The Stress Of The Best Weight Loss Program

Is there such a thing as “the best weight loss program?”   Wow.  It probably stresses you out just thinking that you have to find the best weight loss program.

But – surprise! Surprise! – there is such a thing.

And you can read all about it (it includes a part about defending your life – betcha never thought of that, did ya?) at weight loss fitness solutions.

A New Unique Way To Do Karate Kata For A Great Workout

Okay, no long introduction.  This article talks about doing kata in a pool, which led to greater body awareness and consciousness.  Which is actually one of the goals of kata practice.

So check out this new blog post at weight loss fitness solutions.  And leave a comment.  We want to hear about your unique training methods and experiences.

What To Do To Relieve Stress? Keep Your Friends Close

One of the worst effects of stress is when you “coccoon”: draw into yourself, stop talking with people, or – worse – snap at them. These are friends.  They want to help you.  But the distraction and frustration and anger that stress causes in you makes you drive them away.  You probably know the effects of stress on the body.  But you feel the effects of stress on your relationships.

Well, correction. It’s not the stress doing this.  It is not handling the stress properly.  Some people can live in stressful situations and have great friendships!  Picture your life when you can sit with your buddies and joke about the stress in your workplace or your family.  Want to know how to do this?  Click What to do to relieve stress.

5 Ways To Be The Envy Of Your Friends By Using Creative Stress Management

Stress affects your relationships with your friends and family. But not enough attention is given to that. You’re told to breathe deep or go to your happy place or just get away from it all. But these are not the reality of what to do to relieve stress. And they certainly won’t help how stress affects your relationships.

The problem is that the focus of most stress management systems has been on how you feel. Making sure that you are calm and feel good. But this does nothing to relieve the external stress that is wearing you down.

Using creative thinking to fight stress is an undiscovered stress relief tool. By using creative thinking, you can up with more ways to fight stress than “fight or flight.” Your friends will envy your calmness, your cool, your ability to persevere in the face of stress.

1. You will be less depressed. Instead of fearing stressful situations, you will actually look forward to them. Your friends will envy your attitude.

2. You keep calm because you can see solutions. There is no reason to panic if you see a way out. Your creative thinking skills will put you light years ahead of your panicky nervous friends.

3. A better reputation brings more opportunities. Once you gain a reputation for keeping your cool, you will be given more responsibilities.

4. Gain a positive attitude and confidence. Success reinforces success and successful attitude.

5. Have stronger relationships because creative thinking is a skill that can be used outside of stress management. You can bring creative thinking to where to go on a date to how to raise money to send the kids to camp.

Creative thinking is a key part of any stress management system. However, very few even mention it. Too many are based around 1 or 2 ideas. If stress came in 1 or 2 forms, or only affected 1 or 2 areas of your life, that would be fine. But stress hits many areas and needs many skills to hit back.

Improving your creative thinking will give you more options than “fight or flight” when you are confronted with stress. And it is more active than doing a bunch of calming or centering exercises. It strikes at the heart of the stress – and takes it out. And that’s the best way to manage stress.

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3 Things To Inspire That Aren’t Spelled “ROCKY”

ROCKY is one of my favorite movies.  But it really isn’t very inspirational, because he loses at the end.   Oh, yeah, sure – he gets the girl, he overcomes his inner demons.  Blah blah blah.  Here are 3 things that inspire AND are winners.

1. Riverdance.  This is almost perfection.  No matter what you think of him, Michael Flatley created a worldwide phenomenon practically single-handed.  And the performances are unbelievable.  You want inspiration?  Watch this dance troupe and imagine the types of practice sessions they had to have to reach this level of performance.

2. James Joyce’s “Stephen Hero.”  A lesser known book, meant to read before “Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man.”  Again, very nearly perfect writing.  In fact, the first time I read this book, I kept having to re-read pages becuase I noticed that I was caught up in the beauty and rhythm of his words.  And it isn’t all weird like “Ulysses.”

3.  Police – “Zenyatta Mendatta”  Not the greatest album ever.   And I don’t even like every song.  But the ones I do like are just superb combinations of lyrics and music.  These 3 guys sound like 10.  And the lyrics are some of the best you will ever hear (especially compared to almost anything out there right now).  Again, imagine the effort that went into creating this.

