31Jan 2017 by karlenestewart

Hair Loss Due to Stress and Anxiety: Ways to Get it Back

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Are you stressed lately? Are you experiencing hair loss? Did you know that there is a link between stress and hair loss? Understanding the hair lifecycle, and also how stress affects the body, will give you a clearer picture. Hair Life Cycle Your hair has a lifecycle. The first stage is the growth stage. The second is the transition stage, while the last is the resting stage. This resting stage is the stage where your hair falls off your scalp with the slightest application of effort. When you are constantly under stress, your hair reaches the resting stage at a faster rate than normal. When this happens, you are said to have an issue called telogen effluvium or hair loss due to stress. If you noticed that this has been…
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10Sep 2016 by karlenestewart

Why Distraction Helps Ease Anxiety

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Dear friends, Don't let anxiety get you down, get distracted. Yes, that's right, here is when distraction is an advantage. Distraction to ease anxiety is definitely a concept I can relate to and Barry McDonagh explains it very well in his beautifully written article, as follows. Throw Yourself Into Life In order to quickly move away from generalized anxiety you need to throw yourself 100% into life. What is needed is to engage regularly in an activity that stimulates you, and holds your complete attention, something in which you can become completely absorbed. Something that distracts you is a very valuable tool in taking your attention away from the uncomfortable sensation of anxiety that may be lingering in your body. You see almost everyone with anxiety finds themselves getting a…
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16Jan 2016 by karlenestewart

Did You Know You Can Control How You Respond to Stress?

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Stress affects the body Stress can affect your body in severe ways. I touched on some of these effects in my article https://letpanicflow.com/how-to-deal-with-anxiety-reduce-worry-and-stress, and I will remind you of a few here. When stress is not managed the risks to your health and body include: premature aging impaired cognitive function energy drain reduction in your efficiency and clarity Having an increased awareness of how stress affects you gives you the advantage of knowing how to monitor it and take steps to achieve balance. Transform stress response through Heart Coherence HeartMath LLC describes an amazing concept of how we can manage stress by connecting with our heart. This approach is not one to merely cope, but actually transforms the stress that we feel by seeing a more positive perspective. In their book Transforming…
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22Sep 2015 by karlenestewart

Manage Stressful Situations with a Resilient Temperament

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As the HeartMath Institute, explains, "our mental and emotional resilience helps us to recover from and adapt to stressful situations that challenge us." We often face challenging situations in our lives, but our outlook is what will determine how quickly we bounce back. If for example, someone was laid off from a job and his reaction is: Scenario 1 - "What am I going to do now? I don't know when I will ever get another job. My life is ruined. Those wicked people. I hate them. How do they expect people to survive? I hope they lose their jobs too..."  That kind of attitude will actually set you back even further. Firstly, such a reaction causes you to hold on to the hurt and to fuel the feelings into…
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23Aug 2015 by karlenestewart

Change Your Brain Change Your Life: Product Review

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Product: Change Your Brain Change Your Life Review Price: $9.28 Cheapest Place to Buy: Amazon.com My Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Product Overview As you will see on the cover of the book, Change Your Brain Change Your Life is presented as a program for "conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness". The book is written by neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, and his recommendations are all based on his experiences with his patients. Powerful Examples of How The Brain Affects Behaviour Dr. Amen gives a number of very powerful scenarios of people who displayed acts of aggression, frustration and even violence and upon doing what he refers to as brain "SPECTS", which are a certain scan of the brain, it was revealed that these people's brains had been affected by either decreased…
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31Jul 2015 by karlenestewart

Why Do I Feel So Tired? Anxiety Triggers

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I often ask myself why do I feel so tired? Yet it should be obvious, I a mom of two active kids, a wife, I work a full time job plus I'm a freelance writer! Clear recipe for exhaustion. I tend to experience a lot of anxiety as well, particularly surrounding work, so I found the following article by Barry McDonagh to be quite informative. Exhaustion and Anxiety Why do some people have a problem with anxiety and others do not? This is a question almost everyone who experiences anxiety asks themselves at some point or another. Why me? My understanding of anxiety is that yes, some people seem more susceptible than others but that the key trigger tends to be exhaustion. By exhaustion I mean mental, physical, or emotional exhaustion. (Under…
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