What I Got, What It Will Do For You

WHAT I GOT:

STRESS JUDO is a 6 month training program.  Each month, you receive:

• 2 full length MANUALS (1 on each of the 2 topics for that belt level).
• 2 CHECK LISTS of the main ideas for the Manuals
• 2 ACTION STEPS so you can use the training immediately
• 2 MIND MAPS for a graphical representation of the training

We also use SOCIAL NETWORKING the right – and efficient – way:

• TWITTER to broadcast postings and new articles
• FACEBOOK to get to know you personally
• NING as our social network platform

WHAT IT WILL DO FOR YOU:

• The first belts train you to attack stress and remove the EXTERNAL pressure
• The next few belts train you to stay calm and strengthen your INTERNAL ability to stand cool and firm in the face of stress
• The upper belts help you master the INTEGRATION of internal and external control, so stress will never again be a bother in your life.

WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO NEXT:

Go to STRESS JUDO: Black Belt System and sign up for the training.  You will have the YELLOW Belt materials delivered straight to your Inbox, even if it’s 3 am where you are (or where I am).

If you aren’t ready for the training, then sign up for the 2 FREE reports, including the exclusive Stress Does NOT Make You Perform Better.

Because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.  And that is stressful.

Top 5 WORST Stress Management Tips

Everywhere you look, someone is offering stress management tips.  And most of them are all the same.  But have you ever thought about whether these tips are good or bad?  Whether they actually work or are just parroting what someone wrote?  Whether they will actually relieve the stress in your life or make it worse?

Here are the top 5 worst tips on stress management usually seen on the web:

1. Take a long walk.  Almost every site recommends this.  But they recommend this as is.  In other words, just walk away from the stress for a while. So what’s the problem?  The stress is still there when you get back! And now you have just wasted time that you could be dealing with it!  If you are going to walk away from stress, then either use the time to clear your mind and recharge your energy, or to think about solving the stress problem in an undistracted environment.
2. Meditate.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  Meditation is a vital part of stress management.  But just to say meditate, without anything else, is like saying just run your fingers up and down the key board and you’ll be playing the piano!  Try several mediation systems and find the one that fits you best THEN – meditate.
3. Practice visualization.   What are you visualizing?  Your heart attack as the effects of stress on your body wear you down?  Looking for a new job after you get fired for not staying cool under the pressure?  This tip should be practice visualizing YOUR SOLUTION to the stress.
4. Don’t eat comfort foods.  Staying fit and healthy is an extremely important component of managing stress.  But look at all the above tips.  Taken on their own, each one of them makes you feel better inside.   But now you are told not to eat foods hat make you feel better? What the—?  Eat comfort foods in moderation.   Feel good while you are attacking stress.
5. Stay calm.  Come again?   What people call stress is really their bad internal reaction to stress.  So telling someone who doesn’t know how to react properly to stress to stay calm is like telling someone who can’t swim not to drown.  You will be calm under stress when you have the confidence of knowing you can react to stress.

The problem with these tips is that they are surface level.  They don’t go far enough.  They don’t relieve the stress.  They just make you feel better – temporarily – inside, while the stress continues to give you an anxiety attack.

Learn to attack the stress.  Find a program that teaches you to get rid of the stress, not just handle it.  Focus on tackling stress head-on and tossing it out of the way, instead of focusing only on yourself and your feelings about it.  Stress doesn’t care how you feel and stress won’t become less just because you can picture a happy place.

ABOUT STRESS JUDO 

To learn the premier system for training yourself to attack and destroy the stress in your life, click on STRESS JUDO.   Developed by experienced trial attorney and martial artist Rick Carter, this unique and exclusive training program will take you to a Black Belt in stress management.

How To Relieve Health Related Issues From Work Related Stress

Let’s face it. No one wants to be around someone who is always complaining. Or always distracted. Or who is unreliable. But isn’t that pretty much how you get around your family and friends when you suffer from health related issues from work related stress? It’s painful, not having your friends around when you need them most.

But if you are driving them away, then you need to handle your stress better. Focusing on the effects of stress on the relationships in your life may be just as important as focusing on the effects of stress on the body.

Time management is a key component – but not the only one – of handling stress. Many people think time management is only for the workplace. But using time management, along with creative problem solving, meditation techniques, and other elements of a complete stress management system, can save your relationships also.

Here are some ways to use time management to handle stress. This will eliminate most of the problems above, so your friends can enjoy being around you again.

