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Guest post written by my buddy Royce Heath

I visited www.directstartv.com and upgraded our television package. I’m glad that I did because a big snow storm came through last week and my husband and I were stuck at the house for two days. It is one of the bigger storms that has come through in a long time. Luckily, while we were snowed in our television and power were still working. We were able to spend time together with the dog watching movies on the couch. I felt like we were hiding out . We watched old movies that we always want to watch but never have the time because they are so long. We watched Elizabeth Taylor in “Cleopatra”. We watched one of our favorite old movies that reminds us our Southern roots, “Gone with the Wind.” We also watched an Oscar winning old film that we have really never had enough time to get all the way through, “Ben Hurr”. We actually really liked the movie and were glad that we finally were able to get through it . We have been trying to watch the whole thing for years. Two days of a movie marathon was relaxing.

6 Easy Relaxation Tips for Busy Moms

It seems like there is no rest of the weary.  And, the weary person is usually mom.  Moms take care of hearth and home, but who takes care of her?  If you are a busy mom, learn to value yourself as a person and schedule personal time.

Personal time is a right of being a human being.  Each of us has the capacity to nurture others but that type of care takes its toll., when we do not take time to replenish ourselves.

A car is filled with gas to make it run.  Eventually the gas runs out and your car won’t move unless the car is replenished with fuel.  The same goes for you.  Emotional issues can develop when you don’t take the time to take care of your emotional well-being, not to mention the physical results of emotional neglect.

Mom time refuels the tank so that you can give to your family as well as yourself in equal measure.  Don’t be ashamed to sit for fifteen minutes doing nothing.  In the springtime, relaxing in a hammock under a tree is the perfect getaway from the pressures of the day.  Reading a book for 30 minutes can also seem like heaven to many moms.

Here are a few tips to help you fit in much needed “mom” time:

1. Get up early if you have to.  When you have kids, the day begins at a hurried pace.  Once you hit the ground running, there is no stopping you.  Waking 30 minutes to an hour ahead of time means quiet solitude to drink your coffee, read a book, meditate or listen to music.

2. Turn ordinary experiences into major events.  When you take a bath, add candles, bubble bath, quiet music and/or an inflatable bath pillow.  Your regular bath has now become a spa level experience.  If you watch a movie, turn out the lights, pop a bag of microwave popcorn and curl up on the couch.

3. Ask your significant other for help.  Kids love their mothers but time spent with dad is important too.  Let them bond with dad while you go shopping for a new outfit or root around in the garden.  Since the time is yours, do whatever you like.

4. Use the Boy Scout motto.  Always be prepared and you can spend more time in a relaxed mode.  Fix lunches the night before.  Iron clothes for the next day and place backpacks by the front door so kids can grab them on their way out.  The fewer things you have to do throughout the day, the calmer you will be with your family and not experience burnout.

5. Take exercise breaks.  When you get a few minutes the last thing you want to do is exercise but getting a little physical activity in your day has far-reaching implications.  Exercise helps you to think clearly and stretches the muscles.  Also, stress will drain away as powerful endorphins are released into your system.  Do jumping jacks during a television commercial or jog to the bus stop to pick up the kids.

6. Laugh at regular intervals.  Keep a funny calendar cube on your desk or subscribe to a daily joke site.  Laughing releases stress and can lift your spirits significantly.  It also keeps the abs tight.

Moms, take care of you.  Your family would miss you if you were not around to love and care for them.  You owe it to yourself and you deserve a break from the daily hustle and bustle. So take this time for YOU, you are worth it!

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Stress Education Center - Holiday Survival Tips

Stress Education Center - Holiday Survival Tips

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Got Holiday Stress?

Here is the link to ways to manage stress!

The Holidays can be great fun, but this can also be a time of stress because of financial issues, family issues and being alone. I ma sure you can have a better time if you follow these suggestions.

Enjoy Everyday!

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Raw Health Benefits of Sesame Seeds:
Your Raw Food Source of Calcium and Magnesium

- by Melissa Fine

Exams, work deadlines, relationship-issues… If stress is putting knots in your neck, take a look at your diet.

Are you relying on caffeine and sugary foods to keep you going? It might be more helpful to turn to raw sesame seeds…

They’re simple, stress-relieving and oh so tasty.

Click on the link to read more...Relieve Stress with the Superpower of Sesame Seeds!

Resources for You Health

A part of overcoming panic attacks and anxiety is eating.  Health is directly related to food.   One thing I discovered that was causing my hear to race, was eating milk chocolate.  When you suffer from panic attacks, the last thing yo need is palpitations.  I began to read more to find out what kinds of foods make anxiety and panic worse so I could avoid them.  


I suggest reading Doctor's newsletter and find alternative health remedies too.




