5 Tips on Increasing your Energy
November 4, 2008
In today’s stressful world, we can regularly experience flagging energy levels.
Improving your diet, can so easily intensify and increase low energy levels and help to reduce the feelings of fatigue. Fatigue can so easily lead to feelings of stress, anxiety and, if we allow it, depression. Did you know that fatigue is our body’s way of telling us to slow down.
1. NEVER skip breakfast! We all need to make sure that we eat well. Proper nutrition, helps us to maintain our optimum energy levels. Grabbing a piece of fruit, a piece of toast or a handful of unsalted nuts can be much better than skipping the most important meal of the day.
2. Allow yourself to feel your emotions. If we switch off from our emotions, we can become stuck. Suppressing and re-suppressing our feelings might work in the short term, but it does have its own emotional price, and will, most definitely deplete your energy levels. Remember that ‘what we resist persists’. You can learn to express your self in a healthier way.
3. Exercise regularly: You don’t need to join a gym. Walking is an excellent way of keeping fit and does not cost anything except time, 20-30 minutes a day and you will notice a great difference in your energy and well being.
4. Learn to pace yourself: When we try to get everything done all at once, we set ourselves overwhelming and unrealistic tasks. Prioritize. Make a list of what is important and work your way through it. The sense of achievement will be fantastic.
5. Develop a positive mental attitude. Talk positively to yourself. Get in the habit of smiling to your self on a regular basis and notice how infectious this really can become.
Allowing your self to get stressed out can cause an immense drop in energy levels. check out some handy tips on stress management.
Go ahead try some of these tips and let me know how you get on…I’m Listening…
Psychosexual Dysfunction Treatment Therapy
October 8, 2008
Psychosexual Dysfunction Treatment:
Experts are claiming that stress can be the main cause in relation to the lack of sexual drive in men. Depression and the inability to talk about their problems are also a high factor to consider.
Relationship counsellors have reported a whopping 40 % increase in the number of men with low libido’s, stating that, despite being physically able to have sex, they don’t have any interest.
What we seem to have, is a lot of men who are saying: “I can have sex, but I don’t want to. It’s not rewarding”.
Such complaints were unheard of ten years ago. They tend to be men in their thirties, forties and fifties and married.
One of the explanations is that men are less able to talk about their problems than women, or express their emotions. Men are most likely to suffer depression between the ages of 30 and 50. Another explanation could be that our work culture has gone from nine to five, to extremely long hours, which makes for a very stressful life.
It is a serious issue and it counts as a psychosexual dysfunction, rather than just a relationship problem, because these men haven’t simply gone off their partner but they have off sex altogether.
For example, if a man has low testosterone, part of the treatment is to give him a supplement, and that may be more effective if a psychosexual therapist supports the process. The production of testosterone is not entirely physical, …
Treatment with testosterone is likely to be beneficial if circulating levels are low. • Psychiatric problems such as anxiety, depression and stress. • Psychosocial and psychosexual problems due to marital disharmony or to latent or …
Stressed Out Effects
August 26, 2008
How Does Stress Affect Your Health?
We know how stress can affect us mentally and emotionally. It can make us feel anxious and overwhelmed. It can make our tempers short and cause us to feel depressed. But how does stress affect your health?
When you are feeling stressed, certain stress hormones, like adrenaline and cortisol, are released into your system. This is fine in short doses. It can even be beneficial. But if your stress is prolonged, and these hormones keep getting pumped into your symptoms, they can actually cause damage to your body and your health.
It’s common knowledge that too much stress can negatively affect your blood pressure. But it can impact your health in other negative ways, too.
You’re Immune System
When you are under stress, your body might shut down or suppress some of your systems. This is its way of giving you fewer things to worry about. For example, many women in stressful situations might stop having a menstrual cycle for a month or two, or even longer.
Unfortunately, prolonged stress can also partially suppress your immune system, which can make you susceptible to illnesses and infections.
People who are stressed out often end up getting sick or run down. Which makes it even harder to deal with daily challenges, and makes them feel even more stressed.
Digestive Problems
Digestive problems are common in those under extreme stress. Those feeling stressed shouldn’t be surprised to find themselves suffering from diarrhea, heartburn, or indigestion.
Weight Gain
People dealing with stressful situations, like a divorce or breakup, the loss of a loved one, or a job they hate, often find themselves eating more and putting on weight. Many often assume this is because people sometimes eat more to comfort themselves. But, while this can be true, there is also a physical reason for the weight gain.
Stress causes hormonal changes in the body. And these hormonal changes can actually increase your appetite. You eat more not just because you are feeling sad, but because your body is telling you that you need to eat more.
Other Problems
Stress can also cause other problems, like insomnia, fatigue, sexual dysfunction, and erratic mood swings. It can make it hard for you to concentrate at work, and even harder for you to remember important dates and appointments. It can also make skin conditions, like acne, eczema, and psoriases even worse.
So how does stress affect your health? Potentially, it can affect it in all sorts of negative ways. That is why learning to manage and relieve your stress should be your top priority…
Are You Stressed Out?
