100 Ways to Stay Calm: Simple Tips and Tricks to Relax Your Mind and Body
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Here at your fingertips are dozens of different ideas on how to unwind and reduce stress. With 100 Ways to Stay Calm as your guide, things are going to get a little more peaceful, a little more relaxing, and a whole lot less hectic. From setting lavender out in your home to practicing mantra meditation, these hundred simple tips will help you take the stress out of your day.
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100 Ways to Stay Calm - Adams Media
100 Ways to Stay Calm
Simple Tips and Tricks to Relax Your Mind and Body
Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Avon, Massachusetts
Contents
Introduction
Find Out if You’re Under Stress
Discover What Stress Means to You
Try, Try Again
Learn Why Stress Happens
Draw a Line in the Sand with Your Stress
What’s Your Stress Type?
Find What Helps You Best
Do You Worry? A Lot?
Involve Your Doctor
Put Yourself to Bed
Discover Your Stress Profile
Embrace Good Stress — Yes, It Exists!
Determine Your Stress Tolerance Point
Pinpoint Your Stress Triggers
Gauge Your Stress Response
Don’t Get Sucked Into the Stress Spiral
Learn the Forms of Mental Stress
Manage Your Stress
Control the Stress in Your Head
Feed Your Soul
Discover Mindfulness Meditation
Learn about External Stress
Learn about Internal Stress
Good Things about Your Stress Response
Bad Things about Your Stress Response
What’s Happening in Your Brain
Maintain a Healthy Diet
Stress Can Make You Sick
Catch Your Zs
Drink Your H2O
The Good, the Bad, and the In-Between
Manage Your Substance Use
Break the Noise Habit
Avoid Retail Therapy
Make Time for Exercise
Avoid Fad Diets
Eat Natural Foods
Choose Nutrients, Not Empty Calories
Evaluate Treating Yourself
Benefits of Exercise
Get Motivated, and Stay Motivated!
Find What Works For You
Be Your Own Yogi
Pace Yourself
Discover the Benefits of Massage
Schedule Regular Massages
Go Swedish!
Experience Energy Healing
Find the Funds to Support Massages
Meditation Station
How Meditation Can Fight Stress
Start Your Own Practice
Discover Zazen
Walking Meditation
Try Yoga Meditation
Experience Ayurvedic Medicine
Try Creative Therapy
Keep a Dream Journal
Flower Remedies
Consider Cognitive Therapy
Is Your Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?
Find Out What Sets You Off
Lose the Negative Attitude
Are You Passive or Aggressive, or Both?
Find Your Inspiration
More Money, More Stress
Learn about How You View Money
Make Financial Goals
Simplify
Defeat Your Debt
You Are Not Alone with Stress
Stress at Work
Examine Your Job Stress
You Can’t Eliminate All Your Work Stress
Do it Later, if You Can (And You Usually Can)
Make Your Own Sacred Space
Minimize Your Upkeep
Admit Your Pack-Rat Tendencies
Practice Feng Shui
Cultivate Positive Energy
Don’t Wait
Change is Good
Schedule Regular Alone Time
Lose the Stress You Don’t Need
Don’t Stress about What You Can’t Control
Ladies and Stress
Don’t Be a Stereotype
Learn about Stress and Fertility
Deal with Parenting Pressures
Have Me
Time When You Need It
Gentlemen and Stress
Male Stress Management
Defy Gender Roles
Be Conscious of Dominance Issues
Senior Stress
Kids Can Be Stressed, Too
Young Kids and Stress
Signs of Stress in Young Kids
Stress and School
Be a Responsive and Responsible Parent
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Introduction
Today is the first day of a new year in your life. It doesn’t matter if today isn’t December 31; it’s still the first day of a new year of beating stress! We’ve provided 100 ways you can take control of the stress in your life, at home, at work, in relationships … everywhere! Stress can creep into all the areas of your world, but that doesn’t mean you have to tolerate it. From the yoga studio to the Internet to your doctor’s office, there’s help out there for you. So go after it!
This collection will uncover the mysteries of stress: what it is, its different forms, and what it means to you. Once you know what your own personal definition of stress is, you can move toward overcoming it. Does stress take more of a toll on your mind or your body? Do you release stress through bad habits, such as nail biting or binge eating? Do you watch your diet and get enough regular exercise? If you have bad habits you need