Tag: stress
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Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation offers a powerful way to anchor yourself in the present moment — reducing stress, sharpening focus, and cultivating peace even in the busiest of days. This guide covers what it is, how to practice it, and how to weave it into daily life.
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The Leptin Reset: Week 2 Results, or Can a Broken Heart Make You Fat?
Picture to the left: Week 2 on the Leptin Reset (http://jackkruse.com/my-leptin-prescription/) and it’s failure, failure, failure. Nothing could lift this mood…except what started it. I ended Week 2 of the Leptin Reset, my health project for July and perhaps August, by gaining back 1 of the 2 pounds I’d lost in the first week. Truthfully,…
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First Chakra Secrets: Stress Relief, Stress Incontinence, and Squatting like a Little Kid
Don’t you love how an unlikely conversation can be enlightening? While chatting with 4 acquaintances outside a bookstore—a happenstance meeting—the conversation turned from spirituality to Law of Attraction to … shhhhhh… urinary incontinence in women and occasionally in children. I guess I’m lucky that it hasn’t really been a problem for me, except for…
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Happy Holidays — Now Stop Stressing Me
I’m doing my best to have a stress-free holiday season, but people just won’t hear of it. Yes, I’ve been terribly stressed, but it all has to do with work deadlines, not the holidays. (Holidays? There are holidays?) The re-roofing process (which now looks great and is awaiting final inspection) has meant no lights on…
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Increase Creativity to Relieve Time Management Stress in Analytical Jobs
Shannon is on the verge of 20, a college senior in Psychology, and stressed to the max. She carries a heavy course load, works 20 hours a week in a counseling clinic, and is focusing on complicated research projects in sociology and psychology while preparing her grad school admissions packages. So how to combat the…
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The Best Thing I Learned from a Cancer Patient
As I write this, it is a Sunday afternoon and I have a few friends coming over for dinner and an in-depth spiritual discussion. Did I say a few? I meant fifteen. Or maybe ten because several just called and said they might not make it because of transportation problems. Or maybe twenty because several…
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The No Longer List
As my body tries to heal, I find that the usual drains on my energy are too much for me and I need to conserve and focus on myself. Helping other people has been such a norm for so long that it’s hard to make the switch, but I am slashing through some of the…
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Stress Sucks out your Life Force
I’ve been stress-free for four years. Okay, not ENTIRELY stress-free. There have been a few particularly stressful times—like the business-destroying rumor a year ago or a major family health issue or a sudden break-up of a promising new relationship. But those are just spikes on the stress meter. They are not a constant steady HIGH…
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Solstice Reflections: Growing Up and Just Growing
“And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me, He’d grown up just like me… My boy was just like me.” –”Cat’s in the Cradle,” Harry Chapin From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined. Available direct from the author → A week ago, I was talking with one…
