Do you suffer from stress? Do you feel overworked and under loved? Are you worried about something? We all have moments of course. The question is, what do you do with the worries and stress. There are things in life you can’t change. You can change your attitude and thoughts. You have choice.

How do you choose to not let stress over run you? That is a very good question. Here are some of the way’s I am using to distress.

1. Take some deep breaths. When we are in a stressful situation, we tend to hold our breath. This causes physiological changes that prepare us to run or fight. Much of the time, neither of these are possible choices. In the “conflict” we hold our breath or we shallow and fast. Take some deep breaths. It will change your body response to a situation and allow you the best level for choice of action.

2. Meditation. There are many ways to meditate. A simple meditation is to sit still for 10-20 minutes and focus on your breath, the IN breath, the OUT breath and the Space between the breath. It will quiet you on all levels. You will have many thoughts come to visit. Just let them pass by.

3. I have used Centerpointe’s Awakening program for about 6 years. I am at Flowering level 2. I have 2 more levels to go. They use sound to restructure the brain. It helps with depression and decreasing stress. I highly recommend it.

4. I have recently started a Heart Math program called EmWave. It uses your heart rate and rhythm to calculate your coherency. You want to be coherent with yourself. It is a computer program that uses visual games and sounds as a biofeedback mechanism to teach you how to get into and maintain a coherent state. This is great for blood pressure, stress and other related issues.

5. Self talk. You have choice over your thoughts, emotions and self talk. What we think and feel is what we are. Thoughts and emotions produce our current experience. Don’t like your current experience, change your thoughts.

We have CHOICE. We choose our thoughts and emotions. Make the choice for better, lighter thoughts and loving emotions and you will have a better life experience.

Blessings, Mary Pat

Mary Pat FitzGibbons RN MS writes on leading edge topics concerning choice, and real life walk to enlightenment.

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      Message from Masaru Emoto, Author of “Message from Water”

   Announcement of “Water & Peace” Global Forum 2010 at Lake Biwa
                 March 20-22, 2010
                 Biwako Hall, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan [Read more →]

I am following a theme of “Choices” this year. I think that it is very important to realize that we all have “Choices.” Past choices will effect the number and quality of choices you have today. Past programing (traumas, successes, failures etc) will also effect the choices you have today.

If you don’t like how your life is right now, start changing the choices you are making. [Read more →]

Since I wrote that last blog about “choices”, I have had a lot a opportunity to practice. (Oh, goodie!).  It has been a frustrating week at work. It is little things like mis-dialing a phone number or prescription number. Some times it seems that the clock moves a lot faster than I can complete the “to do” assignments.

What to do? [Read more →]

I have been thinking about 2010, what I want to accomplish this year. I have many dreams as I am sure you do to. One thing that keeps coming up for me is “choices”. The one true freedom we have is “choice”. [Read more →]

Happy New Year everybody. I wish you a wonder filled year full of opportunities, [Read more →]

Does your child yell and have tantrums? Does he or she sulk, insult, roll their eyes and dismiss you? Do you let them off the hook? If you do that, you are causing a heap of problems.

Is it even possible to have a child that is motivated [Read more →]

Self esteem can be very fragile. Do you remember the rhyme: “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me?” Ain’t true. Words can crush you. But words can also lift you up. You can Use Encouraging Words to lift your self up [Read more →]

Do you have kids? Do they help out about the house?  Do they do their chores willingly?

I see you rolling your eyes. My colleague, Judy Wright is a mom and grandmother and author. She has seen all the tricks kids use to get out of helping around the house. She writes about Kids Chores and More strategies.

 We start learning responsibility as children. [Read more →]

Are you shy? Do you suffer from social anxiety? How is you self esteem?

It is very hard to have good, healthy self esteem and be paralyzingly shy. Would you like help in gaining confidence and building self esteem?

 My colleague, Judy Wright (aka Auntie Artichoke) overcame her shyness. She knows how it can alter your life,and not in the way you would like or hope for. She is now sharing her simple steps that she used to over  come shyness. You too can have the 5 Keys to Overcoming Shyness. It is free. There is no obligation. But she may have the answer you have been looking for.