1. You can schedule time with your family and friends. Too often, time with your family and friends is scheduled around work, activities, or other distractions. By scheduling this time, you can focus on your friends, without the anxiety attack that you are taking time from work.

2. You can set priorities. Your time management system can remove the stress of “I should be doing a dozen other things” by properly prioritizing your work. When you know some things are not priorities, you don’t feel stress by not working on these things.

3. You can focus on work or your friends. Nothing is more annoying than realizing that the person you are talking with is mentally 1000 miles away. A quality time management system will virtually force you to focus on work during work periods, and friends during friend periods.

4. You aren’t depressed and bringing your friends down. Long term stress leads to depression. Short term stress can make you depressed, just from fighting it. So how many times have you killed your friends’ buzz just because you are too depressed and too stressed to have a good time? Managing your time to allow for focused attention to the stress, with periods of rejuvenation mixed in, should lift the depression.

5. You can attract new friends. When you are not stressed – when you have a positive attitude – when you have a reputation as a “go to” person – you will have people asking to be your friend. Setting goals and hitting goals will make you very positive and very attractive.

Handling how stress affects your health is one thing. Handling how stress affects your emotions and attitude is another. By using time management and 11 other components of a comprehensive stress management system, you can get rid of your “bad attitude” and enjoy your friends again. You can replace the definition of stress in your life with the definition of happiness.

 

About the Author

Picture your life when stress is not a concern and where you are the leader in stressful situations. Go to What to do to relieve stress. STRESS JUDO was developed by Rick Carter, trial lawyer and martial artist. STRESS JUDO gives you a fighting chance against stress and turn stressful situations into opportunities.

Why You Need More Than ONE Stress Management Technique

I saw an article recommending that you pick ONE stress management technique and perfect it.

Seriously?

Will exercise help you when the stressor is your kid turning blue from choking?

Will yoga help you when the stressor is your wife has emptied the bank accounts and taken the kids to Idaho?

Will deep breathing help you when the stressor is the new guy in the office who’s undermining your authority and gunning for your job?

You need a stress management system.  A comprehensive stress management system. 

STRESS JUDO takes you through 6 belts, with 12 techniques.  Ranging from creative problem solving to exercise to deep breathing. 

Go to stress management for 2 FREE reports on stress management.

5 Ways To Handle The Physical Symptoms Of High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, stroke, and death.  You should have your blood pressure checked by a doctor on a regular basis.  If the doctor prescribes medication, you should take it as prescribed.  The main reason for having your blood pressure checked by a doctor is that there are very few physical symptoms of high blood pressure. And the ones you do see are often confused with other causes.

Some of these symptoms are: headache, dizziness, blurred vision, drowsiness, and nausea.  All of these can be explained by some other cause.  Sometimes people are under stress so long that they can’t distinguish the bad health effects of stress  anymore.  Which means that the high blood pressure is left untreated, and ti gets worse.  And stress elevates blood pressure.  But you can use aggressive stress management techniques to handle the stress, and lower your blood pressure.

Here are 5 ways to aggressively attack stress to lower your blood pressure:

1. Use creative problem solving to handle stress better.  The natural reaction to stress is “fight or flight.”  You can creatively come up with more solutions.
2. Use meditation appropriately.  Meditating can relieve some of the inner effects of stress and make you feel better. But it does nothing to eliminate the stress.  Use meditation to not only calm yourself down, but open your mind to creative possibilities.
3. Develop your own stress management process.  Any stress management system that you learn was developed by someone else for someone else’s problems.  Take the techniques that work from each system and create your own.
4. Stay in shape.  Stress weakens the various systems of your body, which gives you less energy to fight the stress.  By staying in shape, you can fight the stress, not just tolerate it.
5. Use an effective time management system.  Stress from impossible deadlines is bad.  Stress from interruptions is worse. But having a time management system that not only permits, but demands, that you reject time-wasting interruptions, can relieve much stress in your life.

If you don’t do handle stress, your high blood pressure will get worse.  But knowing what to do to relieve stress can help lower your blood pressure.  With the lower blood pressure, you can reduce the chances of heart attack or stroke.  Of course, there are other causes of those conditions that also must be looked at.  But removing stress as a cause can focus your efforts.

Handling stress involves internally handling your reactions, but also externally eliminating the stressor.   Using this dual approach might be the most effective way to reduce or eliminate the signs symptoms of panic attacks and lower your blood pressure.  Probably meditation or visualization is part of what you are doing to relieve stress.  But this is not enough.  That’s like helping a quarterback learn not to feel bad when he throws an interception.  Wouldn’t it be better to teach the quarterback to simply not throw interceptions?  Using a comprehensive stress management system will eliminate the stress and give you lower blood pressure.

