“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits” Robert Puller

Habits add enough structure to change life drastically long term. Picking up one new good habit a month leads to 12 improved habits over a year and 60 in 5 years. Even half of that could change behavior that leads to significant results. What kind of impact would that have on your career, business, goals, relationships, health, finances, etc.? How would your quality of life be different? Aristotle explained, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Here are 10 ways life gets easier when you change habits in a positive direction.

Sharpening Focus - Setting up small habits to help you stay clear on priorities, plan ahead, or be organized can increase and sharpen your focus. This results in achieving more, faster; and saving time.

Happier Relationships - Setting boundaries, daily gratitude and affection, etc. can lead to upgraded relationships. I once met a man who started his day turning to his wife and thanking God for her every morning when they awoke. Imagine what this small habit could do for a relationship?

Healthful Lifestyle - Exercise, deep breathing, yoga, drinking more water, increasing healthy foods intake, etc. can reduce trips to the doctor and hospital while allowing more time for feeling good, having fun, and getting things done. Begin with just one small addition at a time.

More Energy - With some habits you can pick up bonus benefits. Developing habits above that sharpen focus and improve health can also give you more energy. Getting the right amount of sleep each night helps, too.

Higher Education - Good habits that make time for reading, education, developing a skill, etc. can lead to developing expertise and a well rounded education that improves communication with others, opens more doors, and helps you make educated decisions.

Steadfast Confidence - Naturally, all of the areas above can help build a stronger sense of self when you feel good about who you are, have focus and purpose, and the support of good relationships.

More Opportunities - More doors open when you are feeling great about yourself, you are continuously developing your education and skills, and you have a network of great relationships around you.

Better Choices - Good habits can add structure to save time and remove you from chaos. Then you can get out of your head and into your heart to connect with intuition and make great choices. Intuition is rarely wrong. In addition, educational habits help develop a library of resources that you can access quickly when needed to help make tough decisions. And developing good relationships leads to knowing just the right person to call for advice.

More Spiritually Connected - Studies have found that those who are spiritually connected are able to handle crisis more easily. Habits that develop your soul strengthen you to handle hardships.

Feel Great - Notice how much of the above builds on each other to develop you, your career, family, and life in a way that makes you feel great. Personal development through change of habits creates the foundation to make your journey a whole lot easier and enjoyable.

We all have habits that are in place or developing. The question then becomes: Are your habits supporting you to achieve goals you envision for your career, relationships, business, life, etc. long term? Follow these steps to change habits and change behavior one step at a time:

- Choose one small habit to develop this month that will bring you benefits for years to come.

- Keep it simple while developing the routine. You can always expand on it later. Create the lifestyle change.

- Put structure in place to add accountability and stay on track, such as keeping a journal or having an accountability partner.

- Stay focused on the benefits.

Enjoy feeling life become easier as it transforms in a positive direction one habit at a time… Starting Now!

Bad habits are very easy to develop, but can be extremely hard to stop. Nevertheless, it is not mission impossible. As with achieving any goal, stopping a bad habit begins with a single step. And while that step is hard to take, it does get easier after that. Once you are willing to make the change and will work on taking the proper steps, you will see that you can break any habit. And once the bad habit is broken, it could be replaced with a healthier one.

Tips on Breaking Bad Habits

The first step in stopping any undesirable habit is preparing yourself mentally for ending it, accepting that it has to stop, and making the commitment to stop it. Being firmly committed to this will help you to overcome any habit.

The following suggestion will help you end any bad habits, and replace them with healthy ones:

The first step is to identify one bad habit you want to eliminate. It’s not a good idea to tackle several bad habits at one time, that could be overwhelming and frustrating. You also must identify habits that you are willing to change, choosing one you have no desire to alter will not be successful. If you experience a setback while trying to change a bad habit, don’t give up, chalk it up to experience and continue working at changing the habit.

