How to Not Be Needy
Sometimes relationships with partners and friends end because one person in the equation is too needy. This clingy behavior can manifest in the form of excessive contact through e-mailing, texting and...
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Hypnosis Methods
You can use hypnosis to help you break bad habits, overcome phobias, manage pain, reduce stress and anxiety, and even attain goals. You can have a trained hypnotherapist perform traditional hypnosis on...
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How to Develop a Hobby
Having a hobby is an effective form of stress relief because you can relax and do something you enjoy while lessening any guilty feelings by being productive. Developing a hobby can give you a relaxed...
View ArticleHow to Relieve Caregiver Stress
Are you caring for an aging parent, or perhaps caring for a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's or another form of dementia? A bedridden or otherwise-disabled loved one? No matter what the issues or...
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About Stress Management Training
Everyone has stress in their lives. Whether it stems from positive events, such as getting married or buying a home, or from a challenging situation, such as illness or job loss, it is important to...
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How to Reduce Overall Stress
Stress can become overwhelming when it is not managed properly. Stress can cause problems with relationships of all kinds. We are all confronted with stress on a daily basis. It is how these things are...
View ArticleAnger Management Activities
In the 2003 film "Anger Management", Dr. Buddy Rydell (played by Jack Nicholson) reminds his patient, "Temper's the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it." In real life, such aphorisms do little...
View ArticleAbout Anger Management Skills
There are a wealth of strategies and skills for alleviating problem anger. Some of the most successful anger management skills are derived from the cognitive-behavioral school of psychology, which...
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How to Slow Down Long Enough To Be Quiet And Thankful
Imagine with me, for a few minutes that you are driving home from work, and your mind is going in so many directions. You are already thinking of what you have to do when you get home. The radio is...
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Guided Imagery Certification
Guided imagery certification can enhance the clinical practice of health care providers. Guided imagery therapists teach patients how to use mental imagery or visualization to reduce stress and heal...
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About Elderly Caregiver Support Groups
Due to economic challenges, high divorce rates, substance abuse or other circumstances, many elderly find themselves caring for a grandchild, an adult family member with disabilities or even a fragile...
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Why Music Causes Different Emotions
Few can deny the effects that music has on the emotions. Music and song become an integral part of our lives from the moment we're born. In the past 50 years, researchers have identified the physical...
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How to Set Up a Meditation Room
Meditation is the practice of calming the body and stilling the mind to achieve a desired state of consciousness or to realize an idea. The practice of meditation dates back to ancient times and can be...
View ArticleAssessing Psychiatric Patients for Art Therapy
Art therapy for psychiatric patients is based on the universally-held belief that everyone finds release from tension and a certain amount of self-respect when they create something---when they use a...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Holiday Stress
Parties, presents and family get-togethers are lots of fun, but they can also cause stress. Expectations can get too high or old family tensions can surface. Instead of the happy holiday stereotype,...
View ArticleHow to Use Daily Affirmations
Daily affirmations are simple statements, but they can be powerful enough to change your entire attitude and outlook on life. Repeating positive mantras allows you to reprogram old, unhealthy and...
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How to Become More Open-Minded
Open-mindedness is the ability to view a given situation in the clearest, most unbiased fashion possible. It is also a way of viewing the world and the people in it through a perspective unobstructed...
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Meditation Breathing Techniques
Nearly every major religion--and many health care professionals--offer methods to become centered, find a path to the divine or just relieve stress. Regardless of the reasons that inspire seekers to...
View ArticleAbout Verbal Self Defense
Verbal self-defense is a necessary tool to have in your toolbox for optimal health. Stress is the number-one contributing factor to developing these chronic diseases: coronary heart disorders,...
View ArticleHow to Not become so Attached
We all know that when we like someone it's easy to lose ourselves and become attached. It's natural but is it healthy? probably not since losing yourself means you can not focus on the now, now is all...
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