Stress Management

When you're through changing, you're through

Welcome!  You can be the calm center of the storm.  If watching the news or reading the newspaper is creating more stress now get rid of it.  Turn it off and throw it out!  Give your brain a rest.

With a clear intention of focusing on and choosing wellness, together we can develop a plan of action that incorporates STRESS management techniques and holistic health approaches to assist you in living your best life - the life you were born to live.  We work with people to help them get off the fence and to go for it!

Critical Stress Management Techniques we will utilize together are:

1. Meditation and Spiritual Practices
2. Pausing and Thought Stopping
3. Biofeedback, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Neuroplasticity
4. Deep Breathing Techniques
5. Visualization/Sensualization
6. Nutrition Management

Other life coaching techniques based on individual clarification of stress in one's daily life are also utilized to bring about stress relief.

Stress is a regular part of everyone's daily life - some more, some less.  Physiologically we know that a certain level of stress can propel us to achieve and promote mental stimulation, but on its ugly mirror image, beyond one's threshold to cope, stress has well been documented to lead to physical and mental harm including contributing to high blood pressure, risk of heart disease and depression.  At its peak, the mind, body and even spirit go into a protective mode and essentially shut down with decreased metabolism and energy, increased appetite and  depression.  It can become a downward spiral which some may find difficult to break.

Here at Pathways to Wellness^tm we offer special services, resources and information on STRESS MANAGEMENT and related issues. If one area of your life is distinctly unhappy - totally out of balance, it will in turn create problems/stress in all areas.  A lifestyle that is in balance helps to turn off, decompress the stress hormones that can create havoc with our families and loved ones.   A balanced lifestyle assists us with the challenges of managing weight, smoking cessation,  maintaining positive focused energy and sustaining motivation.

We need to look at the level of satisfaction and joy in our lives.  These are stress "helpers" and "solvers".  Joy is in short supply these days with the economic meltdown,  financial upheaval and insecurity we all are facing at this time in our lives.  Our stress tolerance depletes from shock, disbelief and emotional pain.  We need to ask ourselves:

• Am I getting proper sleep?  -without good sleep you could throw your whole molecular system out of balance
• Am I making time for intimacy? -all kinds, touching, hugging, kissing - great stress reducers
• Am I making time for meditation and quiet time?
• Am I spending time with nature? and or,
•  Am I making some time for important areas that are particularly meaningful to me?

These are all helpful in keeping a healthy balance.                                          

There's a vast array of healthy chemicals that are released into our system as we exercise, laugh, play, meditate, cuddle and become passionate about something in our lives.  These too greatly help to reduce stress.   Biochemically, these aspects of a healthy balanced lifestyle encourage positive energy and inhibit unhealthy patterns of living.  Other ways to reduce stress in our lives is to use our brains and change our minds simply about how we relate to people and situations.

 With us as your personal STRESS Consultants and Life Coaches, we concentrate on the whole person, mind, body, soul and spirit and the unique life style of the individual in bringing about the changes needed to create a balanced, healthy life.

Reduce your Stress - DE-STRESS with us.  Contact us by e-mail for a FREE 20 minute consultation.