Strategies: How Can You Manage Your Stress?
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Posted by Editorial Team on 2/07/2012 09:43:00 PM in Building a Better Life, Stress Management

How to Reduce Stress: Stop Multitasking

Are you stressed? Why? That is a simple question you need to answer when you just feel the burden within yourself everyday. In order to live healthy, we need to find ways on how to deal and cope with stress. Sometimes, we are not aware that when we are drowned with so much plans and thoughts it can give us stress.

What happened when we are stress? I mean what is the first thing you feel when you are stress? Headache right? And you cannot just think well. If you are working like me, we are prone to stress because of our hectic schedules, we are always thinking of our unfinished paper works, and even we brought that burden at home, to the extent, we would have several sleepless nights. See, stress can have a domino effect to our health. And since we need to stay healthy all the time, we must find ways on how manage and control stress from beating us down.

For working people like us, the first thing we must do is stop multitasking. Sometimes this method is not applicable all the time, or if you just needed to perform one or more things at the same time, try to lessen it at least. That can really exhaust you, give you headache, give you unfinished works and can give you a serious stress in the end of each day at your desk. That happened to me and believe me, it gave me trouble.

Why not make a nice schedule that is well organized? When we need to finish this and that, we must list them down according to their priority and if task A, B, C are urgent assignments to accomplish within a day, please examine which of them is the easier thing to do, maybe we can apply the trick we do while we were taking our exams in school, answer the easiest ones. Before getting drained with the difficult task, finish the easier ones... and you might have a lot of time concentrating with the difficult task within the rest of your day at work. With that, you did not give your mind pressure, often times, disorganization of your task will give you stress, nothing less.

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Posted by Editorial Team on 2/05/2012 10:19:00 PM in Building a Better Life, Stress Management

How to Face Problems - Regain Your Logical Thinking

As I read you comments from my post Our Innate Power to Relieve Stress, I am really happy with your reactions. I knew it's effective. Whats good in it is that I have been so exhausted performing my job yet I able to see the way out to appreciate life.

While we are here breathing, we really got no choice but to face what lies ahead, or if we choose not to struggle yet idling will give us nothing. So to be fruitful, we should do the things that worth our time and find the escape to those hindrances and barriers along the way.

Sometimes, when we face problems, headache will be knocking our head hard... but in times that there would be no giving up, we should find the nearest station to unload the burden, to refresh ourselves to gain the sanity and the logical thinking we need in order to reach the finish line.

What usually happens is that we lost our logical thinking and behavior when inevitable hindrances will say hello and totally block our way. If the road is too narrow, and a deadly cliff is a few steps beside where we are standing with trembling knees, we cannot go back but continue walking. We need to regain our logical mind to continue.

What I telling you right now is do not let yourselves be defeated by trials, it would only happen when you give up! Never do that, never say you can't do it any longer! Get yourself organized once more... when you are surrounded with shuttered pieces of negativity, what you need to do is cleaned them out from your way.

Think logically, think smartly... we are humans and its innate within us. Make your move step by step this time, empty your minds with "if's". Go upstairs step by step, do not haste or you will fall down...

Make you moves simple but sure... then you will see a more productive output. We just need to keep on thinking, not for the negative things... if we do that we will loose our power to think logically. This is how to face problems, regain the power and start with mind full of alternatives!

(Hello SB Community its been a long time already that haven't talked to you, but right now, your interest in reading my insightful posts about life keep me going... in that light SB will remain to be the one when you first heard about it. Self Blooming and Simplified Blogging will be one! For now, you can check out an under construction blog that is more focus about blogging, social media and news here -♥- tellright-♥-)

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Posted by Editorial Team on 2/02/2012 09:42:00 PM in Productivity, Stress Management, Success and Failures

Our Innate Power to Relieve Stress: From Life to Blogging

Close your eyes. Smile and take a deep breath for several times. Imagine you are in a middle of the ocean sitting on a white sand at the small vanishing island, where all around you is placid and silent. Where positive energy is charging you again and eating up your stress...

Where is the fountain and source of a genuine blogging? If you created your blog because of an interest worth sharing everyday to your readers, then you gotta go and impart the best in you to all of us.

But how if stress will eat you? When after the end of a tiring day you only got some nice headache, you don't have to wait for it to melt your completely like cubes of eyes over the heat of the sun.

Blogging, writing our post, is just like our life offline, it is just like how we handle our life in times of trouble, in times of distress. Who believes that there is always a way out?

I believe in myself that I have the innate power to fight stress. The Stock Inventory was done and I passed it just today, despite of the tough situation I told myself I won't go home unless I got it finalized before Monday, I did! I was exhausted already, but I able to get the power within me to just finish it in time! Life is about a race against time, but if we can handle our moves, our actions, our decisions, then nothing will get unbearable. If we got the desire to find that hidden power to cope up with tough situations in our life, then we can easily move on before breaking our heads.

