Any form of physical exercise can be a great way to reduce stress. By regularly going to a gym, for a run or competing in a team sport, an outlet is created that gives you the opportunity to focus on an enjoyable activity and literally forget about the day to day events that may contribute to stress in your life.
By doing physical exercise the body will inevitably get fitter and stronger. A fit person is less likely to get sick and tired especially during stressful periods. As a person becomes fitter, their self esteem and self worth will naturally increase. This also reduces the likely hood of succumbing to stress and in fact will typically have a better chance of coping with stressful situations.
Competitive forms of exercise can also help reduce stress. Normally, competitive sport will require participants to regularly train, set goals and work in a team. They are also required to learn how to cope with stressful moments during a game as well deal with both victory and defeat. Such activities emulate real life situations and therefore will help you to deal with the challenges that life may bring you.
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Grounding exercises help tremendously with maintaining a balance of our physical and spiritual bodies. This particular exercise can serve as an excellent tool for identifying physical stresses and upsets.
Here’s How:
1. Lay down comfortably on a bed or massage table.
2. Bring your thoughts from its busy mental chatter downward by focusing on your feet.
3. Notice the soles of your feet, your toes, in-between your toes, the top of your feet. Do they feel hot? or cold? Do they hurt? Are they numb? Do you feel your blood circulating through them? Are they feeling tired?
4. Once you have a made a strong connection with your feet, you may then move your focus upwards to your ankles.
5. Notice, but don’t judge how the different parts feel. For example, when you wiggled your toes, how did that feel?
6. Gradually shift your focus now to your lower legs, onto your knee caps, behind your knees, your thighs and upward.
7. Keep reminding yourself not to rush.
8. Allow yourself to breathe throughout the exercise, especially as you come to any areas of discomfort (stressed muscles, soreness, etc.) or at any spot that feels like there may be an energy block.
9. Once you have moved through your torso and up to your neck drop back to your fingertips.
10. Move to the hands, up your arms and shoulders, returning now to your neck.
11. Finish up with your face and scalp.
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Who hasn’t bolted upright in the night, awakened by a sudden and terrible burning sensation in the pit of their stomach? Whether you indulged in some overly spicy chili, or overdid it on those late-night leftovers, these quick heartburn remedies will soothe your fiery stomach and help you get back to sleep!
1. The first thing you’ll want to do when you’re awakened by heartburn pain, is to stand up. This helps keep the acid at bay while you go and get a full glass of cool water.
2. Drink the whole glass of water, and follow it with a mixture of 1 tablespoon of baking soda, and half a glass of water. Be careful though, if you have high blood pressure or are pregnant, this can cause water retention or increase your blood pressure.
3. DON’T drink milk or suck on mints to relieve heartburn. Milk might feel nice and cool going down, but it actually contains fats and proteins that cause your stomach to secrete MORE acid and make your heartburn worse! Mints, while they may feel soothing, actually relax the small valve between your esophagus and stomach, whose purpose it is to actually KEEP acid at bay! When this valve is relaxed, more acid can seep up and aggravate heartburn symptoms!
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* 2 parts Chamomile
* 2 parts passion flower
* 1 part St. Johns wort
* 1 part hops flower
* 1 part valerian root
* 1 part catnip
* 1 part lemon balm
2 teaspoons per cup of water before bed time will help you sleep soundly all through the night! Really!
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Migraine sufferers are sometimes misunderstood with respect to their ailment. The general belief that all migraines automatically refer to severe headaches is but one of the many misconceptions that make the round about this debilitating condition. To shed a bit more light on the overall circumstances surrounding migraines, here are six little known facts.
1. Migraines and headaches not synonymous. Instead, migraines present with symptomatic pain that may affect other portions of the body in addition to the head. There is the possibility of muscle interference in the extremities, headaches, and also severe gastrointestinal upset.
