Play: The Ultimate Stress Reliever Last month’s feature article on body image invited you to let go of the negative thoughts and conversations you might be having around your body. Those negative thoughts and self talk lead to negative feelings, which produce distress or stress in our lives. Research shows exercise to be a great stress reliever. You can go to the gym, you can start an “exercise program”, and you can get yourself on a prescribed schedule to make sure it happens. That can work well, as all exercise helps the body produce…
Body Image-It’s Not What You See, but How You Feel “If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.” – Gloria Steinem Tara is 5’ 5”, weighs 132 pounds; her hair is the color of chestnuts and her lips naturally want to curl into a smile. She has square shoulders, small breasts and a little pooch at the edge of her thighs that comes from her mother’s side of the family. When she stands in front of a full length…
Summertime! Although, it’s not “officially” summer, we all know summer “unofficially” began with the Memorial Day weekend we just had here in the States. If you’ve been following my ezines for awhile, you know how much I love summer. If you’re new to my ezine: “Mind Matters”, a big Welcome! Check out some of the past summer articles if you want to learn more about “summertime mode”. Summertime, to me has always been associated with leisure time, play, fun, outdoors and great weather. I grew up on Long Island, New York, and…
Article: Stressed at work? Are you longing for more peace and serenity? The workplace is a place where employed people spend a major part of their day. Over the last few years, with the many lay offs in almost every industry, many employees have found themselves working longer hours and doing the work of at least 2 or 3 other people. This becomes quite stressful day in and day out. With others in the same “boat”, the environment can become quite toxic with tension, snide competitive remarks, conflicts among co-workers, as well as…
Money Matters: Your mindset is a choice! What choices are you making to bring more or less stress into your life? Now that tax season is over you can relax, right? Well for some that may be true, for others, the process of filing those tax returns likely brought up some financial issues. Money and finances and anything pertaining to the same subject, are major causes of stress for most people. We live in a culture that encourages debt and denies the lost art of delaying gratification. And, like color that fades…
It’s feeling more and more like spring around here. The vegetation is getting more and more green and even though we don’t get really warm weather yet here in the Northwest, it’s definitely showing signs of warmer days to come. One of the surest sign out in the garden is the amount of weeds! Yup, there they are, showing their faces toward the warming days, lots of rain and so much more light, all the things those pesky things need. Now, I’ve done “battle” with those weeds in the past, getting all upset by…