Stress Quote: When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral.
In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. Steven Halpern.
Now, we're in the 21st century and there is no sign of improvement in sight.
See a stress quote list and a cure for anxiety and panic.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Reciprocal Wellness - Our Generosity Is Key For Haiti Right Now.
The Children's Hunger Fund (CHF) is on the ground in Haiti. If you have $24 to spare, they could really use your help. Helping others increases feel good Dopamine hormones (good stress) and Oxytocin Hormones (trust and more good stress) in our bodies, so give today. Here is a great video from the CHF.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Ignorance is Not Bliss When It Comes To Financial Stress
Get Steve G. Jones' End Finance Stress Hypnosis Program Now!
How much debt are you in? $5000? $10,000? $20,000? More? What a sad state affairs for people in North America. We are obese, stressed out, sick with serious disease and laden with debt. We aren't just chubby or rotund - we are fat; we aren't just stressed - we are suffering from clinical anxiety disorders and depression; we aren't just "under the weather" - we are dying from quality-of-life-stealing, chronic degenerative disease; and we aren't just in a little debt - we are drowning under a mountain of bills that we may never get out from under in our lifetimes. What a sad commentary. What ever happened to our quality of life? Where did it go? Can we even get it back? Ever?
Money is a big one for many people these days. They are so stressed out about money. Debt loads are huge, income levels are dropping, job security is disappearing and costs, of course, are rising and rising fast.
I would love to be able to say that the cure is as simple as 1,2,3. With many of my stress topics, I have been able to point to a food that you can stop eating or a scientific solution that can be implemented or a specific herb that can be taken and suddenly the unbearable stress or disease that so many suffer from can be lifted away.
This is not the case with money. Money stress or financial stress is a learned thing. You are either comfortable with it or not. If you are comfortable with money, then debt will not bother you. If you have a good relationship with money (even if you don't have much), then getting more will simply be a journey or a quest. You might seek out different money making ventures, you might increase your knowledge as you go through life and, overtime, money will not cause you much stress.
If, however, you are not comfortable with money or you have issues with money that have been left over from childhood, then money will be a problem for you. Debt will cause you stress, losing a job or being temporarily unemployed will drive you to the brink, and earning money will always be a chore. You will probably continually sabotage yourself. It's all in your head.
One of the best ways to overpower your mind so that you can begin to relax around money is through hypnosis. You have to start learning some new money patterns. You need to give yourself permission to have money. Only then can you take the steps needed to have money. To show the power of suggestion, watch Steve G Jones perform some humorous street hypnosis that temporarily renders people no longer able to count to ten.
Get Steve G. Jones' End Finance Stress Hypnosis Program Now!
One of those steps is education. As with any stress related issue, education is key. The more you know about food and your body's physiology, the more likely you will be to lose weight and keep it off. Money is the same, the more you know about money and finance, the more likely you will be to find ways to earn money and keep it flowing into your life.
How much debt are you in? $5000? $10,000? $20,000? More? What a sad state affairs for people in North America. We are obese, stressed out, sick with serious disease and laden with debt. We aren't just chubby or rotund - we are fat; we aren't just stressed - we are suffering from clinical anxiety disorders and depression; we aren't just "under the weather" - we are dying from quality-of-life-stealing, chronic degenerative disease; and we aren't just in a little debt - we are drowning under a mountain of bills that we may never get out from under in our lifetimes. What a sad commentary. What ever happened to our quality of life? Where did it go? Can we even get it back? Ever?
Money is a big one for many people these days. They are so stressed out about money. Debt loads are huge, income levels are dropping, job security is disappearing and costs, of course, are rising and rising fast.
I would love to be able to say that the cure is as simple as 1,2,3. With many of my stress topics, I have been able to point to a food that you can stop eating or a scientific solution that can be implemented or a specific herb that can be taken and suddenly the unbearable stress or disease that so many suffer from can be lifted away.
This is not the case with money. Money stress or financial stress is a learned thing. You are either comfortable with it or not. If you are comfortable with money, then debt will not bother you. If you have a good relationship with money (even if you don't have much), then getting more will simply be a journey or a quest. You might seek out different money making ventures, you might increase your knowledge as you go through life and, overtime, money will not cause you much stress.