The reason these things work as inspiration is that we – you and I – CREATE every day.  You don’t have to be an artist to create something.   Did you come up with a better way to file stuff on the computer? Creative.  Did you make that recipe a little better? Creative.

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Seriously – THIS Is Stress Management?????

I saw this article on the BYU website about handling students and stress.  AndI remember seeing the same stuff when I was in school and at work and almost everywhere else.  Seriously.  Deep breathing and positive thinking?  Are you kidding me?   How is positive thinking going to handle the stress of having bad time management in the workplace?  How does deep breathing work to relive the stress of finding out your financial aid just got cut in half?

Handling stress the right way means attacking the source of the stresss and neutralizing it.  Making a stressful situation a non-stressful situation, as much as possible.  The financial aid thing? You can think positive thoughts all the way bak to your hometown fast-food joint, it ain’t gonna get ya anymore financial aid.   AND you will still have the stress.  But setting financial goals, developing a plan, networking with groups that offer scholarships in your major – THAT will solve your problem AND get rid of your stress.

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A Study That Seems To Support STRESS JUDO

I saw an item about an article in the New England Journal Of Medicine that says that it is your ATTITUDE and APPROACH about stress that determines how you will react to stress, not necessarily the stress itself.

Which is interesting because that is EXACTLY what STRESS JUDO does.  It reorients how you view stressful situations.  It changes your perception of what to do to relieve stress.  You stop seeing stress as potential disasters, and see them as opportunities.

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Stress at Work and How to Solve It

Work is one of the commonly complained of sources of stress. Dealing with impossible deadlines, annoying co-workers, overbearing bosses. It all can become overwhelming. And the stress you get from work, you carry with you to home, family, and social settings. If you don’t have an effective stress management system, stress from work can dominate and destroy other areas of your life.

 If stress is not handled, it can basically wear down your body. Some of the health problems that stress can cause are headaches, sleep problems, excessive weight gain or loss, and digestion problems in the short run. Over time, is stress is not managed properly, major health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke can occur. These are just your physical problems. Stress can cause, or make worse, emotional problems like depression, lack of concentration, interference with relationships, and loss of self-esteem.

You can find dozens and hundreds of “stress management programs” that will give you “10 tips for handling stress at work.” Or you can buy a calendar of affirmations, to make you “feel better” while the stress at work is crushing you. But you know that the sheer volume and weight of the stress you experience at work is not going to be managed by doing neck rolls and deep breathing at your desk, or by looking at a picture of flower with a cutesy saying hanging on your wall.  Even the best system for time management in the workplace won’t deal with all the different types of stress you encounter.  Stress at work needs a stress management system that is as tough, and as big, to fight back and defeat that stress.

There are many excellent stress management systems available. Your company may even offer in-house seminars and classes on stress management.  There may be some ethical issues inherent with workplace stress  that are beyond the scope of this article.  However, one of the biggest problems with most management systems is that they are usually built around one single concept or tool. There are systems built on meditation, time management, goal setting, improving interpersonal relationships, and cognitive reorientation. All of these are great tools. And all of them work, to reduce some stress.

But stress at work is not limited to just time stress or just poorly-defined goals stress or just other people stress. Stress at work is ALL of these! So you need a comprehensive stress management system, to handle all of the stresses you are hit with at work.

By having a system to manage stress properly, you can avoid most – maybe all – of the health problems listed above. And probably just as important, by handling the stress at work, you become the “go to” guy at work. Your ability to remain calm and cool during periods of extreme stress, and your reputation for being the person who can handle goals and crises, will get you noticed as a leader. By being able to focus on the job instead of constantly being distracted by having to handle your reaction – and the reactions of people you work with – you will get more done, in less time. You will have more time for your family and friends. You should be promoted and get more raises. By managing stress at work, you can reduce the things that cause stress at work.

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Rick Carter has practiced trial litigation for 15+ years and martial arts for 25+ years.  He has taken the best techniques for dealing with, and attacking, stress, and created STRESS JUDO, a unique system for destroying stress, not just feeling better about it.

