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Remedy for Stress- Small Water fountains- Bring Nature Indoors.

One great remedy for stress is Small Water fountains that Bring Nature Indoors.

 

Get yourself an indoor fountain- small ones can be put on a table top.

 

• The peaceful sound of bubbling,cascading water is sure to relax you after a busy day.

• A constant calming environmental sound like this all during your day will maintain a relaxed mood.

• When you add lights to it you get mellow special effects that are quick to bring calm feelings.

 

The slow cascading water over stones- this sound and the visual effect has a duel calming response on the entire body.

• The sound calms the breathing and lowers the blood pressure slightly.

• While the mind/thoughts slow down it's processing.

• The visual scene of slow flowing water refocuses the mind to an almost trance like state.

 

This method has helped people who have difficulty falling asleep because it quiets their “racing” mind.

 

I personally have three indoor fountains in my home. One in my family-room, one in my “quiet room” or meditation room and one in my bedroom.

 

The amazon link to the right has lots of suggestions for these indoor fountains, so take action and find how easy it is to get calm! >>>>>>>

 

 

Reduce Stress- Tying up Loose Ends or Getting all Knotted up with Stress

 

Tying up loose ends or getting all knotted up with Stress is your goal for the New Year!!

 

As we wind down the old year finishing projects, setting up new projects for the coming year, there are a lot of loose ends to tie up.

We rearrange our office area or reorganize our kitchens all to make ready for the new year. We get rid of old unused things and make room for the new. All this preparation should make you feel good, but does it?

 

There is a very good chance you feel guilty for not completing a project the way you wanted because you may have ran out of money or time or both to do the job right. May be did not get the help that you needed so the project an you suffered. Perhaps you may have lost interest in the project somewhere in the process. All these reasons add to your increased stress levels.

 

You now probably feel that stress has you all tied up in knots. You feel physical discomfort in your neck and shoulders. Also you might even feel a few knots developing in your stomach due to anxiety.

Let go of the ropes that bind your feelings and move forward. The past is finished, learn from your experiences, true it will be a challenge. Being calm emotionally will give you the physical and emotional strength to proceed.

 

That time to really loosen those ends and make every attempt to release those knots. Now that is a great New Year's Resolution!!

 

Reduce stress by Celebrating Medium to Large Accomplishments

 

When you reduce stress by celebrating medium to large accomplishments, you change your emotions from the negative to the positive and you naturally feel great .

 

 

Accomplishing a medium or large goal or a task is extremely important. You should add lots of good feelings to your gratitude account.

 

One great way to increase the good feelings and make them last is to celebrate.

Planning a short celebration will extend the good feelings and increase the calm strength you want to develop.

 

You can celebrate in many ways. You can eat your favorite comfort foods, take a twenty minute tub bath like I do using my Zensage Spa Salts ©and then slather on lots of Zensage Spa lotion © all over my weary but relaxed body.

 

But when the special times arrive, the times when the goal was medium or large, I pull out the bubbly. Some people like a bit of champagne. I prefer sparkling wine or sparkling juices this fits my life style, pick a bubbly that fit your life style and celebrate.

 

Celebrate the goal achieved, a fear resolved or courage blossomed.

 

So, keep a bottle or two of some sort of bubbly in the cupboard all the time,this will give you the incentive to meet a special goal.

 

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Finding the Good in Things Reduces your Stress

Strive to find something good in everything. Remember that a beautiful rose often grows at the end of a thorny stem.

 

Reducing stress in our lives calls for adjusting the way we think.

 

By adjusting or changing ourselves we change the way we see or perceive others, they appear to change as well.

 

By looking for the good in everything no matter how small that good is we develop more confidence and increase our courage. We give away our anxiety and criticisms.

 

We become calm, and develop emotional strength.

 

I found that a great way to adjust our thinking is though meditation.

 

I use a very easy and effective 21^st century method.

I recommend the “holothink” method www.calmingself.com

 

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Your Stress Relief -Can be Just a Breeze Away Using Wind Chimes

 

Hang some wind chimes in a location where you can hear them every time a breeze blows by.

 

There are as many kinds of wind chimes as there are unique human beings.

 

Use your imagination and creativity when choosing yours. I have several. I have a large wooden one that has hollow wooden tubes of different lengths hanging from a chain and leather bindings. This chime gives a low mellow tone when moved. I also have several made of metal tubes, again with various lengths and size tubes or pipes.

 

I found that these pipes have the same sound quality as the pipe organ. This is defiantly music to my ears.

 

Depending on your mood or your outdoor environment you can have a well orchestrated wind music almost all the time.

 

By the way you can put small wind chimes near your air conditioning vents or heating vents in the wall and hear lovely tones every time the inside air comes on. You will have subtle inside music.