Choosing a Substitution

An important thing to remember is that you are not actually eliminating a habit, what you are doing is replacing a negative habit with a positive one. Attempting to completely eliminate a habit without some form of a replacement for it can be exceedingly difficult. You may find that you can deny the habit and the impulses to engage in it for a short time, but in the end, you will wind up engaging in the habit as if nothing had ever changed.

Consider some of these situations for substituting good habits for bad ones:

1. Get in shape with Exercise. Exercise is an ideal substitution for negative and destructive habits. Exercising is especially fitting if the habit you are fighting is overeating, smoking or some other addiction. With exercise you will not only stop yourself from engaging in the destructive acts, but you’ll be focusing that energy on a positive outlet that will actually make you healthier, too.

2. Bad habits in social settings. It is true that some bad habits creep out more when we are in social situations. While being social is great and enjoyable, it is important to find social situations that you can enjoy that will not cause you to engage in the bad habit. Identify the social settings that creat the biggest temptation and then change your routine so that you can avoid them.

3. You must take action. It is important that any solution you choose should be one that you will be able to follow, as this is the only way it will be able to work for you. You will make mistakes, and there will be times that you slide back into old actions, but it is important that you don’t give up, that you continue to try and work towards your goal of changing that bad habit.

How to Fulfill Your Needs

We all have needs, and many can be fulfilled with negative habits, but they can also be fulfilled with healthy habits. You have probably developed the bad habit because it fills a need. If you can pinpoint this need, then you can pinpoint a way to fulfill that need with a healthy habit.

Of course, finding the actual need that you are trying to fill may not be the simplest task; it may take some real thought and soul searching. For example, a habit such as grinding your teeth at night can be highly destructive, but the real question is why you grind your teeth. It’s true that you can sleep with a mouth guard to prevent permanent dental damage from occurring, but it is imperative that you find out the root cause if you truly want to stop.

There are negative habits we develop because we don’t feel loved, or needed, or important and the bad habit forms as a way to cope with those feelings. So while delving into those feelings can be difficult and even painful, we need to do so. Otherwise, we’d continue to just put a makeshift bandage over the problem with our bad habits, and nothing is ever truly resolved and healed. One way to find the true source of your bad habits is also to talk things over with your family, friends, or even a health professional; any of these people may be able to help you pinpoint the real problem.

These tips can help you replace your bad habits with positive ones and while it takes time, a lot of patience, and continuing effort, the results will be worth every second spent on this process.

Warmly

Brent.T

When its time for a person to stop smoking and start to live their whole life, some time should be spent to realize what smoking is doing for them on a emotional level by the way the habit affects stress and their emotional mood. Smoking is an emotional physical act that has been learned that was created into a habit that changes a persons emotional mood while they smoke. When a person just stops smoking their is a physical and emotional mental conflict that takes place in the body and mind. How a person address these affects has a major affect on their attitude about recovery from smoking and what do they want to create emotionally from not smoking. Since smoking is a set of created emotions that is used every time person pickup a cigarette and when a person stop picking up that cigarette it changes their whole emotional experience. Developing new emotions is never ease but always a challenge and finding people that have enhance their enjoyment of life is a suggestion. Asking good questions is part of learning after person stops smoking.

By realizing the single most powerful physical act you do as you smoke, is to affect stress and create a calm mood within the context of the learned emotional habit of smoking. This is done on your exhalation of the smoke within the habit to affect physical stress, that affects emotions. Smoking can be seen as a breathing habit to affect stress and a persons emotional mood.

This program views smoking as breathing or breath problem for the act of smoking affects how a person breathe. This is an energy point of view, base on breath and ones spirit for they are link together and realizing this link gives a smoker ideas and concepts that lets them affect their stress and emotions that can replace the smoking affect that changes their stress. Smoking is learned form of breathing that affects your physical and emotional reality by changing stress that is repeated in the form of habit. Simply, smoking is habit to change your stress which changes your physical and emotional state of being and has other influences on how person feels.

