Stress Management and its Basics

Stress Basics

Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the ever increasing demands of life. Surveys show that most Americans experience challenges with stress at some point during the year. In looking at the causes of stress, remember that your brain comes hard-wired with an alarm system for your protection.

When your brain perceives a threat, it signals your body to release a burst of hormones to fuel your capacity for a response. This has been labeled the "fight-or-flight" response. Once the threat is gone, your body is meant to return to a normal relaxed state. Unfortunately, the nonstop stress of modern life means that your alarm system rarely shuts off.

5 Steps to Less Stress - Stress Solutions

What is the point of stress? Why do we have it? The body experiences multiple kinds of stress, some of which it needs in order to respond appropriately to illness or to difficult or dangerous events. One example of this is the “fight-or-flight” state that helped some of our earliest ancestors defend themselves against serious threats. However, even though we don’t usually need to defend ourselves from the same predators our ancestors feared, many of us may still be responding to relatively minor frustrations or unexpected events with an unnecessary amount of stress.

4 Meals for Mind and Body

Satisfying Food for Mind & Body Care

These tasty eats will boost your mood, up your love life, and help you burn fat without trying.

1.Feel-Good Salmon Sandwich

Pan-seared salmon with walnut-and-spinach pesto on whole-grain roll with radicchio.

Salmon is a great source of mood-boosting omega-3 DHA fatty acids, and spinach is packed with magnesium, which has a relaxing effect and helps lower blood pressure. Get your fill of walnuts—they are a natural source of melatonin, which can help you get a better night's sleep.

How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep — Even When You’re Depressed

People suffering from depression and bipolar are usually significantly affected by disrupted sleep patterns.

I remember all too well the frustration. Sometimes you spend hours in bed, unable to get out, yet you just can’t sleep. Other times you end up sleeping, but wake up at 4 a.m., your mind racing with all sorts of negative thoughts.

It’s not just me. Patrick Kennedy and Tricia Goddard, who I interviewed in Back From The Brink, rated getting the right amount of sleep as very important.

8 Romantic Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day - Special Day

I’ve never been one to care for Valentine’s Day. It’s supposedly the most romantic day of the year, but to me it just seems so “in your face” and cheesy. I know it’s a designated day to show love for the person in your life who is good at taking your breath away, but what if you don’t have that person in your life yet? Being single on Valentine’s Day, especially if you’re wishing you were in a relationship or just recently broke up with someone, can leave a little sting. Even if you’re single by choice, you get that “poor you” look from other people when they ask who you’re spending the holiday with.

The Female Viagra - Women's Sex Drug

Ladies used to engage in sexual relations, and wind up with infants. Presently, we can control this with the assistance of a little pill.

What might it mean assuming that we could control our sex drive with a pill too?

There's another sexual craving medication for her being produced in the US which could pick up FDA endorsement for retail in 2016. Not at all like different stimulants of female sex drive, this new pharmacology hits ladies with an influential one-two punch; the figure, and the cerebrum, are focused on together.