If, however, you are not comfortable with money or you have issues with money that have been left over from childhood, then money will be a problem for you. Debt will cause you stress, losing a job or being temporarily unemployed will drive you to the brink, and earning money will always be a chore. You will probably continually sabotage yourself. It's all in your head.
One of the best ways to overpower your mind so that you can begin to relax around money is through hypnosis. You have to start learning some new money patterns. You need to give yourself permission to have money. Only then can you take the steps needed to have money. To show the power of suggestion, watch Steve G Jones perform some humorous street hypnosis that temporarily renders people no longer able to count to ten.
Get Steve G. Jones' End Finance Stress Hypnosis Program Now!
One of those steps is education. As with any stress related issue, education is key. The more you know about food and your body's physiology, the more likely you will be to lose weight and keep it off. Money is the same, the more you know about money and finance, the more likely you will be to find ways to earn money and keep it flowing into your life.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Does Emotional Eating Have You Stressed Out.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
Emotional eating is a hoax. It may been something emotional that got you started on over eating in the first place and it may be partially due to bad habits that you continue eating too much, but the single biggest reason why we are all so overweight is North America is because we are addicted to processed, high-glycemic carbohydrates.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
STOP SPIKING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR!
You have been on a blood sugar roller coaster for far too long. You eat a high sugar meal (all the whites/wheats), which spikes your blood sugar and for a short time you become hyperglycemic (high blood sugar).
Then you come down off this high and your body drops into a low blood sugar range called hypoglycemia. When this happens, your brain freaks out and starts to panic because it needs glucose (sugar) to function and so it starts screaming at you to eat more sugar.
When this happens, you feel terrible and it has nothing to do with emotional eating. You get cranky, feel faint, get headaches and feel like you are going to starve. But take a deep breath, because this is just your brain having a temper tantrum.
Remember when your child threw himself or herself down on the floor and started kicking his or her feet and screaming and crying. It's exactly the same thing. Your brain is throwing a hissy fit. It's behaving like a spoiled child.
But, just like with parenting, each and every time your child behaves this way, you have a choice as to how you will respond to your child, or in this case, respond to your brain's demand for glucose. Will you give it everything it seems to want, even if it means your child will grow up to be a spoiled rotten brat or will you give that child what he or she needs, which can sometimes be tough love and discipline.
Now, you don't want to completely ignore your brain, like you might a naughty child, but you also don't have to come running and give in to every single demand.
We all know that some parents truly don't understand or accept this phenomenon and they give into the child's every whim, but there are enough parents out there who do understand this reality that they are able to raise their children to become relatively well-balanced adults.
The point is, if you see hyperphagia for what it is, which is not emotional eating at all, but rather a scientific problem, then you will be able to control your unruly toddler or your unruly brain and as a result you will be able to tackle the largest factor that is keeping you fat.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
TOUGH LOVE AND DISCIPLINE
When your brain gets grumpy because it has dropped into the low glycemic range and begins to throws its daily, sometimes hourly, hissy fit or temper tantrum, you have the choice to give it more sugar or you can choose to give it protein and complex carbohydrates.
If you give it more sugar, you just create the conditions for another hissy fit in a couple of hours, when you drop into the low blood sugar range again, but if you give it protein and complex carbohydrates, then you will not spike your blood sugar, and you will not create the conditions for another temper tantrum in two or three hours.
You see, the brain does not care where the sugar comes from and all foods have some sugar. Your brain doesn't need a lot to be happy and it doesn't need the sugar to be simple or highly processed. If you give your body some protein or complex carbohydrates, your brain will be just as happy as if you gave it a double fudge, banana split sundae with caramel, nuts and colored sprinkles. Unlike children, your brain, in fact, likes broccoli and spinach.
IF YOU CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT HIGH-GLYCEMIC CARBOHRDRATES FOR 2-4 WEEKS, YOU WILL BREAK YOUR CARBS ADDICTION AND THEN EATING WILL NO LONGER FEEL LIKE SUCH AN EMERGENCY.
Once you have broken the addiction, you can begin to investigate, calmly, all the things you need to do to lose weight forever, but for as long as you are addicted to carbs, you will never stop yoyo dieting.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
Emotional eating is a hoax. It may been something emotional that got you started on over eating in the first place and it may be partially due to bad habits that you continue eating too much, but the single biggest reason why we are all so overweight is North America is because we are addicted to processed, high-glycemic carbohydrates.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
STOP SPIKING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR!
