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Solitude Reduces Stress- the Luxury of Muting Technology

 

We live in an information age where knowledge is at our very fingertips. We have cordless phones, cell phones, computer phones, voice mail, text messaging and instant messaging.

We can be available to anyone and everyone 24/7/365. People have the freedom to contact us at their leisure, with that said; we have the freedom to MUTE people when WE want to!

 

For one complete weekend, turn off your answering machine on your home phone; turn off the ringer as well. Let all your cell phone calls go to voice mail and screen them of you think it necessary. Perhaps you have as ill family member that you need to be available for, there are exceptions to any suggestion.

Do not read or for that matter answer any e-mails.

The initial withdrawal from the habit of checking and responding to technology will be make you feel uncomfortable for a short time, but stick with it for the first few hours.

 

Experience the freedom of not having to get back in touch with anyone. During this time, do something that is self –nurturing.

 While you are thinking of something to do with your quiet time, checkout the dinner video, there are some great ideas! Or even the candle lites!!

Ideas for a Stress Free Getaway for your Next 3 day Weekend

Getting way from the things that cause you stress, is one way of releasing that stress. You deserve any excuse to getaway as well!

 

Here is how I suggest you plan your stress free getaway: 

1)   Rent the nicest car you can afford-

You do not need to worry about the wear on your own personal car and any emergency maintenance with a rental, a no stress, no brainer here. Driving a difference style car will give you a special little gift to yourself, an identity change of the weekend. Driving a different car can do wonders for your self-esteem. To clarify, the feeling is like wearing a costume on Halloween, you are someone new and different.

2)   Drive to a destination as FAR from home as time and energy allow-

The catchword here is FAR. Try a hotel or a bed and breakfast that you have researched in advance. Play tourist and check out some local shops and activities if available. You do not need to hide in your room and eat a carton of ice cream; you can do that very well at home. If you feel buying something, do. If not that is okay too. Do not create stress, release it! 

3)   Savor your experience as you drive back home- Take your time, reminisce in your mind, the calm feelings that you had during your escape. You may find that a solution for a problem that was in the back of your mind has suddenly come forward. The issues that you left on Friday night do not seem as stressful and overwhelming. You perhaps have been inspired with some options or alternatives.

 

You will find that in only three short days you have become emotionally more productive and positive in your attitude. You have released stress, resolved stress, and strengthened your ability to create calm an awesome accomplishment for a three-day getaway.

 

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Investing your Precious Time in Stress Reduction, Powerful Time Management

Stress challenge: Volunteer a couple of hours of your time for a good cause in your community or church.

Calming Education Reason: Everyone is busy with their own personal agenda’s, but by giving a few hours once a month to a worthy cause in your community, you reduce your overall stress and the stress of others!

The old phrase

“Many hands make light, the work” make be spoken here!

 

Thinking about what is in it for you=

1)   Cultivating a new interest.

2)   An opportunity to network with others, meet new people, bonded by a common purpose. 

3)   Discovering a hidden talent or gift.

4)   Conquering a minor fear.

5)   Adding something unusual to your resume.

 

Changing your routine for a few hours will clear your mind and you will find you are able to solve a few problems that were bothering you. 

You will find your stress decreasing as your outside interests and leveraging of other people increases.

 

I hope you have enjoyed another installment in your stress reduction education, your education toward the power of calm!

 Have you purchased the candles at the right? They will make a beautiful and calming addition to your tranquil home!

 

 

 

 

Stress reduction- Read to Expand your Interest While Reducing Stress

 

Stress reduction challenge: Buy a non-fiction book about something in which you are not interested. Read it from cover to cover. Now this may take some effort but it will be worth it, trust me! Not only might your interest increase, it is a chance to broaden your horizons and open your mind! Stress reduction is about options, alternatives and changing your perspective. Yes, you are doing a radical mind game stratagem here, but it is well worth it.

Calming reasons: Changing a habit or distracting your mind positively in an energetic way helps reduce stress. Changing focus and giving your mind a completely different interest, gives the mind a refreshing break from the negativity of stress.

 

You may find new arenas, options and alternatives, something calmingly powerful may happen!!

Stress reduction and calming education is a about looking for and feeling the options and alternatives that present themselves. But, the mind must be ready and clear to accept them.

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Positive use of Phrases will Increase the Power of Positive Calm in your Life

Positive use of phrases will increase the power of positive calm in your life.

