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Managing Stress The Easy Way: A How -To Guide

Posted by author on March 20, 2012 41 comments
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Your How To Guide: Manage Stress The Easy Way

Last week, I wrote you a nice post giving you The Top 10 Funniest Websites: How To Laugh Yourself Happy, which I have to admit, really works wonders to get a quick smile on your face! This week, I’d like to start you off with some more resources to help you keep those smiles. There are many ways to learn how to manage stress the easy way, so here’s more for you on that.


Over the weekend, I was really inspired to write you about some easy to use mind tools that we all have, but sometimes forget to practice. This morning I finished that article and I’d like to invite you to take a look at the result of it here: The 1 Action Verb To Take You From Stressed To Refreshed. I’ll tell you now that the action verb is gratitude.

How To Manage Stress With Gratitude

In the article, I explain the difference between using gratitude as the noun that it really is and using it as an action verb, which you can make it. As an action verb, it becomes a fast moving vehicle to take you from one state of mind to another, completely higher level of consciousness. It’s much more powerful than we give it credit for being, and the 4 powerful mind tools you’ll find in that article explain its power with actionable steps which you can take today to get that vehicle driving you in the right direction right now.

Taking action gets you on the fast track to managing stress effectively imageThere’s really so much to say about the action that this vehicle of movement sets forth that you can surely look forward to closer examination of the details of this type of process in upcoming material. I’ll also make sure to always give you lots of examples and actionable steps that you can take to get you started in the easiest way there is.

Changing Your Personal Beliefs and Inner Belief Systems

Many readers have written to me and also commented here in the blog about advice on changing their belief systems. The power to create effective and life-changing positive affirmations depends largely on your inner belief systems, so the good news is that this is something which you have complete control over. This is such a vital aspect of the key to not only managing stress effectively but also to living your life to the fullest of joy, that I can assure you that I’ll really dedicate a lot of energy in offering you the best resources possible.

Gratitude as an action verb is a fundamental step towards changing your inner belief systems. You can get so many benefits in every aspect of your life from addressing this theme of gratitude in the direction of changing your inner belief systems. All it takes is the decision to start.

Tips To Show You How To Manage Stress The Easy Way ImageStart Where You Are
Do What You Can
Use What You Have
-Arthur Ashe

You don’t have to be a great tennis player like Arthur Ashe to put that saying into action. (Thank goodness for that fact! Ahem….speaking for myself, here) There are people all over the world who have overcome enormous difficulties to rise to the occasion of greatness in their lives. That means that you can do it too.

As a matter of fact, later on this week, I have a compelling guest post planned from an author who has not only survived PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome), but has found many keys to living a joyful life in spite of post traumatic stress.

No matter what your situation is, if the power of the universe has brought you to it, then the power of the universe can get you through it, so I strongly encourage you to stick with it so that you get your rainbow after the storm.

You’re not alone. I will be with you every step of the way to nudge you forward on your journey to victory!

Whatever The Power Of the Universe Brings You To
The Power Of The Universe Can Bring You Through


For today, I will leave you with this little 3 minute video that I really like a lot! The article I started over the weekend and finished today turned out to be really meaty, so I didn’t put this video in with that. Let the words in this video remind you of some basic truths about life we don’t look at, but need to know. It’ll take your perspective on how to manage stress  to new heights.

Enjoy it!
How To Let Gratitude Help You Manage Stress
(just clink the link above and it’ll take you to the video.)

Let me close with A HUGE SHOUT OUT OF GRATITUDE TO EACH AND EVERY READER! :-)

Laughs Heal is continually growing and evolving and that’s largely because of YOU and your marvelous support for which I am truly thankful. Thanks to you, today Laughs Heal is shared and read in a community consisting of thousands of people from more than 25 countries and I appreciate each and every one of you!
From my heart,
Kim
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How Laughter Therapy Can Improve Your Life Today

Posted by author on September 26, 2011 4 comments
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How Laughter Therapy Improves Medical Results

People get sick every day; many of them with life-threatening illnesses. Modern medicine has progressed to a point where it can do remarkable things, certainly, but it can’t do everything. The more doctors learn about healing, the more they realize that the patient’s attitude is just as important as the treatment provided. That is why laughter therapy can be so crucial to your health and well-being in even the most ordinary regular events of everyday life. Yes, a laugh a day will help keep your doctor away!