You have been on a blood sugar roller coaster for far too long. You eat a high sugar meal (all the whites/wheats), which spikes your blood sugar and for a short time you become hyperglycemic (high blood sugar).
Then you come down off this high and your body drops into a low blood sugar range called hypoglycemia. When this happens, your brain freaks out and starts to panic because it needs glucose (sugar) to function and so it starts screaming at you to eat more sugar.
When this happens, you feel terrible and it has nothing to do with emotional eating. You get cranky, feel faint, get headaches and feel like you are going to starve. But take a deep breath, because this is just your brain having a temper tantrum.
Remember when your child threw himself or herself down on the floor and started kicking his or her feet and screaming and crying. It's exactly the same thing. Your brain is throwing a hissy fit. It's behaving like a spoiled child.
But, just like with parenting, each and every time your child behaves this way, you have a choice as to how you will respond to your child, or in this case, respond to your brain's demand for glucose. Will you give it everything it seems to want, even if it means your child will grow up to be a spoiled rotten brat or will you give that child what he or she needs, which can sometimes be tough love and discipline.
Now, you don't want to completely ignore your brain, like you might a naughty child, but you also don't have to come running and give in to every single demand.
We all know that some parents truly don't understand or accept this phenomenon and they give into the child's every whim, but there are enough parents out there who do understand this reality that they are able to raise their children to become relatively well-balanced adults.
The point is, if you see hyperphagia for what it is, which is not emotional eating at all, but rather a scientific problem, then you will be able to control your unruly toddler or your unruly brain and as a result you will be able to tackle the largest factor that is keeping you fat.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
TOUGH LOVE AND DISCIPLINE
When your brain gets grumpy because it has dropped into the low glycemic range and begins to throws its daily, sometimes hourly, hissy fit or temper tantrum, you have the choice to give it more sugar or you can choose to give it protein and complex carbohydrates.
If you give it more sugar, you just create the conditions for another hissy fit in a couple of hours, when you drop into the low blood sugar range again, but if you give it protein and complex carbohydrates, then you will not spike your blood sugar, and you will not create the conditions for another temper tantrum in two or three hours.
You see, the brain does not care where the sugar comes from and all foods have some sugar. Your brain doesn't need a lot to be happy and it doesn't need the sugar to be simple or highly processed. If you give your body some protein or complex carbohydrates, your brain will be just as happy as if you gave it a double fudge, banana split sundae with caramel, nuts and colored sprinkles. Unlike children, your brain, in fact, likes broccoli and spinach.
IF YOU CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT HIGH-GLYCEMIC CARBOHRDRATES FOR 2-4 WEEKS, YOU WILL BREAK YOUR CARBS ADDICTION AND THEN EATING WILL NO LONGER FEEL LIKE SUCH AN EMERGENCY.
Once you have broken the addiction, you can begin to investigate, calmly, all the things you need to do to lose weight forever, but for as long as you are addicted to carbs, you will never stop yoyo dieting.
Check out the FAT BURNING FURNACE now!!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Signs of Stress, Anxiety and Panic
See video farther down page.
About 15 years ago, I sat eating lunch in a restaurant, something I used to do on a fairly regular basis. I was about 15 minutes into the meal when all of a sudden, I felt an overwhelming need to get out of the restaurant. It was very serious. In a matter of minutes, I flagged down a server, paid my bill and left. Once outside, I began to breath normally again. Then I looked around and became a little upset. What the hell was the matter with me? This had never happened before. The sense of urgency to escape was so intense, I felt like I was going to die. From that point forward, every time I tried to go to a restaurant, I had a similar experience in varying degrees of intensity. I didn't understand it and I couldn't explain it.
A short while later, I moved away from that town (a small town) and I moved back to the city. I was a city girl at heart and had moved to that small town about two years earlier. Once back in the city, I resumed my restaurant activity, as normal, but it was some time before I noticed that going to restaurants no longer caused a panic reaction in me. What was the difference? Why, for that 2 year period, was restauranting such an unpleasant experience?
Well time passed and with age comes wisdom. Years later, I've had occasion to look back on that time in my life and I have, of course, realized that I was experiencing panic attacks and since becoming a stress management consultant, I have learned about panic and anxiety and I now know that the experience of living in that small town was very stifling to me for some reason and that feeling of suffocation was manifesting itself in panic attacks at restaurants.
