Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

A bad friend — or lousy roomie — can really make you sick

http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/23/10217309-a-bad-friend-or-lousy-roomie-can-really-make-you-sick

By Melissa Dahl

Gossip, rumors, cat fights, mean girls: We know bad friendships can hurt feelings — but new evidence is emerging that suggests frenemies can hurt your health, too.

A new University of California, Los Angeles, study links negative social interaction to increased inflammation. Inflammation isn’t necessarily a bad thing — it’s an immune system response that fights infections and helps heal physical injuries. But chronic inflammation is tied to an increased risk in developing all kinds of health issues: hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, depression, diabetes and even cancer.

“There’s a lot of research showing that when we are stressed out, it activates all these biological systems” including inflammation, says Jessica Chiang, a UCLA graduate student and lead author of the new report. “And interpersonal stressors are often the biggest stressors people experience in their daily lives.”

The study was published online today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

No surprise here. Any bad situation can get under your skin – figuratively and literally ………… eating away and stressing you out. It can be a friend, a roommate, a lover, a spouse, a co-worker ……………. whomever. The day to day drama can cause real harm and damage. Toxic Psychological environments do harm, they are a kind of war zone eating at you day and night. Serious problems can result from continued exposure.

Some situations are not easy to change and they take time and planning. The best thing you can do in the long term and the short term is to improve your stress coping skills and take specific time to relax and let go of the stress.

DANGER – We have a tendency to do bad things to ourselves in the guise of comfort – over-eating, over-sleeping, too much TV, lost in video games, constant online chat of Facebooking.

You will be much healthier to do thing to boost your strength – eat healthy foods, exercise daily, get good sleep… etc.

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedb

www.cliving.org www.stressmarket.com Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

Organize your mind to organize your life

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/22/health/how-organize-your-mind/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

.

I totally disagree, the brain is able to process all kinds of information at once and multi-tasking has always been critical for survival. If your ancestors could not do that then you would not be here – they had to in order to live and survive.

I do like the authors approach to organizing your life. It is so easy to get scattered over many tasks and many goals so that in the end you accomplish very little and do carry through to finish what you started.

Simple list making and crossing off is old school but still very effective. If you do not have a pen and paper then there are probably 21 apps for that.

Something critical the author did leave out is that you need to relax and focus your mind. Running like a mad hamster in a cage is very hard on the body and on the mind. Learn specific methods to relax you muscles, calm your emotions and relax your mind. Practice and train those skills every day. You need to use them every day.

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

In denial: Why we’re still stressed

I walked into Costco awhile back and there was a table there offering to setup a free hearing test. I overheard one old guy say to his misses, “Why do I want to know how bad my hearing is!” haaaaaaa. That applies to stress, blood pressure, blood sugar levels, etc. as well. If we ignore it, then it does not exist in our mind. We can motor along living and doing what we want to do. Oops, that may work in the short term but it in fact can be deadly in the long term. Yes, you do want to know while you have the chance to make healthy choices and protect your precious body.

Stress in America, the American Psychological Association’s annual survey, came out last week.

The results were not particularly shocking. Large numbers of Americans are stressed out. Many, extremely so. And far too many are failing to take adequate action to alleviate the stress in their lives.

All of which led my editors to wonder: If we recognize the negative health implications of high stress levels – heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and depression, among others – then why are so many of us doing such a poor job at managing it?

The answer, according to the experts I consulted, may be a sort of willful blindness known as the “optimism bias.”

“It is a natural human inclination to see our situation and our future through rose-colored glasses,” says David Ropeik, author of “How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts.”

“We tend to see our prospects as being far better than they may actually be – and particularly when compared to the next guy. This optimism lets us deal with hardship and take chances in life.”

I disagree. It is a situation of Ignorance is Bliss. Ignore it and it does not exist and hopefully will just go away …….. dream on, dream on.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/18/optimism-may-keep-stress-levels-up/?hpt=hp_bn10/

Start healing yourself with deep, scientific relaxation.

