How do you deal with stress?

Have you ever really thought about the answer to this question? How you deal with stress will determine how you experience life.

So what is stress? Stress is nothing more than our reaction to change. Any change in our lives, whether it is good or bad, will cause some level of stress.

Psychologists have listed hundreds of stress-causing events, each with their own ranking that measures the amount of turmoil the stressor can cause. Death of a loved one and the loss of a job rank right at the top for example, while a flat tire or spilling your drink would rank much lower. But regardless of the ranking, stress accumulates and can take a serious toll on our well-being.

• Stress can cause headaches, nausea, psychological problems and even heart-attacks.
• Stress lowers our white blood cell count, making us more susceptible to disease and illness.
• Stress can cause hyperventilation and respiratory problems.
• Stress can cause a variety of digestive issues, including constipation, indigestion and ulcers.

Of course, everyone responds to stress differently, but you can be sure that extreme stress lasting for extended periods of time will eventually wreak havoc on your body.

So, How Can You Avoid Stress?

Well the answer is you can’t because life is all about change and change causes stress, it is not about avoiding stress, it all comes down to how you deal with it is what makes all the difference. Hot is the opposite of Cold. Dark is the opposite of Light. And Stress is the opposite of the state of mind that we call “Meditation.”

Meditation is the key to dealing with stress and removing bad habits, fears and emotions. Mediating connects you to your inner consciousness.

Learning how to meditate and tapping into your inner consciousness will help you use your mind in more effective and powerful ways. The mind is the most powerful machine we have and it is where we perceive reality.

For thousands of years humans have argued and fought wars over different beliefs and points of view however one thing they all agree on is that what you think about you become. As Napoleon Hill said “Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve” If you don’t learn how to use your mind and control how you handle stress you will be forever controlled by your mind.

Mediation is the only way to properly do this and you don’t need any special skills you simple just need to practice. Many people when they think about meditation often envision sitting in silence for hours on end, this is simply not the case. You can effective gain the hundreds of benefits from mediation just by sitting silently and observing your breath for 15 minutes a day.

There are many different techniques to meditating however if you are just starting off a great way is to simply observe your breath, don’t try and control it simply observe it and as your mind wonders off as it will simply bring it back to your breath. If you do this every day for 15 minutes over a course of a month you will notice changes in your attitude, stress and energy levels and you will notice your environment will seem to even slow down.

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Anthony Robbins is said to be the father of motivation – what a lot of people don’t know about Tony is how he became so famous and well known. Anthony Robbins has been transforming lives for 3 decades.

How Anthony became so famous was for his one stop therapy.

What is one stop therapy? I hear you say

Anthony Robbins went on national television and with no physiology degree took others therapist patients which that had not be successful to cure their phobias for years and on national television cured them in one session.

You could imagine what happened after that, everyone was amazed including the psychologists and the psychiatrist. They couldn’t believe how fast he got results.

So how did he do it? How could he get results so fast when the professional couldn’t for years? Well Anthony used a behavioural science called NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming)

Since then Robbins has redefined NLP into NAC  (Neuro-Associative Conditioning) Robbins says that the main difference between NAC and NLP lies in the use of the word ‘conditioning’ instead of the word ‘programming’. Robbins has published books Unlimited Power and awakened the Giant within and his audio program Personal Power which is the highest selling self help program ever and conducts several seminars around the world the most famous being Unleash the Power Within.

Robbins doesn’t call himself a motivational speaker; he refers himself as a Peak Performance Coach He tries to find out what people do when they are at their peak and then help them access that peak state whenever necessary. He believes what he does is more effective than providing temporary motivation.

After speaking to over 2 million people in many countries around the world he has discover that as humans we have 6 basic needs.

1. Certainly
2. Varity
3. Significance
4. Connection/Love
5. Growth
6. Contribution