Time: Friend or Foe?

Time can be seen as a friend when we have enough of it to do what we want. It can also be seen as a foe that keeps us nailed to tasks that we must do. Rather than looking at it from the point of view that we GET to, rather than HAVE to, we look at our daily tasks as though something outside ourselves is pulling the strings. That is the ultimate stress, to feel controlled by a force bigger than us, rather than seeing the force within us giving us all we need to do what we wish. Choosing to use small increments of time on things to our best advantage is a key to living stress free. . . . → Read More: Time: Friend or Foe?

Listing it or Living it?

Listing out the things to do can be a stressful routine if we never actually DO the things that matter to us daily. Shifting the perception of our daily responsibilities from, I don’t HAVE to, I GET to, can make stress a stranger. . . . → Read More: Listing it or Living it?

Water Washes Worry Away

Worry is one of those nagging thought processes that affect us waking and sleeping.  It’s a toss and turn night when worry about the day’s mistakes keep me up longer than I want to be awake.  Worrisome feelings interrupt my sleep with a dream that’s way too realistic or a nudge from my partner saying you’re . . . → Read More: Water Washes Worry Away

Top 5 Stress Starters & How to Stop Them

Grizzly Danger, Stress

When I think of stress, a few big topics come to mind:
Money, Work, Family, Safety, and Death (or Loss). Are these the top 5 stress starters? Could worrying about these areas in our lives create stress? You bet. But, what if you could turn your thinking around to include the best scenarios of these top 5 areas? STOP STRESS IN ITS TRACKS, from the inside out. . . . → Read More: Top 5 Stress Starters & How to Stop Them

Music, The Best Stress Reliever Around

When it comes to changing your mood, there’s just something about Music that soothes me, helps me forget why I am upset, if only for a moment.  That moment is all that’s needed for relief to have a crack at it in moving from desperation to hope, not all in one leap, but fewer steps than . . . → Read More: Music, The Best Stress Reliever Around

Longer Days, More Time?

When spring is really here, the first rose blooms. Then light stays out longer.  Darkness delays coming with dusk notifying the birds to go home and the bats to come out.  Dusk is a time I like to sit out on my porch in the silence of the change from light to dark.  It is in . . . → Read More: Longer Days, More Time?

Start Again in 2010

Always moving forward on this ‘persistence path’, “Starting Again in 2010″ was a post I meant to publish the first of the year. What happened isn’t as important as developing the habits to be stressfree by doing it NOW. Each stressfree step you take NOW, in mindset as well as action, will lead to relief from feeling stress. . . . → Read More: Start Again in 2010

The Stress of NOT Doing What You are Meant to Do…

Stress is an inside job, and NOT doing what you feel is good for you can become overwhelmingly stressful. Writing about the challenge can be a solution. . . . → Read More: The Stress of NOT Doing What You are Meant to Do…

Relaxation through Sound

Relaxing sounds soothe our brain and relieve stress. Music, Nature sounds, Binaural beats change our brain waves and soothe away stress. . . . → Read More: Relaxation through Sound

Honor The Muse

stress, express, honor the muse . . . → Read More: Honor The Muse