The difficult thing when dealing with your environment as you try to reduce stress is that your environment is usually the thing that causes the stress that you’re feeling. My advice is usually to control those things that you can control, but it’s the things around us that we can’t control that are causing us …
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Why Stress is Unhealthy
You may be thinking, “Look, I’ve lived with stress for a long time. So long, in fact, that it’s normal to me. I’ve learned to live with it, and I think some stress is just a part of life.” Well, I’m here to tell you that you’re right on all accounts. But, our lives today …
Your Environment Gets a Vote
When it comes to dealing with stressors and managing stress, we can have a great plan. We can have great motivation. We can have all the tools we need at our disposal. But if we ignore what’s around us and how our environment affects us, we are ultimately doomed to fail. With everything that we …
Your Past Is Not Your Future
As a personal trainer, I know that the greatest predictor of injury is past injury in whatever part of the body we’re talking about. But physical injury and mental efficacy (your belief in yourself that you can do a particular thing) are different. The problem on the mental side is that it’s easy to look …
New Information, A New Outlook
How do you let the past go in your attempt to move forward? How do you free yourself from the guilt of having lived a certain way for so long, having let so many things stress you out, affect your mood, distract you from the things that you now realize are truly important in life…? …