The human mind is a very strange creature. It will come up with many ways to protect you from whatever causes you fear or trauma. The Endocrine System is responsible for producing hormones for all kinds of things and each hormone has a counterpart to balance it out. It really doesn't take much for things to get out of balance. Long-term chronic distress is one of the biggest causes of imbalance in the body's hormone production center. Thankfully, there are many natural solutions to rebalancing the body's hormones.
The solution to my problem happened by accident - I moved away from the place that was making me feel stifled. I wonder, if I knew then what I know now about stress, hormones, panic and anxiety, how I would have handled my developing panic attacks. Perhaps I would have tried flower essences or aromatherapy, perhaps I would have cut sugar out of my diet (sugar messes with the pancreas, a major component of the Endocrine System), perhaps I would have gotten into the great outdoors more often, perhaps I should have gotten some more exercise, perhaps I could have visited the city more often, and the list goes on.
As I have grown older, I have learned that recognizing and accepting stress when it is happening is the first step and I have also learned that we can all benefit greatly just from understanding more about stress and the body's response to it. If you know what stress is and how your body responds to it, then you will be far more likely to keep your toolbox stocked with the right stress management tools for you.
I was lucky, my panic attacks were mild and they only lasted for two years and the cure was accidental. Not everyone is so lucky. For some people, anxiety and panic, literally controls their lives as was the case with Charles Linden which led to his development of the Linden Method for curing anxiety disorder. Watch the video below and then click on the link to cure your anxiety once and for all.
Click here for the Linden Method!
Click here for the Linden Method!
About 15 years ago, I sat eating lunch in a restaurant, something I used to do on a fairly regular basis. I was about 15 minutes into the meal when all of a sudden, I felt an overwhelming need to get out of the restaurant. It was very serious. In a matter of minutes, I flagged down a server, paid my bill and left. Once outside, I began to breath normally again. Then I looked around and became a little upset. What the hell was the matter with me? This had never happened before. The sense of urgency to escape was so intense, I felt like I was going to die. From that point forward, every time I tried to go to a restaurant, I had a similar experience in varying degrees of intensity. I didn't understand it and I couldn't explain it.
A short while later, I moved away from that town (a small town) and I moved back to the city. I was a city girl at heart and had moved to that small town about two years earlier. Once back in the city, I resumed my restaurant activity, as normal, but it was some time before I noticed that going to restaurants no longer caused a panic reaction in me. What was the difference? Why, for that 2 year period, was restauranting such an unpleasant experience?
Well time passed and with age comes wisdom. Years later, I've had occasion to look back on that time in my life and I have, of course, realized that I was experiencing panic attacks and since becoming a stress management consultant, I have learned about panic and anxiety and I now know that the experience of living in that small town was very stifling to me for some reason and that feeling of suffocation was manifesting itself in panic attacks at restaurants.
The human mind is a very strange creature. It will come up with many ways to protect you from whatever causes you fear or trauma. The Endocrine System is responsible for producing hormones for all kinds of things and each hormone has a counterpart to balance it out. It really doesn't take much for things to get out of balance. Long-term chronic distress is one of the biggest causes of imbalance in the body's hormone production center. Thankfully, there are many natural solutions to rebalancing the body's hormones.
The solution to my problem happened by accident - I moved away from the place that was making me feel stifled. I wonder, if I knew then what I know now about stress, hormones, panic and anxiety, how I would have handled my developing panic attacks. Perhaps I would have tried flower essences or aromatherapy, perhaps I would have cut sugar out of my diet (sugar messes with the pancreas, a major component of the Endocrine System), perhaps I would have gotten into the great outdoors more often, perhaps I should have gotten some more exercise, perhaps I could have visited the city more often, and the list goes on.
As I have grown older, I have learned that recognizing and accepting stress when it is happening is the first step and I have also learned that we can all benefit greatly just from understanding more about stress and the body's response to it. If you know what stress is and how your body responds to it, then you will be far more likely to keep your toolbox stocked with the right stress management tools for you.
I was lucky, my panic attacks were mild and they only lasted for two years and the cure was accidental. Not everyone is so lucky. For some people, anxiety and panic, literally controls their lives as was the case with Charles Linden which led to his development of the Linden Method for curing anxiety disorder. Watch the video below and then click on the link to cure your anxiety once and for all.
