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In Times of Stress,Walk Out Of Your Body

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:03:22 +0000

By: Mary Desaulniers

Straddling the end of winter and the beginning of spring, March has always been a hectic month?a month of reckoning as it were?when last year’s issues must be faced head on. Income tax returns must be filed, and spring cleaning ( both inside and out) tend to become a logistical nightmare. This March, I had a personal difficulty to work through as well and for a while it seemed as though the world was an unending series of burdens. It was then that I tried a strategy that I had read about in Wayne Dyer’s book, “Your Sacred Self “( 1996): in times of turbulence, walk out of your body!

I began by imagining that I had walked out of my body and that I was looking at myself as though I were another being. This took some practice because the tendency of the mind was to stay within the ego and I had to keep reminding my mind that I was outside looking in, not inside looking out. After a while, the exercise became more fluid and I was able to maintain this “observer” position with greater ease.

I began with a side view of my body, imagining myself as I would appear to someone who was watching me from the side. I went from head to feet– acknowledging the angle of head, hair, shoulders, slant of body and even the way my legs were crossed at the ankles. Then I went through the whole process again this time adding the colors of my hair, shirt, pants, socks and slippers. And then in my mind’s eye, I walked backward a step or two, pretending that I was seeing “me&#

8221; for the first time. What did I see?

“A being who is overwhelmed emotionally”

What did I sense about this being?

“She need not fret so much; she is perhaps a bit overdramatic about her situation,but it is not the end of the world. After all, this too will pass.”

The remarkable thing was that as an outsider, I received immediate confirmation that all suffering was temporary. From an observer’s point of view, the person suffering was not the self. Just seeing “me” as another being allowed me to feel the temporariness of the situation. I then placed myself (as observer) in a different location?up on the ceiling and I imagined my body as it would appear to someone floating above. Then I went through the same process, digesting my being from that angle.

The more I played this game with myself, the more I was released from whatever worries I had in the first place. The overwhelming conviction was that I was larger than what stood before me and that all this fretting and worry would pass. Outside my body, I could feel a sense of limitless possibility that seemed impossible to sustain inside( the body). It seemed as though I had been suddenly released into an open field. The expanse of the spirit was everywhere, especially when I broke through the ceiling and roof and took a wild and fantastic circle around the skies.

Children do this everyday and we have a lot to learn from them: they use the imaginal to tame the real. If we examine the practice itself, we can see that there are several reasons why walking out of your body can be a sound strategy for diffusing stress.

1. Placing yourself in a third-party observer point of view makes allowance for the distance that is so crucial to an accurate assessment of any situation. How often have we remembered a past wrong in the light of distance and time and recognized the folly of our grievance? Our judgment is often dimmed by an experience that is too raw and close to us. Walking out of our body allows us to tame that rawness.

2 .If experience is recorded as cellular memories in our bodies, then getting a distant, less distorted perspective is not only important, but critical to our survival as intact and holistic beings. Fred Allan Wolf in “Mind Into Matter” (2001) refers to our bodies as “living scripts”: “at the level of the body, the observed and the observer are the same thing.” Would you prefer an observation that burns everything to the ground or one that hatches an escape route through the ceiling? Would you prefer a script that leaves you a victim, paralyzed by fear or one that allows you to take the reins in your hands and gives you a shot at turning the situation around? My almost 5 grandson understands this totally; he is a master inventor of escape routes and his favorite stories have always been those where the hero found a way out, a wormhole though the keyhole.

3. Walking out of our body allows us to raise our threshold to stress. Stressful events are an inevitable and unavoidable part of life. While removal of stressors is often impossible, raising our threshold to what is bearable for us is more than a viable possibility. Raising our threshold is like breaking though a barrier?what was once unthinkable becomes plausible. What once caused pain and furor becomes not only understandable, but accepted as part of our evolutionary process. The advantage we have to seeing our burden as a necessary part of a larger dynamic is that we have grown large enough to accommodate it within our system. We have grown because we can now metabolize it; we are ready now to transform it (the pain) into something greater than itself, something creative and inspiring. This is only possible when we can take the pain outside us and place it within a larger and evolutionary context.

Instead of succumbing to the sweet song of victimization( who does not enjoy the “poor me” chant?), a more effective strategy when confronted by stress, is to walk out of your body because that immediately places your pain in perspective.

Mary Desaulniers

Author Bio

A runner for 27 years, retired schoolteacher and writer, Mary is helping people reclaim their bodies. Nutrition, exercise, positive vision and purposeful engagement are the tools used to turn their bodies into creative selves. You can visit her at http://www.GreatBodyat50.com or learn how she lost her weight at http://www.greatbodyproteinpower.com

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How to Solve Stress. Many Ways

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:32:52 +0000

By: Liefya

Solving stress is not easy, but there are a number of possibilities. So I advise you to read about stress reduction on the Internet and select one or more methods that suit you best for resolving stress. A stressed person’s mind is always very busy, but his or her body is usually rather inactive. Physical action helps to stop your mind from wandering. I understand though, that when someone is stressed he thinks that he does not have the time for sports or for just going out to take a walk.