The power of core/breathing program deals directly with stress in shoulder and tension in body through its techniques directed by the mind that enhances physical force and feeling through the physical body. There is a saying in this program, “Change your stress, you can change your emotional reality” and the most affective proven way is affect stress is in your breath exchange between inhale and exhale, for smoking is about how you breathe with a cigarette. View point, your breath supports your physical, emotional reality for how you breathe within emotional situations affects your stress.

Once person decides to stop smoking the first thing that happen is they are changing their breathing pattern during parts of the day and that breathing pattern is smoking created to affect stress. The problem for smokers is not having that breathing pattern with cluing from a cigarette that lessen stress in shoulders which affects the feeling through out the body. Missing that habit that changes stress is a real emotional problem and finding ideas and techniques that affect stress makes the transition from smoking to be non-smoker lot more effective.

It has be shown that by changing your breathing pattern by extending breathing range affects physical stress which affects emotions for every major stress reduction program has breathing part of their program. If you take a view point that smoking is a breathing habit that affects stress by changing your breathing pattern through the use a cigarette to affecting stress, then first question to change from smoking is how to breathe to affect stress. By learning a different breathing patterns and one that makes a person physically stronger and holding less stress into habit to replace smoking breathing and its affect to reduce stress. By seeing and understanding the end goal that your smoking habit does for you, gives a view what you have to do to create the same affect, yet it will be different and new with out a cigarette.

With clear view of your smoking habit as way to breathe to affect stress and your emotional state, it opens a new way to address the affects of smoking habit in a very direct way where the person create their breath to affect stress in a mindful way. Keep in mind always, look for the best methods that create ways to lessen conflict physically and emotionally when you stop smoking. Change is hard when it address emotional stress within one behavior for it affects the mind, body and spirit to change from a old way of action to new way being.

This is a way of thinking about change for there is three points of view, they are mental, physical and spirit for these are words to focus on when a person wants to consciously change. It is the interplay between them that within person behavior action that person works with to over come smoking habit. Look at smoking from energy point of view to start off with and see how it affects mental and physical. For smoking has three basic parts that integrate together to affect stress and finding ways to affect each and then have them blend together.

The real problem when person address stress head on is ” PEOPLE LOVE THEIR STRESS” for it makes up their emotional reality and when you touch on that part of being human, fear holds people back base on not understanding and how to replace the fear with some form of emotional sense of self while interaction with others around them. Self is some form of, on going emotional value projection, interacting with others that affects emotional connections to life. Some types of fear stops good emotional development and its very much physical to mental for its about enjoyment within your own emotions.

Keep in mind the affect of smoking has on persons emotions will very greatly and its base on how they learned how to smoke and at what age and the level of fear around them at that time. When a person learns to smoke which is learning to breath with smoke which impacted their energy level that had affect their physical feeling to the brain that affected their attitude to deal with their fear. To stop smoking will affect people in very different ways but underlining emotions that person has to deal with is fear going back to when they learned how to smoke. People that had low level of fear and it was very much part of being with the group, for them to stop will have little affect but people that was going through lot emotional fear conflicts (children its about about fear of not knowing and their surrounding with others and how they fit in) and smoking help them get through it, will have a real emotional physical conflicts that they have to go through and work out with their stress. Stress is learned and the mind and body deals with it in different ways given the individual.

The three cluing components that make up smoking that once understood can aid someone in their program not to smoke and recover from smoking by finding ways to address stress. First is the physical cluing of the cigarette itself, and even the pack of cigarettes, will get the mind to start to think about smoking within its learned emotions set that affect stress that has be learned through repeated emotional behavior. Cigarette is a physical item that a person can feel when they hold it, that sends a signal to the brain and bring about emotional state of mind. The physical input is very strong force and not having the item that triggers a mental connection to emotional state that affects stress is a real lose to deal with stress.