Click here for the Linden Method!
Click here for the Linden Method!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
A Stress Free Creed To Live By
When I was 15 years old, I was fortunate to win two major awards for service and citizenship. One was the Youth Appreciation Week Award for my city and the other was a major service award for my school. Both awards came as a surprise and I received many accolades as a result of this good fortune. My most prized possession was a plaque that listed the ten tenets of The Optimist Creed as promoted by the Optimist International organization (similar to Rotary, but its efforts are directed at youth and youth issues).
This creed (see below) is, as to be expected, all about following an optimistic path in life. In some ways, it is the original SECRET. Living a happy and stress-free life is a choice. You can choose to let life push you around and you can choose to see everything through a negative filter and you will reap what you sew. You can also choose to follow The Optimist Creed or to respect the Laws of Attraction and you will be the engineer of your life instead of having to accept what life hands you. Being an eternal optimist doesn't mean you have to stop being pragmatic or realistic but it does give you the power to start each day with fresh hope and inspiration. Any person who starts his or her day in this manner will live with far less stress than someone who does not. My plaque still hangs on my wall in my workspace where I refer to it often to remind myself to be optimistic about life. Since my youth, two more items have been added to the list.
The twelve tenets are as follows:
PROMISE YOURSELF:
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
This creed (see below) is, as to be expected, all about following an optimistic path in life. In some ways, it is the original SECRET. Living a happy and stress-free life is a choice. You can choose to let life push you around and you can choose to see everything through a negative filter and you will reap what you sew. You can also choose to follow The Optimist Creed or to respect the Laws of Attraction and you will be the engineer of your life instead of having to accept what life hands you. Being an eternal optimist doesn't mean you have to stop being pragmatic or realistic but it does give you the power to start each day with fresh hope and inspiration. Any person who starts his or her day in this manner will live with far less stress than someone who does not. My plaque still hangs on my wall in my workspace where I refer to it often to remind myself to be optimistic about life. Since my youth, two more items have been added to the list.
The twelve tenets are as follows:
PROMISE YOURSELF:
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
32 Double-Duty, Stress-Reducing Gifts.
I know Christmas just ended, but it’s not too early to get started on next year’s gift giving. So, give some things away this coming Christmas. Not just on Christmas, but during all the weeks leading up to December 25. We could call these weekly gifts “our Christmas projects.” Maybe do one per week from now until December 25th. Here are a few suggestions and when you exhaust the list, go back to the beginning and start again. Let’s make Christmas one long, extended gift of ourselves to others. Unselfishly. Without announcement. Or obligation. Or reservation. Or hypocrisy.
Each one of the things on the list below is a double-duty, stress-reducer. A little kindness shown towards another person is an obvious way to help another person reduce stress. In addition, many people don’t realize that when we do something nice for someone else it increases the Oxytocin (trust hormone) and Dopamine (feel good hormone) levels in our own bodies. Higher levels of both of these hormones is highly desired in a good stress management program.
1. Mend a quarrel.
2. Seek out a forgotten friend.
3. Dismiss suspicion.
4. Write a long overdue love note.
5. Hug someone tightly and whisper, “I love you so.”
6. Forgive an enemy.
7. Be gentle and patient with an angry person.
8. Express appreciation.
9. Gladden the heart of a child.
10. Find the time to keep a promise.
11. Make or bake something for someone else—anonymously.
12. Release a grudge.
13. Listen.
14. Speak kindly to a stranger.
15. Enter into another’s sorrow.
16. Smile. Laugh a little. Laugh a little more.
17. Take a walk with a friend.
18. Kneel down and pat a dog.
19. Read a poem or two to your mate or friend.
20. Lessen your demands on others.
21. Play some beautiful music during the evening meal.
22. Apologize if you were wrong.
23. Turn off the television and talk.
24. Treat someone to an ice cream cone (yogurt would be fine).
25. Do the dishes for the family.
26. Pray for someone who helped you when you hurt.
27. Fix breakfast on Saturday morning.
28. Give a soft answer even though you feel strongly.
29. Encourage an older person.
30. Point out 1 thing you appreciate about someone you work with or live near.
31. Offer to babysit for a weary mother.
32. Give your teacher a break: be especially cooperative.
Adapted from Charles R. Swindoll’s “The Finishing Touch.”
