How To Manage Your Holiday Stress Are you plagued by holiday stress year after year? Do you feel as if you are a victim in all of this? Do you believe that you are the ONLY one in your household who is contributing to the success of the holiday?

Let me share with you some ideas for making the holidays manageable. I used to literally make myself nuts during holiday time. I was married to a man who thought his contribution to the holiday was simply to show up, eat his fill and then watch television in the living room while I cleaned up the kitchen. I also had two sons who couldn?t care less about the trimmings of the holiday season.

What I am about to suggest may offend your sensibilities but it does stand a good chance of greatly reducing your holiday stress. When you are finished with this article, you?ll have to decide what is most important to you—having everything just perfect or regaining some of your sanity. When all is said and done, you can always continue to do it just as you?ve always done. I?m only providing some alternative suggestions.

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How To Manage Tension And StressĀ  4 Useful Tips Stress has always been a part of our lives. It is but a common occurrence for people to hear someone complain of how stressful his life had been in the school, in the workplace, or even with his family. This situation happens everywhere regardless of race, nationality, status in life, or level of education attained. Stress is just there clinging to us wherever we go, and we can?t merely disregard this sad truth.

We must remember that in whatever we do, there are just some inevitable factors that cause pressure and anxiety to us. On the other hand, there are those that we can control. We must therefore be sensible enough to differentiate the two so that we do not end up wasting our time, effort, money and abilities on matters that we can?t change.

Enumerated below are some helpful advice on how to cope with tension and stress:

1. Identify what makes you anxious and uneasy. Making a list of your stressful experiences is useful. Immediately deal with the issues that you can change like waking-up late for work in the morning or beating deadlines during the last minute. Forget …

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How to Live With And Manage Asthma Unfortunately for people who suffer from asthma, there is currently no way to cure it or get rid of it. If you have heard that there is a way to do this, it simply is not true. There are also many misconceptions associated with asthma such as the belief that children will outgrow this condition as they get older. It is true that the symptoms may lessen for roughly half of them and become inactive during their teenage years, but the truth is that the condition will still be present and it can return anytime during their adult years. There are also those people who believe that asthma is a psychosomatic disease meaning that it is “all in the head.” This can prove to be dangerous as it encourages people to ignore the symptoms which in some cases can be fatal when an attack occurs and it is not dealt with in the proper manner.

If you have asthma, you have to accept the fact that you are going to have it for life. The good news is that there are several ways that you can control the condition and also other steps …

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Manage Your Stress In 7 Days In what way you start tearing your hair out because of frustration, grief, anxiety and, of course, stress? They say there’s more than one way to skin a cat. They’re right. The same thing applies to your dealing with frustration, grief, anxiety and stress. It’s a state of mental conditioning that is like taking that bitter pill down your throat, causing you to lose your sense of self, and worse your sanity. Just thinking about it can drive anyone crazy.

And they say that the proactive ones are already living off the edge.

As one stressed-out person to another, I know how it feels, and believe me there are many variants when it comes to stress. Coping with life, and carrying the problems that may or may not belong to you can scratch away the little joy and happiness that you can carry once you head out that door. You can’t blame them for being like that; they have their own reasons, so much like we have our reasons to allow stress to weigh us down. They say that stress is all in the mind, well, what’s bugging you anyway?

There are several ways …

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