Tips to Reduce Stress.

A certain amount of stress allows us to grow, feel challenged and encourages us to take certain risks and realize our potential.  Without stress and pressure, we would become stale. But what happens when pressure and stress get too much for us?

Here are some stress-related disorders:

• migraines and headaches
• palpitations
• shortness of breath
• hair loss
• indigestion
• insomnia
• lethargy
• being overtired and depressed

How do we reduce the amount of negative stress we face daily? We need balance in the four main areas of our lives:

• Home environment

Our home environment should always be our sanctuary where we  feel nurtured emotionally, physically and mentally. If things go wrong in this environment and it becomes a place filled with anger and frustrations, we have no place of refuge and our health and well-being will be deeply affected.

• Work

Our work is a platform in which we express all our  aspirations. This is the place where our greatest challenges, and often our greatest achievements happen. If we feel unfulfilled at work, we should find ways to make adjustments that will will facilitate our aspirations in a more dynamic way. 

• Friends 

It is important to have friends with whom we can share our feelings and relax completely.

• Creative Play

We relax ourselves through hobbies and leisure activities. Going for walks, listening to music, watching our favorite sport, whatever we do to take a break from our normal routine to switch off and enjoy the moment. Exercise also helps us to rid our bodies of stress. We can recharge and be ready for the pressures of another day.

Most importantly, do not let stress get the better of you. It has a place in your life, but keep it where it belongs, under control and do not let it grow and take over.

Balance is key!

Mind Facts.

Man is either a  victim of fate or master of his own destiny.

Those who argue that the individual is a free agent, and is not governed by external influences are begging the question and reaching no conclusion whatsoever. Each individual  is a free agent in every sense in that the individual is ever free to choose, to select, and determine what it wills to do in each and every circumstance. This implies that no one is ever forced against their will to do anything or even think anything. 

While each person is dependent for his existence on the presence of others, he is nevertheless totally responsible for all that he creates for himself and for others. The individual does nothing except by his intent, for it is his intentionality which is his means for doing.

This is true in everyday human affairs as well. Although we all have attitudes and beliefs which limit our consciousness of how much we are responsible for what we do to ourselves, others, and what 'happens' to us, on a very basic level we are each totally responsible. A person with some degree of self-awareness knows he is the doer. He creates his own mental programs, his personal facades, and may, if he goes deep enough, realize that he also creates what appears just to 'happen' to him. 

If he makes this attitude a fact in his mind, he may begin to believe he alone is responsible.

Functions of the Conscious Mind:

• Reasoning
• Imagination
• Willpower
• Intuition
• Perception
• Memory

Prime Directives of the Subconscious Mind:

•  Runs and preserves the body
• Stores and organizes all your memories
• Is the domain of the emotions
• Is in charge of all your perceptions
• Is in charge of all the energy in your body
• Maintains instincts and generates habits
• Represses memories with unresolved negative emotions and presents repressed memories for resolution.

Understanding the prime directives of the subconscious mind is crucial to learning how the subconscious runs your life. It is important to be conscious of the fact that all true change happens at the subconscious level. It works in an orderly manner, in line with its prime directives.