Managing Persistent Fears, Depression and Everyday Anxieties

Everybody deals with anxiety and depression, however some people have a hard time managing it. As a result, here is a brief list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their most persistent fears and every day anxieties.When facing a current or upcoming task that overwhelms you with a lot of anxiety, the first thing you can do is to divide the task into a series of smaller steps. Completing these smaller tasks one at a time will make the stress more manageable and increase your … [Read more...]

Calm in the Chaos

Stress is something we all deal with. While we know exists, we are often largely unaware of how it affects our lives and our bodies. Research continues to point out the negatives of stress on our bodies and the immense impact it has on our level of mental, emotional and physical health.On a personal level, we become short tempered with our partners, our children and friends and co-workers due to an ever increasing "edginess" inside of us. While our awareness of stress, and its ability … [Read more...]

Call to Arms: Conscious Breath

Practice stress-releasing, transformational exercise for 23 days while focusing on world problem No. 1, simultaneously de-stressing yourself. Then you can focus on problem No. 2!Unprecedented challenges face all of us, including:• The Economy...in sharp recession.• Federal Debt...$10.6 trillion deficits affecting other governments.• Retirees...75 million boomers retiring, weakening safety nets. • Class Inequity..."me-first" attitudes and apathy. • Trade … [Read more...]

Moving toward Peace

You may have heard the saying, "world peace begins at home," but what does that mean to you personally? To me, this means first looking within ourselves for answers.Leo Tolstoy wrote, many years ago, "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." People tend to look furthest away from themselves for fault: at different countries, different religions, different political parties or even just different personal habits. We can all see what is … [Read more...]