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Positive Attitude Is Key to Results

You hear it all the time….when a patient gives up there is very little even the best doctors can do for them to help their recovery. Conversely, you hear stories about patients who are given little hope of survival, yet make it through their illness and go on with their lives in an almost “miraculous” manner. What is the critical factor? Increasingly the medical profession is looking towards patients’ attitudes for answers to this question.

Norman Cousins is a wonderful example of how a positive attitude and positive self- talk can achieve remarkable results. Cousins, a well-known journalist and an adjunct professor at UCLA, researched the biochemistry of emotions. He was diagnosed with heart disease and eventually, a painful form of arthritis, but he effectively treated himself with laughter therapy to relieve pain and he encountered marvelous and successful results. You can read the miraculous facts of his story in his book: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient

Creative Visualization Leads to Success and Helps Manage Stress

There is more to healing than just laughter. Creative visualization is a remarkably powerful technique when harnessed properly. Charles Fillmore, one of the founders of the Unity School of Christianity, injured his hip in a skating accident as a boy. The damage to his hip caused his right leg to wither until it was over 3 inches shorter than his left. In his forties, he began to practice a routine of deep meditation and positive affirmations which strengthened his leg to the point where he barely limped any more.

If positive thinking and creative visualization can do so much for a 30-year-old injury, can you begin to grasp the powerful effects and the many great things it can do for you in your life today?

Laughter Therapy: A New Form Of Healing For Stress Management And More

Where are Your Wounds?

how to manage stress with laughter therapy imageFew people seem to get through their lives without encountering unexpected obstacles that leave unseen wounds. Whether your injuries are emotional or physical, managing stress through the power of positive thinking and creative visualization can help you bring about the changes you desire.

A positive outlook can improve your work environment, facilitate every relationship you have or help you greet each day with enthusiasm. Learning to laugh at yourself, or simply incorporating laughter into each day can have untold benefits to your health, your emotional well-being and your productivity. If laughter and positive self-talk can help chronically ill or injured people recover and live better, it can surely help you get the most out of your experiences.

Many of these areas are already addressed in pages on our website. It doesn’t take much time to incorporate some of the ideas you will find here into your daily routine, and the payoff for you is immense.

Start Your Day with Positive Self-Talk

Tomorrow, start your day with a bit of positive self-talk. Rather succumb to the regular routine of groaning about having to go to work, why not try viewing your job as a challenge that you can overcome? Celebrate your ability to get out of bed, congratulate yourself on picking a particularly attractive outfit, an appealing tie or nice jewelry. Repetition will make the practice easier, and the more you encourage yourself the better you will feel.how to manage stress with laughter therapy image

Laughter exercise is only one part of laughter therapy, but the overall goal is to help you become a happier, healthier, more effective individual in all that you do!

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Positive Affirmations: Would You Like A New Direction In Your Life?

Posted by author on August 10, 2011 4 comments
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Positive Affirmations: Get The Life You Really Want For Yourself



How To Manage Stress: Positive Affirmations“I am, therefore I exist,” is a phrase affirming your existence as a being. It may be a simple phrase, but it says everything about the being saying them. It indicates an inner self-confidence not commonly found and it opens the doorway to the power of positive thinking and your getting the life you really want for yourself.


But why do you need affirmation? Do beings need to be affirmed of their actual existence relative to their affirmation? Absolutely! Why?

What Positive Affirmations Do For You

Positive affirmations make use of a very powerful technique that empowers your subconscious mind. Once your subconscious mind is disciplined to believe your positive affirmation, it is then converted into a positive plan of action for the conscious mind. The two work together and in union.

This is how the power of positive thinking and positive affirmations begin to work on your behalf. The Huffington Post published an article by Erin Henry confirming this powerful transformation, entitled: Positive Affirmations Changed My Life!. She writes about how she was motivated by seeing the experience of someone else, and I found it to be very motivating to see this domino effect of positivity!

Through positive affirmations, you are empowered to do, to work, and to strive for greater things in the most natural way because it comes through your personal inner voice. Positive affirmations help you to believe in yourself and put your thoughts into powerful and effective action! It’s like training your subconscious mind to direct your conscious mind on auto-pilot, for any success on your road map in life!