August 21, 2008
3 Ways to Relieve Stress
We all have to deal with stress. In fact, a day probably doesn’t go by when you don’t feel anxious, angry, annoyed, overworked, or just plain overwhelmed. This is why finding simple ways to relieve stress is so important.
You don’t have to go into a dark room and meditate for an hour, or drop everything and run off to a tropical island, to relieve the tensions of your daily life. In fact, there are things you can do at any time, no matter where you happen to be, that can give you instant stress relief.
Slowly Count To Ten
Yes, some problems can be stressful. But how you react to stressful situations is the key. If you immediately get worked up over every problem or challenge that pops up in your life, you’re going to spend a lot of time feeling tense and anxious. But, if you can stay relatively calm and in control, stress won’t be as much of an issue for you.
When something bad or unpleasant happens in your life, don’t react immediately. Instead, take a moment and slowly count to ten. As you count, rate the stressor on a scale of 1 to 10.
Your boss yelled at you? On the scale of bad things that can happen on any given day, that’s about a two.
You lost your keys? That’s about a 4. Not an ideal situation, but one you can handle.
Counting to ten gives you time to really evaluate the stressful situation. Once you put things in perspective, you might find it’s not worth stressing over.
Take Some Deep Breaths
In a way, stress is a fear response. One thing that happens when you are afraid or in danger is your breathing becomes quick and shallow. And the same thing can happen when you’re anxious about a busy day, or nervous about giving a speech. And this impaired breathing can actually make your stress and anxiety even worse.
So concentrate on taking slow breaths, breathing deep so that your stomach expands, then slowly letting the air out. This is a way of tricking your body into thinking the stressor is gone, and you will start to actually feel more calm as a result.
Massage Your Temples
When they are feeling stressed, some people instinctively reach up to massage their temples. And it’s a good instinct to have.
Gently rubbing your temples in a circular motion is an acupressure technique that helps relax tense muscles, especially those in your shoulders and neck. And, as your muscles relax, some of your stress will drain away.
There are many ways to relieve stress. And, with these quick and easy techniques, you can ease tension, and help yourself feel calmer and more in control, no matter where you happen to be.
The Pressure Stress Can Cause.
August 19, 2008
The Pressure stress can cause. Getting stressed out. Tension stress, psychological stress, stressed about stress. When you are dealing with numerous daily demands and challenges, it can leave your body in a high state of stress. Chemicals and hormones are released to help you deal with these challenging situations and they can actually be harmful in large, prolonged doses and, as a result, you can experience all sorts of physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral problems.
This can be very similar to leaving a car engine running for 24 hours, when in fact you only need it to nip to the store. Using up too much energy and over working our bodies.
Some of the physical symptoms can include headaches, chest pains, diarrhea, sleep disorders, skin breakouts, fatigue, and high blood pressure.
The psychological symptoms can include anxiety, irritability, depression, forgetfulness, and poor concentration.
Stress can also be blamed for many relationship problems. When you are feeling tense, anxious, or overwhelmed, you are much more likely to be short tempered and argumentative. Disagreeing with your spouse, snapping at your children, or feeling offended at innocent comments made by friends. All of this can put a strain on those important relationships.
Stress is a word that is so flippantly used today, yet it is a very serious condition, that can, affect every area of your life, from your physical health, to your relationships with friends and family, to your work life. That is why learning to manage stress is a critical part of leading a healthy, happy life.
I will offer some tips on how to prevent stress in my next post from this genre, but here are some E-Books you may find useful.
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This Articles Stress Management.
August 14, 2008
These articles stress management hopefully will offer some guidance in helping you to understand why we can get stressed and help us in, how to prevent stress over-load, fundamentally to manage our stress better. Stress comes in variable factors and differing degrees. Stress in the workplace, dealing with holiday stress.We can become stressed about our stress.
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What is Stress?
Stress has almost become an unavoidable part of modern life. Unless you quit your job or drop out of school, cut all relationship ties, and decide to live in a cave out in the wilds, chances are you are going to have to deal with one kind of stress or another on a daily basis.
A little stress is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, without it, most people would not feel the urge to get things done, achieve new things, or accomplish their goals, it can give us motivation. It is when; stress gets out of control that the real trouble begins.
Stress is your body’s way of dealing with the outside dangers and challenges life can throw your way.
If you are walking down a dark, deserted street, your body will release hormones and chemicals that will make you more alert to your surroundings, and ready to flee to safety at a moment’s notice. This is called ‘The Fight or Flight Syndrome’ and is a human trait which has been around since neathanderthall man.
Similarly if you have an important project due in the morning, and you are going to have to stay up all night to finish it, the same chemicals and hormones will keep you awake and alert, they give you the extra boost you need to work faster.
In certain situations, a little stress is okay.
The theory of stress is that we are not in control. So firstly we need to evaluate what we can take control over and what we cannot. We need to learn how to manage our Stress.
There will be other articles on stress management.
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