Bring Home Your Vacation for Year-Round Stress Relief

                                         

Vacations do have to end but you can bring their stress relief back with you in a variety of ways. If you do, you will be able to easily recall your relaxing vacation feelings. Then, when you are stressed, you can get some much-needed stress relief.

While you are on vacation, spend some time relaxing in a calm and tranquil place. This can be an immediate source of stress relief, but it can also be used as a source of rapid relief when you return to home and work.

Here are four ways to capture your vacation relaxation and bring it home with you for year-round stress relief:

<b>Connect a Cue Word</b> While you are relaxing in that serene place, repeat a cue word such as "beach" or "sunset" or "relax." Let the word echo and reverberate in the back of your mind. Allow it to become associated and connected with your deep state of relaxation. When you return from your vacation, use your cue word whenever you want to enjoy an "instant replay" of your relaxing experience.

<b>Picture It</b> Take a photograph where you are relaxing on vacation. You can use your cell phone or a camera, but you also can intentionally take a picture in your mind's eye. Focus on the scene and soak it in. When you return from your vacation, put the picture you took onto your computer and mobile devices for easy retrieval wherever you want to relax and whenever you are under stress. If you are want to get to sleep, use the picture you stored in your mind's eye to calm your mind and relax your body.

<b>Capture the Sounds</b> While you are relaxing in that special place on vacation, take note of the sounds around you or record them on your cell phone. When you return home, download the recording or similar sounds from the internet onto your computer and mobile devices for easy retrieval whenever you want some soundtrack stress relief. The soundtrack can also be used to help you fall asleep faster.

<b>Use a Combo</b> When you return home, combine all three of the sensory experiences you stored by saying the cue word, visualizing the scene or looking at the picture, and listening to the sounds in your mind or from a recording. Some people find it more effective to combine the cue word with just the picture or just the soundtrack. If you don't have the photo or you don't have a recording available, just combine what you have with your cue word.

Copyright © 2018 by Ronald G. Nathan, Ph.D.

Ronald Nathan, Ph.D. is a practicing psychologist and co-authored of Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness (2004) which was a Prevention Book Club selection.

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Why So Few People Truly LOVE Themselves?

                                                             

If, you hope, to become, the best, you can be, it is rarely, enough, to, merely, respect, or claim, to believe, in yourself, and your abilities! Rather, one needs, to, truly, LOVE, himself, yet, it seems, very few, do! After, four decades, of training leaders, and others, and, also, presenting the finest - possible, personal development seminars, I have come, to strongly, believe, there is a direct relationship, between the ability to be, personally, successful, happy, and self - fulfilled, and, your personal commitment, self- confidence, and willingness, to really, love yourself! With, that in mind, this article will attempt to, briefly, consider, examine, review, and discuss, using the mnemonic approach, what this means and represents, and why it matters.

1. Listen; learn; longer - run; long - lasting; (new) lease - on - life: For many, loving themselves, requires a significant adjustment, in their personal attitude, and comfort zone, and, making it a personal priority, to acquire a new, lease, on life! To do so, requires effect listening, and constantly learning, from every conversation, and experience, seeking to become one's best, and enhancing personal knowledge, and, hopefully, judgment, and relevant, wisdom! One must, first, like himself, so, in the longer - run, this helps drive, the ability to make the leap, on a long - lasting, basis!

2. Open - mind; options; opportunities; optimal; organized: Only, when one allows himself, to have an open - mind, will he escape the self - imposed limitations, of his personal comfort zone! It is important to consider, a variety of options and alternatives, in order to take advantage of, the finest opportunities, and seeking, optimal, personal fulfillment, and self - belief! This process must be, an organized one, to reach the lofty - ideals, of genuine, self - love!

3. Value/ values; views; visions; vault; vital: How will you, demonstrate, to you, your personal value, and its alignment, with meaningful values? Will you power your personal views, with positive, vital, vibrant visions, which expand, your mental/ thought - vault, in a motivating, pleasing, fulfilling way?

4. Empathy; efforts; emphasis; excellence; endurance; eager/ enthusiasm; enrich: The wisest man, I ever knew (my father), always, told us, Judge the value of a person, by, what they leave behind (not - merely monetary), after they are gone! Therefore, one's degree of genuine empathy, and personal efforts, on becoming, a person - of - value, is significant! He must place his personal emphasis, on the greatest degree of excellence, combined with the endurance, to persist, until, he creates, what he wants, to become! This must be done, eagerly, and with great, personal enthusiasm, if it is, to enrich, our life's experiences!