2. The severity of migraine symptoms varies and it is not possible to predict them. In some cases a migraine attack may be a debilitating affair that puts the sufferer out of commission for one to three days. In other cases the symptoms are so benign that they do not affect the patient and his daily activities. It is impossible to predict each migraine attack’s severity.
3. Migraines are not indicative of a high IQ. It used to be thought that only creative geniuses or high IQ scoring individuals would fall victim to migraine headaches. This is not true. A neurological disorder, migraines may affect anyone.
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* 1/2 cup fresh or 1/4 cup dried lemon balm
* 1/2 cup fresh or 1/4 cup dried German chamomile blossoms
* 2 cups boiling water
Add the herbs to the boiling water. Cover and infuse for 20 minutes. Strain
and add to your bathwater.
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When it comes to promoting relaxation and reducing stress, nothing beats yoga. Unfortunately this isn’t the case for everyone. Most people who quit yoga think they fail because they are unable to get the positions and technique right. In fact, the reason they fail is that they put too much importance on getting the positions and technique right.
I do not profess to be a master of yoga. In fact, I am a beginner, with very little skill. However I have taught drumming for many years, and the pitfalls are similar. Here is my advice for yoga beginners.
Week 1 – Enjoy the activity:
Grab a beginner yoga video and set up your mat in a place that you can be comfortable and alone (there’s no room for self-consciousness in this step). Go through the exercises, but act as though you are a six year old having fun, rather than an adult worrying about technique. Try all of the positions, don’t worry if there are some you can’t perform right away, modify as necessary.
Week 2 – Examine the sensations:
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Stress – related disorders have become increasingly common in Western Society, and the wear and tear caused by chronic stress can contribute to physical and mental breakdown.
Some disorders such as hypertension, have reached almost epidemic proportions. Because of these increases, stress and ways of dealing with it, are a major target of medical and psychological researchers. Of course, it is not possible or advisable to attribute all disease to stress.
A person’s health is, after all, the result of complex environmental, biological, behavioural and health care factors. In the promotion of personal health, stress deserves our attention in the treatment of disease and in the promotion of health.
What Is Stress?
Stress can be defined as the experience of unpleasant over- or under- stimulation which actually or potentially leads to ill-health. No human being can function without stimulation and challenge. It is part of life and provides excitement, impetus and motivation, as well as, unfortunately distress and anxiety. As long as you feel in control, challenge can be invigorating. However, with some of the challenges you meet, the more disabling, feelings and actions associated with stress, can take hold.
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Anger is the feeling we experience when events in our world are not going according to our plans. Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions affecting our minds. Because it is based on an exaggeration, anger is an expression of our belief system and how we defend it.
It’s as if we have an inner idea of how things, events and people should be for us. When we get angry and either feel frustrated or try to change them, we tend to give away our power! Many of us remain a victim to our tempers all of our lives. In essence, anger is the feeling we get when we want to control the world around us.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, anger is most prevalent in the Spring. It is considered the emotion of Spring. Although we can and do experience anger at any time or season, it is Spring when we are most easily angered. This is believed to be due to the changes of light and dark and the balance between them.
It is very important to identify the actual cause of whatever unhappiness we feel. If we are forever blaming our difficulties on others, this is a sure sign that there are still many problems and faults within our own mind.
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A tension headache is a diffusing mild to moderate pain that spreads over the head. In most cases, the pain is not localized and is spread all over the head. It is often described as the feeling that one would get if the skull is caught in a vise. In many instances tension headache may cause pain in the base of the neck, shoulders and upper back too.
Tension type headaches are classified as under:
-Â Â Â Episodic – Headache that occurs for less than 15 days a month
-Â Â Â Chronic – Pain in the head that occurs for more than 15 days in a month for at least six months. .
Even thought the pain is normally moderate, it can get severe at times.
Stress in the muscles around the neck and head was believed to be the most common cause of tension headache. Another theory suggests that teeth clenching causes tension headaches as it leads to contraction of the muscle that allows the jaw to open and close.
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