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A variety of stress management ideas and coping strategies that you can use today rom everyday life and current research

Children’s Books For Adult Stress

March 17, 2008 – 10:14 am
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talesWhy should those little crumb-crushers have all the fun?

You know you have to take time out each day for stress management, or "me time" or whatever you want to call it.  The benefits to your health and your sanity are numerous.  But perhaps it’s work for you to stay still.  Your brain is a perpetual rebel at meditation and you can’t even relax in a bath without worrying about how much the water is going to cost you.  For you, trying to relax is just as much work as work. Children’s books for adult stress are for you.  They are familiar, absorbing, short and help your smile even when you are in the grumpiest of moods.

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Saints to Pray to When You’re Stressed

March 12, 2008 – 11:08 am
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Padre_Pio"Pray, hope and don’t worry."  — Padre Pio

I’m not Catholic (or even Christian), but I like the idea of praying to Saints.  I’m more at home talking to a specialist than a general practitioner.  And Saints are specialists in certain spiritual areas we can usually put faces to.  My Mom is Catholic, which is how a Pagan like me found out about Saints.  There are Saints or enlightened dead people who intercede with impersonal spirits on behalf of the living.  Whether you believe in the Saints or Gods or not is not the point.  Saints don’t seem to care what religion you are.  They’re great to talk to when you can’t talk to anyone else about whatever is stressing you out.  Here are a couple of Saints to pray to or talk to when you’re stressed.

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When They Don’t Believe You

March 5, 2008 – 12:48 pm
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sleep-couple"Old mate, I trust you about as far as I could comfortably spit out a rat." –  Douglas Adams

One of the most frequent causes of stress in modern life is having to prove that we are telling the truth.  They just don’t believe your word anymore.  In this case, "they" can mean doctors, employers, friends and enemies.  I’m currently trying to get back my medical assistance from Medicaid.  They don’t believe anything I say or write unless I can get ten people to back it up, in writing, in triplicate.  Unfortunately, my Mother is also going through the same exact thing with her medical insurance company.  Ah, the family that fills out medical applications together stays together, doesn’t it?  It can seem like a huge mountain to climb when they don’t believe you, but it can be done.

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Making An Appontment With Worry

February 25, 2008 – 10:38 am
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swiss_kissThis was an interesting idea stolen from — er, I mean borrowed from — Slow Down…And Get More Done by Marshall J Cook.  He suggested that if you have an issue in your life that’s causing you to worry yourself into distraction, you should make an appointment with worry.  In this way, you get most of the worry out of your system.  In the way that colon cleansings are supposed to help remove toxins from the body, then an appointment with worry can help remove the toxin of worry from your day.  This is a lot like tensing up in order to relax.

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First Draft-Itis

February 18, 2008 – 12:07 pm
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"Which way do I go?""I love deadlines.  I love the wooshing noise they make as they go by."   — Douglas Adams (you know, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy guy?)

Eventually in life you have to make a Big Decision.  This could be anything from deciding which classmate to ask to the prom or to change careers.  This kind of Big Decision making happens every darn day for a writer like me.  I’m not all that all that keen on making decisions, because in my past I’ve made some incredibly bad ones.  So, I wind up putting off the decision for as long as humanly possible.  Since I’m a writer, I call it "First Draft-itis."  Last night, the Muse struck (which, in my case, is not just a pretty saying) and I wound up having to make the Big Decision to actually put pen to paper and crank out the first draft of a speculative short story.  How’d I manage it?

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