How to Exercise to Reduce Stress

Exercise can get reduce stress and settle your thoughts. Try these exercises for quick stress relief.
   
INSTRUCTIONS:

Step1

Try a yoga class. Yoga involves a lot of deep breathing and focus. It centers the mind, body, and soul and can help you release any stresses that are bothering you. You will feel refreshed after a yoga class and stress-free.

Step2

Go for a swim! Swimming in the ocean or a pool can be invigorating, and there is something about the water that can help us feel calm and refreshed. It is one of the best exercises a person can do because swimming uses and activates many muscles we don't use on a daily basis. It is great for the circulation.

Step3

Walking is the number one stress reliever. Walking increases blood flow, allows you to breathe in fresh air and reduces stress. It is recommended that people walk at least 3 times a week to keep your body healthy and your mind refreshed.

Step4

Meditate and calm yourself. People who take time to meditate seem to have a way to center themselves and get rid of all stress. Meditation takes focus, and special breathing techniques are involved.

Step5

Running for stress reduction can also work. Strenuous exercises can allow you to vent all of your stress into a physical activity. Sometimes stress comes in feelings of sadness or anger, and strength exercises might be helpful.

How to understand colors and their effects on you

What kinds of colors are around you? Do you have too much blues or pinks or purples? Your eyes and body must be exposed to all colors. Over time we have made objects around us match to the extent of having blue living room walls with matching furniture and carpet and throw pillows. This is fine but the variety of color exposure is unbalanced. Believe it or not, this can have an effect on your life and over all health.
  
INSTRUCTIONS:

Step1

PURPLE
The color of nobility. Wear it!
It's soothing. Boosts self esteem, dignity, and self respect. Feeds insight, intuition, and perception. Wear it too much and you end up in a fantasy world! It affects the organs, glands, spinal, pituitary, left eye, nose, insight, and clairvoyance.

Step2

BLUE
The color of truthfulness and peace.
It's calming and comforting. Eases stress, tension, and pain. Helps inner thoughts. Too much can cause depression and isolation. Effects the organs, glands, thyroid, parathyroid, hypothalamus, throat, mouth, sound vibration, communication, and creative expression.

Step3

MAGENTA
The color of letting go- moving on.
It has a nurturing and protective feeling. Positive and reassuring.
Too much can cause fanaticism and arrogance. Effects the organs, glands, and the central nervous system.

Step4

BROWN
Grounding- Brings us down to earth.
Inviting, cosy, comforting. Connects us with the physical world around us. Helps us to feel supported and stronger in ourselves. Steadies other colors.

Step5

ORANGE
Sexuality and Creativity.
Brings us joy / uplifting / Social outgoing.
Too much can cause excitability and irresponsibility.
Effects the ovaries, genitals, spleen, bladder, feelings.

Step6

RED
Grounding- self preservation
Instinct, survival, physical drive, strength, vitality, sexuality, passion, primal energy, and alertness.
Too much can cause heart problems and exhaustion.
Increases body temperature, raises blood pressure, and stimulates blood circulation.

Step7

YELLOW
Warm and optimistic. Cheers you up. Uplifting.
Stimulates our intellect and logical mind. Sense of being in control.
Too much can cause arguments.
Effects the Pancreas, adrenal, stomach, liver, gall bladder, nervous system, and muscles.

Step8

GREEN
Balancing, harmonizing, restful.
Closely associated with nature. Trusting in the process of life. Compassion, caring, soothes emotions, heals the heart. A great color to grow. Brings renewed life to dullness.
Too much can cause inactive feelings and indecisiveness.
Effects the organs, glands, heart, thymus, circulatory, system, arms, hands, and lungs.

Step9

TURQUOISE
Reviving and Invigoration
Boosts immunity. Very cooling and youthful, expressive color.
Too much can cause isolation and confusion.
Believed to protect against illness and emotional illness. Relieves inflammation.

Step10

BLACK - Will calm your nerves
WHITE - Helps you get ideas and helps with the thought process.
GRAY - Takes the thought process into action.
PINK - Is gentle and soothing. Tender, protective, and compassionate.

How to Improve your Health through Optimism

People with positive emotions enjoy better overall health than pessimists. In general, optimists have lower blood pressure, recover more quickly from surgery, and spend less time in hospitals and doctors' offices.In one study, the most pessimistic men were more than twice as likely to develop heart disease compared with the most optimistic.The steps below are those identified as contributing to an optimistic outlook on life, and will help you improve your health through optimism.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Things You’ll Need:

• A few minutes to reflect on the ways in which optimism may improve your life.
• A willingness to make changes that will help you develop a positive attitude.

How to Improve your Health through Optimism

Step1

Strive for peace and balance in your family and professional life. When you have heavy emotional burdens, focus on small things that make you feel hopeful and day to day activities that you enjoy.

