Contributed by Michael Biolsi on Nov 23, 2001
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Mark Twain said: “Speaking honestly is better. It takes a lot of stress out of our lives. If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything, but if you
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 8, 2010
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CALL ME A CHRISTIAN
A deacon, who was full of himself, was teaching a boy Sunday School class. He was working hard to stress the importance of living a Christian life. With an air of arrogance he asked, "Why do people call me a Christian?"
After an
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Contributed by Joe Fornear on Sep 2, 2004
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Irene Pepperberg, a visiting professor of animal behavior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is teaching a parrot how to surf the Internet. "Parrots are very social creatures," she says,
but people who own them "leave them alone eight or nine hours a day." She says that leads to boredom
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
LIMITS. Write that down. Who do we need to accurately assess ourselves? Someone else.
Regular assessment is important because our limits regular vacillate. They change according to what is on our plate and our overall well-being. They depend on the season.
There are times in our lives in which we
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 27, 2001
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* 42 percent of workers reported that yelling and verbal abuse took place where they worked.
* One in ten said that physical violence had occurred where they worked.
* 34 percent had lost sleep because of workplace stress, and 23 percent had been driven to tears.
* Almost two-thirds, 65 percent,
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 29, 2007
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A Rubber Band.
A rubber band, if stretched, will return to its normal, relaxed position when the external force is removed. The body’s stress response is also stretched whenever it is subjected to any emergency or demand. The rubber band ought to return to a normal, relaxed state when the demand
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
In the last 5,500 years our world has only seen 292 years of peace. Over 14,000 wars have caused nearly 4 billion deaths. According to recent reports, stress-related claims rose 700% since the 80′s; in fact, 3 out of 5 doctor visits are stress-related. All kinds of factors today contribute
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Contributed by Raymond Maurer on Jul 21, 2004
“We’ve long known that the ability to laugh is helpful to those coping with major illness and the stress of life’s problems. But researchers are now saying laughter can do a lot more -- it can basically bring balance to all the components of the immune system, which helps us fight off
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Contributed by Craig Simonian on Jun 8, 2001
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Fact is, the Mayo Clinic claims 80-85% of total caseload due directly to worry and anxiety.
- Many experts say that coping with stress is the #1 health priority of our day.
o One leading physician has stated that, in his opinion, 70% of all medical patients could cure themselves if only they got
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 29, 2009
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
Dr. Thomas Holman at the University of Washington in Seattle did a study some years ago with his colleagues. They developed a “life’s events scale” where they determined a numerical value for the different things in life that cause us stress.
The loss of a spouse = 100 pts.
Divorce = 73
Getting
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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Doctors from Coral Gables, Fla., compared the efficiency of the heart’s pumping action in 18 men with coronary artery disease to nine healthy controls. Each of the study participants underwent one physical stress test (riding an exercise bicycle) and three mental stress tests (doing math problems
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