Archive for April, 2008

A New Perspective on Stress Symptoms

Do you often suffer from bouts of headaches, anxiety, and restlessness, shortness of breath, back and neck pains, feelings of insecurity, irritability, irregular bowel movement, exhaustion and skin problems for no apparent reason? Many of us misinterpret these conditions as symptoms of illness rather than as a sign of stress. They are very easy to [...]

Dealing with Stress in the Workplace

Stress is decidedly a personalized occurrence and varies widely even in identical situations for various reasons. One survey reveals that majority of policemen become stressed simply by completing necessary paper work than facing the dangers related to pursuing and catching criminals. Downsizing, mergers and bankruptcies have cost hundreds of thousands of employees their jobs while [...]

Long Term Strategies for Stress Relief and Management

From the time of the cavemen thousands of years ago, to today’s age of the virtual workplace in the world wide web to tomorrow’s conquer of space and tighter integration of computers and telephony, stress will always be a part of our lives. It is like a shadow that is always with us wherever we [...]

Manage your Stress for a More Productive Lifestyle

Stress is a daily part of our lives; however each individual has a different way of reacting or managing stressful situations. Some thrive under stress while others fold up and retreat. There are different types of stress: good, bad, intrapersonal and interpersonal. Stress is good when it allows us to muster all our personal resources [...]