Tonight, I miss writing for two days that I was not able to get here. But how if I don't have anything to scribble down? Well, that is not true! How come I miss blogging without something in my mind? But something might be blocking the stream for the fountain not to flow... stress!

Life is always facing stress, but as I always told you there is a power within us to relieve stress at work, to relieve stress while you got a blank head in front of your pc!

Close your eyes. Smile and take a deep breath for several times. Imagine you are in a middle of the ocean sitting on a white sand at the small vanishing island, where all around you is placid and silent. Where positive energy is charging you again and eating up your stress! You just think of something better that will keep that smile in you.

Now, open your eyes and do you unfinished work. Now, open you eyes and write something for you and your readers. That's what I am doing and I able to write this one from an empty head...

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Posted by Editorial Team on 1/30/2012 11:15:00 PM in Productivity, Stress Management, You the Blogger

No to Anger, Yes to Laughter

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart

Why and Why? Do you want to know why? I was writing with ease last night, that question came to me all in a sudden, and I let it flow in lines. The thought is simply abundant if you do not worry that much. Yes, when I tried to be just me, talking to my friends, chatting and laughing with them - there will be no squeezing at all... I won't be trapped in a difficult puzzle! Well, I am repeating the same thing again tonight.

Some said, they care to know, some said they agree when I tried to conclude here that content is not the king.

Well, for your information, if you are like me, employed, you will actually experience the same thing I experienced yesterday, and worst today. I got it now, it's because we are in the midst of diversity. Workers in the same departments have different opinions... what I don't understand is, why some took it personally? It's work, we put value to it because that's what pays our bills and everything, but it's not the life of us. We must put some thick wall from work and our personal life, am I right or not?

Well, this one involved my life for a humble request of mine that is purely work-related... would you not burst if you were in my pair of old shoes?

~Laugh Out Loud~ We are not supposed to burst in anger, we shall burst with laughter, that's what I did when I decided to went home after lunch, I took some break. And I tell you, it helped a lot guys.

Well now, so much for that drama, ha-ha-ha, see, I also did grin! Tonight, if you do not care to read the first part then you have the choice to read this part, but unfortunately, this far I know you read it already. I really mean not the tell you that you got choices!

Content is not the King! What is the King? Why some expert say it's the King, and why some concluded it's not?

Well, I got you an excerpt here:

"I definitely agree with you about content not being everything~ that will only get you so far in the blogging world. The dynamic *force* must be YOU ~ heart and the and personality behind the words!!! That is what keeps this reader coming back for more!"

~ Princess Fiona aka Professor of Poetry

When you and I read, we are actually feeling, if we feel nothing, then what we read is completely written in the absence of heart... does it still worth reading?

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Posted by Editorial Team on 1/11/2012 09:16:00 PM in Building a Better Life, Stress Management, You the Blogger

One Thing About Laughter

Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. ~ www.helpguide.org

How are you SB Community? Well, I am back now more energetic, I refueled myself with thoughts of goodness, like you, and like anyone else we want to live happier than ever. Stress? Well, we cannot really run from it, can we? But the most important thing is that...

'Life is full of stress, you just need to know how to handle it.' ~ Berlina

Yes, we don't have the choice but to handle it, but the question is, how?

'The first and foremost thing is whether you are at peace with yourself. Only then you can attain the next level - Happiness.' ~ Saru Singhal

What? Oh well, yes, yesterday, I was not at piece, it seemed that I was in a chaotic world. Bad for me, but the world rotates on it's axis like a wheel...

'Being sad & stressed just uses up energy that could be better spent being happy or doing something you like. Take a few moments to relax, breathe, take time out for you. Go back in your memory & recall pleasant moments...we all have them.' ~ Andy

Today I realized that to be happy is a thing that can be done through practice, do you agree with me? Practice makes perfect right? According to the helpguide.org, laughter is our birthright, which means a natural part of life which is innate and inborn! Wow! Just like talent which is a natural gift to all of us, laughter can be also attained through developing our sense of humor, not just during the times that we are down, yet everyday!

Please read the article about Laughter is the Best Medicine by the helpguide.org! Please don't miss to know that benefits of being happy. See you:)

P.S. I know most of us enjoy the emoticons, I am trying my best again to provide you another new set sooner :)

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Posted by Editorial Team on 1/04/2012 09:16:00 PM in Happiness, Stress Management

Can You Make Me Laugh?

What are we going to resolve today? I know, I supposed not to bring this topic, but it seemed this made me exhausted lately, maybe after the New Year, well, I hope you will gonna handle this positively, but I am under stress. Can you make me laugh guys one more time? It is so true that no matter how you stay positive you will still be trapped with negativity... well, trying to walk towards optimism is not that easy. It requires a lot of energy.

let's bring this stress vanished in nowhere... come on :) Oh well, this is the first part of the twist, where you will comfort me :(

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Posted by Editorial Team on 1/03/2012 10:04:00 PM in Happiness, Stress Management