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The holidays can be stressful times. There might be relatives visiting which means more cleaning, and extra people in the house for a few days. Even if no relatives come, you still have to prepare special holiday food, buy and wrap presents plus decorate. You can bring down your stress level with a trip to our website http://www.thebasketspot.com/.

There are several ways to help manage the holiday stresses. For one, acknowledge that you are under stress rather than gritting your teeth and smiling continuously. If nothing else, your dentist will probably thank you. Rather than complaining about the whole situation, sit down, relax and take some time for yourself.

Another important thing to remember is to ask for help. Just because people are visiting does not mean that you have to do everything for them. That way you will be able to join in some of the fun rather than merely running around in the background trying to handle everything yourself.

Planning ahead will also help keep the stress levels manageable. If the majority of the shopping for any cooking that will occur is already done, you will not have to go out again when other people are rushing about in a less-than-pleasant mood trying to fill their carts before the holidays.

When trying to relieve some of the holiday stress, it is important not to deliberately add to it. Put off home improvement projects. Wait to join any new groups. If you do have shopping any last minute, organize your list and get in and out as quickly as possible. Gifts are the hardest things to shop for around the holidays and are the main reason that people will find themselves heading out into the crowds. Most people will be quite content with something that shows you were thinking of them, even if the gift did not appear at the very top of their wish lists.

Along the lines of gifting and not adding to stress, if you happen to be responsible for a gift for an aunt, whom you know has complained about every gift received for the past twenty years, just come up with the best idea you can. Perhaps instead of something for her to take home and put on a shelf or in a closet as with a typical gift, give a gift she can use immediately. Food gift baskets are good in this respect. There are also chocolate or wine gift baskets. Hopefully you are knowledgeable of the recipient to avoid any major allergies.

Despite all your work, something may go wrong at some point. If food gets burned, or a glass gets broken, try and remember that the important part of the holiday is being with the family and in a month no one will even remember. Try to avoid stress by planning ahead and asking for help when you need it. After all, the holidays should be filled with the delectable food and lots of laughter.

The author, Charlie Mann, Time Magazine 2006 Man of Year, is a reporter for CNN and Fox news. He is the author of the NYT Bestsellers Built Hard, and Polar Cap Five. His latest book is How to Win Your Case In Small Claims Court Without a Lawyer from Atlantic Books.

Charlie Mann
http://www.articlesbase.com/holidays-articles/bringing-down-the-holiday-stress-levels-679993.html

Stress may not instantly kill you, but it still has the power to shorten your life in the long run. Its physical and psychological effects are varied and widely known and not doing anything to relieve yourself of stress can cause you to suffer from other and more serious medical complications.

Using Hypnosis to Battle Stress

There are various ways for you to battle stress. Having a healthy lifestyle, eating the right food and exercising regularly are just some of the ways you can reduce stress in your life. If, however, these methods are not enough then you can try using hypnosis as well as a supplementary technique.

You need to find yourself a quiet place where there will be the least amount of distraction. It must also be a place you will feel comfortable to stay in for a short period of time alone.

Time is important as well. Although using hypnosis to battle stress can be done on any part of the day, it is still best that you do so at a time you are certain you can ask everyone to leave you alone and isolate yourself from the rest of the world.

Positioning – Find a position where you are most comfortable. You can lie down, sit in front a cozy fire, or stand near a window. Whatever works for you best is fine. It must be a position that you can also maintain for at least five minutes and as long as half an hour.

Objective – For the next step, you need to specify a goal for yourself and for this session only. Although we know that you generally wish to get rid of stress, you need to be a little more specific than that to make your hypnosis exercise work. Once you have specified the objective for your first session, you need to make it into an affirmation.

An affirmation is a positive statement that brings an equally positive force in your life. It can make you confident, happy, and in this instance, less stressful as well. If your goal is to reduce your anger, you can turn this statement into something like I am becoming happier or calmer day by day. Avoid using any negative word, tense, or phrase. This includes but is not limited to the words no, not, and can not.

Avoiding the use of negative words are essential because these are words that your brain is not naturally inclined to focus on. As such, if you are using a statement like I am going to reduce my anger day by day, your brain might eventually forget the important verb reduce and concentrate mainly on anger which of course is not a good thing at all.

Hypnosis – Once you have determined your objective, start regulating your breathing. Breathe in and out slowly but deeply. Once you have reached a state between consciousness and unconsciousness, start focusing on your objective by repeating the phrase to yourself over and over. You can also visualize your objective if you wish, and make it as vivid as you can.

Day by day, you will see your hypnosis gradually influencing your attitude and lifestyle.

Stress is one of your most prevalent enemies today, and it is important that you do whatever you can to eliminate stress from your life. Hypnosis can help you stay relaxed and free from stress and anxiety at all times as long as you are able to execute the techniques properly. Good luck on wielding influence on your subconscious!

Bill Urell
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/hypnosis-for-stress-how-to-effectively-will-yourself-to-relax-76472.html

I find that a baby that doesn’t sleep enough during the day would be kinda difficult to sleep at night too.
But others tell me to reduce daytime naps so that baby sleeps better at night.
How’s your experience?

Let Shaun have all the naps he needs. If not you will be left with an over tired and fraught baby that is not able to sleep at night.