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Combatting my seasonal allergies

Guest post written by Beth Ann Dwyer

There are so many things to think about when it comes to dealing with my fall allergies. For one thing, I like to switch my eye makeup because it seems like I'm constantly rubbing my eyes when it comes to allergies. I'm kind of bad about doing that anyway, so I need some eyeliner and mascara that stays put rather than just making a raccoon eye mess when I'm dealing with allergies.

I thought that this time around I would try and find a new brand of waterproof eye makeup. I looked online with my wireless internet Raleighto find some good suggestions for waterproof mascara, especially. I came up with a few and decided to go and test them out at a beauty counter to see what I thought of them.
I ended up picking this one mascara that even says on the box that it's good for seasonal allergens. I gave it a test run and rubbed my eyes like I normally do when I have allergies but it didn't smudge, so that one will be the winner for this allergy season for me.

An Anxiety Solution

Guest: Philip McClusky

Philip tells his story. There is healing available!

Link Love: The Meditation Podcast

There is a website I use for meditation. The Meditation Podcast has great guided sessions. 


Check out this website.

Meditation Stop

Stop here and meditate on good things.

ENJOY!

Getting into full boating season

Guest post written by Leah Russel

I grew up on a lake with my family. It was always great being able to take the boat out whenever we wanted, of course when the weather was nice. So when I got married and started a family of my own, it was important to me that I live on a lake too. Luckily, it worked out and it's been so much fun because of it!

There's never a weekend during the summer when we don't have the boat out on the lake. It's just nice to park it and relax for a while laying on it. We were looking for a new boat online a few days ago and while I was doing that I saw the website clearwirelessINTERNET.com. After we read through it some, we decided to sign up for one of the packages that I saw on there.

I'm really glad that my family likes boating as much as I do, that is as long as we make sure that we're safe and follow proper boating rules

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Need an APP to Relax?

iRelax: In TrafficI have been using two apps the first app I want to share with you is iRelax Melodies LITE.


 iRelax Melodies LITE
What I love about this app. is you are able to select which sounds you want to hear.
By the way you can hear more that one and you can adjust the individual sound level.
Some of the choices are:
River (flowing water)
Ocean
Flute
Rain
Winds
Music Box
Lounge
Birds

And you can save the setting you like to a favorites area.

Other features are:
You can set a timer for how long you want the music to last.

This download was free.

The Premium Edition has additional 34 sounds to select from
Binaural Beats
Sun Theme

I hope you try this one and also some other iRelax products online.

Win a FREE Relaxation mp3

You can win a FREE RELAXATION CD.
I am hosting a drawing. Deadline to enter is February 28, 2011.


All you have to do to enter is: Watch the Panic Video and leave a comment.
I will announce the winner on March 1, 2011. On this blog!


If you don't need the FREE CD, please forward this to a friend, so
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Watch This Movie - A Typical Panic Attack

End Anxious Thoughts In 4 Easy Steps

After having visited my site I can almost imagine what your repetitive anxious thought might be.

Maybe it’s a fear of:

• -a panic attack
• -never being free of general anxiety
• -a bodily sensation that worries you
• -a fear of losing control to anxiety

My name is Barry McDonagh and I have successfully taught thousands of people in over 30 different countries, how to end general anxiety and panic attacks.

Whatever your particular fear is, I want to share some tips and techniques with you over the coming days that will not only help you end these fears but also reduce your general anxiety level dramatically.  After many years of coaching people to be anxiety free, I have noticed that those who experience panic attacks or general anxiety almost always deal with the frequent occurrence of anxious thoughts.  Anxiety has a sneaky way of seeding doubt regardless of whether the fear is rational or irrational.

So what can be done for people who suffer from repetitive anxious thoughts?

To begin, lets look at how an anxious thought is powered and then I will demonstrate how to quickly eliminate the intensity of the thought.  Say for example you are going about your daily business when an anxious thought enters your mind.

Whatever the nature of the thought, the pattern that follows is usually quite predictable.

The anxious thought flashes briefly in your awareness and as it does so you immediately react with fear as you contemplate the thought. The fearful reaction you have to the thought then sends a shock-wave through your nervous system. You feel the result of that fear most intensely in your stomach (due to the amount of nerve endings located there).

Because of the intense bodily reaction to the thought you then get sucked into examining the anxious thought over and over.

The continuous fearful reaction you have to the thought, increases the intensity of the experience. The more you react, the stronger the thought rebounds again in your awareness creating more anxious shock-waves throughout your body. This is the typical cycle of anxious thoughts.

For some it feels like the anxious thoughts are hijacking their peace of mind.

Because of the reaction you are having, you may continue to spend the rest of your day thinking about the anxious thoughts you experienced.

“Why am I thinking these thoughts?” “Why can’t I shake off this eerie feeling?”