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org www.stressmarket.com Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

How the stress of work might really make you sick

Duh, ya think? Seems like this is a no brainer to me – Dr Tim

Researchers who examined more than 70 studies looking at the relationship between work and illness, found that long hours and a heavy workload were clearly correlated with illness, according to a post on PsyBlog.

They did find that the typical factors we associate with stress — such as long hours and a heavy workload — are correlated with illness and physical ailments such as headaches and stomach problems.

The researchers found that “organizational constraints” like not having the time or authority to reach the goals set for you are most strongly associated with physical symptoms, especially gastrointestinal problems and fatigue.

The researchers also saw strong correlations between role conflict — when your boss tells you to do one thing and another person gives you different instructions — and tummy troubles. Co-worker conflict was associated with having trouble sleeping.

Work Stress can Kill you!

I would go one step further and say that Work Stress can kill you – maybe not tomorrow but that wearing pressure can break you health down severly – Dr Tim

Start healing yourself with deep, scientific relaxation.

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

To the brain, getting burned, getting dumped feel the same

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/28/burn.heartbreak.same.to.brain/index.html?hpt=C2

Science has finally confirmed what anyone who’s ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt.

In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you’re burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about a lover who has spurned you.

In other words, the brain doesn’t appear to firmly distinguish between physical pain and intense emotional pain. Heartache and painful breakups are “more than just metaphors,” says Ethan Kross, Ph.D., the lead researcher and an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.

To the brain, getting burned, getting dumped feel the same

Life traumatic events can affect the body and mind in a very negative way. The deep impression can last and last – PTSD – to the point where you are severely affected by the experience until you actively work to release the pain and suffering.

Start healing yourself with deep, scientific relaxation.

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved

Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

Coffee can make you Crazy! Hearing Voices????

Coffee can make you crazy!

If you’re hearing voices in your head, you may want to cut back on the caffeine. A recent Australian study showed a link between heavy coffee consumption, stress — and auditory hallucinations.

Need to Unstress?

Drink less coffee and check the drinks you consume – maybe too much caffiene?

We can help you train yourself to manage stress more effectively -

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein

(c) 2011 All Rights Reserved Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

Final Exams trigger Anxiety Dreams

You sit in a classroom, and your teacher puts an exam on your desk. English History during the Middle Ages?

You know nothing about it. You forgot you ever signed up for this course. You’ve not cracked a single book. You’ve skipped every class. And if you don’t pass this exam, you don’t get your degree. You reel between dread and panic.

And then you wake. Sometimes sweating.

Test Anxiety Triggers Bad Dreams

Stress Control FOR STUDENTS

This is a set of 3 audio CDs with a training guide. You learn scientific methods that produce profound physical and mental relaxation. Tighten your fist, hold it tight and then relax all at once. 1. You learn to feel tension 2. Your muscle will relax and release tension. You go through the whole body doing this.

There 6 different scientific methods to relaxation on these audio CDs. Each one builds on the previous one so that you gain more mastery and skill.

Clutching on exams, blanking out, test anxiety, knotted stomach, headaches, lack of concentration and other study and exam related problems will be gone as you learn to release tension, relax and focus your mental state.

I was on the staff of a University Counseling Center when I developed this program. First I helped myself. My grades jumped up one whole level and I studied less because I could relax and concentrate. Learning and memory were easier and too less effort. Then I offered this program to students at the University who found similar success. I have smirky smile knowing that I was studying less and getting better grades. haha

Stress Control FOR STUDENTS 160HS -CD $20

www.cliving.org www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved

Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

Nearly 1 in 5 younger adults has high blood pressure

Almost one in five younger adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure, according to a new study.

But only half of those adults, who were ages 24 to 32, have been told by a doctor that they are hypertensive, which shows that not everyone may be aware that they have the symptomless disease, said study researcher Dr. Eric Whitsel, an assistant professor in medicine and epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

If a younger adult goes to a doctor for a checkup, the doctor will likely screen for high blood pressure. But “if people aren’t visiting health care professionals and aren’t measuring their blood pressure at home using inexpensive monitors, then they won’t capture their illness,” Whitsel told MyHealthNewsDaily.

younger adults have high blood pressure

I feel sad reading this. Sad to think a young generation is developing a stress and life style disease that can be prevented. Sad to think such studies empower drug companies to get young people to start taking medications with possible bad side effects at such a young age.

