Ways To Relieve Stress

Ways to Relieve Stress

No Matter Where You Are or What You Are Doing

Today you are going to learn quick and easy ways to relieve stress.

First, know that your body gives you tools you can use to overcome stress.

Second, your mind can be used to modify stress.

Third and most important, you don’t have to let stress become distressful. Stress is a normal part of living.

Stress is one of the places you can most see the mind-body relationship active. Because of that you can learn to both control and gain mastery over stress. To conquer your stress, it helps to understand how your mind and your body can best work together.

When thinking about stress you can see that stress has always been a part of life. From the earliest evolution of life, stress has been a reality of life. The stress that is created by the needs of human life for survival has existed since the dawn of time. The fulfillment of those needs fuels most of the stress today.

Educational Psychologist Abraham Maslow created a hierarchy of human needs that explains this relationship brilliantly.

Maslow Hierarchy of Needs leads to reduced stress — Maslow Hierarchy of Needs

The most basic of human needs are food, water, sleep and breathing. Fulfilling those needs for yourself and your family remain the primary causes of stress. Likewise the need for safety and shelter from the elements is a universal need. The failure to manifest those needs threatens survival and can cause stress.

Yet, once those steps of food and water, safety and shelter have been satisfied you can move onto needs over which you have more control. Those first two steps on the pyramid as identified by Maslow are so basically physiological that unless they are achieved they remain the primary needs.

However, even within these very basic needs are decisions and choices that can certainly affect how much you stress. In truth, it is the way you choose to fulfill those needs that create lots of stress. Therefore, discriminating between need and want becomes an important aspect of learning to manage your stress.

I do not wish to be naive or cavalier in considering this factor. Indeed, as the old folk saying reveals, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”

So much stress is created by the failure to determine whether something is a need or want.
– Genevieve Gerard

Ponder on this statement.

Being proactive in your choices about the commitments you make is an important way to limit your stress, however; although that is about avoiding future stress. It is more important to find ways to relieve the stress that is challenging you today.

10 Ways To Relieve Stress

Here are some quick ways you can learn to use your mind-body relationship to release stress and be more relaxed and centered, that you can do anytime and anywhere when you start to feel stressed.

1. Learn From Your Lessons. Whatever choices you have made, mistakes or errors of judgment, evaluate them and then let them go. They are as of this moment, now in the past. Let them be in the past. You now have new decisions and choices that require your attention.

2. Let Go of The Past by taking a deep lung expanding bottomless breath as you exhale. This works as a subtle physiological factor that uses the important mind-body relationship to release and relieve your stress.

3. Forgive Yourself and open yourself to receive what the unlimited potential of life is bringing to you.

4. Forgive Anyone Else from whom you are estranged.

5. Say A Positive Affirmation with your whole heart, mind, and Soul. (You may wish to have some favorite pre-chosen for just this purpose.)

6. Consider Your Perspective, is there a shift you need to consider that will shift what you are thinking or feeling.

7. Ask yourself “Are My Expectations Realistic.” You are not perfect and you do not need to be perfect.

8. Monitor Your Thoughts, reframe, and re-write any “Stinking Thinking.” There is a positive side and a negative, side so it is up to you to decide.

9. Look Around You and find something for which you are grateful. Then express that gratitude deep into your heart and mind.

10. Free Your Emotions to find your centered calm. Let go of your hurts and your anger to let yourself clear away any negativity. Open yourself to what life is opening up before you that has never been before.

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Once a day give yourself the Gift of Relaxation. If you take the time each day to do a 10-15 minute meditation or visualization to let your body and your mind deeply relax you can move through your day more easily before the little things can accumulate and become a primary focus of your time and attention. This once a day helps to reset and re-establish a calm baseline.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.
That’s why they call it the present.”
– Eleanore Roosevelt

Open your heart and your mind to the incredible opportunity of life and celebrate the possibilities that are emerging, right here, right NOW. Life is an amazing adventure. Enjoy!

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

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Genevieve Gerard

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Releasing Stress

HOW YOU CAN REDUCE STRESS IN YOUR LIFE

Through my counseling and coaching work, I have seen the devastation on health and wellbeing that stress has created in people’s lives.