STRESS JUDO – the comprehensive stress management system

What Causes High Blood Pressure?

High blood pressure can be caused by many things.  You can inherit it – or a tendency toward high blood pressure.  It can be caused by cardiovascular disease or certain medications.  It can be caused by stress.  That’ s the focus of this article.  Stress-related high blood pressure and how to reduce the stress, using STRESS JUDO.

There are as many stress management techniques as there are human beings on earth.  Some people like deep breathing and meditation.  Others prefer taking action straight at the stressor.  Still others prefer to avoid the stressor.  STRESS JUDO, our program, teaches you to do all 3 – and 9 other components – to defend against the bad health effects of stress, to attck the stressor,  and to evaluate how efective your performance was.

One neat aspect of STRESS JUDO is that you don’t have to get all hung up on the definition of stress or on the signs of stress ofr any of that.  If you feel stress, you will know instantly what part of STRESS JUDO to begin with

STRESS JUDO begins with creative problem solving, so you have the tools the attack the stressor.  You next move to time management (to be able to plan and manage your strategy of stress elimination), creative thinking, and self examination.  By now you can analyze a stressor, develop a plan to attack, creatively think of possibvilities and ramifications, and can look at yoiurself and the situation to judge whether what you are doing is correct.

The next levels – or belts – of STRESS JUDO strengthen your inner will and self-discipine, coaching, and staying fit and the proper use of meditation.  You finish at the Black Belt level, which teaches you to access energy at anytime necessary, and how to develop your own stress management system.

By combining and practicing these techniques, there is a possibility that you can reduce high blood pressure due to extrernal forces.  STRESS JUDO also changes yor outlook on life.  People are no longer assumed to be adversaries. Work is not presumed to be your own private hell.  STRESS JUDO will give you confidence to handle life’s toughest stress situations.

Get your FREE reports on the 12 components of a complete stress management system. There is also a report on how stress damages your performance.

You’re An Idiot And Your Dog Hates You

Most stress management systems make it sound so easy to get rid of stress.  “Relax!” they say.  “Meditate” or “breathe deep.”  Or my favorite: “find a nice place to escape to.”  Now, this is why I say you’re an idiot – if you buy this.  What if your heart surgeon or lawyer used THIS stress management system?  The lights go out in the operating room.  Do you want your doctor to breathe deep and think about some tropical island? Or do you want your doctor to handle the situation calmly?  Do you want your lawyer to throw his or her hands up and go to the beach when the other attorney starts a blistering cross examination?  Or do you want your lawyer focused on what’s happening, modifying your strategy and surviving the cross examination to ultimately win the case?

 

STRESS JUDO has meditation as a component.  It has deep breathing as a component.  But it also has goal setting and time management, creative problem solving, and self examination as components. Because proper stress management means dealing with:

1. The stressor.  Develop creative problem solving and take control of your time.
2. Your internal weapons: Develop creative thinking and self examination.
3. Your will. Develop your will and spirit, and learn how to set goals.
4. Your mastery.  Coach others and develop your own stress management system.
5. Your stamina. Get physically fit and learn meditation.
6. Your domination. Learn to tap energy as needed, and develop daily practice.

 

These 6 steps, broken down into 12 components, combine the best features of single-component stress management systems, into a comprehensive stress management system.  Meditation is necessary for stress management, just like a quarterback is necessary fir a football team to succeed.  But it is not stress management any more than the quarterback is the football team.

 

By developing and using each component, your ability to identify and destroy stressors in your life is vastly improved.  You gradually turn stressful situations into opportunities for growth and improvement.  Fear of stress is replaced by excited anticipation of the next challenge.

So why the title?  Because stress management systems that teach you 1 or 2 techniques basically think you are an idiot for believing that they will handle all the stress in your life.  You know stress comes in different forms.  Stress from deadlines requires a different response than the stress of facing muggers in a dark alley.  Stress from getting a bad medical diagnosis is not handled by meditating on it.  Stress from facing your best rival in an athletic competition is not handled by only deep breathing.

 

And the dog part?  Well, if you spend all your time meditating, breathing deeply, and taking trips to exotic locations, your dog WILL hate you.

 

So learn to turn stress on itself and pull and opportunity out of it.  You’ll be happier. You won’t be an idiot.  And your dog will love you.