Second component that interacts with the other two, is a persons mental state of mind that was learned from the time they learned to smoke that forms the emotional context of the habit to smoke that affects stress. The mental state of a person does not do will when it loses a large emotional state of expression and a outlet of emotions and not having a way to change stress. The physical act of smoking is an emotional outlet of a person energy and just stopping it creates emotional confusion and the more person was using smoking to deal with stress the greater the conflict of not having the outlet. For some, eating becomes replacement of smoking to affect stress in shoulder, because they have to use their jaw which affects stress in shoulders and eating lowers person energy level like smoking.

The third component is breath, energy and spirit for they are all link together for understanding the affects that person creates when they smoke a cigarette. In this program the act of smoking lowers a person internal energy which affects a person ability to be emotional in what ever they are doing physically that is calming. Be clear the affects of smoking to lower a persons energy to be emotional affects their judgment and decisions within their behavior. When person smokes they lower their internal energy in two ways one with smoke that replaces oxygen and the other with nicotine that lowers the flow blood through out the body that effect strength and emotions. Smoking deals with stress by changing the level of internal energy that the mind has to work with to express emotions within physical behavior. This part is the most powerful force to be understood to change your smoking habit to new more powerful form of breathing, that can make a person stronger and changes stress. People change when they become stronger within what they are doing for its about enhancing physical feeling and the brain expressing them.

What is addicting part to smoking is its the most repeatable form of exhalation that is directed to physical stress and feeling connected to stress. The exhalation of smoke relaxes the shoulders and body and the inhalation through the cigarette affects feeling of stress and body to enhance the affects of exhalation of the smoke from a cigarette. How you inhale and exhale has major affect on the body and feeling of stress. The next is the smoke itself coming from the cigarette that replaces oxygen for it makes you physically weaker for its like choking from not having oxygen and that will make you weaker. The third is nicotine which enhances the affects of smoke by reducing blood flow to the heart and the rest of the body. When person learns to smoke they learn how to bring the smoke in and not choke on it and then releasing the smoke with long exhale which will affect stress in shoulders.

The myth that nicotine is addictive has hurt recovery from smoking and dealing with stress. The idea of nicotine is addictive comes from lawyers that wanted to prove point to make money but common sense tells a different story. Keep in mind nicotine has an affect on the body within smoking the question is how it works out side of smoking.

I like to explain the Myth of Nicotine as a addictive drug within smoking for within clarity, a person does not waste their time and effort and lowers emotional frustration build up. There is relationship here that once realized can give more choices to be affective in changing a persons smoking habit and its emotional reality created from smoking. You are responsible for your behavior and creating choices is never ease when a person wants to change a learned habit that has emotional affect within their behavior. Do not waste your time and thoughts on nicotine as part of your over all recovery. It does have physical affect but not an addictive affect and the need to stop nicotine in your blood should be as fast as you can for recovery. In the view point of this program nicotine patch is harmful to person and their recovery for keeping a chemical that affects blood flow can not be good for a persons heart and feeling. To stop smoking is a physical challenge and a person can choose to take it up as such or give in to all the negative affects. Through the techniques of the power of core breathing a person may find the tools to change and learn about them self in ways that are surprising but will lower the frustration of coming off smoking.

Nicotine out side of the act of smoking, does not carry addictive force. The idea of nicotine as an addictive force in smoking was created by lawyers which created the confusion about the influence nicotine within the habit of smoking. The lawyer left a impression that nicotine is the main addictive force in the act of smoking. The real addictive force behind the smoking habit is the method of inhaling and exhaling that affects physical stress and gives a sense of calmness. Nicotine adds to the affect of stress and mood change through smoking but without the whole learned method of smoking a person has develop, nicotine does NOT affect person in an addictive way.

