6 Ways to Chill This Summer

Why Stress Is Actually Your Best Friend

If you feel yourself getting stressed, turn it into gratitude that it is reminding you to stop and take ten minutes to breathe and chill. Change the voice in your head from “I can’t” to “I can.”

7 Ways To Reduce Stress And Get Your Energy Back

If you wore ankle weights or a weighted vest, you would start to feel tired. This is how stress feels, weighing you down emotionally and physically. Are you aware that you live with powerful stressors night and day? Powerful stress hormones flow through your body enflaming your organs, metabolic processes and emotions, making your nerve endings raw.

The inflammatory response is exhausting and often leaves you with a negative perception making everything darker and more ominous. Fatigue is one of the most common stress symptoms that sends people to a doctor  according to Consumer Reports On Health, Oct. 2012.

It’s Not the Job, It’s You: 7 Ways to Stress Less at Work

To reduce job stress you need a sense of yourself and your specific talent. Also, practice becoming self-aware – gauge your own behavior, motivation and personal rhythm, always on the alert when you cross the line into negativity. Know your stress triggers and try to understand them.

Make a commitment to internal peace and don’t wait for external circumstances to create peace for you because serenity begins inside and emanates outward.

6 sneaky end-of summer stressors and what to do about them:

Major research in stress management points to the cumulative effect of little stressors. They unleash an inflammatory response, weakening your immune system, making you more susceptible to allergies and viruses.

You Can Break the 9 to 5 Grind

Steve Jobs once said: “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

What’s more important, your house or your well-being?

3 Ways Yoga Can Solve The U.S. Military’s Mental Health Crisis

The experiential component that happens in yoga can retrain the brain and nervous system while providing an environment for integrated healing to occur. Julian Marc Walker

http://intentblog.com/3-ways-yoga-can-solve-the-u-s-militarys-mental-health-crisis/

Breathing, Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery

One of the most overlooked aspects of personal care in recovery is managing the stress, anxiety and inner tension that can be triggered by any number of given events and situations. Sherry Gaba

http://intentblog.com/breathing-mindfulness-and-addiction-recovery/

Stay Cool and Be Chilled (even in the summer)

5 Ways to Transform a Stressed State, by Ed and Deb Shapiro

http://intentblog.com/stay-cool-and-be-chilled-even-in-the-summer/

Are You Really That Busy?

Here are 10 questions to help you disconnect from busyness and reconnect with the self: 

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