Each one of the things on the list below is a double-duty, stress-reducer. A little kindness shown towards another person is an obvious way to help another person reduce stress. In addition, many people don’t realize that when we do something nice for someone else it increases the Oxytocin (trust hormone) and Dopamine (feel good hormone) levels in our own bodies. Higher levels of both of these hormones is highly desired in a good stress management program.
1. Mend a quarrel.
2. Seek out a forgotten friend.
3. Dismiss suspicion.
4. Write a long overdue love note.
5. Hug someone tightly and whisper, “I love you so.”
6. Forgive an enemy.
7. Be gentle and patient with an angry person.
8. Express appreciation.
9. Gladden the heart of a child.
10. Find the time to keep a promise.
11. Make or bake something for someone else—anonymously.
12. Release a grudge.
13. Listen.
14. Speak kindly to a stranger.
15. Enter into another’s sorrow.
16. Smile. Laugh a little. Laugh a little more.
17. Take a walk with a friend.
18. Kneel down and pat a dog.
19. Read a poem or two to your mate or friend.
20. Lessen your demands on others.
21. Play some beautiful music during the evening meal.
22. Apologize if you were wrong.
23. Turn off the television and talk.
24. Treat someone to an ice cream cone (yogurt would be fine).
25. Do the dishes for the family.
26. Pray for someone who helped you when you hurt.
27. Fix breakfast on Saturday morning.
28. Give a soft answer even though you feel strongly.
29. Encourage an older person.
30. Point out 1 thing you appreciate about someone you work with or live near.
31. Offer to babysit for a weary mother.
32. Give your teacher a break: be especially cooperative.
Adapted from Charles R. Swindoll’s “The Finishing Touch.”
Stress in the City...or NOT!
I moved away from the city in 2005. I spent most of my life living near Vancouver, BC, Canada and then in 2005, I uprooted my family and moved to the southern interior region of British Columbia, Canada (near Alberta and the Idaho pipe). It was the best decision I have ever made in my life. If, however, you want to stay stressed, then fell free to stick with the big city rat race. Initially, I moved to a little town with 7500 people and then I moved even smaller and now I live in a tiny town with only 1800 people. There are only about 15-20,000 people in the whole trading area.
Now don't get me wrong, the transition was not easy. When I first arrived here it was a culture shock - big city girl meets small town cliques. Upon arrival, I was told by many that time doesn't move as fast as in the city so don't get your hopes up. Were they ever right! It's a whole different time zone, known locally as "Kootenay Time."
But four years later, I have slowed down and I have adapted and now I feel quite at home. I don't even have the desire to go back. Since leaving, I have only been back to Vancouver one time and I have ventured to other cities (Spokane, Calgary, Kelowna) only a handful of times.
There is less shopping, there are few attractions, there are fewer amenities, stores are not open all hours and the lifestyle is much more family oriented as a result. This is a very good thing. We are still busy, but not in the same high pressure way, and of course, the cost of living is much cheaper so we have far less financial stress as well.
All in all, what started as an unplanned, even reactive, move out of the big city has turned into a excellent stress-reducing life transition. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Now don't get me wrong, the transition was not easy. When I first arrived here it was a culture shock - big city girl meets small town cliques. Upon arrival, I was told by many that time doesn't move as fast as in the city so don't get your hopes up. Were they ever right! It's a whole different time zone, known locally as "Kootenay Time."
But four years later, I have slowed down and I have adapted and now I feel quite at home. I don't even have the desire to go back. Since leaving, I have only been back to Vancouver one time and I have ventured to other cities (Spokane, Calgary, Kelowna) only a handful of times.
There is less shopping, there are few attractions, there are fewer amenities, stores are not open all hours and the lifestyle is much more family oriented as a result. This is a very good thing. We are still busy, but not in the same high pressure way, and of course, the cost of living is much cheaper so we have far less financial stress as well.
All in all, what started as an unplanned, even reactive, move out of the big city has turned into a excellent stress-reducing life transition. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Environmental Stress Leads to Serious Oxidative Stress.
Environmental stress leads to oxidative stress, which then leads to serious chronic degenerative disease. 350 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the upper safe limit. Get involved and take action.
Check out www.350.org today!
Check out www.350.org today!
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