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Category Archives: Anxiety And Stress
The Challenge of Boredom
Boredom is both a challenge and opportunity to get creative. It is certainly wrong to view it as a problem. Continue reading
Stress Management: Why Relaxation Alone is NOT Enough
Learning to relax is not enough for long term stress management. Find out why? Continue reading
Stress Management: “Fight or Flight” vs “Tend and Befriend” Stress Response
When stressed, women tend to nurture and men to withdraw. This gender bias towards stress management goes in favor of women whose preferred stress coping strategy is “tend and befriend” as opposed to “fight or flight” which appears rather primitive in contemporary society. Continue reading
Stress Management and Gender
There is certainly a gender dimension to stress management. It is biological and evolutionary. Although flight or fight has been a much talked about stress coping mechanism, there is another equally important mechanism that operates mostly in women. Read on… Continue reading
A Commonsense Approach to Stress Free Living
Getting stressed and then relaxing is the usual way to handle stress. How if you change your attitude towards life and develop healthy living habits. It is possible to redefine one’s relationship towards stress. Continue reading
How to Stay Relaxed – Students and Professionals
What is the most basic quality essential for success in students and professionals? Intelligence? Creativity? Being imaginative? Confidence? There is something else that supersede all these apparent virtues. Continue reading
Why are People Afraid of Boredom?
Boredom has Negative Overtone Boredom has become another dirty word like pain and nightmare. People want to avoid boredom at all costs – ever heard the phrase “bored to death”. That is how negatively boredom is viewed when in fact; … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety And Stress, Creativity, Mental Health, Power of Mind
Tagged afraid of boredom, bored man, boredom, boring life, boring man, ennui, fear of boredom
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A Two Step Strategy to Shake Off the Past
Are the past events constantly pulling you back? Do you find that the memories of past are constantly hounding you? Staying with conflicts means staying with stress and anxieties – that is, constant negative mental chatter. You certainly can’t feel … Continue reading
Non Directive Meditation Techniques Provide Better Relaxation
As we have said earlier that there are two types of meditation: One, where you try concentrating on a particular object – a thought, mantra, visual form, etc. The other is where you just observe and do nothing – you … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety And Stress, Meditation
Tagged mindful meditation, non directive meditation
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