Common sense facts shows nicotine does not carry addictive behavior and desires within its digestion by it self. Caffeine has more addictive effects then nicotine when person consumes it by it self. Using common sense about drugs that have addictive affect for if a drug has addictive force there should be people in drug rehabs to recover from nicotine patches addiction. The fact is there is no black market for nicotine patches and people are not setting around waiting for their fix of nicotine in patches and there are no people that are in drug rehab for nicotine patches addiction shows nicotine by its self has NO addictive force over a person. Nicotine patch acts more like a placebo with some chemical affect to lessen physical affects of not smoking. If person wants to lessen the physical and emotional affects of stopping smoking they should create breath like they smoke and create the mental focus they have when they are smoking to relax the shoulders and body and calm emotions. Keep in mind here, smoking is a form of breathing that replaces oxygen that affects a persons physical stress and emotional state and nicotine enhances it but does not create the affects for you have learned to change your stress by smoking. Between smoke from cigarettes replacing oxygen and nicotine lowering the flow of blood to internal organs reduces energy ability make persons physically weak thereby affecting the mental state to produce calmness.

When you stop smoking you stop a learned pattern of breathing which focuses on exhaling and the mind seeing the smoke or the exhale going out of the mouth which clues the mind to have attitude that relaxes the shoulders and then body and changes for moment in time a persons mental focus by effecting and reduced energy.

When recovering from smoking a person needs to be clear in what manifest the need to smoke, so they can deal with the need to smoke which affects behavior and attitudes. If a person believes they are recovering from nicotine they are not dealing with the real addictive force within the act smoking and that is the affect of the exhale to change stress which affects old learned emotions with the help of smoke and nicotine within the behavior of smoking.

Purpose to smoking for once a person understands purpose to smoking they can start to think about other physical behavior to replace the act of smoking. Purpose is key part to recovery and change, other wise person could feel the need for smoke under emotional pressure to deal with stress.

From energy point of view which is the power of core breathing, the first physical change person can do is learn a form of breathing that extends exhaling in conscious mind way that affect stress. Replacing smoking breathing with all of its physical movement to affect stress with another form of breathing with its physical movement that affect stress is the most affective way to recovery from smoking and not wanting to smoke again. Looking at the emotional develop side of smoking and changing the need to smoke related to when smoking was learned and the emotions of the time.

Smoking is an spirit recovery of one self interacting with others around them. To smoke a person has to shape their torso while they are creating their breath in order to smoke. If breath and spirit are linked and smoking affects breath ability to form spirit within person that has influence on persons physical feeling and that affects person judgment and decisions that they are making every day. Example is food, for smoking killed off the ability to taste of foods that person is eating. Flavors within food is killed and it takes time to grow back the ability to taste the flavors within food. Smoking lowers a person ability to taste foods which affects enjoyment of food and a persons decision to eat some foods over others, because of the taste change from smoking. This is just one example of how smoking affects judgment and their are many more examples. So stopping smoking enhances physical signal to the brain for under the influence of smoking it was numb within it emotional development.

In this program the act of smoking is about creating relaxation of the mind and body through the act of exhaling. It is about your spirit affecting your mind and body to relax the shoulders muscles and body muscles to affect the minds emotional state. Finding techniques that create the same affects physically, mentally and emotionally of lessening stress with out smoking. There is NO reason you can not increase the enjoyable feelings of smoking with out smoking if you choose to be creative within your spirit within what your doing. (keep in mind spirit and breath relationship)

How to enhance the affects of relaxation with out smoking is by understanding the process or the step by step mental, physical and breathing a person creates to smoke their cigarette. Keep in mind, smoking is an affective way to reduce stress that is learned and each person has their own method to smoke to create the affect of relaxation and enjoyment. The word enjoyment is key word to replace your old smoking behavior with new behavior that creates enjoyment to be relaxed.

The most POWERFUL act a person does when they smoke is the exhale, for that is the driving force to relax the shoulders and body that a person has learned to bring about their learned emotional feeling that has some form of calmness within smoking.