One good way to take action solving your stress without doing sports is just cleaning house thoroughly. I am sure you clean your house well. But it is possible to do better. Take a few hours and make a big clean-up. You will be surprised what a good feeling you will get out of this.

Another way to take physical action to solve your stress is: Do your exercises in the morning when you take a shower. Do the exercise 50 times and count. Your mind cannot wander and count at the same time. If this is difficult for you, practice it every day. You will succeed.

Last but not least: Find more ways for physical action in your house (or at work) Wash curtains, clean windows, make beds. Or find things that need to be fixed. It keeps your mind focussed and you will feel satisfied afterwards.

So just take physical action. It keeps your mind from wandering. You learn to focus again. You will be satisfied because you took positive action.

That is a good way to train your mind to do one thing at a time.

Liefya

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The Merits of Bad Credit Debt Consolidation

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:32:45 +0000

By: Gordon Goodfellow
It is bad enough that you have bad credit and cannot make payments, but bad credit debt consolidation can help in a variety of ways. There are many good reasons to consolidate your debt to overcome the overwhelming experience of dealing with debt. If you have a bad credit score then working on debt consolidation is a great step towards working on your own financial plan.
Reason #1: Interest Rates Reduction. Combining debt can be great because you often combine them into one payment with one interest rate instead of many different rates. Often this can lower than the rate you were originally paying.
Reason #2: Stress Level Reduction. Debt can be so troubling emotionally in so many ways, and this can affect you both mentally and physically. Worry over debt can begin to take control of your life and can cause some very strong negative emotions. People often get depressed, become angry, and all this may lead to health issues, arguments with your partner and problems at work with concentration.
Reason #3: Creditor Reduction. Bad credit debt consolidation will typically involve dealing with lots of different accounts, whether they are credit cards, store cards or loans of various descriptions. It’s a great relief making one easy payment to cover all of the debt. Usually, various credit payments are payable to different creditors and at different times. This can make it difficult to pay the debt in a timely manner and keep track of what payments are due to which creditor.
Reason #4: Error Reduction. Many bad credit debt consoli
dation programs include plans that encompass budgeting, counseling and financial planning. These are great tools to use that will prevent you from getting in the same situation sometime down the road. People make mistakes and debt is not the end of the world. The best way to keep this from happening again is to learn what you can do to become debt free, remain debt free and become financially stable.
Reason #5: Bad Credit Score Reduction. Or should we say credit score increase? As you pay off your debt, your outstanding debts that are affecting your credit score will begin to diminish and your score will increase. The higher the score, the more financially sound you seem and are more likely to be approved for future credit.
Reason #6: Total Capital Reduction. This is probably the most attractive reason to opt for a structured debt management program rather than taking out another loan. You will be writing of a huge chunk of your debt at the start. The more professional debt consolidation companies are trained in negotiating with creditors, sometimes achieving as much as 70 percent off the original debt right off the bat.
No matter which reason you choose for undertaking a debt consolidation program, all are good ones. Getting control of your finances by means of a bad credit debt consolidation plan is a perfect way to improving opportunities for better rates and future credit opportunities. How you decide to handle the debt in future is then up to you, but at least you have started on the journey to financial recovery.
Gordon Goodfellow
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Gordon Goodfellow runs consumer websites which add value. His bad credit debt consolidation website offers a wide range of services and options to those with debt. His associate site offers bad credit debt consolidation advice in the United States.
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Pyscho Neuro Endo- Immunology Pnei – a Key to Reducing Stress

