Stress is a part of everyday life in the workplace. Variables that come into play when managing stress are the severity of the stressors, and how the stress is dealt with. A stress assessment test can help you identify stressors, and therefore help you manage them in a healthy way. Evaluate Your Results Once your stress assessment test is complete, review the results. They … [Read more...]
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Why Physical Exercise is Essential for Healthy Living
In addition to forming an essential aspect of how to lose weight, regular physical exercise is instrumental to living an overall healthy lifestyle. There are many types of physical activity that will keep you healthy, from low impact to high-impact exercise, to sports and arts that incorporate physical activity, such as dance. Physical fitness should be broken up over the week … [Read more...]
Sonic Bliss: Music as a Mood Booster
Stress is a part of everyday life. The importance lies in how we deal with it. Whereas one person might experience frazzled nerves while being caught a traffic jam, another person in the next car over might view the setback as an opportunity to mentally survey previous parts of the day and calmly think about whether certain responses were appropriate or if room for improvement … [Read more...]
5 Health Benefits Of Being In A Relationship
Being in a loving and committed relationship is healthy both mentally and physically. In addition to butterflies in your stomach, and the giddiness that accompanies seeing your loved one at the end of the day, being in a relationship can have a positive impact on your life. 1. Improves Mental Wellness Loneliness can creep up on the most independent of individuals … [Read more...]
Fighting Depression After Infertility
In my family there have been several women who have suffered from infertility. One of those women was my grandmother. She tried to have a child for many years, into her forties, and could not seem to get pregnant. This was before the era of fertility treatments and so on, so you can only imagine how depressed she was. Finally she decided that she was going to have a child one … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Tap into Your Inner Warrior
Are you feeling lost when it comes to your direction in life? Do you look in the mirror and ask yourself who you are and what you are doing here? If so, you are not alone. Many people get down in the dumps from time to time and need help becoming the warriors they were meant to be. One definite way to help yourself is to hire a life coach. 1. Benefits of a Life … [Read more...]
Healthy Thinking, Situations, and Relationships
Many people are concerned with their health today. There is a lot of talk about exercise, eating healthy, and taking additional supplements to keep us healthy. Being healthy is not only a physical concern but a mental and emotional one as well. It is important to have healthy relationships in our lives and to keep stress at a minimum. by photostock Stress is a normal part of … [Read more...]
Fearing the Road? 5 Tips to Help You Get Back Behind the Wheel after an Accident
Few things in life are more terrifying than a serious car accident. If you have lived through one, you may have experienced injuries, emotional trauma and possibly even grief at the loss of a loved one. All of these things can make it incredibly difficult to get behind the wheel again. However, in the society we live in, driving is hard to avoid. 1. Be a Passenger … [Read more...]
Tips to Decorate Your Home for Love and Happiness
Designing a look can turn into a quest for the latest trend and a trek across the Internet universe. Lists, budgets and designer names swirl through your head. This might be a good time to stop and catch your breath. Countless objects fill the home, but its most valuable asset is your heart. The concept of designing your home to encourage love and laughter might seem unusual, … [Read more...]
Dealing with Depression: 6 Potential Side Effects of Pet Therapy
Depression is a complex mental disorder not yet fully understood by the medical community. It is also a multi-billion dollar business, as evidenced by the many print and TV ads that promote various pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of depression. Certainly drug therapy, when used in addition to psychotherapy, can play an important role in helping those with depression … [Read more...]