Meditation is a Stress Reduction Tool. A key stress reduction tool that we recommend at Stress to Strength is meditation. In meditation, you access the parasympathetic nervous system state that is the ‘slow me down’ part for ‘inner quiet’...
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Emotional Resilience is a person’s ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. More resilient people are agile and can “roll with the punches”, bounce back and adapt to adversity, without lasting difficulties. Forbes Magazine created a short video...
We know that your communities may be feeling anxious, stressed or frightened. Here are some important things to consider … It’s normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis. Talking to people you trust can...
A member of our Stress Management Institute® Advisory Board, Associate Professor Sinan Ali, sent me his comments below about our 28 February blog, Does Music Reduce Stress. Professor Ali is a leading world expert in the field of cortisol,...
Last Thursday tension over toilet rolls hit an extreme situation in Melbourne when police were called to a supermarket to taser a man involved in a violent confrontation over a pack of toilet rolls. On the evening TV news...
Yesterday morning I had a meeting at an Outpatient Department in a very large city public hospital. I followed the signs on my arrival at the main hospital entrance and after walking along several very long corridors on the...
Having a demanding job and little control over it is associated with an increased risk of premature death in men with cardiometabolic disease, according to a 14-year observational study of more than 100,000 people published in June 2018. However,...
Recent research has found that about 33 percent of people report feeling extreme stress, 77 percent of people experience stress that affects their physical health.73 percent of people have stress that impacts their mental health. Can people be addicted to stress? Unfortunately, it’s not just drugs that can cause our brain to...
