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Tuesday

09Jun

5 Anti Stress Breathing Techniques to Help You Feel Calm Anywhere

Jun 9, 2009 |

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Anxiety Stress Relief

Your breath and your mind have an intimate relationship, if your breathing is fast and shallow it can stir up your thoughts and increase your stress, but if you learn to notice your breath and slow it down, you can reign your thoughts in and calm your mind. Stress breathing techniques give you practical ways to adjust your breath and respond at your best in any challenging situation, or anytime you want to relax and unwind.

Here are five easy ways to use your breath to lighten your load:

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Friday

05Jun

Procrastination Tips: 5 Simple Ways to Get Unstuck and Get Things Done

Jun 5, 2009 |

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Productivity

Are you doing more but achieving less? Watching TV, sending text messages, and answering email, are all activities of a sort, each has an action assigned to it that implies "doing". But are we really doing something worthwhile, or are we allowing ourselves to be distracted by a countless variety of digital diversions that eat away at our time and ability to complete tasks?

Procrastinators have never had such a variety of things to do that really mean you’re doing nothing, nothing that will get you nearer your goals anyway.

Here are 5 procrastination tips to help you get started on any project:

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Monday

01Jun

Are Health Conscious Googlers Missing Out on Ayurveda?

Jun 1, 2009 |

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Ayurveda

Last month over 1,220,000 people searched Google looking for information on yoga. Yet Ayurveda, yoga's sister science, prompted a mere 33,000 searches. It seems we are slow to catch on in the West, while yoga has steadily grown in popularity her sister science, Ayurveda, remains largely undiscovered.

This is a great shame since Ayurveda holds healing secrets that every parent, partner and friend really should know. It teaches us how to develop awareness of how our diet, lifestyle and relationships affect our health, how to cultivate a calm peaceful mind, and how to be healthy and happy so that we can invest our attention in developing our spiritual awareness rather than just running around feeling stressed out and tired and worrying about how we are going to pay the next bill.

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Living by Design Blog Carnival No.35

May 17, 2009 |

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Blog Carnival

It's carnival time again and this edition features an elite gathering of posts that are more than worthy of reading and reflection.

I highly recommend taking a look at "Stand by Me" by Daily Awareness - beautiful. Happy reading and thanks to everyone who contributed.

Celes presents What Are You Running Away From? posted at EmbraceLiving.Net, saying, "What are you running away from? Many people are running away from many things in their lives - sometimes unconsciously so. This is a provocative article inspired by my experiences in my coaching, especially one of my coachees is trying to run away from his issues."

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Tuesday

12May

Stress Relief Techniques: 5 Things I Learned from Spying on Calm People

May 12, 2009 |

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Anxiety Stress Relief

How many times have you reacted to stress by blurting out a harsh response and escalating the situation? It can be hard not to. If you're already simmering then any extra little stress is going to provoke a spurt of steam, sometimes your steam just evaporates into the air, but sometimes it scalds people around you and that's not a good thing. So how can you stop those spontaneous eruptions? One way is to gather a selection of stress relief techniques and play around with them. There are a whole variety of ways to deal with challenges and frustrations, and it feels wonderful to know that you can break old patterns and grow new responses that are truly inline with who you want to be.