The harder you try not to think about it, the more upset you become. It is like telling someone

‘Whatever happens do not think of a pink elephant’.

Naturally enough it’s all they can think about. That’s the way our brains our wired.

So how can you eliminate these unwanted anxious thoughts?

To begin with:

• -when you start to experience anxious thoughts, it is very important not to force the thoughts away.

Let the thoughts in. The more comfortable you can become with them, the better. These thoughts will never go away fully but what you can learn is to change your reaction to them.

By changing your reaction to the anxious thoughts you become free of them.

Once you establish a new way of reacting to the thoughts it does not matter if you have them or not. Your reaction is what defines the whole experience (and that applies to almost everything).

Everybody experiences fleeting thoughts that many would consider scary or crazy. The difference between most people and somebody who gets caught up in them, is that the average person sees them for exactly what they are, fleeting anxious thoughts, and casually ignores them.  The anxious person is at a disadvantage as they already have a certain level of anxiety in their system. The thoughts easily spark feelings of further anxiety which builds into a cycle of fear. You break the cycle by changing how you react to the fearful thought.

Here is an example of how to approach this:

You are enjoying the way your day is going but then all of sudden a fearful thought comes to mind.

Before you would react with anxiety to the idea and then try to force that thought out of your mind.

This time, however, say:

“That’s a fear of X. I could worry and even obsess over that but this time I’m going to do something different. I’m not going to react to it. I’m also not going to try and stop it either. I’m just going to label the thought and not react.”

Then the thought comes again with more intensity and possibly with new ‘scary’ angles you never considered. When this happens you do exactly the same. As if you were observing a cloud passing overhead, you simply

• -Observe it,
• -Label it (fear of whatever), then
• -Watch it as it passes by with no judgment.  then

• -Move your attention on to what you were doing.

Observe, Label, Watch, Move on

See the anxious thought for what it really is: -one of the thousands of fleeting sane and insane thoughts every one of us experiences daily.

If you are a more indoors type of person then instead of thinking of the thoughts like clouds passing in the sky, you might try imagining a large cinema screen and the anxious thoughts are projected out onto the screen in front of you. Play around with this approach. Find what works for you.

The key thing to remember is to:

Observe, Label, Watch, Move on

By practicing this approach you gradually stop reacting with fear to the thought and you learn to treat it as nothing more than an odd peculiarity.

When you are at a stage where you are comfortable doing the above exercise and you feel you are making good progress, then try this additional step:

Actually invite one of your more regular fearful thoughts in.

Call the fear to you, say you just want it to come close so you can observe it.

It may seem like the last thing you would wish to bring upon yourself, as you don’t particularly enjoy these thoughts but this approach can be very empowering. You are now calling the shots. You actually invited the issue in.  By doing this you are discharging the dense vibration of fear surrounding the anxious thought. That fear was sustaining itself on your resistance, -the idea that you could not handle these thoughts.  The fear quickly evaporates when you turn around and say “yes of course I can handle these thoughts.”  Fear intensifies when we pull away from it. Anxious thoughts become a mental tug of war if we struggle with them.

It is the mental struggle of pulling against the anxious thoughts that creates the inner psychological tension.

The inner tension is fueled by thoughts like:

• “I can’t handle to think about this -please go away”
• “I don’t like that thought- I want it to stop!”

Take a different stance. Invite anxious thoughts in. Willingly sit with them, label them and do your very best not to react.

Yes, it does take practice but very soon you find yourself in a unique position of control. You are no longer a victim of fearful thinking but a decision maker in what you will or will not be concerned about.

As with every technique there is always a level of practice involved in the beginning. Initially you start observing but then suddenly get anxious about the fearful thought. That’s very normal in the beginning.

Keep at it. Practice and you will quickly see how less impacting those fearful thoughts become.

Do not let your mind trick you into believing that your anxiety is something you will always have to struggle with. That is simply not true.

Not alone is it possible to control the occurrence of anxious thoughts but I can teach you how to end panic attacks and general anxiety if that is your goal.

You can have the life of your dreams. Anxiety does not have the right to steal that hope from you.

I’m going to e-mail you my mini series. It will help reduce anxiety levels significantly.

Some of this information forms a small part of the Panic Away Program. My full program eliminates panic attacks and general anxiety very quickly and has proved highly successful with both long and short term sufferers of anxiety. The results speak for themselves.

To Learn more about Panic Away visit: www.PanicAway.com

Here are some of the things you will learn from Panic Away…

• -Learn how to be empowered and gain confidence by engaging a simple technique to defuse any panic attack.
• -The four most powerful approaches to creating an enduring anxiety buffer zone (particularly useful for those who experience GAD).<
• -Learn to avoid making the one mistake almost everyone makes during a panic attack episode.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

May 2011 be the year you overcome your obstacles.

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