STARTING WITH STRESS REDUCTION

You CAN make changes to reduce the level of stress if your life seems full of hassles.   Stress can be caused by major issues like your job, relationships or some situation.  While these may not be easily changed, in the meantime you CAN make some simple changes that will reduce your OVERALL stress level.

We hear that stress is part of modern life - or IS it?  Some people have improved their lives by using a few simple routines, and I would like to share some of these with you, learned from others and my own experiences.

Actually some level of "stress" or tension is beneficial for us in keeping us involved and active.   It's when things build up on us that we feel "out of control" or "stressed".

We can look at stress in two simple ways -

• Stress coming from something not easily fixed.    Things that seem beyond our control can cause big worries and can be hard to do anything about - but even then there is something you can do to make things more bearable. We will look at that later.
• Stress coming from things we do, or don't do.    Things we CAN do something about - so first, we will work with things that are within our control.

We are going to look at those annoying things that go wrong every day, because these small irritations can add up and increase your  feelings of being stressed.

There are some SIMPLE things you can do to avoid many daily glitches, and they won't cost you much if anything.  Simple ROUTINES will work wonders.

It was Thoreau who wrote: "Our life is frittered away by detail - simplify, simplify."

So let's go to the next "Help Page" - REMOVE  SOME  FRUSTRATIONS.