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:44:13 +0000

By: Kelly Price
Pyscho Neuro Endo- Immunology the study of how psychological factors influence the nervous hormonal and immune systems and gives clues to how stress affects both our mental and physical being.
Pyscho Neuro Endo- Immunology can help our overall wellbeing in many ways but here, we are going to look at from the point of view of diet and the reduction of stress.
If you suffer from low sex drive, insomnia, anxiety attacks, are constantly tired and have an inability to concentrate, then you need to take a look first at your diet to help you cope with stress.
Magnesium
Magnesium gives energy, balances blood sugar levels and regulates blood pressure – Which all come under pressure when were under stress.
Keeping Magnesium levels up will help maintain balance. Around 55% of people are deficient in this mineral so make sure you get plenty of it.
Leafy green vegetables, wholgrains and pulses will provide it; if you don’t get enough consider a supplement
Caffeine
We take caffeine as an instant pick me up and the more you take the more you want as the body becomes immune to it – while it picks you up short term, it saps energy levels longer term and makes you feel drained.
Never drink caffeine in the morning before you have eaten.
Drink later on a full stomach and limit your intake to 3 cups per day. Try and wean yourself off caffeine and substitute green and herbal teas instead.
Eat Regularly
You need this to keep your blood sugar levels balanced and energy levels on an even keel. Tr
y three main meals (never skip breakfast) and keep fruit to hand if you want a healthy snack.
Vitamin Boost
Coristol is the stress hormone and to keep it in check you need to feed it plenty of vitamin B (Mostly B5) and also significant amounts of vitamin C.
Make sure you get plenty and good healthy choices each day are for B5 are:
Eggs, fish, meat, lentils, Soya, brown rice and oats
For vitamin C go for:
Orange juice, peppers broccoli cabbage tomatoes and any citrus fruits
Serotonin
Cut Out These Stress Foods
Alcohol, smoking recreational drugs, smoking and cafeine mentioned earlier – they are all short term pick me ups but longer term can cause havoc with blood sugar levels, your mood and your sleep patterns.
Cut out refined foods and foods full of sugar and try and eat as “naturally from the earth” as you can.
You are what you eat!
Stress affects all of us to varying degrees and the study Pyscho Neuro Endo- Immunology can help you come to terms with it in a number of different ways, which we will look at further in other articles in this series.
Diet is a great place to start dealing with stress, as it will help you cope with the daily stresses that modern living throws at all of us.
Pyscho Neuro Endo- Immunology proves conclusively that if you eat the right foods, your mental and physical wellbeing will be improved. So follow the tips above and get on the road to a healthier lifestyle.
Kelly Price
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Energy Therapy For A More Beautiful You

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:01:16 +0000

By: Darryl Walters
There are many ways to enhance the natural beauty that is in all of us… through spa treatments, moisturizers, and skin masks, but have you ever considered stress reduction as a beauty treatment? Just as stress reduction can have incredible, dramatic results on the internal workings of the body, the outside can show amazing changes as well. The secret is found in a device called the SCIO/EPFX. This is an amazing piece of technology that works in conjunction with Quantum Biofeedback, an advanced interface developed out of traditional biofeedback. Quantum Biofeedback works by delivering the frequencies of any of 10,000 different items that are “recorded” into the SCIO/EPFX device. The items can be vitamins, minerals, organs, emotions, or remedies among other things. A Certified Biofeedback Specialist working with the device can determine any energetic deficiencies or excesses of these items within the client. Those that resonate highly are then addressed reducing the stress that the excess or deficiency was creating within their body or mind.
A powerfully concentrated therapy has been created within the Quantum Biofeedback program to specifically reduce the effects of stress and aging on the body and it can be applied to the skin, muscles, and connective tissues of the face directly. Therapy can be focused on whatever issue the client is coping with at that moment – lines and wrinkles around the eyes, loose skin around the cheek and jowl areas, or discoloration from age spots or the sun among others.
By removing the stress
and delivering the frequencies of healthy skin and muscle tissue, the client can experience dramatic results after just one session. Skin will appear healthier, clearer, and the muscles and connective tissue will be lifted and tightened created the appearance of a facelift, but without the surgery or recovery time. Along with the skin related frequencies, therapy is also given to fight the effects of aging on the body and face. Blemishes and age spots can be greatly reduced over time and the face will also receive the frequencies of elastin and collagen which, during the aging process, the body loses the ability to produce naturally. The appearance of lines and wrinkles can also be eliminated or lessened on all areas of the face: eyes, lips, cheeks, forehead, chin, and neck. Scars and sun damage can also be affected by the therapy. Other areas that can be focused on are breast enlargement and reduction, lip volumizing, and hair removal, and weight loss.
In addition to the excellent therapies above which concentrate on the muscle and skin related issues directly, the client will also be receiving general stress reduction therapy throughout the session. Relaxing hemi-sync music is provided to balance the two hemispheres of the brain, creating feelings of well-being, insight, and relaxation. The client is also reclining on a chair pad which connects to the SCIO/EPFX. This pad transmits the frequencies of multiple items that induce a natural stress reduction process in the body. This can have effects that go way beyond the outer appearance of the skin and face. Digestion can improve, aches and pains can lessen, and emotional issues can be resolved more easily. Because the internal processes like digestion, elimination, and metabolism are all linked to the skin and it’s appearance, the addition of the overall therapy makes this modality more effective that those that focus only on the skin and outer levels of your appearance. So, all of these therapies working together can create an amazing result prompting a healthier, more confident, more beautiful you.
Darryl Walters
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