 

These chimes have long been used through antiquity for stress relief and a means of bringing the body and mind back to center.

 

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Part 3- Personal Financial Business is a Major Cause of Stress

 

The knowledge of limiting the surprises, late charges and past due bills reduces your overall stress.

 

You may not be always on top of problems in the beginning of your exercise but you will find as you work through this your options and alternatives will open up. This is because your mind is clearer and more focused. You are calmer to make proper decisions as well.

Remember, your fiscal year does not have to start, January first or July first or April fifteenth. It starts NOW.  

Your weekly budgeting and your daily record keeping will start to be less stressful and more fun now, because you a have a vision of how things should be. You can fine tune the budget and the expenses as necessary. Your attitude and positive habits are starting to kick in with options not fears!

Part 1- Personal Financial Business is a Major Cause of Stress

 

Taking care of personal financial business is a major stress causer of everyone.

 

Even those of us who employ a bookkeeper or an accountant to do our finances for us, are stressed because we must assist with the task of getting the data to the bookkeeper and trusting them to do things effectively and correctly.

 

Those of us who must do these things ourselves must open our minds and change our attitude. Getting control back of our finances may not mean control over our income or our bills, but the control comes in when we begin to recognize were we must control ourselves.

When you take the necessary action to change your habits, you become calmer and alternatives, options and  answers happen!

Look to the Sky for Calming Inspiration

Lie down in a field or park on a lazy summer day and spend some time simply watching the clouds roll by.

 

Even on a very hot summer day here in Arizona, you can find a tree to sit under and enjoy the clouds. I have often spent meditation time watching the clouds. You tend to loose yourself in thought as you are drawn to the slow ever-changing forms of the clouds. Some times, you can identify these forms as earthly items, an animal or a flower or a familiar shape.

The ability to detach from your stress, and attach to the calm relaxing presence of nature, brings nature closer to you.

Nature itself is centered on calmness. Remember with in the word nurture is nature.

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Stress Free Getaway that is Calming and Empowering

Get away from the city lights and take some time to look at the stars as they appear in the countryside.

Then consider how small your problems really are as you ponder the expanse of the universe.

 

Reconnecting with nature is a wonderful way to reduce stress.

 

I found an easy getaway from the noise, distractions and electronic stuff is to extract myself from the TV and computer. You see I get into my car and drive beyond the city limits. I go to an area without the city lights and highway noises. Usually I do this in the early evening because here in the Phoenix area it cools down a bit at night. I turn my cell phone on silent and use it only in an emergency. I pack a basket of light snacks, usually comfort foods, perhaps some fruit, cheese and bread. I’ll take juice or tea instead of wine.

I ‘ll find a place where the stars look the brightest. Usually out there the evening sky is amassed with stars. After parking the car and rolling down the windows, I can listen to the nature sounds and breathe in the fresh evening air.

 

As I work out my problems with the reality of how small, they are compared to the sky and stars. As I ponder, I think of myself, as star stuff and that I should have the confidence to face and solve my problems.

I welcome my imagination, as I think of alternatives and options for resolving my problems.

 I go home feeling lighter, clam and empowered because I was able to free myself of the stress and overwhelm. 

I challenge you to so the same exercise. The results are quick and lasting.    

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Stress Exercise- What you can do first thing to reduce stress all day

 

How you get up in the morning, the very first things you do and think about can and will effect your whole day.

These thoughts and activities set the tone for your day as well as the day for those very close to you.

 

Take a minute and think about how you get up every morning. Is your alarm clock a jolting buzz and do you hit the floor in a 100-yard dash like run? Or do you hit the snooze button and turn over grudgingly, for five move minutes? Or do you turn off the alarm buzz, sit on the side of the bed in a total daze, then do you stagger in a sleepy haze to the bathroom, thinking only of your need for coffee?

 

You see you have already started your day on stress overload! You are going to carry that stress to your family or those around you.

 

Try this experiment for twenty-one days (the length of time it takes to establish a new habit). Get a different alarm clock, one with nature sounds as an alternative to the buzz. Select a sound that is pleasing yet unusual enough to wake you up. (I live in Arizona, so the sound of an ocean wave crashing on the rocky shoreline is very unusual.)

Start each morning with ten of the deepest and slowest breaths you can take. Perform this exercise before anything else. You will find that you will clear the sleepy haze from your head quickly, your attitude will be more relaxed and positive and you will have oxygen-filled energy to start your day. This counting to ten and breathing is a quick form of mediation, which will allow you to collect positive intentional thoughts on how to manage your morning and the whole day.

   

Having a candle or aromatherapy item in your bedroom is an added plus, to make this stress exercise more effective! Check out the candle offer at the right!!