Meditation for Stress

Sink into bliss during this gently guided meditation with intuitive Sonia Choquette.
As you begin to relax deeper into your conscious divine self, you’ll feel a lightness and peace wash over you.

Turn Stress Into Productivity

5 Ways To Turn Stress Into Productivity

Stress prevents productivity, which is why you need to learn how to manage your stress levels in order to become more productive. Stress is self-imagined, self-imposed, and self-created; Which means you basically create your own stress and therefore you’re the one that’s preventing yourself from getting things done.
Stress is an unhealthy emotion that wastes too much of your energy. Instead, you should be focusing all that energy on the task at hand. Stress only becomes as powerful as you allow it to (at least that’s what Yoda told me). An emotion like stress can derail your day and control your actions, but it doesn’t have to; by stopping and addressing the issue once it starts, you’ll be a lot more likely to spend your day actually getting things done instead of just stressing over getting things done.

Ways to Lower Your Stress in 15 Minutes

7 Simple Ways to Lower Your Stress in 15 Minutes or Less

Everyone feels overwhelmed and stressed sometimes.

• Maybe you have a family situation that needs extra time and attention.
• Maybe you have a particular co-worker that just somehow grates on your very last nerve.
• Maybe you are ill or some you love is ill.

So what can you do when you feel angry, overwhelmed and stressed about the things you really have little control over?

I believe that if you add preventative stress management into your daily lifestyle you can more easily control how you handle your reaction to the stressful situations that crop up.

I would like to say that you can eliminate stress completely — but I can’t. However, there is a lot you can do to prepare yourself so when you are faced with these situations you can handle them with grace, an inner calm, and compassion.

The Most Effective Stress Management Tips

The Most Effective Stress Management Tips… Ever!

Stress management is a hot topic these days, with good reason; even if you’re totally overwhelmed and you can’t seem to be able to juggle all of life’s demands, you can take steps starting right now to change the way you see and think to permanently give you control of your stress response. Many stress management techniques focus on making you feel better – which is great – but to live a stress-free life, you’ll need to make some in the way you think.

Start with making a list of things that cause you stress: too many activities into your day? Finances, health and relationship issues? Do you feel that you’re not in control of your life or you’re not on the right path for personal fulfillment and happiness? Even the smaller things like keeping up with the dishes and unfinished tasks can cause stress. If you start making a list and you feel stressed about how much you have to be stressed about (including making lists!), keep going with this so you can identify where changes need to be made.

The Unexpected Stress-Busting Power of Music

While listening to Eminem’s “Till I Collapse” is widely considered the way to get pumped up, music can also calm us down. Research suggests listening to tunes can distract us from stress and even increase our pain threshold [1].

don’t leave before savasana

this articles from Susan

I’ve recently come back to my yoga mat, that 11- year -old purple mat I first started practicing yoga on. It’s a bit worn and a little too narrow, but I feel an attachment to it.   We have gone through a lot of life sh*t together.

Stress Awareness

Stress Awareness Article Template

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