Why The Technique Of Positive Affirmations Transforms

Positive affirmations are a combination of strong verbal and visual techniques that you can begin How To Manage Stress: Positive Affirmationsto learn and apply today. Strong affirmations are extremely useful, and can be used by practically anyone to achieve their goals and fulfill their desires. The effective power of an affirmation will depend on what is contained in the affirmation and how often you practice its usage in your daily routine.

Positive affirmations are simply assertions made by you, about something or about your state of being. You can affirm the things that you choose to attain, like “I have a good life” or “I love my life”. Being healthy in mind, body, and spirit can also be made possible through your consistent use of positive affirmations.

If you want to really make a strong and powerful affirmation, it is actually quite fundamental that it be not only stated in the present tense, but also with the correct choice of words. An affirmation of “I am a happy person” is much more effective than an affirmation saying, “I am going to become a happy person.” Going to implies the future, and the subconscious mind will not deliver to you today that which you have stated for tomorrow.

What you want is happiness today, then tomorrow, you will affirm again for that day. This is why consistency is key. Affirmations is a handy little card deck full of positive affirmations which really help in making this powerful practice an easy “go-to” solution to remember.

Those little cards are also easy to carry with you when traveling and they’re already packed with positive affirmations formatted in the correct way, so they’re easy to apply. With these cards, you’ll find that coming up with the right positive affirmations becomes a no brainer, and it’s a lot of fun discovering each one, too!

Also, many readers have really loved the information found in this book on how to let these therapeutic, easy to use resources make a big difference in your life. I loved this book too, so I strongly recommend it. I invite you to take a look to discover more and dive deeper into this incredible power and how you can use it to benefit your life because there is much more in store for you once you apply these simple techniques.

Tips On How To Use Positive Affirmations Successfully

How To Manage Stress: Positive AffirmationsAlways make sure your positive affirmations are in positive terms. It is supposed to work for you, not against you. Instead of saying, “I am not sad,”, using negative words and negation, which could be a form of denial, try making an affirmation saying, “I choose to focus on my happiness”, which makes use of positive words and empowers your mind by reminding you that you are in charge to properly choose your thoughts.

Make your positive affirmations made around simple but concise words. They should be short phrases to be more effective. A very long affirmation can work the other way around, instead of creating a positive mindset, they can get you too caught up in trying to remember everything. Whereas a short affirmation is something you can easily remember and repeat anywhere, anytime. It can serve as a mantra that can be repeated over and over again.

Make Your Positive Affirmations Effective

In order to make your positive affirmations most effective, you need to repeat them as frequently as possible. Repetition works How To Manage Stress: Positive Affirmations and influences the subconscious, which in turn motivates you into acting out your affirmation. Just as an athlete makes a lot of repetition to train the muscles of his or her body to perform, likewise, it’s helpful for you to train the muscle of your brain to perform this most vital action.

It’s important that you feel deeply involved with the words you use, so that you can effectively actualize your positive affirmation into positive action. Writing words that you believe in can be very powerful, and this can be put to good use when creating your affirmation. You can get more tips on the effectiveness of writing in this article Stress Management Solutions, where you can find the benefits of journaling your experiences.

However, creating positive affirmations and repeating them on a daily basis is not all it takes to make the affirmation a state of mind. You’ll want to align your actions to reflect your positive affirmations. A great help for you will be to remember to live your positive affirmations by letting the positive words give you a better outlook towards life. Affirmations  is a good tool to try!

I use these cards as a great way to start the day by reading a new card every morning with breakfast. They will help if you can stay open-minded to make the positive changes that will help your positive affirmations become your reality. Feeling your affirmations and applying them in your life are the keys to making your affirmation a reality.

Positive affirmations are a very simple thing that can make a very big difference in your life today. Affirmations can be your greatest motivator and give you enormous help in changing your life for the better!


We will cover more on this important topic, so remember to check back for the latest news!
(I have a real life “case study” on this concluding shortly…., until then, make sure to read the flip side: Positive Affirmations Won’t Work For You Unless…. to really understand vital information you need to know about this powerful tool!)


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