Do you know what medicine to take when you are feeling stress? Just like when you are have flu or cold. Practicing stress management well is also a very important precaution you simply cannot avoid. As stress can affect our health in one way or another through weakening our immune system, which in turn leads to serious health problems like migraine, diabetes, cold etc…

As they say, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. The same can be said to how ones manage their frustration, grief, anxiety, and yes, stress. It’s a state on ones’ mental conditioning. Coping with life, and carrying the problems that may or may not belong to you can rob away the joy and happiness. Learning to make the correct choice and refuse any reasons to allow stress to weigh you down starting from now with this seven-day program:

1. Learn from the best
Figure out how stress managers stay calm when people around them are losing their head. What is their attitude? Sit down and have a chat with them.

2. Practice socially acceptable heavy breathing
This is some tips i master from my Taiji Instructor: Trick and conditioned our body into relaxing by using this method. Breathe in slowly for a count for 7 then breathe out for a count of 11. Repeat the 7-11 breathing until your heaft rate slows down & feel relaxed.

3. Know your trigger points and hot spots
Presentations, interviews, meetings, giving difficult feedback, tight deadlines….

Make your own list of stress trigger points or hot spots. Be specific. Is it only presentations to a certain audience that get you worked up? Does one project cause more stress than another?

Knowing what causes you stress is powerful information, as you can take action to make it less stressful.

4. Acknowledge stress is good.
Make stress as your good friend! Based on the body’s natural “flight or fight” response, that burst of energy will enhance your performance. Just like a top sportsman totally relaxed before a big competition. Use stress wisely to push yourself that little bit harder.

5. Avoid stress sneezers
Stressed people sneeze stress germs indiscriminately and before you know it, you are infected too!

Protect yourself by recognizing stress in others and limiting your contact with them. Or if you’ve got the inclination, play stress doctor and teach them how to better manage themselves.

6. Give stressy thoughts the red light
It is possible to tangle yourself up in a stress knot all by yourself. Give stress thought-trains the red light and stop them in their tracks.

7. Burn essential aromatheraphy
While lack of sleep, poor diet and lack of adequate exercise can mess out our body and mind. Try to burn lavander essential oil during the night to have better stress management.

As mentioned, stress can really be a pain in the neck. We should not let that hinder our search for inner peace of mind. Practice the seven day stress management program to claim both outer and inner well being today.

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Times flies and RelieveYourMind.com was born and is already one month old. Well for this coming year, i will share with you more about My Secret for stress management tips and other great programs:-

My New Year Resolution 2008

I am going to earn a constant monthly income of US$3000 by End of Dec 2008. For mid year , i am going to earn a constant monthly income of US$1,500 by End of June 2008. By then, I am going to buy my first dream car ever , a white 1.5L Honda Fit in End of Dec 2008. With a certain degree of success, i can then help my close friend and sibling do the same thing as well.

Things i Need to Achieve in 2008
- Be one of the successful internet marketer that makes his first USD$10000 online by End of Dec 2008
- Able to fund my sister’s education for her university.
- Buy my first dream car, Xiao Bai, Honda Fit 1.5L
- Buy a diamond necklace for my beloved mum’s birthday, which she always hoping to get one.
- Master the art of 24 & 42 Style Taiji Quan and participate in compeition for the coming year 2009.
- Get Healthier and Fitted so as to prepare myself for bigger challengers ahead.

Things i Need to Do in 2008
- Focus, Focus & Focus on Marketing my online business daily.
- Spend my time wisely and complete my daily assignment i set for myself.
- Treasuring my beloved family members by spending some time out of my marketing time with them, bringing them out for Jalan, Jalan.
- Spend a Sunday morning to practice Taiji with my Shijie.
- Do 100 push up & 50 sit up & 40 Pull up everyday (Morning and Night)
The Challenges I Facing
- Need more traffic to my blog and website.
- Might lose focus halfway ( Must Defeat That!)
- My health status.
Thats my goal for coming 2008. Do share yours by dropping a comment below …

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Lastly, like to share a great short video clip that inspired me

Staying healthy have to combined a few key element like ensuring a proper intake of nutrition daily plus routine exercise and most importantly - sleeping well. However, due to our day to day hectic lifestyle, modern individual often has trouble getting into sleep due to stress, tensions and anxiety. This in turn has an adverse effect on our health.

Generally speaking, average individual adult should have at least seven to ten hours of sleep. Lacking adequate amount of quality sleep time will lead to problem like stress, unable to concentrate well during the day and feeling easily irritated. This in turn will definitely affect our work and relationship-related issues. As there are numerous advices on sleeping well, these are 5 little tips I like to share which might be helpful

5 tips to help you sleep better:-

• Use Aromatherapy (Lavender my favorite)
Ancient natural plants/herbs such as lavender or chamomile have amazing effect of relaxing the body and aids in inducing sleep. I will usually light up my aroma – burner half an hour before I went to bed. The soothing effect is simply marvelous.
• Take a hot shower bath a few moments before you went to bed. Make it part of your bedtime practice.
• Maintain a Healthy Diet- Dinner should be taken as light as possible for ease of digestion. In order to prevent stomach upset, we should try to avoid taking rich in carbohydrate food / fast food for example. Consuming alcohol, coffee must be put to an end as it will definitely affect our sleeping, since they contained stimulants effect to our body. Try taking a glass of warm milk, added a teaspoon of honey before bedtime, it really helps me to sleep better.
• Keep a regular sleeping hours – Turn in always around the same timing every night to cultivate a habit.
• Try to do simple exercise like slow jog / skipping for example as exercise are good for strengthening our heart and lung, thus reducing our stress and anxiety level. The best time is around late afternoon.
Learning to sleep well is certainly an importance key element to ensure a good health and it should not be taken too lightly. Start incorporating some of the tips above into your daily lifestyle and you will be amazed how it ups your health to the next level.

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In today’s modern stressful society, individual including myself could not be spared of the word
‘Stress’ which in turn affect our health. In fact it is importance that we learn ways to tackle it so as to achieve better health. Trying these 2 techniques has indeed helped me to relieve my stress level; you might want to give it a try.

Relaxation Technique 1: Morning Breathing Exercise
Every morning upon waking up, first thing first I will sit on my bed for around 15-20 minutes to practice conscious breathing exercise. Things that I will do are:Close your eyes and sit up straight with both hand rests comfortably on your knee.

· Slowly controlling your breathing by taking a deep breath in through your nose.

· Try holding your breath for two seconds and slowly breathe out through your nose.

· Keep your mind focus at the midpoint between your eyebrow, relax as much as you can

· Try to do this for a few minutes until you feel fresh and relaxed.

This simple basic exercise has allowed me to feel calm and relax every morning.

 

- Relaxation Technique 2: Plan to Exercise regularlyI plan to exercise at least twice weekly, and every session last me around one and a half hour. Exercise is a great way to relieve stress as it aids in improving our body blood circulation which in turn increasing our body immune systems against any virus attack.These are the exercise I usually do:· Prepared myself by doing a good stretching to prevent injury· Do rebounding for a good half and hour

· Push Up and Sit Up – 150 each

· Swim at least once a week

· Practicing Taiji once a week

The exercise I share above has enabled me to relieve my stressful day work. My concentration has improved and most importantly, I can sleep well at night. Do add some exercise to suit your needs.

As there are many ways to relieve or manage our stress, the 2 Techniques: Morning Breathing Exercise and Plan To Exercise regularly has greatly helped me and improved my health both mentally and physically. . .You might want to give it a try and I hope that you have benefited from my 1st post on my blog.