Joy is one of the most healing things you can possibly do in your life. If you think it is not constructive to take time out to enjoy yourself, you are mistaken. Joy is constructive, creative, healing and, most importantly, powerful. Joy will bring in heavenly forces to aid you.

Joy is one of the most healing things you can possibly do in your life. If you think it is not constructive to take time out to enjoy yourself, you are mistaken. Joy is constructive, creative, healing and, most importantly, powerful. Joy will bring in heavenly forces to aid you.

There are two types of stress. The first type is acute stress. That’s the kind where your body senses danger and adapts to the threat by making physical changes which enable you to quickly get out of harms way. This occurs because your body secretes chemicals and stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol. These chemicals are secreted in response to your thoughts and cause your body to prepare for “fight or flight.” For example, let’s say you are crossing the street and you notice a car quickly approaching. You see the car which causes you to feel fear and anxiety. Your body then adapts to the stress by secreting chemicals and hormones which send messages to your heart, lungs and organs in order to prepare them to handle your crisis. Your heart rate increases, blood flow is diverted to muscles allowing for quick movement, your pupils dilate and more oxygen flows through your lungs for an extra burst of energy. These changes allow you to react quickly, enabling you to jump onto the curb to safety. Within a short period of time your body calms down and things return to normal. This protective mechanism is crucial to your safety and is designed to protect you against danger.

Has anyone ever told you that you are an over-reactor? Maybe it is time for a crash course in stress management. When you are practicing stress management, you will learn how to control your emotions so that people won’t think of you as an over-reactor, but you will also be able to control your mind to stay positive. With a positive attitude any task can be completed and on time.

The first step to controlling anger is understanding it. While anger and anger management are complex topics, this article will help you by providing some basic information and methods that will make your anger that much more manageable.

What is anger

First of all, don’t make yourself bad for having anger. Anger in itself is nothing wrong. Anger is wrong only if you hold it in, or if you express it in an unhealthy way. This is where anger management comes in - what is healthy and what is unhealthy?

It is difficult for many people to clearly and concisely state their thoughts and feelings. When children first learn to talk, they are often admonished when they state the bare truth about something or someone. That is not nice—you can’t say that to Grandma, Grandpa or Uncle Lu.” Or heaven forbid if the child points out something quite obvious to a neighbor or friend. Thus, a child quickly learns that truth and perceptions are forbidden and hypocrisy and half-truths or white lies is the communication style to emulate.

I have never had a client who has not had time issues. I have them myself. Life seems to be going much faster, with more things crowding the day. And there are more and more things waiting in the wings; things we want to get to or hope to get to and some things we will never get to. This seems to be the case whether or not we have taken courses in time management, whether or not we have a PDA, whether or not we are ‘good’ about scheduling.

What do we mean when you say, “I don’t have enough time?” Probably, we mean one of these things:

“Give yourself a good shake! Stop wallowing in your problems!”

Sound familiar? If only the solution were that easy…

Many of us are under so much stress these days that we even think the feeling is normal. And with that comes a nagging anxiety: if we’re not coping and all we need to do is give ourselves ‘a good shake’, then why can’t we do it?

So the anxiety cycle goes round and round - and becomes more and more intense. Some people take to medication or ‘other ‘ drugs, but more and more are looking for natural anxiety relief techniques.