Battling Stress

By Rebecca Osborn

What is stress? Stress is a feeling experienced when a person perceives that the demand placed on them is greater than what they can give.

Particularly in normal working life, much of our stress is subtle and occurs without obvious threat to survival. Most comes from things like work overload, conflicting priorities, inconsistent values, over-challenging deadlines, conflict with co-workers, unpleasant environments and so on. Not only do these reduce our performance as we divert mental effort into handling them, they can also cause a great deal of unhappiness.

Listed here are ways you can relieve stress in your life and work towards stress free day!

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Stress Related Games Added To This Site

I’ve added the code for two games from the MiniClips site .. which you can access by clicking the button on the top menu. These games are flash games and usually work on most PC’s running windows .. but if you are experiencing problems you might want to check out their requirements page.

A Day Of Slacking (Game)

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By Richard Pettinger

Meditation is an ancient tradition which enables the practitioner to reduce stress and increase his-her sense of inner well being. Meditation works by reducing our attachment to our thoughts. By being able to switch off from our daily activities and thoughts we can reduce our stress levels and over time experience a sense of inner peace.

Stress occurs because we have many pressures on our time. These demands can come from; work, family, friends and financial pressures. We get stressed because we feel it is difficult to cope. As a consequence we can spend a lot of time thinking about our problems. However thinking about the magnitude and scale of our problems doesn’t help us to reduce our stress levels. In fact thinking can make the situation worse. We just feel confused and helpless about our myriad problems.

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