Step2

Realize that everyone's life has limitations, but that people live, laugh, enjoy themselves and go on despite the restrictions of their lives.

Step3

Build a strong support network by keeping in touch with family members and friends. Listen and respond to the needs and concerns of others in your life.

Step4

If you find your health challenged, seek proper medical care and focus on doing as much as you can to improve your health rather than imagining the most dire consequences.

Step5

If you find that you are feeling sad, angry or lonely most of the time, seek out a mental health professional. Many people who come from a family of pessimists or who are surrounded by pessimists have a hard time finding joy in life. Working on your mental health will have a impact on your physical health as well.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) develops after a terrifying ordeal that involved physical harm or threat of physical harm. the person who develops PTSD may have been the one who was harmed, the harm may have happened to a loved one , or the person may have witnessed a harmful event that happened to loved ones or friend.

PTSD was was first brought to public attention in relation to war vetrans,but it can result from a verity of traumatic incidents ,such as mugging, rape, torture, being kidnapped or held captive, child abuse, car accidents, train wrecks, plane crashes bombings, or natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes.

poieple with PTSD may startle easily , become emotionally numb(espesially in relation to people to whom they used to be close),lose interest in things they used to enjoy , have touble have trouble feeling affectionate, be irritable,become more agrressive, or even become violent. they avoid situations that remind them of the original incident,and aniversaries of the incident are often difficult.PTSD symptoms seem to be worse if the event that triggered them was deliberately initiated by another person,as in mugging or kidnapping.

most people with PTSD rpeatedly relive the trauma in their thoughts during the the day and in the nightmareswhen they sleep.these are called flahbacks . flashbacks may consit of images,sounds smells or feelings,and are are often triggered by ordinary occurences,such as door slammingor or a car car backfiring on the street.a person having a flshback may lose touch with reality and believe that the traumatic incident is happening all over again.

certain kinds of psychoterapy usully treat the symptoms PTSD very effectively.

panic disorder

panic disorder is a real illness that can be successfully treated.it is characterrised sudden attacks of terror ,usually accompanied by a pounding heart, sweatiness faintess or dizziness.during these attacks ,peoplewith panic disorder may flush or feel numb and they may experience nausea,chest pain or smotherng sensations.panic attacks ussully produce a sense of of unreality,a fear of inpending doom, or a ear of losing control.
A fear of ones own unexplainedphyscal symptoms is a known symptom of panic disorder. people having panic attacks somtimes believe they are having heart attacks, losing their minds ,or on the the verge of death.they cannot predict when or where an attack will occur ,and beetween episodes many worry intensely and dread the next attack.
Panic attacks can occur at any time, even during sleep.an attck ussually peaks within 10 minutes, but somesymptomsmay last much longer.
Panic disorder is often accompanied by other serious probems,such as depression ,drug abuse,or alchoholism.theseconditions need to be treatd seperately.symptoms of sadness or hopelessness,changes in sleep patterns or apetite,low energy, and difficulty concentrating.most people with depression can be effectivelytreated with antidepressants medications or psychotherapy.

mind over matter

The link between the body and the mind has been intensely explored in recent years .one resulting field of study is biofeedback,which has given us new insights into how the human body functions.
but just what is biofeedback?
Dr marvin Domon explains it this way..IT IS simlply a perticular kind of feedback from different parts of our bodies:the brain, the heart, the circulatory system and so on.biofeedback training is the procedure that allows us to tune into our bodily functions and ,eventually to control them.how does it work? in a typical biofeedback training session a student is given this feedback by hooking with equipment that can amplify one or more bodily signals and translate them into readily observable signals:a flashing light ,the movement of a needle,a steady tone ,etc.once a person can see his heartbeat or hear his brainwaves,he has the information needs to begin controlling them.
patients have taught themselves to lower their blood pressure ,increase poor circulation to their extreme
s prevent migrain headaches and overcome insomania.

mind over matter

The link between the body and the mind has been intensely explored in recent years .one resulting field of study is biofeedback,which has given us new insights into how the human body functions.
but just what is biofeedback?
Dr marvin Domon explains it this way..IT IS simlply a perticular kind of feedback from different parts of our bodies:the brain, the heart, the circulatory system and so on.biofeedback training is the procedure that allows us to tune into our bodily functions and ,eventually to control them.how does it work? in a typical biofeedback training session a student is given this feedback by hooking with equipment that can amplify one or more bodily signals and translate them into readily observable signals:a flashing light ,the movement of a needle,a steady tone ,etc.once a person can see his heartbeat or hear his brainwaves,he has the information needs to begin controlling them.
patients have taught themselves to lower their blood pressure ,increase poor circulation to their extreme
s prevent migrain headaches and overcome insomania.