This idea to replace smoking is center around core breathing to relax shoulder and make person stronger and higher sense of a person physical body in movement. Creating the longest exhale is a game to be played with and experience the affects on shoulder stress is the basic goal. The reason people smoke while they are working at a desk is they are thinking but as soon as they pick up a cigarette their thought change ever so little and when they inhale the mind is their because they are coordinate the hand to smoke and then pause after the inhale. Then looking at the smoke leaving and the shoulder come down ever so little but they relax feeling is for only a moment before person goes back thinking and that is enough to know and feel in order to do it again. Every time you think, given the level of emotions within the thought, the shoulder will be engaged and have level of tension which is energy stored in those muscles that support that thinking.

You start off your change from smoking to non-smoking by breathing like you smoke when you feel tension is only the beginning. Now to replace the act of inhale with a cigarette a person inhale through the nose. Then pause for second or longer would be better so the mind can connect to the torso feeling of having oxygen and the muscles holding it. Then exhale like you did when your smoking and here is little bit of art here. Lips and tongue play a role is relaxing the shoulders as you exhale. When people smoke they shape their lips in different ways as they blow the smoke out. Also think about your placement of the tongue as your exhaled the smoke it is down touching the back of the lower teeth. This is all about shaping the mouth area to affect shoulders stress as you exhale.

learning to engage the core by moving the belly button out to inhale and pulling in for the exhale as you walk or seated but create your breath by moving the core. Then short inhale and long exhale by pulling in the belly button. It is bring in air through the nose, pause and then exhale out the mouth through the lip shape and tongue down touching the back of the lower teeth. The mind is feeling and directing the exhale as you exhale you release the shoulders. Then PAUSE while the stomach is pulled in and feel muscle tension and then relax shoulders. This is done for second or more (enjoyment) and feel shoulder area to direct it to release it.

This is fast release of stress in shoulders and relaxation of muscles to some degree equal to smoking over time and then more, much more to play with and develop.

This is the short version of core breathing for the highest level is inhale and exhale out the nose by using the core to affect the whole torso and have no stress in shoulder and feeling hands and feet as they move.

Within this program there is walking to affect stress and feeling energy flow that changes muscle feeling and high level of mind body coordination that affects emotional stress feeling and body tension. Creating new set of motions with movement is opportunity to affect your spirit within walking.

Warmly

Brent.T

WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT STRESS!

Stress is a part and parcel of life and most of us have a flair of managing stress naturally. It is only when we lost control of how to control our stress level that we become depressed and suffered from anxiety disorder. In fact, the body’s natural relaxation response is a powerful antidote to stress. Relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, yoga and meditation or even relaxing massage can help you activate this relaxation response. When practiced regularly, these activities lead to a stress reduction in your everyday life and a boost in your feelings of joy and serenity.

Life is full of stress. Almost daily, we are bombarded with stress from work deadlines to bills and commitments in the home. We often worry too much when we are exposed to too much work, lack of time, too much debt, family problems and relationship problems. Stress leads to tension, physical and emotional strain. In addition, stress can cause problems like tension headaches, insomnia, problems focusing, tiredness, weight loss, weight gain and even suppress our immune system. Hence, we really do need all the help we can to get to learn how to relax and calm our mind. So what can we do about stress? First, we need to realize that knowing how to relieve stress is very important to our health and well-being.

Then, we must learn to begin to focus on reducing the stress in your life before stress gets the best of you.

Deep Breathing For Stress Relief

Learn how to focus on your breathing by concentrating on the way you breathe in and breathe out. First, you need to sit comfortably with your back straight or lie comfortably with your palms spread out on the bed or on the floor. Next, while you are breathing in, inhale deeply and be aware of the air passing into your nostrils, into your lungs and feel your abdomen slowly inflating. Then, breathe out slowly and be aware of your abdomen which is slowly deflating and feel the air coming out of your nostrils. Smell the rejuvenating air and be totally concentrating on the path of the air from outside to inside of your body.

As proven on many people, deep breathing is a simple yet powerful relaxation technique. Deep breathing is very easy to learn and we can use it almost anywhere and anytime. It provides us with a very quick way to get our stress levels in control. In fact, deep breathing is the cornerstone of various other relaxation practices and it can be combined with other relaxing methods like yoga, meditation, aromatherapy, massage and music. All you need is a few minutes and a space for you to stretch out.

