Month: February 2011

Stress and Mental Health – What You Can Do To Ease Them

Since there is a proven connection between stress and mental health, it makes sense to tackle them before serious problems take over. You do that by finding an escape route, a secret place where you can go to dispel the stress build-up and ease your mind. 1. Get A Massage Pampering yourself is one way to cope with stress. Visit your local health spa and indulge yourself in one of their traditional massages. This is a great way to loosen those knotted muscles and relax while experts do all the work. Shiatsu is considered to be a good choice. 2. […]

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How To Stop An Anxiety Attack With Biofeedback Exercises

I can tell you exactly how to stop an anxiety attack. One method that works amazingly well for me is distraction. The instant an attack strikes, I can stop it simply by getting angry at it. In other words, I fight back. I refuse to accept it into my body and my life. The fact that this really works might astound you, but believe me, it does. I’ve used it lots of times with great results. Sometimes, the anger is directed at myself for being so weak and letting something so ridiculous put me in such a defensive state. In […]

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Why Visualization Is One Of The Best Panic Attack Remedies

I’ve tried the obvious panic attack remedies – namely, professional therapy and medication. The problem is that when the sessions finally ended two years later, I was not totally cured. I still hand lingering discomfort related to anxiety and panic. The fear that an attack could strike at any moment didn’t help. That’s when I did a lot of reading on visualization and relaxation remedies. The first time I tried relaxation, I had help from a psychiatrist who taught me how to perform self-hypnosis. I talk about this method in another post. It was just the beginning. Using the methods […]

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Where Can You Find Help For Anxiety?

I was fortunate in that I found help for anxiety quickly, although it was actually panic by the time I did. I waited too long, instead of seeking help as soon as anxiety struck. What I discovered during my recovery is that many people just do not have much sympathy for someone with a mental condition. They think you are just exaggerating to get attention. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The last thing most anxiety suffers want is for people to constantly pander to them in this way. They want honesty. They want support. And they want to […]

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Keys to Managing Workplace Stress – And Other Stressful Situations

It doesn’t have to be difficult managing workplace stress, or any other form of stress if you take the upper hand quickly. Stress is a permanent feature of our lives, but it really seems to ramp up at work. More than two-thirds of American workers report that workplace stress is a problem. Simply making decisions and taking action can be one of the most immediate ways to relieve stress. Take a moment whenever you feel stressed, identify the things in your mind that are contributing to your state, and then do something about them. That’s all there is to this […]

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Panic Attack Treatments: Do You Really Need Them?

You could go it alone, but you don’t have to when there are some quality panic attack treatments around. How do I know this? Because I suffered with panic and anxiety disorder for years. For me, recovery began with my therapist who sat and listened to my lengthy sagas about my most recent feelings and fears. My file was immense two years later when we parted ways. Oh, I wasn’t cured, exactly. He just decided that he couldn’t really help me much more than what he had, with the medications and talk therapy. That’s when I realized I’d have to […]

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How To Use Hypnosis As An Anxiety Relief Remedy

You can hire a hypnotist or you can hypnotise yourself. I’ve done it and you can too, if you are serious about finding an anxiety relief remedy that works when you want it to. Find some relaxing music. If you don’t have any, there are a lot of great CDs around. Choose something you enjoy that also calms you. For me, it is Hawaiian instrumental music. I find it extremely relaxing, plus it enables me to easily conjure up images of those luscious islands, blue skies and sandy beaches. Turn on the music, then find a comfortable and quite place […]

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