Everyone can agree that our lives can be very stressful; stress can have a variety of causes such as job challenges, family problems, financial difficulties, poor health, false expectations or even the death of someone close to you. Because of this, the accumulation of stress can create illness and dis-ease.

During my years of biofeedback practice and teaching pain management techniques I have seen that releasing and relieving stress is possible through the transformative power of the mind-body-spirit relationship.

As you listen to this Relax and Release visualization you will be guided to experience a deep relaxation process that allows your mind and your body to relax in a way that releases the stress of your day. As you experience this deep relaxation you will discover that your mind is freed to see new solutions to problems and you will experience an increase in effectiveness, productivity, and creativity.

Relax and Release delivers to you the benefit of my decades of experience applying my mastery of the mind-body relationship to teach thousands of individuals the secret to release stress and achieve deep relaxation, even in the middle of an intense work day. These proven techniques guide you to reduce irritability, improve memory and concentration, lower blood pressure, reduce the pain and frequency of headaches, and give you a greater sense of well-being.

WHY AM I STRESSED OUT?

Quotes about Stress in the 1980’s:

Time magazine cover article called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties” and referred to it as our leading health problem
A 1983 Prevention magazine survey found that only 55% feel they have “great stress” one day a week.
In the same survey in 1996 almost 75% said they felt under great stress on a weekly basis with one out of three indicating they feel this way more than twice a week.

According to the 1990’s NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report:

40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful;
Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago;
26% of workers said they were “often or very often burned out or stressed by their work”;

More recently, quotes about stress in the 2000 annual “Attitudes In The American Workplace VI” Gallup Poll sponsored by the Marlin Company found that:

80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help;

A subsequent 2000 Integra Survey similarly reported that:

62% routinely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% reported stressed-out eyes, 38% complained of hurting hands and 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out;

These findings are supported by other studies that put their significance in perspective.

75-90% of visits to Primary Care doctors are due to stress
1/3 of women and 1/4 of men take no vacation each year

Effects of stress …
… On your body	… On your mood	… On your behavior
Headache Muscle tension or pain Chest pain Fatigue Change in sex drive Stomach upset Sleep problems	Anxiety Restlessness Lack of motivation or focus Irritability or anger Sadness or depression	Overeating or undereating Angry outbursts Drug or alcohol abuse Tobacco use Social withdrawal

Source: American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” report, 2010

Long-term stress can increase the risk of diseases like depression, heart disease and a variety of other problems. A stress-related illness called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop after a peak emotional traumatic experience like war, physical or sexual assault, or a natural disaster.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE – BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO HELP REDUCE THE STRESS IN YOUR LIFE

Click here to download your Relax and Release guided visualization now.

According to a 2011 Mayo Clinic article:
Relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms and
help you enjoy a better quality of life…

Relaxation techniques are a great way to help with stress management. Relaxation isn’t just about peace of mind or enjoying a hobby. Relaxation is a process that decreases the effects of stress on your mind and body. Relaxation techniques can help you cope with everyday stress and with stress related to various health problems, such as cancer and pain.

Whether your stress is spiraling out of control or you’ve already got it tamed, you can benefit from learning relaxation techniques. Learning relaxation techniques is easy. Relaxation techniques also are often free or low cost, pose little risk and can be done just about anywhere.

Practicing relaxation techniques can reduce stress symptoms by:

Slowing your heart rate

Lowering blood pressure

Slowing your breathing rate

Increasing blood flow to major muscles

Reducing muscle tension and chronic pain

Improving concentration

Reducing anger and frustration

Boosting confidence to handle problems

To get the most benefit, use relaxation techniques along with other positive coping methods, such as exercising, getting enough sleep, and reaching out to supportive family and friends.

The Relax and Release guided visualization works with your body’s natural physiology to create a relaxation response, free body and mind, and enhance your enjoyment of life. Use these techniques anytime, anywhere to transform your day, and in minutes you’ll return to life relaxed, refreshed and restored.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: For decades Genevieve Gerard has taught Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from relaxation and meditative techniques. Her work today is setting the stage of a worldwide vision to help you connect deeply with yourself and with your higher source.

Click here to download your Relax and Release guided visualization now. You deserve a break for all of your hard work.

Now is the perfect time to treat yourself to something that will make a difference and finally relax and release stress.