Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

How to make your own stress card If you want to go really cheap you can use your current business card or print a few up on your own printer. Just add a stress chip and hand them out. People love to check their stress level. They will keep your card for years to come. [...]

Mindfulness as good as antidepressant drugs, study says Mindfulness therapy is gaining headway in many areas of psychology, and now there’s more evidence to back up its effectiveness. A new study published the Archives of General Psychiatry finds that depression patients in remission who underwent mindfulness therapy did as well as those who took an [...]

Can mindfulness help manage pain and mental illness? (CNN) — In the German night sky, there were hundreds of parachutes falling in a routine army training exercise. It was this jump that would cause former United States Army Ranger Monty Reed more than two decades of pain. Reed fell from about 100 feet after another [...]

Why do video games make such bad movies? (CNN) — Do you think the idea of Jake Gyllenhaal playing a time-traveling Arabian swordsman seems far-fetched? Then consider Raul Julia as a gravity-defying, Third World despot, or Sir Ben Kingsley taking on the role of a bloodsucking vampire king. Sadly, as illustrated by “Prince of Persia,” [...]

Does Stress Make You Fat? (Does Fat Make You Stressed?) So maybe it’s that activities like yoga, meditation, running — anything that focuses your mind and alters your breathing to a deeper, more regular pattern — cause a domino effect throughout the body that includes throwing a wrench in that fat-cell-receptor response that caused the [...]

Mindfulness training busts stress The program lasted eight weeks and participants were followed for an additional three months. Williams said they found those who received the mindfulness training “had significantly less daily hassles, psychological distress and significantly fewer medical symptoms” — like lower blood pressure and fewer aches and pains — than those who were [...]