Do you, truly, LOVE yourself, in a positive, realistic, genuine manner? Will you commit, to maximizing your possibilities?

Richard has owned businesses, been a COO, CEO, Director of Development, consultant, professionally run events, consulted to thousands, and conducted personal development seminars, for 4 decades. Rich has written three books and thousands of articles. His company, PLAN2LEAD, LLC has an informative website http://plan2lead.net and Plan2lead can also be followed on Facebook http://facebook.com/Plan2lead

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How To Use The Pomodoro Technique And Why You Need It!

                                     

Next week I've allotted 9 days to write a course. I've been wanting to write this course for 5 years or more. I have done all my research, now I just need to write it.

Parkinson's Law

Parkinson's law states that you will fill whatever allotted time you set to complete a task.

Think about that.

If you set a month to do a task, you'll do it in a month, even procrastinating until the last few days, because you know you have so much time.

You add padding time so you don't feel under pressure.

I heard myself saying, I can't get my course written in 9 days, because if I could do that then what does that say about all the years I've procrastinated? So I had better string it out to make it look like it was a labour of love.

As if it had more value if it took me longer.

One suggestion is to think about what time you think you could do a task in, then halve it.

Pomodoro Technique

The pomodoro technique is allotting a time, say 25 mins (this is the traditional pomodoro timer amount of minutes), and just working your butt off to do that task, then when the timer rings you have a break. 3-5 minutes. Write down a 1 on a piece of paper. Then reset the timer. When you get to 4 on your paper, take a longer break, 15-30 minutes.

Or say allotting an hour to clean your house and then stop. So go hard for that hour. Then break.

There are also apps for the pomodoro technique.

Pomodoro is Italian for tomato, which is what the timer looked like of the guy who created this technique.

Objections

I'm aware of all the resistances I have to doing things concentrated and even fast. That if I do it too fast I will miss stuff out.

As if taking your time and dragging it out means you have more time to think of things. But you don't generally, you procrastinate. Or you check Facebook, or get up to eat, or lose track and do other things. Because you think taking your time is easier.

I never used to like having a timer on things as it stressed me out. And I was worried I would get adrenal fatigue from pushing myself.

Too much like a test.

But my life has changed enough for me to want to try this now.

Remember to write things down that come to mind about other things you want to do after your task is completed. Don't do them during the allotted time.

Let me know if you use this technique to get stuff done.

Kate Strong is an Intuitive Healer.

Please contact her at https://www.katestrong.com

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Why It Is Unwise To Expect Gratitude From People You Just Helped

                                         

Everybody wants to be a hero and there is nothing wrong with that. Afterall, this is the reason most people tend to be helpful. Help is seldom unconditional and selfless for there is always some hidden motive behind lending a helping hand. And in most cases, it's as simple as being able to be a hero for somebody.

In our conquest of being a hero, we often forget one simple yet important rule of heroes - leaving right after the job is done! It's surely tempting to stay because you get to listen to a few words of gratitude and appreciation, and in most cases, from a complete stranger. It boosts our self esteem and makes us feel worthwhile. Despite that, I would not recommend staying for too long; here's why:

When we help someone, we get to take the credit for someone's happiness and he or she will be all praises for us. But the problem is - all these praises are originating from our one single act of kindness. Deep down, we are well aware that this is not something we do as a routine. What happens is - our whole personality is being judged on the basis of one momentary act that doesn't necessarily define whole of us. Just imagine, if someone was evaluating our personality on the basis of one mistake, would we have liked it? I guess NOT!

However, it's not a crime to overlook this reality because the other person is also making the exact same mistake. He or she is looking at us through this narrow iris made up of our one good deed. But it's definitely a huge mistake to keep living in oblivion for way too long and letting the other person do the same. This is why:

We may be able to keep that 'good image' intact for a while by exhibiting a pattern of lending helps as and when needed. But because this is not our true self, we tend to break this pattern at some point and suddenly, all hell breaks loose.

Even if it is one small silly mistake, the other person may just not be able to accept it because we were supposed to be his/her hero, remember? So, this little mistake creates a chain reaction of mistakes in the eyes of the beholder. Without even knowing, we just broke so many expectations, unsaid promises, or worst, someone's heart.

Thus, the safest way to play it is leaving as soon as our help is no longer needed. This will not only save us from the unwarranted embarrassment but will also let the beneficiary of our help be grateful for longer. Also, as a rule of thumb, our good deeds are forgotten faster than our mistakes, so there is no point pondering over the former for too long.

So next time, you get an opportunity to help someone, leave right after you are done - just like a superhero!

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