One ultimate point to remember when doing deep breathing is to inhale more oxygen. The more oxygen you get, the less tense, short of breath, and anxious you feel. So the next time you feel stressed, take a minute to slow down and breathe in and out deeply.

Mindfulness Meditation For Stress Relief

This is an effective meditation process to relax and calm your mind and body. Mindfulness meditation focuses on the presence which is NOW, instead of the past or future. Place your whole focus on what is happening right at this moment. Do a “Body Scan” of your whole body. Focus your whole attention on various parts of your body, starting with your feet and work your way up to your knees, thighs, stomach, hands, fingers, chest, face and finally to your head. Feel totally relaxed and loosen your muscles while you focus on your toes, ankles, knees to your abdomen, chest, hands, fingers to your nose, eyes and finally to the top of your head.

Body scanning cultivates mindfulness by focusing your attention on various parts of your body. When you focus on every parts of your body, you are subconsciously telling these parts of your body to relax which will in terms help you to dis-stress and become totally relaxed.

Imaginative Visualization Technique For Stress Relief

Our stress is all caused by something or someone. Hence, imaginative visualization technique for stress relief comes into good use to help you dis-stress. First, close your eyes and relax. Imagine that someone, something or an event that is causing your distress and anxiety. Place this visual imagery onto your palm. Imagine that this someone or something is actually so small and tiny on your palm. Once you can see this visual imagery of that tiny someone or something on your palm, inhale deeply and simply blow directly at this particular visual imagery away from your palm. Then, slowly visualize that this someone or something get blown away into the air and out into the outer space, never to come back again.

This imaginative visualization technique helps in making you know that all your stress activators are actually very minor and small. They cannot harm or hurt you in anyway. You can conquer them and make them disappear at anytime you want.

Yoga For Stress Relief

Yoga is an excellent stress relief technique. It involves a series of both moving and stationary poses, combined with deep breathing. Yoga is renowned to be able to help our body totally relax and calm our mind and soul. The physical and mental benefits of yoga provide a natural counterbalance to stress, and strengthen the relaxation response in your daily life.

The deep relaxation technique which is practised at the last part of a yoga session is extremely effective in bringing you to a transquil and serene state. In fact, this deep relaxation technique can be combined with the mindfulness meditation technique as mentioned above.

Massage Therapy For Stress Relief

Getting a massage provides deep relaxation, and as the muscles in your body relax, so does your overstressed mind. One of my favorite massage therapy to dis-stress and promote good health is the traditional Chinese acupressure massage.

In acupressure massage, therapists use their fingers to manipulate the body’s pressure points. You will feel pain on the body parts that the therapists pressed on, but you will benefit greatly as the stress and tightness on various parts of your body are being released and dissipated. Nonetheless, you must take note that you need to engage a qualified and professional acupressure massage therapist to do the massage on you. Personally, I do this acupressure massage once or twice a month to dis-stress and bring overall well-being and good health to my body, mind and soul.

Soothing Music Therapy For Stress Relief

Another good stress relief technique is to listen to soothing and relaxation music. Soothing and relaxation music is proven medically and scientifically to bring overall calmness to the body and bring your stress level to a minimum.

Listen to good quality music genres like classical music, yoga music or nature music to dis-stress. On the other hand, listening to metallic rock and loud and quick music will actually makes us even more stress and can affect our overall well-being. Hence, we should be selective in the kind of music that we listen. The best music for stress relief is soothing and relaxation music. You can find them easily at many music cds stores near your neighborhood or downtown.

No matter which stress relief techniques you use, do bear in mind that you yourself must also think positively and be optimistic. Learn to appreciate life and the people around you. Give more than you receive. Take care of your family members and friends. Show care and concern to the people around you. And lastly, take good care of yourself by eating well, sleeping well and exercising frequently. And not to forget, LOVE YOURSELF.

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Warmly,

Michelle

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