 

How to answer people, verbally, in a text message or e-mail leaves an impression with them that could be lasting. Make it a positive and successful impression. Usually the simplest phrases are the most powerful. 

How do you answer your e-mails or text message= do you say-“no problem”, “no worries”, “okay”, or “thanks”! These phrases can and do have double meanings. These phrases are very generic and almost emotionless. Do you want to make a generic impression? Of course not! Do not be hasty in your efforts to answer your communications. We all seem to hide behind our e-mails and text messages, we feel less threatened this way. 

When someone helps you with something or gives you something, what is your response? A short abrupt – “thanks”?

 On the other hand, after a quick conversation or meeting, we say, “send me an e-mail on that so I can remember to follow up on it”. Who is important here? Who had a memory problem? Or who is just to busy for their own good? 

Your tone is very important in a society that has become numb with text messages and e-mails. Personal contact, face to face communication becomes rare, when you do have one on one do your best to give the best impression you can. 

Consciously increase your use of the phrases “I appreciate it” or “thanks a lot”. Be grateful for even the smallest most insignificant things others do for your. You may find that what may be small to you is huge to them. Stress changes people’s perceptions. use of phrases will increase the power of positive calm in your life.

 Ellen 

The Zensage

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Eating out- Make it an Adventure for your taste buds

Go out on a limb and order something in a restaurant that you have never tasted before in your life.

Eating out, make it an adventure for your taste buds!

I have always been a person who rationalized going to a restaurant only on special occasions! 

However, the busier I get and the idea of cooking a meal for one makes the special occasions more frequent. I have decided to treat myself special and reward myself for my hard work and determination.

Well, I usually started to order my old stand by, something that including chicken. Then I got the idea of that special occasion again. So once a month or so I try a different cuisine, one month it was Italian, next French, then Thai, then Japanese or Greek. If I liked the service at a particular restaurant, I would go there again and order something entirely different off the menu.

Some restaurant’s have a sampler on there menu so I get a little bit of a lot of different tastes treats, some I like some I do not. The purpose is to have fun and have an adventure. I think about being in the particular country where the cuisine originated, but that is a completely different blog entry! 

Nurturing yourself this way is very calming and very empowering.  Remember there is strength in calm!!

 

Check out the Family dinner video at the right!

Simple Stress Reducer any one an Do even You!

A wonderful way to boost your spirit and decrease any potential depression is to give something away! Usually a secret gift or a hidden kind gesture makes you feel great and a bit naughty.

Giving something special to someone for an ordinary reason is very awesome. May I suggest something very simple but very POWERFUL! 

 

For one full day, try to smile more than usual. Make it bigger and better then ever before. Since smiles are often contagious, you probably won’t be the only one showing those pearly whites. 

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I have other suggestions were smiles are appropriate, but I’ll talk about those at an other time.

More great suggestions 400 tips

Oh, by the way have you checked out the Family dinner information at the right- it is a great video!

Independence From Stress Part 6

We sometimes are encouraged to car pool or do things in a group. This is all well and good if there co-operation and planning. But as the quote states, if planning is not implemented then there are problems. Being independent of thoughts and actions reduces stress. You get to your destination, or get the job done faster and calmer.  

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
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There is a time to go as a group and a time to go it alone!

Part 7 of your Independence From Stress comes to you Tomorrow!

While you are here, have you checked out the goodies at the right?? 

Ellen R Norman

The Zensage

Independence From Stress Part 5

Independence from stress is very important in keeping your relationship alive and growing!

No matter how young or how old you and your relationship is, if your attitude is calm and relaxed you will bring a renewed sparkle and stimulation to it! Marriage does take work, but with the independence to think calmly and respond in a relaxed manner makes it a lot easier. 

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspacher
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http://www.calmingself.com I found this information invaluable in my life.

Ellen R Norman

The Zensage

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Independence From Stress Part 4 The Freedom to Fly!!

Independence is having the knowledge of your Freedoms. Knowing you can be free from Stress allows you to be Independent in your Thoughts and Actions. 

The Freedom to be Calm allows you to Fly Like the Eagle, Where there are no limits, not even glass ceilings. 

Join me and Go where the Eagles Fly!

Ellen R Norman

The ZenSage

Part five of your Independence From Stress comes your way Tomorrow.