Click HERE for 2 Free reports on stress management and the bad effects of stress on your health.

4 Steps To Get Rid of Procrastination, Now!

Do you put off your work for later, only to find your deadlines steadily creeping in? Then you, my friend, are one of the millions of people afflicted by the procrastination virus. Procrastination is the biggest reason for loss of productivity and late output. Though many would not admit it, they would benefit greatly if they start their work on time.

For many people, putting off their work for later is more habit than desire. It can be so hard to get into a groove where starting your tasks in a timely fashion is a priority, especially if the consequences for being late are things that one can probably bear.

If you are one of these people, yet you desire to shake off your propensity for procrastination, then you have come to the right place. Here are a few tips to help you overcome this dilemma and become a more productive and reliable person.

1. Set schedules – It is very important that you have a list of activities to accomplish per day. This will help you realistically budget your time and resources. One of the cardinal sins people commit in regards to performing their tasks is to put off their work because they feel like there is so much time left. A journal, organizer, or calendar of events will help you plan and schedule your task so that you can start them promptly and finish them on time.

2. Save the Vacation for Later – Many people put their work off for later saying, “I’ll just have a little fun then buckle down to work later.” While it may be true that they may have more than enough time to accomplish their tasks, it would be better if they finished their work first and relax afterwards.

Wouldn’t relaxation be sweeter if it were after a taxing job? If you choose to lay back and relax before doing your tasks, you will be more prone to burnout and will have nothing exciting left to look forward to after accomplishing a task. It is always better to have slack period AFTER a job than before one, especially considering that people are wont to overusing their slack time. This is suicide if you are heading towards a deadline.

3. Never Underestimate Your Tasks – Sometimes procrastination sets in because people underestimate the resources, difficulty, and time spent for a particular task. They will usually say, “It’s just mowing the lawn, its easy; I could do it in a jiffy.” The problem is, no matter how trivial the task, it still takes time and resources to accomplish. If you underestimate a task, you will most likely set too little time to do it and schedule it too close to its deadline.

4. Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Comfortable Doing Nothing – It would definitely help if you kept a subconscious alarm whenever you are doing nothing. Get this alarm to remind you of things that may need to be done. This will help you foster the notion that jobs accomplished now means more time for relaxation later. However, even if this is the case, do not forget to put ample time in for rest and to remove all thoughts of troubles before hitting the sack. The trick here, however, is not to overdo you rest. There is a difference between resting and idling. Always set the right amount of time for rest and stick to that schedule.

STRESS JUDO teaches a method of time management and goal setting called “TF30” – what must be done Today, what must be done by Friday, and what must be done in the next 30 days.

Go to What to do to relieve stress for your 2 FREE reports on how stress harms you and how to overcome stress and turn it into opportunities.

Stress Management Anxiety Reduction Is Possible And Easy

Isn’t it ironic that you worry about stress and anxiety?  Because when you worry, you feel stress and become more anxious!  In fact, some research shows that worrying or anticipating a panic attack is one of the main causes of anxiety attacks.  What if you not only did not fear stress – but looked forward to it?

STRESS JUDO is a stress management program consisting of 12 components.  These are arranged to build on one another while you grow from yellow belt to black belt mastery of stress.  It starts with improving your creative problem skills.  What? Bet you never saw that in a stress management program!  There is a meditation component.  But it is the type of meditation that samurai practiced.  Focused yet aware.  Concentrated yet open to all knowledge.  One thing it is not is the “lavendar plug in and crappy New Age music” garbage peddled as meditation.

We have 2 FREE reports that explain STRESS JUDO.

To get the first, just sign in at Overview.  You will receive the free report (plus a few more), and our peridoic newsletter.  You will alos learn of the STRESS JUDO community (which includes the correct use of Twitter).

To get the other report, just go to Success.  This is a report that I compiled, to help STRESS JUDO students in their training.  It actually doesn’t mention STRESS JUDO, but it is (I hope) an example to you of the type of support we give our students.

If you are looking to reduce the frequency of panic attacks…

If you need to eliminate stress from your life…

If you are sick and tired of being sick tired because of the physical symptoms of anxiety attack…

Sgng up now at STRESS JUDO and learn what to do to relieve stress.

Thank you.

Rick Carter

Indianapolis, IN

Those links again:

Success

Overview

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STRESS JUDO: May 2009 Newsletter On-line

The May 2009 Newsletter for STRESS JUDO is online, with an important announcement and a contest!

Newsletter

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