Regular exercise is so important.  Eating healthy foods. And stress management. These are key to returning and keeping blood pressure at normal levels.

Good basic stress management training is very inexpensive and takes only 30 minutes 3 times a week.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved

Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

Heart therapy good for men, great for women

For the first time, a therapy to prevent heart failure has proved to be more effective in women than men.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D), a treatment designed to prevent sudden cardiac death by using a defibrillator to shock the heart back into rhythm, provided a significant benefit to women over men, a study shows. Women had a 70% reduction in heart failure compared with 35% in men. Women had a 72% reduction in death the study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found.

“In prior cardiac studies, men and women generally received similar benefit from preventive medical therapy,” said cardiologist Arthur J. Moss, professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and the study’s lead author. “Our finding was unexpected, but extremely important because this is the only heart treatment that is clearly better in women than men.”

In fact, Moss says women had considerably better outcomes across the board. “It’s not that men did poorly in the trial, but rather, women had really fantastic results, likely due to the type of heart disease we see more commonly in women.”

Heart therapy good for men, great for women

Women respond really well to stress management and biofeedback training. Over 60% of our customers are women. They quickly learn the basic skills to sense body change – like lower muscle tension, increase warmth in hands and mental calm. Such skills are a great help in stopping stress from building into a bad illness crisis.

The training is quite easy to do on your own. We have a series of excellent scientific relaxation exercises that are easy to follow and learn.  The training guide provides important tips and information. The Stress Thermometer gives precise feedback about changes in the body and an excellent measurement of current stress.

Stress Control Series by Dr Tim Lowenstein 100HS -CD $20

Practice with one audio CD each day. Pay attention to how you feel before and after. Make notes in a relaxation journal. In just a month, you will see major improvement in how quickly you see subtle changes in how you feel. Typically men do not pay attention to how they feel inside. We are trained to be numb and to push forward = No Pain, No Gain. You are in kindergarten so it will take a few sessions as you learn to access you body’s neural net and recognize tiny shifts and changes.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/stressmarket-com-100HS–CD-Stress-Control/dp/B003SFT8JS/ref=sr_1_9?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1297257893&sr=1-9

Learn to warm up your hands and feet before bed. You can learn this easily and quickly.

Stress Thermometer Program with Audio-CD – https://www.cliving.org/stressthermometer.htm

You can put the temperature sensor on the sore area of your back and use your mind to increase blood flow and relax the area of tension.

This set is also sold on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Stress-Thermometer-stress-reduction-biofeedback/dp/B000227MP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306429452&sr=8-1

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2009 All Rights Reserved

Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com

Vogue Nightclub promotes with stress card. The owners of a new nightclub in England reached out across the planet to Stress Market, Inc. in Port Angeles, Washington to help them create a stress card to promote their new night club and to serve as a VIP entry card for their club.

We have worked a number of big projects with companies around the world says, Dr Lowenstein. It is fun and exciting that we can email back and forth to design a plastic or heavy cardstock stress card to promote and market a company. Becky Maltbie helps to work together with each customer to create a dynamic design that looks like it came from a major corporation design department. Stress Market has worked with companies on every continent and many foreign countries.

In working with electronic files, we are able to print in any language. It is fun to see the creativity that drives each design project.

Stress cards can be used over and over again. Takes only 10 seconds to test hand temperature and read stress level.

You can look at the sample galleries on line to see a few of the past stress cards that Stress Market has produced.

Heavy Cardstock Stress Cards Samples

http://www.cliving.org/MoodCardWEB/

Plastic Stress Cards credit card size sample.

https://www.cliving.org/Plastic%20Web%20Gallery/index.htm

www.cliving.org

www.stressmarket.com

Dr Tim Lowenstein (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved

Contact Dr Tim for permission to reprint. info@stressmarket.com