One thing that is coming up more than ever is the condition called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Some were aware of it before this became the common name and remember it as shell shock. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a disorder suffered by rising numbers of people today.It starts…
Many people think that stress is coming from the work, environment or certain situition. It is not. When we are facing something, our mind is generating the stress. It is also saying that, we have the choice not to generate the stress, if we can adjust our mind.
By: Anbhu Selvan
Stress has often been cited as a major cause of premature aging and wrinkles, though wrinkles is caused by many other factors such as pollutants, sunlight exposure, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, dehydration, improper diet, hormonal imbalance and aging.
How does stress affect your health and skin condition? – Stress can weaken the immune system, [...]
By: Douglas Alp
We all have heard of the harmful effects stress can have on our lives. Although we can never totally eliminate stress we must be able to manage stress, and find stress relief, especially the prolonged stress which will indeed cause many ill effects on your health.
In many ways we can eliminate much of [...]
By: Matthew Keegan
Oxygen is necessary for humans. To breathe as well as product energy, our bodies require the use of oxygen. Organisms known as free radicals are produced as our bodies use oxygen. Oxidative stress is caused when these free radicals interact with the various cells in our bodies and essentially damage those cells. As [...]
By: Jonas Glass
It is always to recognize the signs the symptoms when you are in the throes of stress. Many people misunderstand the true definition of stress and would resort to medications and herbal remedies just to get rid of it without even trying to find out what started it in the first place. Being [...]
By: Martin Eisen
1. What is Classical Tai Chi?
Only the Yang style will be discussed. However, similar types of training were used in other classical styles (Chen, Wu and Sun), since these were also internal forms of Kung Fu for health and self defense. These styles have also been altered and shortened.
The original (old) Yang Tai [...]
By: John Spencer Ellis
Stress – Stress and Parenting
Few things in life can lead to chronic stress as readily as parenting. But it need not be so. While raising children definitely requires more patience than any other activity, over a wider range of circumstances and for longer periods of time, it need not be a source [...]
By: Paul Blake
A total 41% of American workers interviewed reported an increase in work stress on their jobs compared to a year earlier. Another poll taken among Americans showed that more than one half of the respondents (58%) reported having experienced insomnia at least a few nights a week. This is a trend in American [...]
By: Della David
Most of us experience some degree of stress in our lives, pretty much 100% of the time. Stress has been very clearly linked to weight gain, obesity and an inability to lose weight. Stress is created by a combination of physical, mental and emotional factors and has a very definite biological impact, partly [...]
By: Alan Densky
More than ever before research is proving the fundamental responsibility played by stress in triggering or aggravating a lot of physical and emotional afflictions. In the June 6, 1983 issue of Time Magazine, the cover story called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties.” The article also claimed that stress is a major health [...]
By: Peter Gitundu
The stress caused by conflict among family members, colleagues or peers is called intrapersonal stress and such conflicts are pretty common in our society and intrapersonal life situation interventions are necessary to combat this. The conflict and stress is caused by bothersome partners who are willing to cause serious trouble, and it has [...]