PS If you can whilst he has his afternoon nap you have one too. You will feel all the better for it and the washing up can wait !

i was told that my emotional eating is my way to fill something (probably an emotion) missing in my life…if love is the emotion i am missing, how can i Stop Emotional Eating? b/c i cannot just create love. i cannot just make myself love or make somebody love me…and if you’ve ever been there, you know it’s not always as easy as just stopping the emotional eating…

or

is there a way i can live my life with the acceptance that love just does not exist for me? can i come to terms with that and end emotional eating that way? if so, how?

thank you!

Yes, you are right, you cannot just create love! In my dreams ! But what you CAN do is to try and and create occasions, events, activities where you could actually find this love. That love will not come to you – you just have to create the right conditions for that to happen.

As regards emotional eating try these when you have a strong urge to eat :-

Drink a glass of water – often your body is just saying that you are really thirsty , rather than hungry.
Try brushng your teeth – the taste of toothpaste tends to lessen your appetite.
Keep a sprig of mint handy and smell it – the mint taste or smell seems to reduce appetite as well.

Good luck !

Robert

First of all before i get to my question,

Id like to add why I myself use these meds in the first place and maybe my vew will help others get more knowledgeable : )
As most of us know, I in this case and many others with similar disorders are screwed unless they get too the psychological/emotional root of the problem and work on themselves towards complete recovery through cognitive therapy.. keep in mind LONG TERM*

But as of now, I and I’m sure many others don’t have the time or the resources to get to the correct therapy and truly assess the roots of problem through releasing their repressed emotions. At this point, I can easily say that alot of us only have the ability to numb the effects chemically and make the best of it while it lasts and while they still can.(insurance or buying for the drugs)

We all know success in any environment requires self assertiveness, but I think that what too many people fail to understand the difficulties involved in getting through such disorders without aid. Many times this is impossible without short term use of medication to jump start their success and hopefully after that get the true cure though harmless drug free cognitive therapy, they wont need the meds ever again.

I think people really need to become more understanding and educated about why people with mental disorders such as mine (or worse) would resort to destroying their brain chemistry’s and bodies by using such dangerous med’s which are pretty much more or less illegal street drugs such as cocaine(adderall) and pretty much prescription alcohol(xanax). Only an idiot would ingest and sooner or later abuse these poisons if they didnt have any medical basis for the drug. It feels so great to live a normal life, Disordered people take them to simply function like normal people and to live up to their true potentials. Its a trade off. disordered and debilitating unproductive natural life or chemically induced life of productivity with risks of lifelong health consequences and addiction.

BTW, sorry I went a bit off topic… however im sure it was worth the reading either way xD

Hey, I’m experimenting on prescription medication for my ADHD combined type coexisting with an anxiety disorder called social phobia(fear of social interaction with others for no logical reason, in response the body triggers its fight or flight defence mechanism and thinks your being attacked. so it prepares you for self defence and attack), and deficits with verbal expression but above average and possibly a generalized anxiety disorder as well. I was prescribed a one month supply of Generic Adderall IR at first and my doc let me experiment up to 40mg.

I have a 60 day supply of Adderall XR(10mg) and 30 day supply of Adderall IR (10mg), and 30 day supply of recently prescribed Xanax XR(1mg). I have the adderall in my closet for over half a year and finished only half of the XR and used only 10 IR pills. So that says something…

I didn’t like IR because I didn’t like the sudden pick me up, it felt very unnatural and and that isnt the reason I take these meds

So he switched me too Adderall XR(brand) which is supposedly smoother and better for the crash when the med wears off

He also prescribed me Xanax XR(brand)(30 x 1mg) to try for my social anxiety.

The adderall gives me high blood pressure, high pulse, and a form of anxiety(it improves my social anxiety by a little and either way i can still talk to people normally, i just feel very tense and stiff, I become disrespectful to others because I interrupt and blurt what others would say before they finish their points, and sometimes paranoid) ive been commented… , it was very hard to urinate and sometimes it was impossible until an hour or so later (this was on 30mg Adderal XR), and muscle tension(crack my knuckles very very often), jitters at first, very dry dry mouth, some appetite loss, extremely cold hands and feet, and finally i sometimes I get motor ticks on my thighs, arms, and feet.

I’d like too reduce/eliminate all or at least majority of the overstimulation of the bodies nervous system and organs caused by the stimulant medication Adderall; by taking it in conjunction with Xanax to level out the effects and hopefully greatly minimize the possible long term heart, blood pressure/circulation problems, and all other problems associated with the use of Adderall or any other strong stimulant. Id like to feel the benefits of the adderall without the physical stimulation and anxiety it manifests.

I was thinking adderall XR(brand) 70mg(7*10mg pills)(which really is 35mg at first then 35 more later) with 2mg of Xanax XR(brand).

I want too know if I chose too much Xanax or too much of the adderall..

Does anyone have any experience with this? Anyone try the same thing? Can anyone recommend me a good combination? Any better medication combinations? Do you think a Beta-Blocker like Inderall would be a good idea as opposed too Xanax X

Wow, that was a really long story. I disagree with your premise. I don’t think that Adderall numbs you, I think it actually addresses the Dopamine imbalance in your brain that results in ADHD. I also think that 2 mg of Xanex is a lot. Inderall might be a very good idea if you need that much Xanex.

Have you considered asking your dr for guidance, instead of the Y!A community?