12 Simple Truths For Less Stress
By award-winning author and stress-relief expert Susie Mantell
I've come to believe that five categories pretty much comprise what it is to Live a life: Opportunities, Possibilities, Challenges, Risks, and the Choices we make when we are presented with each. As we explore our individual needs, goals and objectives in an effort to create lives that are authentic, healthy, joyful and meaningful, naturally we seek to prevent, reduce and release Stress where we can. Let's take a look at a few basic truths:
1. Life is always about choices, even when it doesn't feel that way. Our responses and perspective are choices.
2. We're never too old to learn or change or apologize. Every day counts.
3. Stress Happens. And it happens every day. How we manage Stress determines the quality of our lives.
4. Personal Style + Integrity + Flexibility = Balance
5. The mind informs the body, and Stress impacts our health, relationships, and who we will become.
6. Every interaction stems from one of two roots: Love or Fear.
7. The Golden Rule is still a very, very good idea.
8. One smile can turn two people's entire days around.
9. Love Heals. So do Laughter and Forgiveness. Anger never will.
10. To love anyone requires a leap of faith in ourselves, in them, and in the power of Love itself.
11. We can spend a lifetime grieving what was, or never was... or living for what is, or could be.
12. Every day we either grow toward the light or whither on the vine. (And that, too, is a daily choice.)
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Award-winning stress-relief expert Susie Mantell ...is the author of the deeply soothing relaxation CD, "Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace,” clinically approved for symptoms associated with stress and sleeplessness, depression and grief, anxiety, P.T.S.D., Fibromyalgia, caregiver stress, cancer, pain, divorce and addiction recovery. Featured in The Los Angeles Times, NBC, ABC, CBS-TV, Town & Country, The American Pain Society, Hazelden, Fleet & Family Service Centers, MWRs and The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, listeners include The Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, The Betty Ford Center, V.A. Hospitals,and Canyon Ranch (#1 Spa.) Customizing stress-reduction for Fortune 500 companies, distinguished hospitals and spas, Mantell has facilitated thousands in relieving health-related, work-related, chronic or traumatic stress. Her multi-sensory, mind-body techniques appear in national media, medical and corporate publications. Susie Mantell's Stress-Relief & Wellness Tips are intended as an adjunct to, not a substitute for, professional health care. Order “Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace” and find more of Mantell’s stress-relief tips at www.relaxintuit.com