Meditation and a Comprehensive Stress Management Program

Many meditation systems emphasize how they can help you relieve stress. And meditation is a tremendous method of handling stress. But meditation by itself is not stress management. Focusing on meditation is only one part of what to do to relieve stress. But meditation is a vital component of any stress management system.
What people call “stress” is actually your reaction to a situation you perceive as threatening. This reaction is also called the “fight or flight” reaction, because your body can think of only two things to do: fight it or run from it. Your body floods itself with adrenaline, hormones, and chemicals designed to all your systems on highest alert. The effects of stress on the body include high blood pressure, digestive problems, muscle cramps, headaches, lack of focus and concentration, and other physical and emotional harm.
There are many excellent meditation systems, and many excellent marketers seeking to sell them. They emphasize that meditating will relieve stress. But they have no incentive to point out that meditation systems don’t relieve the stress in bad relationships or the stress of having your values out of line with your goals. And meditation systems may give you an incentive to schedule fitness, but they by themselves cannot reverse the ways that stress affects your overall health.
If you are using your meditation system to address your stress problems, then you are actually ahead of most people, who think that ignoring stress will make it go away. Most people try to tack on the areas missing, like a separate fitness program and a separate meditation plan. And this can work for some people. However, if this is what you have to do to build a comprehensive stress management system, you are better off beginning with a comprehensive stress program.
Also, any stress management system that does not address meditation will not be very effective. The stress caused by a deadline, or by too many things happening at the same time, can be crushing. Relieving this time crunch won’t relieve the stress caused by your boss, your co-workers, or your family.
Many stress management systems are built around a single theme or component. Some systems developed from time management systems. Others developed from meditation or from health and nutrition backgrounds. While each of these does address the question of how does stress affect your health, developing from a single component will cause a bias in that direction. These systems will be less effective for stressors that come from a different area.
A comprehensive stress management system will have a meditation component. It will also have a component to focus on maintaining your physical health, your concentration, your creative thinking, and other skills. Putting these together with time management skills will give you a complete stress management system. Starting with a comprehensive stress management, with the components selected to work together, will probably give you the maximum ability to handle stress.

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What To Do To Relieve Stress

What people call stress is actually your reaction to stress.  This reaction is called the fight or flight reaction.  This is because your mind can think of only 2 things to do when it meets a stressor: fight it or run away from it.  If you had more time to analyze the stressor, you could come up with more options of what to do to relieve stress.  Better ways of dealing with it.  Ways that don’t have the bad health effects of stress on the body.

This reaction causes many health problems and pain for you.  The fight or flight reaction floods your body with hormones, adrenaline and chemicals, so your body can move quickly.  Every system is put on high alert.  Your heart rate and blood pressure increase.  Your muscles contract.  Your digestive tract goes into overdrive.  Over time, these actions literally wear down your body.  Not to mention the damaging effects to your emotions. 

There are dozens and hundreds of stress management books, DVDs, seminars, and groups available.  Most of them deal with dealing with the symptoms of your fight or flight reaction, rather than dealing with how you handle the stressor.  By working only on the symptoms, these do nothing to prevent these same reactions from occurring again when the stressor reappears.  They deal effectively with the question of what to do to relieve stress, but they do not remove the thing causing the stress.

A comprehensive stress management system would give you the ability to analyze a stress situation before you have to act.  It would allow you to come up with more options than just fight or flight.  It would strenghten your body and systems, to hold up better under stress.  It would take control of time, not just manage it.  And it would teach you enough about stress management that you can create your own stress management system.

This approach helps because you deal with the stressor directly.  By dealing with the stressor directly, it is unlikely to occur again.  Or, if it does, you will be prepared to handle it bettor.  This approach also gives you the ability to plan for stress, to predict where it will occur and how strong it will be.  Having on on comprehensive stress management system enables you to tackle and defeat stress, without waiting and seeing it sgges

If you do not have a comprehensive stress management system, you are very real danger of having new stress strike you in the same old way.  Or the same stress striking you again.  If what you have been doing isn’t working, change may be the only option.  Removing the stress is exactly what to do to relieve stress.  Using a comprehensive stress management system could be exactly what you need.

Our comprehensive stress management system is STRESS JUDO, which attacks stress and uses its streangth against it, like judo.
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