By: Sarah LabdarStress is a natural part of life. These days there are very few who don’t get stressed over money, the economy, the housing market, jobs or even family. Our bodies naturally react to stress through blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, body temperature and muscle contractions. Everyone deals with stress on different levels and [...]
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By: Lester Sim For the last few decades, every author or speaker on management and self-help has said something about time management. Allocate time, analyze the work pattern, get a management diary, list out the priorities and assign time limits. After all time is life, and one must try to get the most out of [...]

All we need to do is look at our lives and see what is happening to us. We are in an insane hurry. Our highways are more crowded and people are in a hurry. Road rage is rampant. Fast foods are more popular than ever. We rush to answer the telephone in three rings. How about the long lines in stores, post office and amusement parks? And those are just a drop in the bucket. More and more people are finding life miserable!

Imagine if we could live our lives completely free of stress.Now wake up and stop dreaming, because you can’t.No matter what job you have, no matter where you live, you will have stress in your life. What causes you stress is different to what causes me stress. What you stress about is different to what I stress about. The amount of stress you can cope with is different to the levels I can cope with.

What is stress?
Although we tend to think of stress as caused by external issues, issue in themselves are not stressful. It is the way in which we interpret and react to them that makes them stressful. People differ enormously in the type of events they interpret as stressful and the way in which they respond to such stress.
Stress is generally created when the demands made on a person start to exceed that person’s ability, or perceived ability to cope. Essentially a ga…

The holidays are supposed to be a time of celebration when friends and families get together to share food, fun, gifts, and love. They are supposed to be a time of giving, caring and connection when we celebrate important and meaningful events.
Why, then, are they often so stressful and what can we do to make them more fun and peaceful?

Spending a day, or even part of a day, in nature provides our bodies and brains with a much needed relief from stress. Regrettably, going out to nature on a daily basis does not always fit into the daily schedule, so bringing nature sounds into your home is the practical solution. Home water fountains and waterfalls are many times the favored choice for nature sounds because they offer a multi-sensory stress-relieving experience that sound machines and audio recordings are unable to provide.





